Kobe Bryant’s career may be slowly cooling down, but the passions he engenders among his fans remain red-hot.
Two men got into a Twitter fight over Kobe that catalyzed one Kobe fan to drive forty minutes to Temecula, California, to fight the Kobe-critic in person. It all started when a Twitter user, Tweetgood Mac @SnottieDrippen tweeted: ”I don’t see any tweets saying the Thunder better without Durant….. Aren’t they winning w/o him #ButWhenItsKobe”
A Laker fan calling himself ItsOnlyTheInternet? @MyTweetsRealAF took umbrage, responding: “Before you jump in someone’s mentions you don’t follow, might want to find the context of the tweets, fuck stick. @SnottieDrippen”
The fight online escalated into a challenge from the Lakers fan to physically fight, and when his challenge was accepted, triggering him to drive forty minutes to Temecula to fight in a duel of basketball fanatics. Scores of tweets between the two men flew back and forth as one man drove to fight the other, but the argument can be adumbrated by a select group from the would-be attacker:
If you think the Lakers are better team without Kobe cuz of his shooting %, you are a bafoon. Lmaooo!!!! @SnottieDrippen
— ItsOnlyTheInternet? (@MyTweetsRealAF) December 25, 2014
You’re a Kobe slurper, we understand RT @MyTweetsRealAF: @SnottieDrippen Nah.. You a young dummy, a Kobe hater, and a stat nerd. Lmaoo!
— Tweetgood Mac (@SnottieDrippen) December 25, 2014
“@SnottieDrippen: @MyTweetsRealAF @Ac3_B00gie so you’re saying you DON’T watch games. Cool.” Fuck out my mentions. Your just annoying now
— ItsOnlyTheInternet? (@MyTweetsRealAF) December 25, 2014
“@SnottieDrippen: RT if @MyTweetsRealAF is not a “real n*gga” on here.” I’m real enough to meet, and beat your ass. How’s Temecula sound?
— ItsOnlyTheInternet? (@MyTweetsRealAF) December 25, 2014
New niggaz call fighting “childish” My daddy called it settling it like MEN.
— ItsOnlyTheInternet? (@MyTweetsRealAF) December 26, 2014
It’s amazing to me that people think grown men fighting is a big deal. Seriously. This why society is lost. Guns are legal, fighting is bad.
— ItsOnlyTheInternet? (@MyTweetsRealAF) December 26, 2014
The moment we stopped fisticuffs is the moment the weanies took over. It’s more violent now, than it ever was when you just fought it out.
— ItsOnlyTheInternet? (@MyTweetsRealAF) December 26, 2014
People keep saying this was over Kobe. It was not. It’s was over HOW he was addressing me.
— ItsOnlyTheInternet? (@MyTweetsRealAF) December 26, 2014
Ultimately, @ScottieDrippen did not show up, after @MyTweetsRealAF drove to Temecula on Christmas day, leaving his family, which prompted a flurry of tweets calling @ScottieDrippen a coward:
The fact people are actually calling dude a "puppet master" for LYING, NOT BEING A MAN OF HIS WORD, is an indictment on Y’ALL not me.
— ItsOnlyTheInternet? (@MyTweetsRealAF) December 26, 2014
The great mano-a-mano never materialized, despite hundreds of tweets from supporters of both men, and leaving the macho man mocking the lack of machismo in our modern world:
Somebody gets bullied in school, parents sue the school and the kids parents. This our new world Tell little Johnny to fucking toughen up.
— ItsOnlyTheInternet? (@MyTweetsRealAF) December 26, 2014

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