I had this in tags but i think worth dragging out into sunlight
booktoks not for me. im not looking to attach my face and name to my fun online nonsense hockey jokes.
but i just watched the tiktoker in question.
fr tho.
wrong of felicia to hate on the fandom instead of the kraken social media team. As vulgar as you may find it why u hating on the girlies. Go on any public online space and you'll find absolutely horrible despicable personal takes on hockey players and every other celeb trying to do a job.
Pls.
we've all enjoyed the groin stretches let's not be saints here
call out the fans in ur husband's DMs. OF COURSE pls do that. That is your personal right.
...but the fans u first thought were hilarious & that were putting a spotlight on your partner and team, and you were sharing their vids amongst family and friends and the husband in question yourself??? To call them out?? that's not cool. If you don't like it anymore, stop engaging, talk to your husband to setup a mtg w the kraken sm team and tell them to stop endorsing them.
Y'all I didn't know how deep it went with them booktok'ers-- yoooo the kraken were (not now) following her and had her at a game and (idk who invited her) she went to the nhl awards!!!!!!
She's wearing kraken shirts in vids not about hockey to her 1.1m followers. At this point its a business transaction.
To have her dropped that hard n fast. My goodness. You clearly see the power u hold in this dynamic, dear wag.
She said in one of her vids something like (I'm paraphrasing) 'companies do this all the time. They use booktok to advertise their thing they use our fans. They had vids up of their hot players all slo-mo. Then soon as they're done they throw us away.'
Us here, at least we don't get used like that by these teams and players and their families. We share what we like. We enjoy our lore and hrpf without any of them butting in.
Booktok isn't our taste (i mean lol i have the word booktok filtered lmao that's how much its not my taste) but yo let's not villainize fellow fandom 🫶
This is the take IMO.
I don’t do booktok for the reasons OP stated as well and I don’t condone the direct commenting on Felicia’s posts that’s currently happening, but a lot of the issues Felicia was trying to pull into this are general pro sports/public figure issues that are happening with or without booktok AND through other forms of fandom (hello pubchair men speculating how big players’ dicks are on their officially sponsored podcast or typical cisman fans commenting horrible things on WAG posts when their husband is caught cheating or blows a play in a big game). To publicly pin this on booktok and a SPECIFIC booktok creator who had started to earn money or other forms of social capital via this content with the team’s blessing was not the appropriate way to handle this because it actively incentivized the team to drop her quietly with no notice instead of a mutual parting of ways with respect and understanding on all sides.
Frankly, the people cheering this on are basically joining the Leopards who Eat People’s Faces Party at this point. If you post on tumblr or Twitter in the fandom circles even just adjacent to booktok, you are absolutely next for this even if you think your content isn’t sexual or disrespectful. Guarantee other influencer-adjacent WAGs are actively name searching content about their husbands to get mad about so they can pull a similar move for the praise and clout they’re seeing Felicia get rn. This doesn’t make them attention hungry or bad people, it just makes them smart internet users! But we can’t encourage this type of fourth wall breaking on any side because it’s only going to hurt everybody in the long run because of the power dynamic at play. Teams are going to see this go down and probably start tempering their content out of reactive fear while also screening more potential non-cis man employees to see if there’s any chance they’ve ever set foot in a fandom space that might upset a WAG.
I’m genuinely not here to drag anybody because I think all the feelings the people actually involved have expressed have been genuine, but I don’t think it’s unfair to say everybody here has also acted in ways that aren’t productive to what they actually want to see as the end product of their behavior.
Tl;dr I agree with OP here and think we all need to be more proactive about maintaining the fourth wall as much as possible and that has to include circumstances where we might agree with the behavior of someone breaking it even from the other direction. The WAGS are not our friends or our queens, they have power over us and we need to protect ourselves and each other before engaging with them directly in any way.
