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"Dank ass sandboarding son" Is the Best YouTube Video

Sandboarding seems to me a holdover of the 90s obsession with extremifying everything.

The Best YouTube Video is an occasional series where Motherboard searches for the best YouTube video ever made, usually on Friday afternoons right before the margarita alarm rings. Previously The Best YouTube Video: Guy Almost Jumps Jeep Over Pool.

Sandboarding seems to me a holdover of the 90s obsession with extremifying everything. Where riding your Razor scooter with LED wheels to your Pets.com gig was your way of saying "Screw you and your Corolla, Dad, you couldn't even keep up with the Now generation. I bet you don't even know what a nollie is." And somehow it also seemed to me to be something that guys with long hair and pink bandanas did on actual snowboards, because snow isn't abrasive enough or something.

But clearly I was completely wrong. The real snowboarding, snowboarding of the dank ass variety, involves hauling ass (69 miles/kilometers an hour? You kidding me?) down giant sand dunes on mysterious carpets, which is far more of a bitchin' situation than I expected. I have no idea where the source video is from, and I have no idea why YouTuber cmd728 felt Chrome's aptly-named "I Smoke Weed" was the right music to dub over, but I don't much care.