I believe the term is "gatekeeping"

[palusbuteo]

Or Gaslighting or something

aka When you're obviously not an Ubermensch SportsFan

Unfortunately this needs to build-up and background...

So, one of the current super-star players on the hockey team I like has been smashing some team records in the last few games, and is now one of the top-5 scorers in the team's history, so well into the Legend Status.

One of the records broken was initially set by a player (Ray Bourque) who was on the team from the late 1970s to 2005.
He had nearly played his entire career with the team, in his time smashed a bunch of records, was on several All Star teams (where he also excelled at skating speed and goal scoring accuracy). For sports fans in the know in New England, he was the Next Bobby Orr. Let's just put it at that.

But, the team itself was doing horribly by 2005. In a very controversial slap-in-the-face move, he and he alone was traded to the team that ended up going to and winning the Stanley Cup that year. To say Most Boston Fans were unforgivingly bitter about that move, is an understatement.
(it was as if it was a curse, since Bobby Orr got traded in an unbelievable trade in the late 1970s, about a year or two before Bourque started playing for the team)

But I digress.

So this new guy, Patrice Bergeron, who has been called the New Johnny Bucyk (another record smasher and legend among legends from the Bobby Orr era), has now surpassed Bourque's record by one point in a recent game.

While I did not get to experience the Orr Bruins (born a year or so after Orr had to retire from hockey from severe knee injuries), I did get to experience most of Bourque's career and his era with the Bruins , etc etc. I even got to watch him and his teams play in a handful of games, wonderful childhood memories.

I watch in amazement to see this newest team ("Bergeron era" we'll use for now), and I do have mixed emotions seeing records that I thought would never been broken from Bourque and earlier/Orr eras, being met and exceeded. There are also many times I feel as a fan I am witnessing the "New Orr Era"
Anyway, I find it all very exciting and as said, at the same time, mixed emotions.
etc etc etc

SO what happened

So on stupidfacebook, the Team's FB page made a post about Bergeron making this new record, etc. and congrats and etc.

I posted a comment stating how after experiencing the Bourque era and its greatness and the mixed emotions of seeing these records that I didn't think would be broken in my lifetime, getting broken.

And of course, some Ubermenschfan came in and stated a "No your wrong"
and another followed up with "Bourque was a defensman, Bergeron is a Forward, there is a big difference

I responded with "fine, if you want to split hairs, but records are still records"

Which was obviously not good enough obviously
and then the follow-up gang-up and belittle the nerd (me) and I'm not the Kool Kidz Klub member and related online bullying and gatekeeping, etc etc

So after a while, I decided, Fine. You win. You're clearly Much Bigger Important Fans Than I Am
So I deleted my comment.

They can all go fuck off a cliff.

Sometimes I really do want to just rage-quit facebook because of this bullshit.
But I also try to level myself out and "just don't comment to begin with"
since I clearly don't have what it takes to keep up with the Big Boy Ubermenschfans.