| Really grim article about online fans 13:42 - Jan 19 with 5459 views | Wegerles_Stairs |
“You will be seen as elitist if you go to the games,” says one fan of a top-six club who travels home and away and also has a substantial social media following. “They do see us as the elite. If I speak out on issues that matter to match-going fans, be that ticket allocations, prices, games being picked for TV, the new fans do not give a shit."
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/jan/19/digital-fans-represent-football |  | | |  |
| Really grim article about online fans on 09:29 - Jan 20 with 943 views | toboboly |
Problem with that article is that it is about the PL, doesn't say so but it is as they are the only ones who could afford the sophisticated tech and a consultancy team to then go through the data. I'd then presume it isn't even about the whole PL, it is about the "top 6", the ones that wanted to break away.
It also neglects to mention that the vast majority of the people on twitter being abusive are foreign, based overseas and have no intention or financial ability to watch a game live. These people won't be buying merch, tickets, food and drink or anything from the club so saying that they are important is misleading. They are loud, aggressive and entitled but that is it. |  |
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| Really grim article about online fans on 10:51 - Jan 20 with 865 views | GloryHunter |
Just discovered that I'm a "legacy fan". That's nice. |  | | |
| Really grim article about online fans on 11:02 - Jan 20 with 842 views | robith |
| Really grim article about online fans on 16:21 - Jan 19 by LythamR |
"obsessed with transfers, highly combative and persistently pessimistic. “Not getting what you want from football all of the time seems completely intolerable to them,"
We have plenty that match that on twitter and facebook. no tolerance and no patience whatsoever. |
twitter especially. a lot of what feel like sock puppet accounts parroting the same stuff. weirdly feels quite menacing |  | | |
| Really grim article about online fans on 11:07 - Jan 20 with 828 views | robith |
| Really grim article about online fans on 19:12 - Jan 19 by Antti_Heinola |
it's odd when you consider only a small minority of fans/population are on Twitter, and even less are active.
I was involved in a project once that got an absolute mauling on twitter. Loads of posts. And then you had a proper look at it and it was about 10 people posting over and over again, but they were able to make it appear to be a sort of 'the whole country thinks this' - in fact, 99% of the population probably weren't aware of the project, and plenty liked it. As a focus group, I'd suggest social media must be almost useless. |
one thing that is really weird and unique to twitter is the single issue user. Sometimes you'll see someone pop up in a trend in the news, click on their profile and all they do is tweet, non stop, about the same one thing over and over. Comes off as absolutely unhinged. Really common on both of the extremer sides of Brexit, and accounts that are are anti-trans people too
EDIT: sorry hadn't finished - really common for those big clubs too. You'll have an account called PogbaNonce69, and it will just tweet invective about Man Utd 24/7. So weird [Post edited 20 Jan 2022 11:12]
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| Really grim article about online fans on 12:14 - Jan 20 with 754 views | Wegerles_Stairs |
| Really grim article about online fans on 09:29 - Jan 20 by toboboly |
Problem with that article is that it is about the PL, doesn't say so but it is as they are the only ones who could afford the sophisticated tech and a consultancy team to then go through the data. I'd then presume it isn't even about the whole PL, it is about the "top 6", the ones that wanted to break away.
It also neglects to mention that the vast majority of the people on twitter being abusive are foreign, based overseas and have no intention or financial ability to watch a game live. These people won't be buying merch, tickets, food and drink or anything from the club so saying that they are important is misleading. They are loud, aggressive and entitled but that is it. |
But ultimately that's why they are important now - the foreign audience who will never visit the ground other than a once-in-a-lifetime trip to stay in the stadium hotel, buy the 50-50 scarf and jizz in their pants when they beat Newcastle 1-0 is the larger demographic and contributes the greater income to the club through global TV and sponsorship deals. [Post edited 20 Jan 2022 12:15]
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| Really grim article about online fans on 14:00 - Jan 20 with 686 views | Sonofpugwash |
Rock(and other)fans still buy albums from bands that they've never seen live and eulogise about them on social media. |  |
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