u/LFCTricksters

The glory hunter is obvious and easy to identify - they arrive when the trophies do and disappear during a bad run. But there's an argument that the performative fan who attends regularly, posts constantly and has all the visual markers of genuine support while having absolutely no actual understanding of or connection to the club is doing more damage because they're harder to spot and harder to call out without looking like you're being unreasonably gatekeepy. Would love to know which type of plastic behaviour people here think is actually the most corrosive to what real fandom is supposed to feel like and whether the obvious targets are even the right ones to be focusing on.

One of my closest friends insists he's one of the biggest supporters of our club. He never misses a chance to tell everyone how passionate he is, buys every new kit, posts countdowns before matches, and acts like football is his whole personality.

But the moment kickoff starts, he opens Instagram or TikTok Live. For the entire 90 minutes he's staring at his phone, reading comments, thanking people for joining, asking them to like and share, and barely looking at the actual match. Every big chance or goal, he only notices because people in the chat start spamming.

Then after the game he's suddenly posting match opinions, player ratings, and arguing with people online as if he watched every second. If you ask him about something that happened during the match, he usually has no idea because he was too busy talking to his followers.

I joked that he supports his engagement more than his football club. He didn't find it funny.

Am I being unfair, or is constantly livestreaming yourself during matches one of the most plastic fan behaviors out there?

I was consistently getting 4-5 bars of 5G and speeds over 200Mbps. Lately, my phone is constantly dropping back down to 4G or showing a completely dead 5G icon that refuses to load a basic webpage. I checked the status checker map and it says "everything is working normally in your area," but it clearly isn't. Are they doing mast maintenance, or is the network just completely oversaturated now?

I watched someone with fifteen years of context in a specific policy area hand in their notice last month. The amount of stuff that lived entirely in their head rather than anywhere documented became very obvious very quickly. Wondering how widespread this is and whether anyone is seriously trying to fix it.