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I'm slowly falling out of love with football... And it's because of the neverending hyperbolic nature of it. (alien.top)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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It's everywhere. From images, to videos, to Tiktoks, to adverts ... I'm over saturated with opinions, replays, player ratings, hyperbole and the like.

There's only so much you can take.

Example 1. The Newcastle goal vervus Arsenal. Never ending discussions on the decision. The hyperbolic nature of the punditry. The uneven opinions of the same people.

Example 2. Handball against Newcastle. Hundreds of videos all moaning, complaining over and over again. The same pundits complaining and restarting their opinion.

And now the new one - the ref not giving Man City an advantage in the Tottenham game. It starts all over again. The videos, the complaining, the shouting Tiktoks...

I just don't care anymore.

Rational discussions are gone, replaced with hyperbole and drama.

It's too much. I can't watch any football related content anymore.

The only thing to do is to shut it all out but the commentary is just as bad.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (7 children)

How about instead of giving up football, just give up social media outlets?? They seem to be damaging the things you enjoy.

Watch football games but fuck the pre and post build up, fuck football related youtube videos, twitter and tiktok.. actually just fuck tiktok off altogether.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

This is what I do.

Helps living stateside. Plus the games get over really early in the day and you (possibly) aren't shitfaced when they're done.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Exactly! Nobody is forced to watch anything. Elements of A Clockwork Orange have come true, but not that one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

This is exactly what I done.. Delete all other social media and tbf reddit has good discussions for the most part

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yes this.

They all do it for the outraged click bait revenue.

At a massive cost to societies values

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

second this. I do not use Tiktok but I know it is full of hate speech under Chinese propaganda. There is nothing wrong with football from what op said. Maybe Ref is a problem but the bigger problem is the op obsession with social media.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I stopped reading after he said tiktok. Knew automatically his brain is not functioning

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

The exact same can be applied to the news and doom-scrolling click-baity articles.