Big Brother was a groundbreaking skateboarding magazine founded by Steve Rocco in 1992, credited with ushering in street skating and its subculture until it ceased print publication in 2004. It was notorious for pushing boundaries, covering taboo topics like suicide methods and fake ID schemes, and using bizarre gimmicks such as packaging issues in cereal boxes or including cassette tapes. The magazine was purchased by Larry Flynt in 1997, which toned down the nudity but kept the vulgarity; this era also saw a notable lawsuit from radio host Laura Schlessinger, who called it "stealth pornography," leading to a dismissed suit and a countersuit against her. In a bizarre episode, its subscriber list was accidentally swapped with Flynt's hardcore magazine Taboo, sending porn to skateboarders and vice versa, an incident parodied on The Tonight Show. The magazine was unexpectedly dropped by Flynt in February 2004 (though it returned digitally in 2008) and is widely credited for spawning the Jackass TV series, with key figures like Jeff Tremaine and Johnny Knoxville involved. Its legacy was cemented by the documentary Dumb: The Story of Big Brother Magazine, which premiered on Hulu on June 3, 2017, and by its influential videos like Shit (1996) and Number Two (1998).