‘Vital and essential’: the film paying tribute to the weird world of NBA Twitter
Memes and Nightmares is an unconventional, offbeat documentary that acts as a love letter to an online community brought together by basketball
NBA Twitter is a space unlike any other, the Black Twitter-adjacent arena where basketball fans traffic in gossip and hope (however false) while expressing their passion for the game. It’s the internet Ekg that relates consumer confidence in real time, revealing an attraction to chatter that would seem to outpace TV viewing interest in NBA games. And the readings are hardly restricted to the hardwood.
Like a judicious point guard who knows just when to pass or shoot, NBA Twitter was the organ that circulated the news last Thursday that San Antonio Spurs star Victor Wembanyama would miss the rest of the season over blood-clotting fears – and it was also the organ where many sports fans, myself included, first learned that Joe Biden had dropped out of the 2024 presidential race.
NBA Twitter is a space unlike any other, the Black Twitter-adjacent arena where basketball fans traffic in gossip and hope (however false) while expressing their passion for the game. It’s the internet Ekg that relates consumer confidence in real time, revealing an attraction to chatter that would seem to outpace TV viewing interest in NBA games. And the readings are hardly restricted to the hardwood.
Like a judicious point guard who knows just when to pass or shoot, NBA Twitter was the organ that circulated the news last Thursday that San Antonio Spurs star Victor Wembanyama would miss the rest of the season over blood-clotting fears – and it was also the organ where many sports fans, myself included, first learned that Joe Biden had dropped out of the 2024 presidential race.
- 2/25/2025
- by Andrew Lawrence
- The Guardian - Film News
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