I watch NBA basketball and back in the day (1990s) there was exactly one player that was referred to by his initials: Michael Jordan. Nowadays fans use initials (with their jersey number occasionally tacked on as if that’s the cleverest thing to do in the world) for almost every player and it’s almost impossible to know who they’re talking about. For some players this is legitimate (e.g. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is a mouthful so SGA is a good replacement) but for most it is not.
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257m@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
As somebody who was born in 2007, I have no clue who modern celebrities are either. People consider me out of touch but I have no idea what half of what people around me are saying. The acronyms don’t help and I am too scared to search them up.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Lucky13@lemmy.world 2 days ago
In baseball now, they like to make nicknames by taking the first initial and the first syllable of the last name. Like J-Hey. It’s annoying and unoriginal. Baseball used to have the best nicknames too.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 2 days ago
they like to make nicknames by taking the first initial and the first syllable of the last name
Oh god, this is worse than the initials+jersey number thing.
frostysauce@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Um, A-Rod has been a thing for a while now.
Lucky13@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Um, nobody said he hasn’t. Um, what’s your point
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Woah, 2007ers are 18 now…
257m@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Well 17 still. I still got like 8 months.