joewintergreen
@joewintergreen

i love how sports fans on social media communicate, it's like nothing else. just nonsequitur out of context sport barks, @ nobody, no hashtag, no thread, just the assumption of a hivemind. a guy walks into your house, goes "that were never offside", walks out


andrewelmore
@andrewelmore

sportsposters really just say shit with zero context, it's completely bewildering. no one knows what you're talking about, nerds.


jeffgerstmann
@jeffgerstmann

I actually love doing this with live stuff, like whether it's a video game press conference or wrestling or whatever. I love that it always looks like aggressively dumb nonsense without the context and my social media is, first and foremost, for me to amuse myself.


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in reply to @joewintergreen's post:

i was trying to find my tweet about this from a few months ago but search on that site is unsurprisingly non-functional at the moment

but yes. i find it incredibly annoying. they just say shit and assume everyone knows what they're talking about. sometimes it's not even a phrase devoid of context, it's just an emoji or an all caps exclamation. no other group i can think of does this, save for maybe particularly weird games industry people during E3 or something.

'assumption of a hivemind' is a great way to put it. there's this wordless presumption that the entire world instantly knows exactly what they're talking about and at least as emotionally invested as they are in that moment lol. it's so fascinatingly strange. what a weirdly specific phenomenon of On Line.

in reply to @jeffgerstmann's post:

This is what twitter looked like for me during any like, GOT/Andor/Mandolorian/etc episodes.

And I do it for random sports events because like hell am I someone who will also rip video for additional context.