{"id":307,"date":"2025-03-04T05:22:04","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T05:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/ryanthomasjournal\/?p=307"},"modified":"2025-03-04T05:22:04","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T05:22:04","slug":"social-media-persona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/ryanthomasjournal\/2025\/03\/04\/social-media-persona\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Media Persona"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Being a Utah basketball fan for as long as I have, humor is pretty much the only thing keeping me sane. Every time the team messes up or loses, I just laugh it off with memes, jokes, or sarcastic comments. It\u2019s hard to watch them struggle, but humor makes it a little easier to stick with it. My social media is all about turning those rough moments into funny posts. Whether I\u2019m roasting their defense, celebrating the smallest victories, or just cracking jokes about how we\u2019re down by 20 again, humor is my way of dealing with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I get my post ideas from everything\u2014game stats, frustrating moments, and just being at the game. The worse the game goes, the funnier I try to make my posts. It\u2019s like, the team might be blowing it, but at least I can make people laugh about it. I love turning a bad play into a meme, or celebrating a 3-pointer like we just won the finals, just to keep the vibe fun. It\u2019s about taking the worst parts of the game and making them entertaining for everyone who\u2019s feeling the same way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What I love most is that humor helps me connect with other fans who are in the same boat. We all get the pain of rooting for a team that just can\u2019t seem to catch a break, but by making fun of it, we all get to laugh together. It\u2019s not about winning games, it\u2019s about finding something funny in all the mess. At the end of the day, humor is what makes being a Utah basketball fan fun\u2014even when the team keeps letting us down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Being a Utah basketball fan for as long as I have, humor is pretty much the only thing keeping me sane. Every time the team messes up or loses, I just laugh it off with memes, jokes, or sarcastic comments…. Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30522,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wds_primary_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/ryanthomasjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/ryanthomasjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/ryanthomasjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/ryanthomasjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30522"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/ryanthomasjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/ryanthomasjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/ryanthomasjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions\/311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/ryanthomasjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/ryanthomasjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/ryanthomasjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}