Okay, here we go - I tend to read the Pit but not post here, not my cup o’ tea, but I feel like tossing this one out there.
Yesterday after a loss to the Baltimore Ravens in the last moment of the game, a Patriots fan decided to toss a few tweets in the direction of Ravens receiver Torrey Smith. A little smack talk is usually not a problem, but in this case she wrote:
The problem is Torrey’s younger brother had been killed in a motorcycle accident less than 24 hours earlier, and though Torrey had gone home briefly to be with family in Virginia he returned for the Sunday night game where he arguably had the best game of his life and it could be said was very much the reason the Ravens won.
It has been picked up by variousmedia, and poor Katie is going to learn the hard way that social media can really bite her in the ass.
So as my first and hopefully only Recreational Outrage Pit dear Katie, I hope you enjoy all the love and support you are getting right now, 'cause you surely deserve it.
That’s absolutely fucking unreal that there are some morons who don’t seem to understand that those in the limelight are real people, too. I’m sure that pathetic waste of oxygen thought her “hilarious” tweet would get republished and bring her notoriety, all the while not truly hurting anyone. I have no problem saying that I hope she faces all the consequences for her actions, because really, who thinks of such things without being the scum of the earth? Karma is about to make you her bitch, disgusting Katie Brady.
Her name likely isn’t really Katie Brady. KatieBrady12 probably means she’s some stupid ditz with a crush on the Patriots’ QB.
Too bad she’s not in the UK. Some asshole tweeted something similar to British diver Tom Daley during the Olympics (his father died of cancer last year) and the police showed up at his house and arrested him for harassment.
This. Football, baseball, basketball, hockey, and any other pro sport out there are played by people who make obscene amounts of money to play a game. In addition to obscene amounts of money, though, they also get a shit-ton of abuse from obsessive fans who are pissed because their fantasy team tanked that week, or that their team is having a rough year, or that their quarterback is fucking an unpopular actress that month and it seems to be affecting his game. Hell, the “fan line” page in my local newspaper is evidence of this: Spittle-flecked overanalysis issued forth by obsessive fans who spend too much time and brain power thinking about something so inconsequential.
It’s a fucking game, people. Your identity does not ride on the fortunes of the Steelers, Ravens, Patriots, Cowboys, or any other team. Your wardrobe should consist of colors other than those found on the jersey of your favorite team. Hell, your sports wardrobe should consist of one jersey, T-shirt, or jacket, period, and you are allowed to leave the house without an item that has your team logo on it. (I know this doesn’t have much to do with the topic of the thread, but it seems appropriate nonetheless.)
So “katiebrady12” needs to get some perspective and taught some priorities. At minimum, she should be forced to step out from behind the anonymity of a Twitter handle and apologize directly to Torrey Smith for her hateful behavior.
And all of the other fans need to get a grip, too. It’s a game. That’s all it is.
The combination of repulsive cruelty with blatant sore-loserness is what makes this exceptional even for a “somebody was mean on social media” RO incident, IMO.
It gets worse. After Bolton Wanderers player Fabrice Muamba collapsed on pitch and only had his heart restarted after an hour, some nugget was tweeting racist garbage about this. He did time in jail.
“Katie Moody is a Sr. Administrative Coordinator at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.”
Yeah… for now.
Can someone tell me briefly how Twitter works; did these posts of hers show up on her home page? A Patriots page? On Torrey Smith’s? What I’m asking is how public were these tweets of hers? Was there no chance Torrey wouldn’t see them?
They are private now, but originally any one could have seen them. For the most part, anything on twitter is public. Smith probably wouldn’t notice this first hand, but by now I’m sure has knows. She may have used a hashtag, which makes it easier for people to aggregate posts on similar topics (I’m posting from my phone else I’d look it up first). The hashtag would get a tweet in front of a wider audience.
On behalf of my fellow Pats fans, I apologize for this waste of flesh.
Wait, seriously? People can sometimes say ridiculous, petty, stupid, and offensive things. But jail time? Really? I’m glad I live in a country where I can say ridiculous, petty, stupid, and offensive things, even if I choose not to.
99% of the posts on Twitter are publicly available. In fact, the Library of Congress archives all public tweets (for some reason). Public tweets are essentially viewable by anyone with an internet connection.
If you choose, you may lock your twitter feed down to be viewable only by those who are following you. (You may also lock down those who may follow you on a by-permission-only basis.)
If I want to make you aware of a tweet (and you have an account), I tweet “at” you. "Dear @LieusTwitterAccountName, here’s a hilarious photo of a dog: http://tinyurl.com/9xbfw4u ". If I want to let everyone in the world who is searching for funny dog pictures aware of this tweet, I might tag it, like this: “Dear @LieusTwitterAccountName, here’s a funny photo of a dog: http://tinyurl.com/9xbfw4u#FunnyDogPictures”. Then anyone who searches for “#FunnyDogPictures” can find it easily.
If you use the official name of the Twitter account, @TorreySmithWR for instance, it will show up directly on his feed either on the messages section or as a response to a particular tweet.
What’s interesting is that she didn’t do that, which means one of her own followers or someone looking at the #toosoon feed ratted her out. She still shouldn’t have done it, but it’s not like she messaged him directly.
Yes, seriously. We had a long thread about it. It’s not entirely different from US law; the government is free to criminalize the expression of “fighting words”, regardless of the First Amendment. It just has to do it in a manner which is neutral as to other content of the speech.
Based on her user name and the content of those tweets, I was picturing some 15-year-old girl who doodles “Mrs. Katie Brady” and “Katie + Tom 4ever” on her school notebooks.
This is a professional grown-up with an actual position of authority in the world? Scary indeed.