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Stuff Happened Recently: HBO Cancels Bomani Jones

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Welcome to Stuff Happened Recently, a weekly column by @TheLesterLee, about everything and absolutely nothing at the same time.

 

Every new story I read about the media industry makes me wish I finished my pre-med program before I dropped out to become an unbelievably poor writer.

But I couldn’t really pass any science class. Who knew pre-med was like, 99% science classes and 1% that ceramics class I also failed for never showing up.

Bomani Jones’s HBO show, Game Theory, was canceled this week after 2 seasons.

In college, Bomani Jones was instrumental in forming my brain and my relationship with sports.

Before he was on Around The Horn, it felt like every opinion-giver on ESPN was an annoying white guy who hated when black athletes wanted more money or power.

Or the analysts were black retired athletes who weren’t allowed to speak for longer than 30 seconds.

Bomani spoke both intelligently and arrogantly which was a refreshing change of pace from guys like Jay Mariotti or Bill Plaschke who also spoke arrogantly but never quite figured out that intelligent part.

Game Theory was smart.

What does smart even mean? I feel like I keep repeating that over and over.

When it comes to sports media, most people with notable platforms are contrarian assholes or narcissistic geeks who are desperate to be the center of a story.

Like, look at this dweeb, Jason McIntyre—a guy who sits in the corner of Colin Cowherd’s set where Kristine Leahy and Joy Taylor used to sit quietly for the strange dudes who desperately need cute girls in their faces at all times—complained about Kevin Durant being on Twitter too much and then cried when Durant slid in his DMs to make fun of him.

This is most of the people making all of the money in sports media. They are antagonists who engagement farm with intentionally awful takes hoping they get quoted all day because it doesn’t matter if the comments are positive or negative, as long as they’re commenting.

But that’s the world we live in.

No Jumper host Adam 22 has spent the last couple of weeks changing his entire internet brand from old white guy who exploits hip hop and escalates violence in predominantly black and hostile communities to the guy who filmed his pornstar girlfriend get thrashed by a black pornstar.

This is the nastiest press run of all time. I have never seen a ‘please fuck my wife’ rollout before.

Look at the garbage I have to fight against to get some views over here at Deadseriousness.

A porn star who puts a microphone in front of a young struggling black rapper and asks him about his street beef with another rapper and then brings in the second rapper and spends the entire interview making him respond to all the shit-talking the first rapper did thanks to the questions he was asked and then Adam pretends to have no responsibility when those two kids have a shoot out.

Maybe that’s what people want.

It’s the same country that just outlawed Affirmative Action for college acceptance under the guise that it was discriminatory…

Intelligence is absent everywhere.

The only good thing about the end of Affirmative Action is this may lead to more sweeping college changes. We could be closer to free tuition.

See, once these upper-middle-class mediocre white kids realize they still can’t get into the colleges they want and it has nothing to do with the school having to meet minority quotas and has everything to do with how average and unimportant they are then we might see a wave of progressive college reform now that Alyssa and Garrett are getting waitlist letters from USC.

I wish I could activate the part of my brain that could care about the affairs of Adam22 or think that Affirmative Action is a bad thing.

But I reckon my fear is I’ll accidentally activate the part of my brain that sees other things like the woman who was scared on that plane.

There are a lot of comments to make about this woman hallucinating on this plane before it even left the tarmac. All I could think about is how uncomfortable it is to wear JEANS when you travel. If that’s a long flight then you’re a psycho but I feel bad calling this woman a psycho considering there’s a very strong chance she’s actually a psycho.

I also assumed she was freaking out at a black person because I’ve been on the internet long enough to know the only thing that brings fear to a blonde woman’s voice like that is diversity.

Remember during the pandemic when there were like, daily clips of middle-aged white women calling the police on black people for solely being in their line of sight? That shit went viral and was discussed nonstop every day.

I was over here writing winners and losers articles for 2-3 people to read.

If I’m ever going to make it one of these Michael Rubin parties, I need to stop trying to make content I hope Bomani Jones would like and start spitting out bullshit for the lowest common denominator.

The goal is to get an invite to one of these parties so I can yell in Kim Kardashian’s ear with the most expensive cocaine dripping from my nose “REGGIE BUSH SHOULD’VE KEPT THE HEISMAN AWARD” as security prepares to throw me out before they stop and realize I’m the guy from Deadseriousness who does porn and exploits black teens or whatever.

But I guess there are added pressures when you get to that level of success and attention. Usher can flirt with your wife publicly and you have to sit at home watching like a loser.

 

Here’s Keke Palmer’s boyfriend’s response to seeing his very hot girlfriend with very hot usher:

Big cuck week.

Is this what money and success leads to? Everyone watches my relationship turn to dust?

Maybe I’ll just stick to writing for 2-3 people and maybe next week, 4-5 people will read this and one day if I keep this up, I’ll get a show that will be canceled after 2 seasons and someone will write about how smart TV shows don’t exist anymore.

Goals.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Written by thelesterlee

Creator of Deadseriousness. Diehard Knicks, Yankees and Giants fan who wants to create a sports and pop culture space that isn't the same copy and pasted AI content you see everywhere else.

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