I wouldn't say he's less popular. I like to think of both of them as the two sides of the same coin. Within the skating community there's probably not a single

I wouldn't say he's less popular. I like to think of both of them as the two sides of the same coin. Within the skating community there's probably not a single person not knowing both names and a great amount of detail about both of them. If anything I'd argue that if you adjust the publicity around both of them you'd see that they've dragged in similar proportions of people. But over time little to none stick with the ultimate goal to become their modern version. I suppose it has something to do with what is popular as a whole. What is interesting is that overall skateboarding is a subset of rebellion or at least it's viewed as such and back in the day that was considered a good thing within the community. I'm not sure what's the situation now. The point is that at least during the 2000's neither Hawk or Mullen were representing that rebellious spirit all that much which is why people were going in other directions. Now that I think of it, there's the Thrasher Skater of the year award[1] which accurately captures every era over the last 30 years. Public competitions, to street skate-rats, to the "we're in a videogame, let's throw ourselves down the biggest set of stairs we can find" to... Uugh.. As I said I have no idea what is happening now. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrasher_(magazine)#Skater_of_the_Year https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrasher_(magazine)#Skater_of_...