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Opinion (but Fact): Athletes are human, too — they see your tweets

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After months and months of hateful tweets and comments from a troll account that we will not be promoting, said account deactivated.

Which happens, but the really interesting part came when Scottie Barnes — the target of the hateful tweets — commented on the situation.

Job well done I love our fans!

— Scott Barnes (@ScottBarnes561) March 4, 2024

Without going into specifics, because the specifics are extremely hateful and don’t need to be repeated, a singular account was spending a lot of time writing hateful content about Scottie Barnes. Everything from criticizing his play, to speculating about Scottie’s private health information, to perpetuating hateful stigma.