#there was like a situation about Alex W/ennberg this summer that involved A Lot of the one hockey fandom being poked and prodded at

[mattynmarns]

heyyy alex burning question of the moment as i am introduced to a whole world of ice hockey tumblr: do these guys know they have a rampant tumblr following??? or are they just out here unaware??? (also just wanted to say it is so interesting to see as someone whos never followed a hockey blog before pfff)

As far as I know, they're pretty unaware of tumblr. Like, a good portion of these guys don't have any social media at all or only post to their social media for brand deals. That being said.... there are a few dead and deactivated blogs previously ran by hockey players (i dont 100% remember but i think it was Erik K/arlsson's blog floating around here somewhere....) If you're wondering if they're aware of the online communities as a fandom? They definitely have been in the past, like fully have read/shared/talked about fan fics of themselves (I think it was Tyler S/eguin but I'm only about 60% sure it was him), which is why if you hang out in the Men's Hockey RPF tag on a03 almost all of the fics are archive locked. But yeah most of these guys are chronically offline and it's so awesome like I have no fear at all that they're going to scroll through my blog (unless they're looking to Learn Something About Themselves and their Intricate Relationships with their fellow teammates)