Brandon Tatum blasts black WNBA gamers for sufferer mentality
Brandon Tatum, broadly often known as The Officer Tatum on YouTube, has lately criticized black WNBA gamers for adopting a sufferer mentality.
His remarks comply with feedback made by Alyssa Thomas about receiving racial slurs on social media after the Connecticut Solar’s victory over the Indiana Fever.
Tatum performed a clip of Thomas expressing her frustrations about on-line trolling. He identified that the elevated visibility on account of reputation of Rookie of the Yr Caitlin Clark has led to extra viewers—and consequently extra destructive feedback.
He emphasised that whereas the league seeks larger viewership, gamers should perceive the repercussions that accompany elevated consideration. Tatum remarked that most of the accounts sending insults will not be devoted followers, however fairly nameless social media customers.
“For some purpose, black individuals in America have a difficulty coping with previous trauma,” Tatum acknowledged. He expressed confusion over why gamers complain about on-line negativity after they have a broad fanbase supporting them. “I don’t perceive why these ladies are complaining about individuals trolling on the web,” he added.
“And a few individuals who begrudgingly watch the WNBA as a result of they simply need to see y’all do higher,” he continued. “Why would you care about any person saying one thing to you on the web that don’t know you and you bought a whole bunch of thousand and thousands and thousands of individuals watching y’all on TV that’s bringing cash to place in your pocket.
“And the identical those who’s saying ‘uh racism, why do we’ve got to take care of racism, it simply hurts generally’ and so they play the sport of basketball stuffed with white individuals within the stadium. Ain’t nothing, however whereas individuals watching y’all! Your wage, the homeowners of the groups 99% of that is white individuals assist black lesbians enjoying basketball. And you then get one white woman in there that simply having to be a GOAT. Can y’all cease sporting my coloration and simply have a look at the woman’s talent set?”
Tatum additional famous that gamers ought to recognize the monetary rewards that come from their viewership. He requested, “Why would you care about any person saying one thing to you on the web that doesn’t know you?” He highlighted that almost all of their salaries come from predominantly white followers.
He shared his personal expertise watching ladies’s basketball, revealing that he watched to see Clark. Tatum admitted that he sometimes doesn’t get pleasure from ladies’s basketball, but acknowledged Clark because the standout participant in a latest playoff sport.
“I’m within the cigar lounge in Memphis the final playoff sport that the Fever performed. I simply occurred to see basketball on TV is ladies’s basketball. I might by no means watch ladies’s basketball as a result of I don’t suppose it’s entertaining in any respect,” he stated.
“I occur to look and I say ‘Oh, that’s the staff Caitlin Clark play for, let me watch it I need to see her play. I like her. I believe she’s an awesome athlete, I believe she has a variety of accolades, she’s an awesome character, however I hadn’t watched not one of the video games as a result of that’s not my factor. I don’t like basketball anyway,” Tatum stated. “Caitlin Clark was clearly the most effective participant on the court docket. Clearly. I’m simply objectively watching.”
“Ladies’s basketball is so dangerous. I don’t understand how anyone watches it,” he stated. Tatum argued that the WNBA gamers ought to be glad about any consideration, suggesting that the viewership shouldn’t be because of the high quality of the video games. “They need to be comfortable that folks need to assist you to ’trigger they not watching it ’trigger it’s nice basketball,” he emphasised.
Tatum questioned the gamers’ reactions to destructive feedback from social media customers who lack credibility. “You don’t even know they’re actually followers of the Fever or they simply trolling you,” he remarked. He continued, “No person outstanding, no person’s severe, no person with a blue verify mark… I put my life on it that none of those individuals have an actual account.”
He expressed frustration over the concentrate on victimhood amongst gamers. “The individuals watching you on the sport are white,” he famous, highlighting the irony of their complaints about racism. He acknowledged, “How are you getting offended by some rando on a bot account on social media?”
Tatum steered that with elevated viewership comes a wider vary of opinions, together with criticism. “What comes with extra eyeballs is extra individuals and extra haters,” he defined. He added, “Y’all desire a Cinderella story. You don’t get 7 million extra individuals watching your stuff with out the riff raff.”
He noticed that the rising curiosity within the WNBA correlates with male viewership. Tatum acknowledged that males want to observe ladies they discover interesting, fairly than gamers who appear as if males.
“The explanation why the WNBA is getting a bit extra attraction, the explanation why a few of these women are extra widespread than earlier ladies as a result of males are watching the sport and males like female ladies to be on the market killing. They don’t need to watch a dude costume like one other dude play a dude sport. Males don’t need, that’s not enticing,” he added.
In line with Tatum, if ladies united to assist ladies’s basketball, attendance and viewership would soar. “If ladies actually caught collectively…y’all would have the most important league as a result of if ladies would go to y’all video games and purchase y’all tickets, y’all would have extra views than the NBA. However the issue is y’all ain’t that good. I’m sick of listening to them whine,” he asserted.
In closing, Tatum urged black athletes to undertake a stronger mindset. He acknowledged that athletes mustn’t let on-line trolls have an effect on them, particularly after they earn substantial salaries. “You a boss, why you care what some trolls say that don’t make half the cash you make?” he requested in response to a tweet by Angel Reese.
Tatum concluded by emphasizing that gamers like Clark deal with criticism gracefully, contrasting this with some gamers who perpetuate a sufferer narrative. “Caitlin Clark might be enjoying sufferer,” he acknowledged, “however the distinction between Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese is that Angel Reese has to cease enjoying a sufferer and play the sport.”
