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People be normal challenge, failed every single time. It must be jarring for a league that was enjoying a normal level of rise the last couple of years, to suddenly be slammed with the kinds of people it gained this year. You have had all of the incredibly racist fans following from the corn fields school and their girl, who are endlessly abhorrent about every Black player it seems. You have the people who just last year or last couple years, were saying all of these women should get back in the kitchen and make them sandwiches, suddenly like "Well because this one girl hits logo 3s I guess it's valid now." But only for her though? And then you've had the influx of massively invasive people, the uptick in sexually explicit content about these players in a fandom that was small in the grand scheme of sports world fandom. Like, it exists in men's hockey very heavily, but fanbases are large enough it sort of just gets drowned out and not a lot of those players are online. It seems like many WNBA players always have been, I've seen them find so many things just looking up their name in a Twitter search. I can't imagine how deeply uncomfortable it is to suddenly see so much of that when otherwise, things felt pretty tame. You had your super fans, obsessed fans before, the groupie fan here and there. But never like this. So, for the players, I just think about how strange all of this must be and how I wouldn't want to know some random person on the internet wants to be dicked down by my colleagues strap or whatever, or that a bunch of racist people want my co-workers harmed, or that they want me to pay them for messing up their parlay and now they're threatening me. Like I said, it just seems really jarring and I don't think the league and the players themselves were ready for how much that was gonna hit.