Seemed like even his cronies realized referencing LANK while talking about MLK was sketchy at best. They didn’t back up his rant with their usual wrestling chant bullshit.
I'm confused about how LANK almost brought everyone together. Is he referencing Rece's segment on Game Day?
wouldn’t classify it as a stray kinda feels like some white people think it could have improved race relations simply because they finally found a way where they can “say it too”
"White ppl finally gonna respect black folk bc they can drop casual N Bombs as long as it is in an acronym" He can't be that stupid, can he?
He probably saw this https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-only-thing-the-establishment-truly-fears-i-got-your-back-brother and wept for an hour straight
Naysayer or LANK will get the same beatdown as the other word. Please put that word out to anyone who needs to know. We aren’t stupid.
I'd like to credit my carefully manicured exposure to social media that I haven't had to read anyone trying to use "naysayer" in a super slick way in the last couple of weeks.
I couldn't have been the only person watching that Gameday segment and going "oh no", right? like, on what planet did Gameday producers think it was OK to run that? the amount of people who knew about that thing prior to the segment absolutely pales to who knew about it after the segment ran. ESPN basically taught millions of white people another way to say the n-word. baffling.
MLK Day is actually the perfect day to realize something similar to all this happens to a black person every day of their lives.
On GameDay before the Rose Bowl, Rece Davis explained that Jalen Milroe's LANK acronym stood for Let a Naysayer Know. McAfee said he thought Naysayer was going to stand for something else.
Bama players and fans saying LANK all year. Players said it was "Let All Naysayers Know" bc people doubted them all offseason (same thing every team says every year) and sold shirts through NIL for it. There was never a question about it and it was a well known thing. Players wore shirts with LANK on it in pregame. They sold shirts that said Let All Naysayers Know. It was basically the team motto this year. Did the players use the alternative saying and change it to that to profit from it? Idk, maybe? But they spoke about it often and I don't think anyone was using it with a wink wink. Before the Rose Bowl, Rece had a segment on it where he said it was "Let a Nasayer Know" and MaCafee stopped him thinking he was going to say something else. It all went left there. Bomani had a couple segments on it. It's definitely taken a new tone so I won't use it bc I don't want anyone to take it the wrong way. MacAfee turned it into something it never was.
weren't you saying this weekend that Maryland players were soft for turning their back on DJ Durkin after he killed a player?
Literally one post after saying I knew nothing about the situation at all, but you took that literally.
Uhhhhhh....I've heard "Let a n---a know" for decades. Those dudes knew what they were doing, lol. "Naysayers" was the marketing alternative
Are you calling the kids liars? Because there is video evidence of them saying Naysayer, and they definitely weren’t laughing about the people that didn’t get it in the locker room.
I'm saying they retrofitted a common expression into something marketable. And it's great. But anyone pretending like the Bama guys just made this up organically doesn't know shit about shit
It's just so fucking weird that the Bama guys are trying so hard to pretend it's just a coincidence and has nothing to do with the ability to put something on a tshirt
Yea me too, maybe that was the origin, idk. What I'm saying is in general Bama fans weren't using it with a wink wink as a way to say the other word. We were just using the motto the team used all year. There was a whole thread titled LANK on here and nobody said a word about it bc nobody was thinking about it as the other phrase. Once MacAfee had his segment, it all changed. Like I said, I won't use it now bc of how people take it now but it wasn't always used like that. That's all I was saying.
He says he’s not going to use the phrase but has now defended his use of the phrase in multiple threads
More defending having used it, not defending it moving forward. The whole narrative of the phrase changed after the GameDay segment and it turned into something it wasn't. Hell the fact that GameDay was running a segment on it points to that. Sucks the phrase was hijacked and turned into something it wasn't but whatever.
Ok yeah maybe I misunderstood what was being said in skimming. I was just incredulous at the thought that the "naysayers" version came first
do you think Arnold and Milroe were ignorant of the original phrase when they came up with their slogan? I would buy that most white fans buying the gear wouldn’t have known, but judging by all the reactions of NFLets to the Gameday segment, I have a tough time believing they weren’t making an allusion to the original phrase. I don’t have any opinion on their use of let all naysayers know, but the university ought to have done some diligence before slapping its trademark on it and slinging shirts.
This will sound like a cop out but them using All instead of A is why I think most never correlated the two. Reece said A and of course everyone's mind went to the other phrase. If Reese said it correctly, I don't think we're having this conversation bc I don't think MacAfee has a viral segment from it. It would be another "Let X Know" saying.
Take the L my friend. This is a layup and you’re forcing yourself to overthink it to fit your narrative.
Yea you're right. Maybe we should have thought more into it but we didn't. We just used the team motto.
I'm not doubling down on anything. I was joking around about a topic I admittedly know nothing about. Sounds like i shouldn't have been doing that.