what kills me is that for decades (mostly male) hockey fans have verbally assaulted players, chased them out of town, doxxed them, jumped into penalty boxes to punch them, rioted in the streets bc their team lost, but it's always the (mostly female) fans under evaluation 👍🏻
the platitudes of sports story where someone’s great come to change the prophecy
5. and the most important, HOCKEY and being GENERATIONAL
and the interviewer decide to speak abt rpf
the way mack is one of the most interesting players in the league now being
1. second highest paid athletes just after his second season
2. youngest captain
3. breaking franchise points record in his second season
4. the potential of the sharks the REBUILD—
I don’t know who the fuck approved that article but they need to be fired! Not only did it have incredibly misogynistic undertones but it mainly just focused on making him uncomfortable (which they state in the actual article that he was) by asking questions about fanfiction and-
genuinely incredibly misogynistic and so tone deaf. gq normally your articles are fucking hits, this one? absolute MISS ! i feel genuinely so disgusted for mack as i was reading the article.
the photography was the only good thing about that GQ mack profile because why are you asking him about fanfiction and grouping women sport fans into just HR and Off Campus fanatics…like id rather hear him talk about the C or how he could imagine his future after hockey -
the article is just insanely unprofessional (and misogynistic!) how do you ask about rpf, notice your interviewee is uncomfortable, describe how he's uncomfortable (!) and then go home and write MORE rpf. like hehe omg it was heated. genuinely what happened to asking about hockey
Macklin Celebrini is an undeniable hockey prodigy with superlative potential.
He is the second-highest-paid NHL athlete in history by average annual value, with a new five-year contract priced at $18.8 million per season. He’s quickly become the ultra-marketable face of his sport’s next wave. And not long after meeting with GQ for this story, he was named the San Jose Sharks’ captain—the youngest in the franchise’s history. All of it underscores his appeal with both hockey aficionados and the public at large.
In effect, Celebrini may very well be the next big household hockey name since Wayne Gretzky. But first, he’s learning how to be the first hockey player ever to navigate such an unexpected burst of social media stardom.
Read the full GQ HYPE: https://t.co/fT3KFmsHXM
In addition to being the NHL’s next big star, Macklin Celebrini also possesses heartthrob looks; he appears, essentially, like he could have been cast in Heated Rivalry or Off Campus—the ultra-popular romance shows that have recently used the world of hockey as a backdrop for steamy love stories.
As his profile has risen, he has become an unwitting target of intrigue, fascination, and parasocial projection among those series’ many (mostly female) viewers, who are eager to find examples of, or at least hopeful stand-ins for, their fictional fantasies in the real world.
It’s an unexpected—or at least ancillary—form of attention, one that he’s still getting used to. “There’s been times where it’s a little much,” Celebrini admits when asked if fans have behaved out of bounds. He says he gets the occasional crazy DM.
“But I think you’ve got to just always obviously be calm and kind of just handle whatever gets thrown at you.” https://t.co/LcFGkUuBGd
okay so i actually rlly fucking hate this article, the tone surrounding women is very fucking strange and some of the shit they asked mack is really fucking strange as well 😭 great pictures tho, i will say
knowing ahead of time that he might not play and still making the most nonsensical and dumbass decisions lol all you can do is laugh or you’ll start to cry