WESCO wrote:og15 wrote:What I like about these threads is that instead of showing a player is exposed, they expose two types of posters. Those who don't really grasp basketball that well, and those who are 100% committed to a narrative that they are unable to use any critical thinking, and therefore their positions on certain players are worthless.
I've been reading rgm since I was in my teens. I'm now in my 30's. It feels as if most posts/opinion now reflect the current state of American partisan stance. People are all in on hot takes and willing to ride to the grave with it.
It’s recency bias.
And recency bias is stronger than before because of social media.
Instagram, Twitter, etc. saturates feeds with recent news more than ever, so now only recent events are stuck in people’s minds which cause them to forget things from not too long ago.
I used to lurk RealGM in 2006 and started posting in 2010 and recency bias wasn’t ever this bad back in the day.
Steph Curry is the perfect example of this.
He was a Top 5 player, then got injured in 2019-2020 and only played 5 games.
Normally if this happens to a player, fans would just say “ohh so unfortunate, can’t wait to see him back for a full season and see him dominate again.”
BUT NOOOOOOO....... this is Steph Curry.
People had internal hate for Curry for YEARS when the Warriors were winning so much. Then the Warriors got KD and the hate multiplied in their minds. The Warriors lost the Finals in 2019 and these people were ecstatic, which is okay because the next part is where the recency bias and extra hate kicks in:
The Warriors lose KD and Klay is expected out for the beginning of 2019-2020.
Steph has a bad first four games.... these people go NUTS and have a damn ORGASM. THEY HAVE SOME AMMO TO HATE ON STEPH NOW!
“sTePh cAnT wiN wiThoUt KD aNd KlAy!!!”
“sTePh iS eXpOsEd!!!”
The haters flocked RealGM chanting and chanting and chanting.
Then Steph broke his hand. And it pissed them off because they wanted to see him “exposed” more.
“STePH iS fAkiNg iT!!!!!”
Then what they did was milk that 4-5 game sample size to slander him all season. Slander slander slander. Letting all the internal hate ooze out from their fingertips and onto their keyboard and phones. They let it all out. Slander threads everywhere. Milking those 4-5 games for all it got.
Then the bubble started and they slandered Steph more. Damian Lillard won the first game against the Lakers and people claimed Lillard was better than Steph.
Then the offseason came, and when haters got bored they made Steph slander threads.
Then Klay tore his Achilles. And what did the haters do? They slandered Steph more! They were excited because they were still milking that 4-5 game sample size with their recency bias and letting those 4-5 games rewrite Steph’s entire legacy.
Then Steph starts 2020-2021 0-2 on the road with a new team, and these haters have MULTIPLE ORGASMS.
Then they did the unbelievable, they combined the 5 game sample size from 2019-2020 with Steph’s first 2 games back after almost 300 days and used that 7 game sample to rewrite his whole career and created threads like this for all the Curry haters to unite and power each other up with their Anti-Steph posts.
Wow, people really hate Steph on RealGM lmaooooo.