MSU fans get Scott Bell suspended from Twitter
If you don’t know who Scott Bell is, he’s a Michigan Alum and sports writer in Texas. He tweets hilarious MSU trolls.
After a recent series of tweets comparing Beilein and Izzo’s records in March (Beilein’s is better year over year) a bunch of MSU fans reported his account to Twitter and got him suspended.
The little brother mentality is strong with this group.
If you’re on Twitter I highly suggest you follow him prior to his return. I’m sure there will be good tweets coming.
#FreeScottBell
Fuckin Puss Cakes!!
What were the Tweets?
In a nutshell, Msu sucks and Izzo is overrated.
True statements (backed up by facts). ??♂️ Only little kids get their feelings hurt over shit like this.
How does that get you suspended from Twitter? I thought the Twitter CEO was a U of M alum.
I highly doubt the twitter CEO weighed in on the decision to ban him
Nazis are fine with Twitter, but Scott Bell is not. That checks out.
Kathie Griffin doxed an innocent 16 year old boy and she's still on, too.
And nutjob liberals who wanted a 16 year old dead for smirking at a person who lied about serving in Vietnam are fine too I guess
I'm not on Twitter so I don't understand the process. But, if a bunch of msu fans complain that this guy's tweets are offensive, doesn't Twitter actually look at the content before banning them? Or can anyone just complain about anything and get someone banned?
It's basically built on volume and algorithmic abuse, because Twitter is a hell website.
As I understand Twitter, it'll temporarily suspended someone if enough people complain and then, in theory, a human is supposed to read over the complaints and figure out if it's permanent. Mind you, these people tend to be underpaid workers in nondescript office parks in suburban Phoenix who have to sift through untold horrible images and tweets, so who knows how hard they'll investigate the claims of some whiny sports fans.
One would think, that even with a lot of complaint volume, if the account has a lot of followers, they should at least take a cursory 10 second glance. Maybe put a flag on it that it's a sports rivalry issue.
It is up to the remainder of Michigan Twitter to fill the void in Scott's absence, in my own opinion.
Bell is an incredible follow. He embraces his talent as a troll, even getting props from the wife of our beloved coach Yaklich. He's never offensive in my opinion and that's why this seems so ridiculous. He listed the March record, year by year, of izzo and beilein. That's it.
Not offensive, never tried to make jokes about the Nassar scandal or the Zach Smith thing, outside of the irony of Urban Meyer teaching a class. He knows what is fair game and what isn't. He and Ant Wright are the pinnacle of Michigan twitter.
I really would not put Ant and Scott in the same category.
Scott absolutely pushes the boundaries, which makes him hilarious. Ant doesn't really push any boundaries.
He could have easily taken a shot at ward but instead commented how we joke about him breaking his ankles which didn't actually break. His hand did break and that's nothing to joke about. Butthurt spartys just don't have a sense of humor I guess.
From a Michigan perspective, I love Bell and @msutrash1 / Fuck MSU. He is the ultimate MSU hater.
I game seen @msutrash before. Good stuff. Just followed him.
I wouldn't. If you read that guy's tweets, he doesn't actually know what he's talking about.
There's a reason why no repeatable Michigan Twitter people or trolls follow him.
I just trying to figure out what "repeatable Michigan Twitter people or trolls" are. Is that a good or bad thing to be---or both? ?
Autocorrect for "reputable"
Like there are reputable people (beat writers, journalists, Yaklich, etc) that follow Scott Bell (a reputable troll).
MSU Trash is just a dude that seems a little unhinged. Nobody who is a name within the Michigan athletic or Twitter community follows him. Its a garbage account.
He's not a wellspring of information, but the reactions he gets from Sparty's who take him seriously can be pretty damned amusing.
I was banned on Twitter about 12 months ago for jokingly making fun of some outrageous racial outrage on there, and have since stopped visiting the site(except for The Onion occasionally).
Even though I didn't really use Twitter for political purposes, it's amazing how much my mental health has improved since I stopped going on there. Twitter is an absolute cesspool.
I "left" Twitter sometime around May 2017, except for Michigan games and yes, the improvement in my mental health was palpable. Deeply so.
You can avoid a lot of the really awful stuff if you prioritize your follows to just sports and humor. And as bad as Twitter can get, what will really want to make you draw a warm bath and carve your wrists is a dip down into the comments on YouTube. Five minutes of that and you will discover that God has abandoned us.
Yep. This. I don't really see Twitter as the "cesspool" of society like so many people claim. As you said, just follow the right people and don't obsess over some of the replies within those tweets, and you twitter can be valuable if you don't overuse.
Lot of if's and stipulations there.
Prison isn't so bad either, as long as you avoid the guards, and the rapists, and the gangs and....well, you gotta just find the one other normal guy in there and then you'll be ok. And if you do, it's not so bad!
If you read random twitter comments it's your own fault.
It's pretty simple, don't read the comments, ever. Seriously, why would you? Instead of getting the comments of people you choose to follow, you get a selection of random knuckleheads.
God hasn't abandoned us...some of us have abandoned God.
Special thanks to today's PC culture for making this a possibility
Bingo!! ❄️
So when was the peak, non-PC era of Twitter? 2014?
I'm talking about the fact that people can get suspended from Twitter simply for "offending" too many people
Edit: deleting comment.
Yeah, let's go back to "the good old days" where white guys could offend with impunity because no one else had a voice. Get the fuck out of here with that bullshit.
Do you always invoke race for no reason? As one of those terrible “white guys” it seems unnecessary. But what would someone of my ilk know right.
I'm not sure you're following my point here...
Free speech is overrated.
Between 1974 and 1980. You could say or do anything as long as it was for a laugh. Dress up as a serial killer or Hitler for Halloween no problem.
Simply couldn't make a movie like Blazing Saddles today
Mostly because people of a certain age range would think that Blazing Saddles is legitimately racist, and Mel Brooks would be burned at the stake.
So Twitter was launched in 2006 but its golden age was in the 1970s?
Tell me more about the possibilities of time travel.
Yeah, you could even dress up in blackface and nobody ever said anything. Don't you miss the good old days when you didn't ever have to think about anyone else's feelings?
I do miss the days when people's lives would not be ruined for doing something foolish (but harmless and non-criminal) during their teenage and early 20's years.
Poor little snowflake
Dey took our jerbs!!!
Oh, so now they know how to report things.