A budding sociopath. Or beyond budding.

[JayB]

Speaking of Colorado, mountains, etc - one of the funniest things I read in "Climbing" magazine when I lived in Colorado was a letter to an editor from a non-plussed reader chiding them for featuring an action shot of a semi-famous male climber traversing the base of a cliff clad in nothing but a thong and his rock-shoes. And maybe a chalk-bag. They reserved most of their ire for the photographer, who they referred to as "The Dark Lord of Wanton Erotopathy."

I was never quite sure if I saw another picture that fit the bill when it came to "wanton erotopathy." Wanton - yes. Erotopathy - probably. Now, thanks to this thread and a Google image search for David Lesh and The Denver Westword (source of the original article), I think I've finally found one. Enjoy.

 

[landlocked]

Manbuns, Sprinter vans, and social media attention whores. The next generation of western outdoors enthusiasts...we’re effing doomed.

 

[_WW_]

Speaking of Colorado, mountain, etc - one of the funniest things I read in "Climbing" magazine was a letter to an editor from a non-plussed reader chiding them for featuring an action shot of a semi-famous male climber traversing the base of a cliff clad in nothing but a thong and his rock-shoes. And maybe a chalk-bag. They reserved most of their ire for the photographer, who they referred to as "The Dark Lord of Wanton Erotopathy."

I was never quite sure if I saw another picture that fit the bill when it came to "wanton erotopathy." Wanton - yes. Erotopathy - probably. Now, thanks to this thread and a Google image search for David Lesh and The Denver Westword (source of the original article), I think I've finally found one. Enjoy.

I swear that guy looks like @Swimmy 's neighbor!

 

[doublebluff]

I had never heard of this guy and I am not glad he is now embedded in my brain.

 

[kmudgn]

Lucky for him my lab was not around. He loves to smell crotches

 

[cdnred]

I swear that guy looks like @Swimmy 's neighbor!

Are you sure that wasn't @Swimmy, looks like he was attempting to make another fashion trend..?

 

[landlocked]

Lucky for him my lab was not around. He loves to smell crotches

I'm sure that tool is full on manscaped with multiple layers of Axe bodywash. Hell he may have a manbun down there also! My lab only likes to smell (and roll in) stuff that smells like an underpumped and overfilled porta-pot!

 

[Peyton00]

He has Sage and Ross as sponsors along with Airflo and Nautilus.

He can throw tite loops about 135 ft
In his videos.

 

[Elliott5400]

He is just one of many social media influencer scum bags. One can find dozens of these types of influencers on Instagram.

The sad reality is these social media influencers are trampling and ruining wild and rugged spaces to get their perfect 'gram photoshoot. The disregard of their impacts and actions are disturbing to say the least.

One thing becoming more popular is influencers building Instagram "thirst traps" aka make it look like a hiking or climbing page while wearing very revealing clothing (if any at all) and then once a fan base is built up, they announce they will be dropping an OnlyFans account. Yes that's right, our great outdoor wild spaces are now becoming porn studios. I'd take a guess that most influencers that film/photograph in national forests/parks for their financial gain don't even know what commercial use permit for those kinds of areas are either.

 

[JayB]

He is just one of many social media influencer scum bags. One can find dozens of these types of influencers on Instagram.

The sad reality is these social media influencers are trampling and ruining wild and rugged spaces to get their perfect 'gram photoshoot. The disregard of their impacts and actions are disturbing to say the least.

One thing becoming more popular is influencers building Instagram "thirst traps" aka make it look like a hiking or climbing page while wearing very revealing clothing (if any at all) and then once a fan base is built up, they announce they will be dropping an OnlyFans account. Yes that's right, our great outdoor wild spaces are now becoming porn studios. I'd take a guess that most influencers that film/photograph in national forests/parks for their financial gain don't even know what commercial use permit for those kinds of areas are either

Just confirms that for the past decade or so we've been in a terrible-performative-LARPing remake of the 1960s minus a bunch of the good music.