It’s a shame F1 social media and various other community outlets have just descended into childish bitching and name calling, particularly Twitter and Instagram. Because it’s taking all the enjoyment and fun away from what is one of the great championship battles of the modern era and everyone’s too busy whining to even see it.
Yes I could turn off the socials but the F1 community used to be better than this. GTP is only just marginally better, too much of the crap starting my to weed itself over here too.
Hopefully people can put the silly whining and bitching to one side and enjoy what is sure to be an amazing climax to what has been a brilliant fight.
Yes, yes yes.
Even young Lando took a step back from social media after he became "Meme Lord" during Covid, suggesting that interacting with fans in that way 'hurt his image' and made him look like a clown compared to other serious/private drivers and could effect the drives he could get from other teams.
What happened to Lando is what is happening to F1.
Liberty Media which, at one point, literally said that they want Formula One to follow the same path as American football. I'm not fear mongering, but I feel what we're seeing with Formula One is very similar to American football.
- Growth over everything (more tracks, more outreach, more, more more!)
- Rampant media coverage (even from unqualified/non-press people - the amount of BS F1 channels on YouTube I've seen has skyrocketed after DtS)
- More fan engagement
- More useless celebrities being highlighted during the race
- WE NEED AN AMERICAN DRIVER - WE NEED AN AMERICAN DRIVER IN THE SPORT, THAT WILL MAKE AMERICANS CARE, RIGHT?
- More ADVERTISEMENTS!
- We need the fans on the camera every 10 seconds. HOW ABOUT A KISS CAM?!
@MagpieRacer - honestly, I don't think this is strictly on the fans, this is something that Liberty Media has been building up to. They want drama so they can get the views, and they're doing as many other American companies by searching for controversy. (milking race incidents and accidents for views, unnecessary red-flags and restarts) Now they're ramping things up to 100 with the addition of the Miami GP, then they're gunning for a GP in Las Vegas of all ****ing places. (notice how they dropped the Vietnam GP and it hasn't been heard of since?)
Even the drivers and teams are complaining about the addition of more races.
The interesting thing about the Ecclestone days is that it made sure that F1 had a baseline which it could operate and tried not to stray too far away from that. I don't think Ecclestone gave a single toss of **** about the fans or growth of F1, but rather it being similar to what he saw back when he was young, or, just staying authentic to itself.
What I liked about F1 when I started watching is that it didn't
try to be anything but F1.
I'm done rambling, but yeah, double that with the boring, overhyped races... I'm taking a break.
Oh, how could I forget the awful sprint races?
