I will start by saying I’ve always enjoyed broey media. It’s got it’s challenges and issues, of course, but sometimes it’s a little harmless, and in some cases, can actually operate as really good pressure valves in the culture.

In other worlds, I do indeed love watching men get hurt.

The Jackass Crew, helmed by agent of chaos himself Johnny Knoxville, is not without its historic controversies. However, I’ve always found it hard to be too mad at the franchise or its leader — and it really does feel like we‘re losing something from the culture that was needed. With it goes an entire generation of MTV Kids’ childhoods, and MTV itself starts to take its final breaths.

This final installment is a fun, gross, violent and nostalgic time, without being too sentimental about the whole thing. Knoxville, as usual, is not above getting in the ring (or the Bull Pen) himself, and though some moments were genuinely gross to watch, it reminded me of simpler times, as media like this is won’t to do.

Are most Jackass fans probably MAGA? Maybe. Am I meant to be woker than Jackass? Probably.

But reader, there are generations of people (not just boys) who need media like this — the kinds of things that don’t care about shame and scorn, where men can revel in being a bit gross and offputting and human and be upset about getting hurt, and laugh at one another. Where your manhood isn’t under constant surveillance, and being a lil homoerotically fixated on your naked homeboys is A-OK. Where the human body can be both pushed to it’s limits and also be a site of normalisation.

Without this, we’ll end up with nothing but streamers like Clavicular, and Andrew Tate, and a model of manhood that is influenced more by übermench than brotherhood. I am genuinely concerned that media like this, which birthed a generation of DIY daredevils, was holding society together, and without it, all we’ll have is Mr Beast and fake, or god forbid, REAL prank channels.

Jackass was never perfect — but I do worry about what’s coming to fill that void.

Highly gross and violent time at the cinema, but