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New Fish
https://hardcorehusky.com/discussion/comment/1946405#Comment_1946405
The racism/OKG/fast strategy meme was a character that very quickly morphed into a real thing, it actively harmed UW. I know people who worked in the department during that time that had their careers impacted by the cancerous idea of the UW athletic department/UW football admin being racist. The OKG/Pete/UW football racism thing WAS opportunistically used and further promoted by both Oregon in recruiting and the FSP 7 on 7 Seattle community that were upset about not getting more access from Pete/UW. DDY and the podcast guys on twitter did spread the racism idea far further than anything that has ever emanated from this silly non serious hobby bored. Below are just a couple of the many many examples, you can say that these were the insane ramblings of a man with a clown nose doing a funny, but at best, it was hyperbole masking the very real accusation of racism and it gave enemies of the program real ammunition.
I posted this recently on the recruiting bored when the topic came up:
Speaking of the TSIO crew and their short lived attempt to go big/mainstream I predicted DDY's (and the rest of them) quick demise here: https://hardcorehusky.com/discussion/comment/984712#Comment_984712
His posting in 2019 was reduced, compared to the manic years before, but he ability to coherently post non UW/Pete/OKG is racist ideas was greatly diminished;
It was clear then that he had lost his edge and the flanderization of his character blurred his real personal politics and the bored character... The racist meme peddled by "the guys" as a joke(?) had reached full Poes laws status.
A few others like @PostGameOrangeSlices tried fighting the now ironically-unironically promoted DDY narrative: https://hardcorehusky.com/discussion/comment/1056621#Comment_1056621 or https://hardcorehusky.com/discussion/comment/1058208#Comment_1058208
Their website would launch a few months later, they didn't make it to the end of 2019
In the now postmortem reflection; DDY talked about "bottom up pressure" because pressure for the program to do better wasn't coming from the top admin and he fixated on the destruction of OKG (because he wanted Built for Life, B4L) as his own personal goal. IMO initially it was hyperbolic, a meme in good fun, until he became schizophrenically attached to "OKG" destruction over anything else. He knew promoting the race stuff was harming Pete/UW but that was only more proof he was right about OKG being bad. When Pete left at the end of 2019, OKG was gone. In those last few years DDY didn't care about UW, football, or Pete, he was wholly consumed by the now self-insert character, and once OKG was gone, so departed DDY... There was nothing left for him anyways...
The racism/OKG/fast strategy meme was a character that very quickly morphed into a real thing, it actively harmed UW. I know people who worked in the department during that time that had their careers impacted by the cancerous idea of the UW athletic department/UW football admin being racist. The OKG/Pete/UW football racism thing WAS opportunistically used and further promoted by both Oregon in recruiting and the FSP 7 on 7 Seattle community that were upset about not getting more access from Pete/UW. DDY and the podcast guys on twitter did spread the racism idea far further than anything that has ever emanated from this silly non serious hobby bored. Below are just a couple of the many many examples, you can say that these were the insane ramblings of a man with a clown nose doing a funny, but at best, it was hyperbole masking the very real accusation of racism and it gave enemies of the program real ammunition.
I posted this recently on the recruiting bored when the topic came up:
Speaking of the TSIO crew and their short lived attempt to go big/mainstream I predicted DDY's (and the rest of them) quick demise here: https://hardcorehusky.com/discussion/comment/984712#Comment_984712
His posting in 2019 was reduced, compared to the manic years before, but he ability to coherently post non UW/Pete/OKG is racist ideas was greatly diminished;
It was clear then that he had lost his edge and the flanderization of his character blurred his real personal politics and the bored character... The racist meme peddled by "the guys" as a joke(?) had reached full Poes laws status.
A few others like @PostGameOrangeSlices tried fighting the now ironically-unironically promoted DDY narrative: https://hardcorehusky.com/discussion/comment/1056621#Comment_1056621 or https://hardcorehusky.com/discussion/comment/1058208#Comment_1058208
Their website would launch a few months later, they didn't make it to the end of 2019
In the now postmortem reflection; DDY talked about "bottom up pressure" because pressure for the program to do better wasn't coming from the top admin and he fixated on the destruction of OKG (because he wanted Built for Life, B4L) as his own personal goal. IMO initially it was hyperbolic, a meme in good fun, until he became schizophrenically attached to "OKG" destruction over anything else. He knew promoting the race stuff was harming Pete/UW but that was only more proof he was right about OKG being bad. When Pete left at the end of 2019, OKG was gone. In those last few years DDY didn't care about UW, football, or Pete, he was wholly consumed by the now self-insert character, and once OKG was gone, so departed DDY... There was nothing left for him anyways...
