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  1. How about all options? also I'm cackling by myself just thinking about a fanyu google personnel who saw the search results + year in search and be like "finally, my time has come" then immediately call up their buddy in Disney and be like "hey, about that billboard in Time Square, Imma make you an offer you cannot refuse"
  2. yes pLEASE! I have such a soft spot for 'Change' Yuzu in jeans? Check. Embroidered T-shirt that looks gorgeous? Check. Dancing that gives me 2nd hand embarrassment but also the reason why I stan? Check
  3. You really hit the nail on the head with this one. The judging trajectory is too narrow minded for current hype, I question whether they really think of FS in terms of the next few decades. Sometimes I ask myself (mind you I've only been watching for 3 years) how fs as a sport has been surviving for this long with its plethora of questionable decisions. I remember someone once said, the sport itself has the benefit of time to maintain its long existence and recover from mishaps while athletes don't. That's why athletes and coaches do everything they can (even adopting wrong technique) to achieve the most out of the time they have with the sport. But on the other hand, the judging body creates a questionable trajectory for the sport that would probably take either a firm agreement to promote correct technique (which is so far fetched with isu right now it's just sad) or a very long time before the sport recovers again.
  4. If anyone want to do this and need some message outline or sth similar, you can message me for a draft of the message that I am going to send later (as well as planning to write one for IOC as well). I can send it to you, it includes mostly examples from the men's event (Yuzu-focused) but you can add from other disciplines if you have/want to.
  5. I know we think showering Yuzu with love and support is the best way to stand by him, but as spectators of the sport I think we are entitled to express our opinion re: it's governing body. Idk if everyone will agree with this approach, but I think what the tweet suggest is a reasonable path to take should you be comfortable. We know ISU does not have an (working) accountability system for judges' decision, but if many people complain, at worst it ought to give them a bit of shiver (there are plenty of evidence online for the competition judging). Also I have never done anything like this so if this step out of line, admin please let me know.
  6. This is in no way defending the bad apples in the fandom, as they have been called out, and rightfully so, but here's something to consider: Re: this summer Johnny is...a lot. In ~ 2 weeks, his name appeared in 2 dramas. Now, I'm not gonna discuss the details of his action in the hate letter incident (cause in the end he did call out a hater, just not in a tactful manner IMO). But the thing with Yuzu, the one handling things poorly IS Johnny, not Yuzu's team. Being cryptic, going to social media to imply an entire team on all sort of misconduct (and this is something I find it hard to swallow, that he even led people to believe management was homophobic), putting Yuzu in a very difficult situation, etc. That's not how a media professional should behave, and that's not how an adult handle misunderstanding. Heck, that's not how a self proclaimed "skating senior" should act. The fact it was Johnny who broke FaOI rules, the one who should be awkward is Johnny. Like we call out bad apples, why can't we admit when a skater slipped? I believe in giving people the benefit of the doubt, but I can only do it when the people correct their own behaviors. Re: the leak Bad apples have been called out, and rightfully so. The first thing I saw was tweets calling out bad apples and not the leak, and for that I think the fandom did the absolute right thing. Lbr, not that many fandom will admit part of their community is doing something wrong, let alone correcting them right away (I've been in enough fandoms ever since my teenage years - and at least 2 this summer). I agree that these fans will just give haters the material to dump on us. However, this lead me to offer my view about many things that've happened in the fandom in the past season. This has nothing to do with the leak, I don't think the fans who commented poorly on Instagram should get away with it. What I do think is that, as a community we're so large, and faced a strangely large amount of false narratives, that we ourselves don't give fellow fans some leeway. We ourselves are also seeing some people as "knee jerking", as "vicious", as "mindless" that I'm feeling like we're imposing that idea upon part of the fandom, and in many situations we cannot speak out (the one that left the most impression on me is the hate letter incident this summer, in which the victim implicitly blamed us without proof, and we could not defend ourselves in any way, shape or form ). We may see a strongly worded argument and we may think, omg that person is overreacting. But the fact that antis are so ready to dump on us any chance possible, that people are reacting as fast as possible. And I think that's a vicious circle. The fact that fellow fans seem so ready to think poorly of fellow fans, make me feel like there is a hierarchy, where the one who are deemed vicious, mindless and overreacting are at the bottom, and make me feel like many (both fans and antis) have a sense of moral superiority for alienating them. Boy am I bad at expressing myself, so apology if this doesn't make sense to anyone I guess my point is that, I hope to see Fanyus treated with more understanding of why some do what they do, by any community, for we're in a situation unlike any others. (Once again, this is my view on many things that happened throughout the season, and have nothing to do with the leak incident. I just happen to thought-dump at the same time).
  7. Same I've started reading some background info (more like soaking up every piece of it) and (mentally) preparing myself for the series, because I just cannot get the opening song out of my head I don't usually stray from my comedy/slice of life anime preference, and my friend was very "wtf is happening" when I asked for their review about Nge
  8. I had a course on Presentation Skill at the university, and for our final project, we had to do a Motivational Presentation I took BOrser's words literally and built a 15 mins PowerPoint where I gushed about the "story of the Olympics' 1000th gold medal" I even wore my Cicontu shirt and everything (but I don't think anyone in my class was able to read the back, let alone recognize the merch ). Fast forward 2 months later, when I was discussing travel plans with a classmate, I told her that I wish to go to Japan once in my life - "to see the birthplace of my favorite athlete". She immediately commented "You mean the figure skater, right?" It felt like a first step for my mass conversion plan (jk)
  9. Thanks to one marvelous fanart, I have a wild dream that one day, Yuzu will be all secret and stuff about his EX, only to appear in his first gala with painted black nails, red contact lenses and a white wig. Unravel will start playing in the background and the collective fandom will probably combust.
  10. They've been plonked with Poohs since the dawn of time, and yet we only see their objectivity going down. Maybe this is their silent plea for sanity?
  11. Agreed completely. And I'd like to add my 2cents. Let's put it another way. If it were a hypothetical person in Yuzu's place, complete stranger to us and without the emotional attachment, would anyone still say the same? Or would they be much more straightforward with their opinions regarding the placements, instead of sidestepping the real issue. I've mentioned it before, but when scores are what directly create medal outcome, why would anyone think that medal outcome won't changed should the scores be handed out more objectively? It might not in some cases, but in this one, well ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ A skater who delivers get the score, yes. But to get bonus, well, you must deliver past the average. And it can also happen that one's best may not equal another's not-at-best, when their foundations are on different levels. P/s: on a lighter note, I realized this is my 3rd post, so eh, I delurked I guess 😌 Please excuse my aggressive first impression, I think we've been through a lot. I am not usually so vocal, but I do slip when things get tough.
  12. This. I have been feeling iffy about this since forever. Why can we freely have debate about placements and medals for, say the ladies field; but when it comes to men suddenly we're tip toeing. Being polite and being objective are not mutually exclusive. You can disagree with the score AND the medals, when the score is the thing that directly affect placements and in some case, change them altogether. I don't understand the need to excuse ourselves and set our arguments up for frivolity when in reality we can just be straightforward without offending anyone, because we're not making anything up.
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