Somebody's Parents Used to Hate This. Now It's on a Livestream With Ramps in the Living Room.

There is a certain type of redemption arc that only the internet can manufacture: the one where the chaos agent becomes, through sheer passage of time and enough near-death press coverage, something approaching a comfort object. An Australian outlet published a piece this week describing a once-infamous franchise as having gone from parental nightmare to, their word, wholesome. That is a remarkable sentence to write about something that used to make PTA meetings go sideways.

The man most responsible for that original parental anxiety is, as of this spring, hosting a 24-hour livestream with skateboard ramps in the living room and a chat window full of strangers typing at him in real time. Sources close to the discourse note that his Season 5 contract exists. His name, if you have somehow avoided it: Bam Margera. History will note that the pivot from cautionary tale to Fishtank host is, in its own strange way, the most Jackass thing he has ever done.