You more than a week ago:
https://www.tumblr.com/scuderia-hamilton/822965595826946048/if-that-hot-take-didnt-get-me-cooked-this-one
āi think saying that he'll waste his prime years at McLaren is the level of pessimism i'm not willing to fall into. cause then truly what's the point? why are we here? why are we watching?ā
āand we can keep waiting for the perfect team for him and he can waste away his talent and prime years at McLaren and then what?? just because he shouldn't have taken the risk??
So which is it? Or is it only considered a pessimistic outlook held by fake fans who you canāt understand why they watch if they think that way when they say it? Yet acceptable when you say it? I donāt mean to be rude and get overly defensive, Iām not the person who sent the linked ask but I did agree with them when I saw it, because I understand opinions change but it has been a frustrating pattern since mid season last year to watch fans come into your inbox to express at times unpopular opinions and be meet with snark and belittlement at times only for those unpopular opinions to turn out to have been on to something and become more widely held beliefs by the majority of fans, including yourself, as the season progresses with no acknowledgement to how rude you all had previously been initially regarding them. Itās not the end of the world to admit they may have been right and you may have been wrong
"i think saying that he'll waste his prime years at McLaren and he'll never win a championship whether he goes to a different team or not is the level of pessimism i'm not willing to fall into" <- so, actually this is me saying i don't want to think that he'll stay at McLaren long enough to waste his prime years or that his future in this sport is pointless now. as i've said i don't want to fall into that pessimistic outlook. what i never said is that he can't waste away his prime years at McLaren if he stays there. of course, that is a possibility. i just don't want to look at his future that way, because again, to me, it doesn't make sense to watch anymore if i've already decided that's how his career is going to play out.
as for the other things, i don't think i've been unnecessarily snarky or belittling to anyone, but if i was, i'm sorry that was never my intention. i also don't have a problem admitting when i'm wrong. just recently, i talked about how i no longer believe that McLaren would prioritize Oscar even if he was outperforming Lando by miles, which is something i firmly believed last year. i acknowledged that i was wrong about that.
what i do have a problem with is the way some people choose to interact with me about it. i've had multiple anons come into my inbox with some variation of āi told you soā or using the fact that i was wrong about something as an opportunity to flaunt that i'm not always right. i know i'm not always right. i've never claimed otherwise. but there's a difference between someone coming to me and saying āhey, i think you were wrong about this, and here's whyā and someone coming to me purely to score a gotcha point. i'm perfectly capable of having the first conversation. however, i'm not interested in the second one, especially when i can tell the interaction is being made in bad faith.
i also understand that people read my blog and remember things i've said before. that's completely fine, and i'm not bothered by someone pointing out that my opinion has changed or that i've been wrong about something. but i am bothered when someone goes through what i've said looking for contradictions solely to bring them back to me as a āgotchaā moment, especially anonymously, because at that point it doesn't feel like a genuine conversation, it's just you trying to feel victorious.