Threadguy says you have a civic obligation to know your local sports team “Nobody has shared experience anymore. Everybody has their own algorithm, watches their own streamers, their own TikToks, different movies, different books. When I was growing up everybody had shared experience. We watched the same games, we read the same books, everybody read the Hunger Games, everybody watched Percy Jackson, everybody went to Endgame. Nobody does the same stuff anymore, so everyone is separated. Knowing your local sports team is the last unifying cultural thing any town has.” “As a functioning citizen of your city you almost have an obligation to be surface level caught up on your local team. If you’re a lonely tech person in New York and you wonder why you can’t connect with anybody, it’s you. You’re supposed to know who the quarterback is, who the best player on the basketball team is. It’s the easiest small talk there is, and I feel for people, because it’s lonely out here in the city.” “If you work a job you hate and you don’t have friends, how are you going to go meet anybody? It’s solo rip in the bar, which is rough. But solo rip in the bar when the Knicks are on? It’s free. It’s so free.”