#24 – Not Sure If Serious or Playing Dumba

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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.