The Trea Turner Standing Ovation Produced Copycats and Trolls
This tweet is making the rounds on Philly Twitter. A Sixers fan is proposing a standing ovation for Tobias Harris, who is struggling for the fourth season in a row as the team finds itself 3-7 over the last 10:
❗️SIXERS FANS ❗️
We are going to organize a Tobias Harris standing ovation for the next home game, Friday at 7pm against the Hornets!
Cheer as loud as you can on his opening introduction, every time he touches the ball, and each time he checks in!
We need our assassin scorer! pic.twitter.com/vF0I36mGnL
— hesi (@hesicrossJ) February 28, 2024
Puke.
The thing I hate most about the Trea Turner ovation “working” is that it will produce copycats. We had that random podcast stand outside NovaCare after the Eagles started to slide and it did nothing. The thing with the Turner ovation that annoys me is you could’ve just read the back of his baseball card and knew he would snap out of his slump. Tobias’ situation is completely different. We’ve got years and years of data to understand he is who he is. We have Trea in Philly for the next decade. Hopefully we have Tobias for only another four months. But now someone will try this dumb shit for the next decade every time an athlete here sucks.
But here’s the thing. It’s all an elaborate troll:
gimmick actually picking up steam https://t.co/MTXIMi1x8S pic.twitter.com/NyrcV2heXW
— hesi (@hesicrossJ) February 29, 2024
they takin it seriously pic.twitter.com/iUbB5pKqBO https://t.co/MTXIMi1x8S
— hesi (@hesicrossJ) February 29, 2024
I can’t even be mad at this kid. This is the internet nowadays. Don’t hate the player, hate the game. Engagement farming is a serious issue. I tip my cap. I took the bait.
Tough week for Tobias regardless:
Crumbl cookies has announced layoffs due to “change in sales patterns”
Imagine thinking 1,900 caloric nukes were a sustainable model pic.twitter.com/1Ef2Xyc5wE
— MacroEdge (@MacroEdgeRes) February 26, 2024