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  1. Hi, my name is Rebecca stucker and I will be acknowledging the topic of fake fans.
  2. So what is the problem regarding fake fans?
  3. The problem here is the fans commentary on athletes performances.
  4. This brings up the question to what degree do negative comments
  5. from fans affect the performance of an athlete or team?
  6. Well, how is this a problem?
  7. Athletes have a lot of pressure to perform well
  8. or they risk negative media from fan bases.
  9. This leaves no room for mistakes without criticism from supported fans.
  10. The goal of researching this topic is to
  11. really understand the athletes point of view.
  12. This includes how much of these comments athletes really
  13. see and how much they actually affect the players.
  14. The benefit to knowing this is to understand how to avoid these comments,
  15. having negative impact on performance or just avoiding seeing this media
  16. in general to take away the risk of affecting performance.
  17. Now that you understand the problem being presented,
  18. I will give some background information to help
  19. gain a full understanding of the topic.
  20. To understand the problem. You have to know these key terms and what they consist of
  21. the first and most important to understand our fake fans and true fans
  22. fake fans by definition are people that falsely claim to be a fan.
  23. To me, A true fan is someone who will always be a fan,
  24. no matter the performance or outcome of an athletic event.
  25. With that being said, A fake fan is someone who will be a fan of a team or athlete
  26. when they are doing well yet will criticize and hate when they are doing bad.
  27. Another term is social media,
  28. social media,
  29. our websites or applications that enable users to create
  30. and share content or to participate in social networking
  31. for the purpose of the study. The main social media platforms used or
  32. twitter
  33. facebook and instagram.
  34. Since these are the most popular social media
  35. platforms used by for commentary from fans,
  36. what to know about the effects of social media and athletics.
  37. As social media gets more popular, the problem it brings to athletics increases.
  38. It is now easier than ever to post any
  39. type of negative comment on an athlete's performance,
  40. whether it is a tweet or a meme.
  41. These posts are viewed and spread at alarming rates.
  42. Some examples of these would be a specific
  43. social media profile dedicated to promoting the failure of
  44. a player or simply a tweet saying how bad an athlete played in a specific game.
  45. This can be shown by this tweet by Carl Lewis,
  46. a former a former track and field athlete
  47. exploiting the USa track and field relay team.
  48. This tweet demonstrates that these comments aren't always from random
  49. fans but can also be from significant individuals as well.
  50. Why is this problem significant and why should it be addressed?
  51. This problem should be addressed because of the
  52. growing popularity of social media in sports.
  53. There is no way to stop fans from posting negative comments.
  54. So the only way to solve this problem is
  55. through how the athletes go about the situation.
  56. So how should athletes deal with this?
  57. Experts are saying that social media is not going away
  58. and that it should be embraced
  59. with that being said,
  60. education on how to use social media should be available for athletes,
  61. especially at younger levels of athletics.
  62. The most an obvious answer to this problem is
  63. to just avoid or delete social media in general.
  64. The best way to eliminate the risk of it affecting athletes performance
  65. is not
  66. is to not have the opportunity to see
  67. the negative comments by fans.
  68. These fan posts have the potential to be anonymous,
  69. which gives the athletes even more of a reason
  70. to not waste their time with social media arguments.
  71. Athletes need to acknowledge that these anonymous accounts
  72. do not hold any power over their performance.
  73. These posts can either have a negative or positive outcome for athletes.
  74. If athletes take these comments to heart,
  75. they risk at getting in their head and worsening their performance.
  76. On the other hand,
  77. there are ways that athletes can do that will have less
  78. of a negative impact or could even become a positive thing.
  79. There are three positive solutions which include brushing it off
  80. using it as motivation and changing the negative into positive,
  81. brushing it off just means not thinking too much into it
  82. or avoiding looking at these posts in the first place.
  83. Athletes can also use the hate to motivate
  84. them in their training and through their performance
  85. just like
  86. a football player Dorian Gerald did in this tweet shown above.
  87. He acknowledged that his play could have been bad,
  88. but the opinion of other people did not matter.
  89. So he focused on
  90. his own team, which is what really mattered to him.
  91. one other solution an athlete can do
  92. is to switch it up and make the
  93. negative comments something positive or even comedic.
  94. The bottom picture
  95. is from a popular comedy skit featured on Jimmy Kimmel live.
  96. This skip
  97. prisons, groups of people reading mean tweets about themselves.
  98. The skit is comical based on how the people respond to the tweets.
  99. They are able to take the mean tweets
  100. twist them into something to really laugh about.
  101. Ultimately,
  102. it is hard to prove that these comments affect the performance of athletes.
  103. It is expected that when athletes or coaches see these comments,
  104. there's a chance that they could take them to heart.
  105. If athletes can avoid viewing and interacting with these comments,
  106. there will be less pressure to perform at their best.
  107. They won't have to worry about making a mistake and just focus on what they are doing.
  108. These are my references that I used to gather my information for this presentation.
  109. Thank you