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.
Before social media I feel like being a fan of a thing was actually only down to just enjoying the thing, and perhaps any meet ups or clubs / groups / communities that enriched your enjoyment or brought you new friends on this basis.
Ofc now with all these social media platforms it can be constant bombardment and then make you feel like to be a fan of football you’ve gotta like those things as well.
You can just go back to enjoying football specifically, and cherry pick your feed or the groups you interact with if that would make you happier.
Watching the games and the pre & post game shows, the odd YT channel and Reddit is enough for me. You can curate more specifically for yourself too.