The Maize Raid (Twitter)
If you're on Twitter, perhaps you're well-familiar with the Maize Raid. If you're not aware, after every Michigan win, hordes of Michigan fans raid the opposing team's Twitter page and comment on the final game post and basically meme the opposing fans to death.
It's one of my favorite past times. Here's a smattering of last night's work.
February 11th, 2022 at 1:20 PM ^
Great(!) win last night, but social media trolling when our team is fighting for a berth? Deal me out.
(I feel like such a Boomer, even though I'm 100% Gen X)
February 11th, 2022 at 1:28 PM ^
As a fellow GenX member, I'm somewhat scared as I see the Boomer line fast approaching.
February 11th, 2022 at 2:54 PM ^
Wait...how does the boomer line approach? You're either a baby boomer or you're not.
February 11th, 2022 at 3:25 PM ^
I was born between the boomer "lines" (years) and that line ain't movin' (but the lines on my face are!)
February 11th, 2022 at 4:21 PM ^
Maybe he's time-traveling?
February 11th, 2022 at 11:15 PM ^
baby boomers didnt turn into Boomers until they lost touch with younger generations. That line gets closer simply through the passage of time. Aka, they got old.
February 11th, 2022 at 1:31 PM ^
Same with the resuscitation celebration with 11 minutes left to play.
February 11th, 2022 at 2:20 PM ^
Last year it was Jace Howard being resuscitated (more than once). The bench mob is real and helps.
February 11th, 2022 at 1:34 PM ^
I whole heartedly agree with this statement. I have no problem with people posting this kind of stuff on their own social accounts, but spamming like this feels laaaaaame.
Act like you’ve been there before.
February 11th, 2022 at 1:41 PM ^
Millenial here who finds this incredibly sad and cringe worthy.
But given the maize rage used to hand out cheer sheets with the lamest shit I've ever seen while I was in school I think its more the maize rage is a weird place than anything else.
February 11th, 2022 at 3:28 PM ^
Yikes! Some people are actually spending hours researching these clever gotchas
February 11th, 2022 at 3:25 PM ^
lighten up. Its no different than light heartedly talking shit to an opposing fan at a bar
February 12th, 2022 at 10:30 AM ^
Exactly, we largely communicate through memes on social media today, although NFL memes seem to dominate (from what I see, anyway). These were created to be humorous. Fans gonna fan.
February 11th, 2022 at 9:24 PM ^
This makes me laugh. I had my own ideas about the “all in” followers while I was in undergrad… then came my Michigan fandom mid life crisis…
February 11th, 2022 at 1:25 PM ^
Wow. This is incredibly dumb
February 11th, 2022 at 1:26 PM ^
Uh, this is...something? I guess I'd have no problem doing this to OSU or MSU but I actually respect Matt Painter as a coach and I have no problem with Purdue. To each their own
February 11th, 2022 at 1:27 PM ^
Twitter!!! So edgy.
February 11th, 2022 at 1:27 PM ^
This shit is cringe especially after the team has struggled as much as they have this year.
February 11th, 2022 at 1:28 PM ^
Thanks for posting. I hadn't seen this and enjoyed it.
February 11th, 2022 at 1:29 PM ^
Is it just me, or were these meme's just sad? Seriously, this is what people occupy their time with?
This is one of the many reasons I don't twitter. What a cesspool...
February 11th, 2022 at 1:41 PM ^
lol, Twitter is awesome and guess what... you get to control what you see!
When people call twitter a cesspool, they're telling you they are addicted to being annoyed and outraged. Follow cool people and funny accounts, mute replies and keywords; it's not hard!
My favorite feature is "mute retweets from this account" because there are some (e.g. Josiah Johnson) that are hilarious but retweet every "oh man this was so funny" reply and I can just skip those and keep the good stuff.
February 11th, 2022 at 1:50 PM ^
This is my favorite part about twitter and what is so funny when people say they hate it. It takes a lot of "internet literacy" to do, but you can curate it yourself. The only breakthroughs are the stupid "topics" posts that are trying to tailor to you, but those will probably die one day anyway (like every other dumbass feature twitter tries to introduce that its users resoundingly reject).
February 11th, 2022 at 1:53 PM ^
I do have a lot of fun blocking any account with Barstool in it's name. Damn if there aren't a lot of them too.
February 11th, 2022 at 2:06 PM ^
I mean...twitter is a cesspool. You ever read the replies on anything? Useful for news, but it needs a downvote button desperately because it's full of dumb people saying dumb things with no consequence
February 11th, 2022 at 2:29 PM ^
It is, but not really any more of a cesspool than anywhere else that large numbers of people communicate... We call the RCMB a cesspool, and they call MGoBlog a cesspool, and the people you're referring to as dumb people saying dumb things probably see the twitter accounts of people you'd agree with and think *they're* what make twitter a cesspool.
But the awesome thing about twitter is the tools are there to actually curate it so you enjoy the experience. I left fb/instagram a few years ago, but that's what I hated about it... as much as I tried to hide anyone I didn't want to see or train the algorithm to not feed me garbage, I just kept ending up scrolling through garbage.
February 11th, 2022 at 2:45 PM ^
If you follow a broad cross-section of people without applying some curating standards, it greatly increases the amount of crap and drivel you're going to get in your feed.
I follow a very small number of people who I check out beforehand, and I don't do any automatic follows when somebody follows me, or likes a comment.
I started my account on IG solely because my daughter was on it to post her own photos, and it was a very easy platform to post my photos on. Once FB bought it, all of a sudden it was overrun with ads and crap accounts I have no interest in looking at.
February 11th, 2022 at 6:31 PM ^
I'm on Twitter a lot and i agree. I only follow like 50 accounts and a lot of those don't post much. Of course there are some morons in the replies but I don't generally engage with them. If someone says something you disagree with, you can often get a read from their tone or quick look at their profile to see if you may actually have a rational discourse by replying instead of flinging shit at each other. Of course sometimes that can still happen.
I made a sports list that I often scroll during Michigan games, with Sam Webb, Scott Bell, Seth, Space Coyote, Matt D, Ace, etc. Brian hardly posts anymore. Good for info and breakdowns and Xs and OS. I do not raid. I don't have a problem with it but kinda lame and a waste of time.
February 11th, 2022 at 1:35 PM ^
what happened to that schetter guy - is he likely to contribute in a year or two or more likely a transfer? just curious if he's a guy we can use for depth at some point ... maybe be a PITA type for other teams and he can play here for hummel-like years
February 11th, 2022 at 2:34 PM ^
Redshirts still exist even though they don't get talked about much anymore. Tschetter and Barnes are the projects of their class who are redshirting for development. Tschetter projects as a Smotrycz-type with maybe more upside as a scorer. Barnes is athletic as hell but pretty raw, would be awesome to see him develop, as athletic wings are something the current team is lacking.
February 11th, 2022 at 3:25 PM ^
Cool - fair enough. Just completely forgot about him. Then when I see him as sort of the "bench mob", it makes me think he's never gonna see the floor in meaningful minutes. Hopefully Howard develops 4 year players to go with the blue chips - thats usually the winning ncaa formula
February 11th, 2022 at 6:36 PM ^
Tschetter would have seen the floor by now but there's no 25% rule like football, which is really dumb. You step foot on the floor in 1 game and your redshirt is burned. That's why he's not even out there at the end of games.
February 11th, 2022 at 1:41 PM ^
Will Tschetter requiring CPR on the bench mob was funny though
February 11th, 2022 at 1:41 PM ^
This game sure brought out a lot of meticulously manicured lawns on MGoBlog.
February 11th, 2022 at 1:43 PM ^
This certainly does not do Michigan fandom's reputation any favors.
February 11th, 2022 at 1:46 PM ^
Omg the last one is gold!
February 11th, 2022 at 1:51 PM ^
Someday, Twitter will cause an actual war. Then you won’t be laughing…
February 11th, 2022 at 1:55 PM ^
I was pretty sure this was going to happen sometime between 2016-2020.
February 11th, 2022 at 1:59 PM ^
I'm on twitter quite a bit and I see incredibly lame stuff every day.
This is incredibly lame.
If there was a corresponding MSU organized troll group bombing U-M accounts after our recent loss to Sparty, this place would be aflame with derisive condemnation.
February 11th, 2022 at 2:00 PM ^
The mature side of my mind says, "this is pretty stupid" the immature side laughed. It's all pretty innocent, and in the grand scheme of things, life is too damn short to be serious all of the time.
February 11th, 2022 at 2:04 PM ^
Those are some bad memes. I did find the Diabetes/Diabates one somewhat clever but that's it
February 11th, 2022 at 2:20 PM ^
Does anyone have the picture of Eli in his turtleneck and chain after one of the games last year? It seems to have been scrubbed from the internets.
February 11th, 2022 at 2:31 PM ^
How has this post not been neg-bombed yet?
February 11th, 2022 at 2:34 PM ^
I think posting gifs from the actual game is funny (e.g. the defibrillator) but the memes are dumb.
February 11th, 2022 at 2:36 PM ^
Eh. Kids gonna be kids. Let it rip.
February 11th, 2022 at 2:40 PM ^
I wish our basketball fanbase was as good at showing up to the arena as it (apparently) is at meming.
February 11th, 2022 at 2:54 PM ^
Funny stuff, but meh, not into this unless said team is either sparty or ohio.
February 11th, 2022 at 3:31 PM ^
ha, that last one
February 11th, 2022 at 8:32 PM ^
As a boomer I don’t see generating memes for posting on social media to be favorite pastime-worthy, I’ll stick with drinking and screwing.