In late 2025, a rumor spread online that legendary skateboarder Tony Hawk and punk icon Henry Rollins started a retirement home for aging punks and skaters.
Posts about the alleged place to "slow down…without calming down" primarily circulated on Facebook.
This rumor started with a Dec. 1, 2025, post from Pleatherface Lives, an artist's Facebook account. Pleatherface Lives' "Intro" notes that the artist also uses the page as "a dump for memes I find funny and Satire Stories."
While Pleatherface Lives did not clearly mark the post itself as a joke, they responded to several comments underneath it that confirmed the rumor's satirical nature. The account also confirmed that the post was "just for laughs" in a Facebook direct message to Snopes. As such, this claim originated as satire.
For example, one commenter referenced "Mattersville," a song by punk band NOFX about growing old together with the lyrics, "A neighborhood for punks over the hill / We'll spend our golden years in Mattersville."
Pleatherface Lives responded: "It was 100% the inspiration lol was stoned listening to nofx working on some art commissions and was like this would be a funny satire article."
In the comments, Pleatherface Lives also posted a design for a T-shirt with four black bars — a reference to the logo of Rollins' former band, Black Flag. One of the bars showed a person's back and the T-shirt read, "BACK HURTS."
In case you were wondering, Hawk is 57 and Rollins is 64 as of this writing — so they're both eligible for the 55-plus retirement community life, although both were still actively working on projects.