The reappearance of VHS skateboarding movies produced during the 1990s on YouTube presents a timely opportunity to examine how the subcultural identities of former skateboarders are reassessed in later life. Drawing on subcultural studies and theories of mediated memory, this article analyses comments made by viewers of YouTube re-postings of 411 Video Magazine, an era-defining skateboard movie series of the 1990s. The analysis suggests that re-viewing content of once cherished VHS tapes affords former skaters a nostalgic moment of reconnection with their youth involving a combination of three forms of nostalgia: subcultural nostalgia, biographical nostalgia, and format nostalgia. For many viewers, re-viewing skate videos retrospectively recognizes the formative role skateboarding played in shaping their identity and also allows an appraisal of both the past subcultural formation and the media format through which its values were expressed and communicated.

1990 年代制作的 VHS 滑板电影在YouTube 上的再现提供了一个及时的机会，可以检查前滑板运动员的亚文化身份在以后的生活中如何重新评估。本文借鉴亚文化研究和中介记忆理论，分析了YouTube重新发布411 视频杂志的观众评论，这是 1990 年代划时代的滑板电影系列。分析表明，重温曾经珍视的 VHS 录像带的内容可以让前滑手重新与他们的青春联系在一起，包括三种形式的怀旧：亚文化怀旧、传记怀旧和格式怀旧。. 对于许多观众来说，回顾滑板视频可以回顾性地认识到滑板在塑造他们的身份方面所发挥的形成作用，并且还可以评估过去的亚文化形成以及表达和传达其价值观的媒体形式。