Ah yes, the "I can't read words so I'm gonna be glib" motherfucker respawns.
What part of "how mad are people at Baker for doing 'a gesture'" do you not understand?
The 3 likes can lick my balls in advance.
This was your fault. Not the audience.
1) You lead with the phrase “heat check”. This would lead the reader to believe you were on fire and were testing to see how hot you were and that this next post was risky. Did you in fact mean “temperature check”? Your audience is questioning your credibility immediately.
So we’ve started on shaky ground...
2) What does “king of the participation trophies”? mean? Why is it significant enough to be in quotes? Confusion continues.
3) Further...In that paragraph you reference “me at king of the participation trophies”. So now we’re thrown into having to assume how angry YOU the poster would be about something without any context of your background. This seems literal, of course, but again...this is your post and your follow up criticism of the guy who responded to you.
4) You were talking about the Hunt signing “elsewhere.” Without all of the previous context confusion, this isn’t a problem. However, you’ve already frustrated your audience. So now they’re nitpicking you and are going to be curious as to whether there really is an “elsewhere” at all or whether you made this elsewhere up for the convenience of the story. Then you reference “someone” and the ambiguity continues which leads your reader to doubt your story even more. You are now becoming the enemy and if you were a standup comedian and this was a joke you’d be at serious risk of bombing the entire set. And you’d absolutely need to abandon this story/joke immediately without acknowledgement it ever happened.
5) You now move into “ref jobbing.” From my understanding “jobbing” is a term specific to the wrestling subset. This is a subset that is not popular with all audiences, and in fact is looked down upon by many other sports fans. Given that you’ve already lost your audience at the beginning of your post, anyone that dislikes wrestling is gone here. Anyone that dislikes ref conspiracies is also gone.
So by the end of your post, you’ve really alienated any possible audience you could have had. Just with a few subtleties that could have been cleaned up from go.
You’re welcome.