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.
Just watch the games and stay off social media.
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.
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.
Exactly! Nobody is forced to watch anything. Elements of A Clockwork Orange have come true, but not that one.
The exact same can be applied to the news and doom-scrolling click-baity articles.
This is exactly what I done… Delete all other social media and tbf reddit has good discussions for the most part
Yes this.
They all do it for the outraged click bait revenue.
At a massive cost to societies values
I stopped reading after he said tiktok. Knew automatically his brain is not functioning
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.
Yet you came onto a platform that promotes these actions/reactions to discuss the topic??? Odd choice.
Surprised that’s what annoys you… Not the hundreds of videos mentioning football and the comment section is just filled with “Messi Messi Messi…”
“I can’t watch any football related content anymore.“
There’s your solution.
Football at the top level has become a TV show that’s getting even worse now it’s going through a YouTubeification.
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).
Just stick to watching the games then?
Grow a pair pussy cat. Just stop scrolling my friend.
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.
Yep that’s because they love the drama rather than try just understanding more teams and talk about more players they all steal a living tbh
I think you should just watch the games and nothing else. When the commentators start annoying me I turn the volume down and play relaxing music to keep my mood from dipping.
Just unsub from all football related news and content for a month and only chat with your mates about the games. That’s what I did during the 1-pt loss season a few years back and I’ve been a happier fan sincez
Okay
I was a kid in the late 90s/early 00s and we had MoTD on a saturday, the back pages of a newspaper and (maybe) a weekly magazine.
Now it’s 24/7 news channels, constant updates from clubs, players, managers, god knows how many different panel show/analysis type programs… A million different social media accounts repeating the same shite clickbait articles, a million different people saying stupid things they don’t even believe because some attention for being an idiot I’d better than no attention at all.
And it’s literally no better. Nothing has changed except how much media we consume.
Get off reddit for 1 year (I did) and the rest of the social media crap for ever. It is refreshing and now that I am back I am ready to switch off again.