myquadg0d

-name: emmy

OMG YOURE SO SWEETTTTT. thank you for thinking of me and other fans in this time ❤️ i hope you’re doing well 🥺

for me, i’ve been watching figure skating since i was rlly little when tessa and scott got popular. i watched them in all the olympics and was obsessed!! ive watched moulin rouge in person and even have their autographs 🥹 they were what made me watch ice dancing, and then from there, i watched singles womens figure skating mostly. i didn’t rlly start watching men’s until 2022 with yuzu. i always knew abt him but didnt start rooting for him until beijing. then after his attempt at 4A in beijing someone showed me this “quad god” kid on instagram and said he’s probably gonna be the first to do it and i was like who tf is this kid tf?? 😭 but eventually i started paying more and more attention to him and then i loved him and now here we are🤩

okayyyy i’m gonna answer this now! so i was actually around when all of that went down. so basically when he was a kid like 17ish he did say a joke in a live that was in poor taste abt gay ppl, he basically said he should pretend to be lgbtq to get higher scores. but he did apologize and he had sensitivity training (like woke pr training😭) since then. i don’t think he was ever racist. the only other stuff i know is him having ovechkin’s (hockey player) laces on his skates at practice, and ovi has hinted at supporting what russia is doing to ukraine, so ppl are mad that ilia accepted his laces, but the way i see it is ilia wants to connect with other russian athletes because of his russian heritage, i dont think it’s necessarily a political thing, and this is coming from someone with ukrainian heritage. plus ovi is like one of the greatest hockey players ever unfortunately lol. a lot of things ppl say abt ilia are blown way out of proportion and made to seem like he’s the worst person ever. do i think he’s extremely woke? probably not, but like neither are any hockey players, and i still watch hockey. i think it’s valid for ppl to not like ilia for sure, but to spread so much hate abt his appearance, make fun of his skating and straight up make lies abt him, and make fun of his mental health feels like they just get a high off of hating someone at the top. and then they hide it under the justification “oh he said this when he was 17.” like idk, when i don’t like an athlete i just ignore them 😭

i will never ever ever stop supporting ilia, i love him so much, individual medal or not. the things he has done can never be taken back or repeated. i know that was a tough watch (seeing him cry made me want to d!e) but also seeing his grace and poise afterwards made me realize i rlly am supporting the right person.

that being said, pls pls pls remember these skaters are HUMAN!!! they are human beings and should not be considered invincible in the face of pressure. ilia is always so candid abt what he goes through and how it affects him, and that’s what i love so much abt him. NBC needs to stop branding their athletes as unstoppable non-human forces, we’ve seen this happen with so many athletes. and the hate train against ilia was unlike anything i’ve ever seen. tweets with 60k likes and millions of views, and we know he’s online. i hope ilia is able to reflect and pick himself up, and i hope he has a rlly good support system around him for a while.

congratulation Mikhail, you skated beautifully and you deserve this moment truly 🏆 🥇