Hope not hate: England women football team enjoy positive social media posts | Social media
The overwhelming majority of social media posts directed at England girls’s triumphant Euro 2022 soccer gamers throughout a three-month interval had been optimistic, analysis has discovered. The research of 78,141 posts on Twitter, Reddit and the imageboard web site 4chan recognized greater than 50,000 optimistic posts – roughly one “hate” publish for each 125 “hope” ones. About 380 had been classed as sexist or homophobic, whereas the remainder had been both unfavourable or impartial. Prof Matthew Williams, director of Cardiff College’s HateLab, which carried out the evaluation, mentioned: “Final yr we noticed horrendous racist abuse directed at individual players after England’s males’s staff misplaced on penalties to Italy within the Euro 2020 ultimate. “Within the girls’s Euros, we discovered far fewer posts directed at particular person England gamers, which is maybe surprising however could also be reflective of the completely different viewers for the sport and optimistic sentiment across the staff’s success. “The character of the 380 posts we recognized was regarding, together with makes an attempt to scorn the success of ladies’s soccer, gamers being advised in a few of the much less offensive posts to ‘get again to kitchen’ or to ‘make a…