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Chris Kirschner is a reporter for The Athletic. No idea who he is and nor should anyone. He recently wrote an article critiquing the Hawks. A fan responded with her displeasure. Here’s how that interaction went down:
Kirschner:
Through 25 games, the state of the Hawks:
Offense: 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Defense: 😬
It’s still difficult to grasp how good this team can be as the season progresses.
Twitter user:
It’s almost like 3 of their best defenders have been out of the lineup a lot. Oh wait…..
Kirschner:
Let me guess, you didn’t read the story or have no reading comprehension. Which one is it?
Twitter user:
And no, I’m not paying to read this lmfao
Kirschner:
Cool. Say you’re broke and continue about your day
(I didn’t feel like pulling up the app I use to screenshot and blah blah but you get what happened here). A random fan responded with her defense of the Hawks defensive flaws. Chris Kirschner took it personally or whatever and decided to shit on this random Twitter guy by calling him too poor to afford a subscription to The Athletic.
There is a level of irony for a journalist—who only works behind a paywall because his profession is being swallowed up by free low-level internet bullshit—calling someone broke when they are one bad quarter of low subscription numbers away from being unemployed.
Pre-pandemic, I had a subscription to The Athletic. It was fine. Nothing really differentiating or exclusive to their site but they had more baseball coverage than anyone else so shrug. But yea, Covid took all the money out of my bank account and losing that sub was the easiest decision I’ve ever made.
My point is, we’re all one check away from the front door of a paywall. Those behind that paywall should recognize that and not mock people for their inability to find the cash. Especially if they’re fans of the team that they feel you are unfairly criticizing.
Thankfully, Trae Young saw Chris Kirschner being a psycho online and jumped in to defend the fan.
Smh, who says this?!? I ain’t buying that article.. what that make me?!🤔🤡 #NextQuestion https://t.co/iRiLMiKicQ
— Trae Young (@TheTraeYoung) December 8, 2021
Journalists have become such weirdos.
With the lack of money being generated through online media, so many of these assholes have to build their own personal brands in order to stand out and get name notoriety. The work and quality of content no longer matters. If they can get their names big enough, they can attach it to a shitty book and there’s some free undeserved revenue right there.
Everyone please continue to not read Kirschner’s articles. I can’t believe he’s making me sit here and write something positive about Trae Young. My two arch nemesises.
