The Fanyus are ****ing insane. They totally lost it when Denis Ten was murdered and commented stuff like "He deserved it because he often disturbed Yuzu" underneath Ten's videos on youtube etc.
Can this not be compared to fringe elements of a political movement? There were batshit crazy FS fans long before the 2016 election happened (see Yuna-Bots, and I doubt any of us who were around 20 years ago want to relive the MK-TL fan wars), just like there were batshit crazy political conspiracy theorists long before Trump came on the political scene (see 9-11 or JFK's assassination).
Agreed if Hanyu uses the media to promote products he can also tell his fans to be respectful of his competitors. He chooses not to say anything. Same applies with YK fanatics viciously attacking Adelina.
I don’t think it is his intention to make excuses for unfair judging. Rather, he attributed some causes of poor judging to the result of 1. technology constraints 2. the short period of the time to deliver the scores vs the the “arm chair“ analysts have the luxury of hours of analyzing a still picture from certain angle. Fanyus rush to criticize him for making excuses, which frame the responses to his original tweets. There was coach/judges acknowledging his tweets in the comment section agreed with his original tweet of lacking in technology. He followed up the original tweets about the time constraints, especially when TV broadcasting was concerned.
Are you talking about nationals or Skate America? Nathan got two “v”s for his spins in the free at Nationals. I think the judging of spins are not lenient, which is good for skaters.
At Japan nationals, Hanyu received a no level for his sit/sit in the short ( he didn’t do 2 consecutive revs in a sit position.). The fans dug up a combo spin from Nathan’s long last year ( yellow shirt) where he wasn’t down on his sit to show how unfair it was
I remembered this. I have no problems with invalidating Nathan‘s spin, which would remind him to spend more time and efforts on spins. The backxel and under rotations were basically twisting.
That is what most of these comparison videos were about, often times they cut off something or emphasize some angles while picking a best jump or element Yuzu delivered in a different competition
I don't think he's saying that at all. I got no impression that he thinks these fans are making good and accurate judgments.
And that's what they do. Which is why their judgments are flawed and why Hersh was rolling his eyes at them (figuratively)
Hanyu is not on Twitter or Instagram. And neither is he on other social media. I don't think he has read any of these hateful messages about Nathan Chen. It doesn't mean he hasn't heard or read anything about that, but it's a possibility. In any case, he may not be aware about the extent of it.
And that’s my main issue with so many of those fan clips. They are heavily edited, and there’s so much editorializing directing the viewer to see things that may not actually be what is shown on video that it loses credibility.
Why does it all have to come back to Trump? Why not just say "conspiracy theorists" in general?
Hanyu said he had watched Land of All on YouTube 100 times, contributing to the views count of the video. Unless he doesn’t have the habit of comments, otherwise would be hard not to come across any hate comments in the comment section From some Fanyus. That is another annoying thing about radical Fanyus, they are obsessed with Nathan to the extent of watching fan videos from ice shows, and left negative comments everywhere
