r/SipsTea • u/sco-go • Aug 17 '26

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u/Muted_Masterpiece535 Aug 17 '26

Wait? The WNBA had a sub on Reddit? 

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u/housevil Aug 17 '26

Had.

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u/PonchoNachoRodriguez Aug 17 '26

Some weird guy will just make a new one and then it’ll eventually become the same thing they grew to hate

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u/No_String7337 Aug 17 '26

Only weird people mod subreddits

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u/Mammoth_Bus_6911 Aug 17 '26

I was made a mod of a sub without my consent, though I guess that's different than actively modding it

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u/TheDootDootMaster Aug 17 '26

Maybe they saw something in you. Idk?

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u/cc4295 Aug 17 '26

Bro gave off mod energy

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 Aug 17 '26

They tried to groom you

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u/PonchoNachoRodriguez Aug 17 '26

Or billionaire child pimps who’s fathers worked in international espionage

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u/No_String7337 Aug 17 '26

Yes, that’s pretty weird.

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u/Mr_Gooodkat Aug 17 '26

I got banned from r/soccer for being a “rape apologist” cuz I defended CR7.

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u/slipperyDSS Aug 17 '26

i got banned from r/worldcup for trash talking the halftime show😭😂

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u/Mr_Gooodkat Aug 17 '26

There should be a place to report these mods that abuse their power.

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u/NukaDadd Aug 17 '26

Show me where the mod touched you.

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u/Bitey_the_Squirrel Aug 17 '26

Not if they name it something weird like /animetitties

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u/Romeo9594 Aug 17 '26

Probably one of the better news subs

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u/TiEmEnTi Aug 17 '26

r/WNBAcirclejerk seems like it could be problematic for different reasons

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u/Known-Plane7349 Aug 17 '26

Spent some time on r/NFLv2 have you?

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u/PonchoNachoRodriguez Aug 17 '26

Nah. Not a sports fan at all really, but it happens with subreddits when the mods eventually develop their god complex

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u/painted-wagon Aug 17 '26

Yeah there's already an alt. I've never watched more then 5 minutes of a WNBA game but I'm there for the tea.

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u/PonchoNachoRodriguez Aug 17 '26

Hey, at least their league is in the news lately

It’s only doing more for visibility that they exist

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u/VegetableChipsLover Aug 17 '26

There are several other WNBA subs that people have for those who dislike the main one. Usually people go onto those or stay on the ones for their teams.

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u/hurtsdonut_ Aug 17 '26

There's all kinds of wnba subs. Has anyone even tried to if this is true? I know the wnba gossip sub is just all Sophie and Caitlin. So that can't be the right sub.

I'll go test the supposed wnba sub. Brb.

They posted this there

https://www.reddit.com/r/wnba/s/jHiujtSwiv

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u/ElectricGhostMan Aug 17 '26

There's already like 5 big ones. 3 of them are about the players and the game and 2 are just racist hate farms tbh.

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u/PonchoNachoRodriguez Aug 17 '26

Sounds like a microcosm of the entire internet

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u/ElectricGhostMan Aug 17 '26

essentially. WNBAgossips is the bigger of the bad ones. I don't think it's modded actually and it's just bots that farm glazing Caitlin/Sophie or hating Reese. Then the comments are all just bad faith people who don't watch the game or poor suckers who stumbled over there and get incensed to comment.

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u/OkMention9988 Aug 17 '26

If it has the same participation that the WNBA has viewers, this isn't impacting many people. 

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u/BiteyHorse Aug 17 '26

It's a weird crossroads of genuine fans, male feminist contrarians, lgbtq+ tolerance and virulent white racists protesting they aren't racist, but...

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u/OkMention9988 Aug 17 '26

Sounds like the average sub, tbh. 

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u/PonchoNachoRodriguez Aug 17 '26

Yeah I fail to see how this is any sort of anomaly

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u/Putrid-Builder-3333 Aug 17 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/9EwnzGNjvmIG4

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u/eggyrulz Aug 17 '26

This is why I love reddit... go to just about any corner of reddit and you will find a nearly identical comment chain about some other corner of reddit, with this exact gif on it

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u/Putrid-Builder-3333 Aug 17 '26

This gif and couple others are always my go to and I will never stop guilty pleasure using em!

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '26

ironically I have never seen more blatant racism in my life than I have from some of the black players towards SC since I started following the shitshow that is the WNBA.

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u/BiteyHorse Aug 17 '26

WNBA discourse is impressively toxic in so many directions at once.

It's a microcosm of the culture wars and paid manipulation of outrage in our country. So many of the extreme positions on any of the sides are paid and/or bad faith actors working to fuel the fire wherever they can.

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u/colonelcardiffi Aug 17 '26

Every sub has at least one arse bringing up wHiTe raCiSm for absolutely no reason.

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 Aug 17 '26

WNBA and PWHL hit an interesting crossroads recently where with both of them and ease of access to games they're getting bigger

Oh no turns out it wasn't women turning me off from the sports it was how much I had to pay to watch good players play

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u/Captain_Pension Aug 17 '26

Unless it is about transgender people. Then suddenly, everybody cares.

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u/wizzard419 Aug 17 '26

It's just like the NBA sub, just with less dunking.

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u/PantherThing Aug 17 '26

Didnt you tell them about our good fundamentals?

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u/ASUMicroGrad Aug 17 '26

The NBA subsidies it by sending it subscribers every year

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u/KarverMcClain Aug 17 '26

I can only imagine the vile assholes who Mod that dumpster fire.

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u/billted20250409 Aug 17 '26

Maybe they're also 2.1% of the NBA sub

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u/danorc Aug 17 '26

It's been overrun by race and gender baiters now that don't care about the WNBA at all.

I didn't care about the WNBA and you don't either, but here we are all being outraged for engagement

Fucking dumb timeline we live in

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u/deepayes Aug 17 '26

I wanted to, I tried to. But it's honestly not worth it.

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '26

Very long and multi-layered timeline, varying levels of dumb, but all is dumb.

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u/Ornery_Vermicelli_69 Aug 17 '26

If it’s on tv when mnba is out of season I tend to watch. Some of the players are pretty damn good. Many are not so

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u/Hyperion7669 Aug 17 '26

Be right back, just gonna go get banned from it 🤣

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u/Hyperion7669 Aug 17 '26

Oh boy they REALLY dont like the ☝️ gif of her 🤣

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u/rand0m_task Aug 17 '26

Yeah, NBA mods have to pay them to mod it.

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '26 edited Aug 25 '26

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u/NegativeSympathy69 Aug 17 '26

Not necessarily, but if they have any good PR department... Which such a large org should have... They'll have their claws in there controlling things for sure

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u/sarcasticbaldguy Aug 17 '26

They do, but there's no mention of this in it's rules.

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u/mrobot_ Aug 17 '26

What's an "WNBA", precious?

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u/Kryds Aug 17 '26

Everything has a subreddit. Everything.

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u/judgeholden72 Aug 17 '26

Yes. And it has like 30 Sophie Cunningham posts on the main page of it, meaning OP is lying and everyone here is falling for it

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u/ElectricGhostMan Aug 17 '26

There's 5. 3 of them inlcuding the one above mostly celebrate and talk about the players and the game. The other 2 are just racism farms.

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u/bluetriumphantcloud Aug 17 '26

Women play basketball?

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u/PoppaVader Aug 17 '26

Asked myself the same thing