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.

  • BelatedBranston@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Ha! this post is hyperbole, and everything you are moaning about so dramatically can be solved by literally not reading or listening to your phone. It’s got nothing to do with the football on the pitch or the game itself. Get a grip.

  • taskkill-IM@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    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.

    • Ralphstegs@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Yes this.

      They all do it for the outraged click bait revenue.

      At a massive cost to societies values

    • THSSFC@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 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.

    • corpus-luteum@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

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

    • KeysUK@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

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

    • st_v_Warne@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

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

    • AsianOnee@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 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.

  • CyberShiroGX@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Surprised that’s what annoys you… Not the hundreds of videos mentioning football and the comment section is just filled with “Messi Messi Messi…”

  • btmalon@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Just change how you engage with it. Don’t tune in to the punditry. Maybe watch games on mute (but then you don’t get the crowd).

  • spirotetramat@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Watch the game, and other highlights and then stop. It’s all click bait anyway for views and stupid statements made on purpose to wind people up.

  • trashboatfourtwenty@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Good on you for coming to this revelation. Just keep it all in perspective and segment it in a relevant way to your life (which is more important than sport). Perhaps only watch games, (or just the recaps), don’t obsess over results or players if it makes you unhappy or throws you into the churn of the 24-hour cycle of discussion, just let it go. You can still cheer and follow your team if you like, but make it a passive participation instead of engaging in the nonsense surrounding it. Unfortunately this can apply to most any hobby that isn’t extremely insular, but at the same time a step back is always a good thing to me. Life is short and there is constant pressure from every angle to compete for our time (which translates into our money, the only motivation for any of it), and time is really all we have, so don’t waste it.

  • hairycookies@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Dude just stop using social media it’s fucking poison and I include reddit in this too.

    Reddit is the only one I can stomach but some subreddits are too much for me.

    • corpus-luteum@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Reddit’s not bad. The blackness reinforces the idea that I’m just shouting into the void. I wish more people would understand that.

  • ZaphodG@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    You can get your soul crushed in Championship where it’s invisible to the media and social media other than club supporters and local news. No VAR to complain about. All the refs are poor. The league is so inconsistent that most of the league is a month of good form away from promotion playoffs and a month of poor form from worrying about relegation.