#24 – Not Sure If Serious or Playing Dumba

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Re: Things You Wouldn't Admit Unanon

[(Anonymous)]

See that's why it seems like it's fake- his fanon personality is taken from the few facts fans know of him (he's a relatively private player) so we don't know much about him. That's why the twitter seems suspicious because there is no way the personalities match (especially with all the rumors and stuff surrounding him and his lifestyle)

Re: Things You Wouldn't Admit Unanon

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt
Yeah, the more I think about it the more it would make sense for it to be PR. So many player twitters nowadays are just sponsored tweets and occasionally a random picture to show that they're not just a robot, because I think they were all collectively told that the best twitter strategy is saying it best by saying nothing at all. His is kind of too perfectly crafted in terms of personality/sponsored/interacting with teammate balance for it to be organic. But idk, maybe he really does make the tweets but it seems like somebody who's "new to social media" doesn't randomly get that lucky right off the bat in terms of knowing what to tweet and how to get broad appeal.

Re: Things You Wouldn't Admit Unanon

[(Anonymous)]

NA See, to me, his twitter actually seems kind of genuine in that I always had the impression he was a douchey hipster who liked yoga and organic gardening.

I'm sure there is a PR team (or his mom) telling him to post this and post that because the fans would love it, but when I think of manufactured/fake, I think more of the types of twitters where I'm pretty sure the players never even touch the twitter and their publicist posts all their canned responses and charity promotions.

Re: Things You Wouldn't Admit Unanon

[(Anonymous)]

NA

Yeah, I can see why people would think it's fake, but I also think having a PR person go to all that trouble just doesn't seem worth it? The Hawks are still popular, and the people who have a problem with the team/Kane aren't exactly going to be swayed by some funny tweets. Maybe he has a PA who tweets just to boost his own image, but it still doesn't seem like much benefit would come from it, and to say the team is involved is a real stretch. I think he just got eliminated early from the playoffs and is bored.

Re: Things You Wouldn't Admit Unanon

[(Anonymous)]

But idk, maybe he really does make the tweets but it seems like somebody who's "new to social media" doesn't randomly get that lucky right off the bat in terms of knowing what to tweet and how to get broad appeal.

Fandom Goggles on, maybe that's because he's not new to social media: just new to social media under his real name.

Re: Things You Wouldn't Admit Unanon

[(Anonymous)]

How do the personalities not match? Are you seriously suggesting that rumors are more valid than a verified account? I'm not saying it couldn't be a PR person, but the notion that rumors about a player are the standard to which a verified account has to conform is absurd.

Re: Things You Wouldn't Admit Unanon

[(Anonymous)]

DA

Yeah, the whole twitter seems like the ~idea of him he projects in interviews, which is poles apart from the gross shit you hear rumors about.

Re: Things You Wouldn't Admit Unanon

[(Anonymous)]

NA

Idk, to me that's more pointing to the idea that he's running it while trying to project his ~best self. Not to say that he couldn't be getting input from PR, just that if it aligns with the way he tries to portray himself in interviews, then the simplest explanation to me is that it's just him tweeting with Interview Face on the whole time.

Re: Things You Wouldn't Admit Unanon

[(Anonymous)]

Amazingly enough, people tend to be complex enough to both be really into juice cleanses and yoga and making stupid jokes on twitter while also doing coke with underage girls with his hooker girlfriend.

Re: Things You Wouldn't Admit Unanon

[(Anonymous)]

That's what both those anons were saying?

Re: Things You Wouldn't Admit Unanon

[(Anonymous)]

So do you do the juice cleanse to get rid of the toxins from the coke?

Re: Things You Wouldn't Admit Unanon

[(Anonymous)]

I wish this was Twitter so I could give this comment all of the likes.

Re: Things You Wouldn't Admit Unanon

[(Anonymous)]

WHAAAA!?

Re: Things You Wouldn't Admit Unanon

[(Anonymous)]

I'll admit that's true. However, it's also possible for people to spread rumors that aren't true. I think the truth is probably somewhere inbetween, but honestly, I don't trust what people say online because all people suck and are 'problematic,' not just celebrities.

Re: Things You Wouldn't Admit Unanon

[(Anonymous)]

This hooker girlfriend shit is so fucking slut-shamey. I don't like Toews, but leave his girlfriend alone.

Re: Things You Wouldn't Admit Unanon

[(Anonymous)]

Agreed. Apparently he kicked up a massive fuss when they wanted to film at his house for that What's Your Goal video and he's so paranoid about people having his number, he only communicates with some people via text messaging services.

His 'Twitter' doesn't exactly strike me as someone who's private like that.

Re: Things You Wouldn't Admit Unanon

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know, I'm perfectly willing to believe a PR person runs his account, but this conversation leaves a bad taste in my mouth because it's similar to the condescending attitude meme takes towards hockey players. Like certain people (not you specifically, sorry) on here are informed anthropologists who have deep insight into hockey player culture and their personality and their twitter abilities.

Look, he's perfectly capable of making his own dumb jokes about his lack of yoga skills. It doesn't have to be a PR person.

More to the point of what you said, I don't think the privacy thing holds water because regardless of whether who is doing the tweeting, that stuff is out there now. A super motivated person could go track down the gym he's training at, or whatever. Unless his PR person has gone rogue and is getting their hands on pictures of him to tweet, he must be ok with it.

To me, a person worried about privacy would be most concerned with control. With his own account, he can choose what to or not to tweet. If he gives out his phone number, he has to trust people not to give it to some stalker. If he lets people film his house, he has to trust embarrassing household item or car license doesn't end up in the final cut. That kind of stuff.

Re: Things You Wouldn't Admit Unanon

[(Anonymous)]

There's a bit of "lol tumblr", too, which, for sure it's tumblr, but wouldn't you expect people with a photographic memory of every public thing he's done have some reasonable grasp on his personality? There's way too much focus on the coke and "hooker girlfriend" stories and not nearly enough on the constant anecdotes about him being crazy intense about health and kind of a giant hippie.

Re: Things You Wouldn't Admit Unanon

[(Anonymous)]

Right? I like how people are so suspicious of the simple explanation of fanon!Toews being accurate and consistent with the information he puts out about himself. Like, you wouldn't know about my ~bad habits~ from my social media accounts either, and I'm not even a public figure.