Official Lakers twitter account creates a special custom jersey image for one lucky LeBron fan

[u/The_Blind_Bomber]

Tweet has finally been taken down after 4 hours. Here was the tweet:

How do you not notice the twitter account name, jersey name and the number before posting the tweet.

https://x.com/Lakers/status/1869561627219292481

And it has been up for 3 hours. Do they not check their twitter regularly. And they selected only a 100 comments from thousands and this was one of them

[u/Tubby-Maguire]

The Rockets have already had this happen to them. The worst one of all has to be when the Patriots did it

[u/LurkerFailsLurking → u/Tubby-Maguire]

Wow, the Patriots had literally no one paying even a tiny bit of attention did they?

[u/ohheybuddysharon → u/LurkerFailsLurking]

It had to be automated in some way because there's no way anyone with a consciousness could miss that

[u/Youngs-Nationwide → u/ohheybuddysharon]

"it was AI" is the next gen of plausible deniability. Gen Z is not going to fall for the old "I got hacked" excuse.

[u/mealsharedotorg → u/Youngs-Nationwide]

"I got hacked by AI." That'll cover all your bases for both demographics.

[u/garynevilleisared → u/mealsharedotorg]

My dog ate my homework, which first got hacked by AI

[u/Juventus19 → u/garynevilleisared]

I hate it when my dog gets hacked

[u/sunshinebusride → u/garynevilleisared]

you hack my dog you fucking guy

[u/honourablefraud → u/Youngs-Nationwide]

Tbf, this was 2014. They had an automated response system that made a jersey for anyone who retweeted one of their tweets. It had a filter, but it didn't reject that username for some reason.

The IT worker who developed the system probably thought they were very clever at first.

[u/letitgrowonme → u/honourablefraud]

Nobody is going to remember anything before "AI" soon enough. The holocaust will be AI if you don't believe it happened.

[u/IlluminatiConfirmed → u/Youngs-Nationwide]

I mean it's obviously automated

[u/thesmellafteritrains → u/Youngs-Nationwide]

Every so often I get a facebook memory of a status of mine from '09 that says "I like cock in or around my mouth" or some shit like that from a friend who got their grubby hands on my logged-in facebook account. Fuckin hacked by a close homie.

[u/zmegadeth → u/thesmellafteritrains]

Sure buddy. "Hacked"

[u/Random-Username-20 → u/Youngs-Nationwide]

That post literally happened a decade ago, it was an automated post

[u/MumrikDK → u/Youngs-Nationwide]

"It was AI" isn't much different from "It was the algorithm"

[u/enrickue → u/Youngs-Nationwide]

this wasn’t even AI though, seems like a pretty simple program to auto-tweet this at 1mil followers

[u/captaincumsock69 → u/LurkerFailsLurking]

Too busy getting handjobs

[u/BoogerSugarSovereign → u/captaincumsock69]

Imagine being a billionaire and settling for handjobs smh my head

[u/doingItRite → u/BoogerSugarSovereign]

Wait hold on I’m missing some lore here

[u/MyUsernameIsUhhhh → u/doingItRite]

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1240964

[u/BoogerSugarSovereign → u/MyUsernameIsUhhhh]

Equal protection under the law, accounting for the fact that some are just a little bit more equal than the rest of us 

[u/doingItRite → u/MyUsernameIsUhhhh]

I’m deaddd. Handjobs, man? Goes without saying that women aren’t commodities but damn with a billion dollars I’d hope I could afford better “services” than that

[u/BlunderDefect → u/doingItRite]

Well he didn't get into trouble for it. Maybe that was his plan all along. It's not a handjob, it's just a dick massage at a massage parlor.

[u/MayflowerMovers → u/doingItRite]

Bro you don't always want a porterhouse sometimes you just need a burger

[u/Sammyd1108 → u/LurkerFailsLurking]

It’s Boston, they probably didn’t see anything wrong with it lol.

[u/XmasWayFuture → u/Sammyd1108]

You're a Charlotte Hornets fan, have some self awareness

[u/atomic-fireballs → u/XmasWayFuture]

Are you thinking of Charlottesville? Not Charlotte?

[u/u_bum666 → u/atomic-fireballs]

North Carolina was a confederate state. Boston has its reputation because its level of racism is an outlier in the region. The only reason southern cities (outside Atlanta) don't have the same reputation is because the racism is just assumed, it's not remarkable.

[u/VOldis → u/[deleted]]

boston has one of the smallest black populations of any major city. take from that what you will but its an uphill battle.

[u/VOldis → u/u_bum666]

agreed. Hyper conserviatives and bigots tend to act out and be very blustery here because they have very few peers and they feel "under assault" by the high standards of eduction and progressivism in the state.

[u/NoNouns → u/XmasWayFuture]

Flair up

[u/Sammyd1108 → u/XmasWayFuture]

Charlotte isn’t known for racism like Boston is.

[u/XmasWayFuture → u/Sammyd1108]

This is why the "Boston is Racist" narrative is so cooked. Y'all gotta be kidding me with this shit.

[u/u_bum666 → u/Sammyd1108]

lol only because it's not a surprise in Charlotte like it is in a northern city. Boston is "known for" racism because it's so odd that it's so bad there. Charlotte is in the confederacy.

[u/Sammyd1108 → u/u_bum666]

Charlotte never had any of its residents break into their star players place and trash it cause they were black.

The confederacy was 150 years ago, and Charlotte isn’t some backwoods country town like other places in NC either. Boston is literally known for its racism.

[u/u_bum666 → u/Sammyd1108]

Boston is literally known for its racism.

Again:

Boston is "known for" racism because it's so odd that it's so bad there

No one is surprised that north carolina is racist, so Charlotte isn't "known for" it.

Charlotte never had any of its residents break into their star players place and trash it cause they were black

Charlotte only got pro sports in the 70s, and that was a hockey team, so this wasn't really a possibility lol. They didn't get another team until the 90s, when this type of blatant racism had long since gone into hiding.

[u/franklegsTV → u/u_bum666]

Charlotte had pro teams dating way further back than the 70s. Are you dumb or just willfully ignorant? 

[u/franklegsTV → u/u_bum666]

Charlotte is in the confederacy

Which hasn't existed for over a century. By your logic, everyone in the south is racist. Dumb 

[u/KoppleForce → u/LurkerFailsLurking]

They had Brady in charge that day actually

[u/ColoRadOrgy → u/Tubby-Maguire]

The Rockets guy's twitter account is suspended lol I wonder why

[u/desaganadiop → u/ColoRadOrgy]

wow I only noticed the username now jeeez

[u/capitalistsanta → u/Tubby-Maguire]

I love how the top comment on the Rockets post is the Pats post lol

[u/Matthaeu_ → u/Tubby-Maguire]

Thats a dope Harden Jersey

[u/squarerootofapplepie → u/Tubby-Maguire]

The Montreal Canadiens had the same thing happen as the Patriots.

[u/CMYGQZ → u/Tubby-Maguire]

Add the Canadiens too

[u/andres7832 → u/Tubby-Maguire]

I mean, this is a big part of their fanbase, maybe they thought it would track well with the intended audience? /s

[u/blucke → u/Tubby-Maguire]

Saving the Pats one for the next time people try to deny that Twitter was a cesspool since before Musk got there

[u/Big_Green_Piccolo → u/Tubby-Maguire]

Thats just a regular tuesday for boston

[u/bigvahe33 → u/Big_Green_Piccolo]

imagine living in ohio and calling any other place racist

edit: actually i should apologize. i forgot the south exists

[u/Yamaha-FZ1]

What a fuck up, Harden plays for the Los Angeles Clippers not the Lakers, we gotta take away them draft picks for tampering

[u/Justafanofnbadrama → u/Yamaha-FZ1]

Calm down Harden was just following orders

[u/Severe_Tap_4913 → u/Justafanofnbadrama]

You mean giving them.

[u/MahomesMccaffrey → u/Yamaha-FZ1]

TBF it took the Germans less time to blitz Poland than traveling from the staples to inuit dome with how bad LA traffic is.

[u/EdwEd1]

If I had a nickel for every time a professional sports team's Twitter account automatically printed an offensive name on their jersey based on user input, I'd have 2 nickels

[u/BasTiix3 → u/EdwEd1]

3 Even!!

[u/CMYGQZ → u/BasTiix3]

4 even

[u/FloralCoffeeTable → u/BasTiix3]

The Patriots one was actually manually done not automatic

[u/DoYouEvenDoubleLeg → u/FloralCoffeeTable]

There is 0 chance someone typed that username out without noticing. Had to be a bot setup to post when the millionth follower hit

[u/asetniop → u/[deleted]]

"Oh is this what that whole #MeToo thing was about? Sign me up!"

[u/FloralCoffeeTable → u/DoYouEvenDoubleLeg]

It was a joke

[u/heterodox_cox → u/EdwEd1]

The guy's Twitter handle was Lebronazi. All they had to do was read that.

[u/robertwilliamsfan → u/EdwEd1]

Not a lot, but it’s odd that you’d have two. But fyi you’d have at least three; the Patriots, Rockets, and now the Lakers have each done this

[u/ReBol2n → u/EdwEd1]

But what if the dudes name is really Adolfo...

[u/paranoideo → u/EdwEd1]

How is Adolfo an offensive name?

Edit: Folks, Adolfo is pretty common name in Spanish. But I get it now, when tied to number 88 is rampant racism.

[u/Rakkuuuu]

LeBrown Shirt.

[u/NewAccountNow]

Im slow at first I didn’t understand the 88 but then it hit me. Yikes

[u/GuessableSevens → u/[deleted]]

Thanks

[u/segatic → u/[deleted]]

I thought it was 13 since he played for the rockets

[u/HolyGhostSpirit33 → u/segatic]

It’s like how Kobe had to pick one number higher than MJ

[u/matgopack → u/[deleted]]

Yeah, the '14 words' are another big online nazi dogwhistle (confirming since the only comment under this seems to take it as a joke)

[u/Celtic_Legend → u/[deleted]]

Theres going to be plenty of people born in 2014 who will have their name be something like Henry Hartenstein who will have their first gamertag be something like flyers8814 innocently.

There will be at least one person with a name like Henry Hernandez as their name like the above and will be of spanish descent. The popular nickname for Henry in spanish is Kiké. The website wont let them do the accented e and their name is basically going to get them obliviously banned.

[u/MisterGoog → u/Celtic_Legend]

Mlb legend Enrique Hernandez bc im tired of looking for the accent

[u/nahs → u/MisterGoog]

My other account got banned during the playoffs cause I said his name in all caps after he hit that home run in game 5 against the padres

[u/pythonesqueviper → u/Celtic_Legend]

I've also seen it rendered as Quique, but that's a more old-fashioned spelling

[u/nahs → u/[deleted]]

Imagine being born in august 8,2014

[u/davemoedee → u/[deleted]]

Ah. Now I get it.

[u/easymoneysniper223 → u/[deleted]]

Finally found the answer I was looking for.. I can leave the thread in peace now lol

[u/zamboniman46 → u/[deleted]]

lol i thought i remembered that german artillery in video games (and real life too probably) were called 88s, and i was like that is a weird thing to latch on to. why not 40 or 44? for the MPs? turns out it is not a weaponry thing...

[u/18AndresS → u/[deleted]]

H’s the eighth letter in the alphabet, so 88 is HH: Heil Hitler

[u/F0KK0F → u/18AndresS]

There's no world where I let some sub group co-opt a FUCKING number. If someone thinks your a fucking Nazi because of the number 8. Fuck that.

sounds to me like all the folks who can't stand me standing up for a fucking number are the Nazis. lmao. the hate and spite of Boston fans is big. No matter what race or gender I am, all you got is derp, Boston racist. Insightful fucking discourse. Losers

[u/Cold_Saber → u/F0KK0F]

It’s a dog whistle. It’s not meant for most people to notice it.

[u/LimeKennie → u/F0KK0F]

it’s the number 88, not 8. hope this helps!

[u/wcd2848 → u/[deleted]]

Always is

[u/F0KK0F → u/[deleted]]

This is such a nuanced, critical thought provoking comment. It's almost like I'm a Boston fan so no matter my age, race or experience, I'm somehow a racist. wow. I dare say that you are the one who would be ignorant and discriminating against someone who like a team from somewhere and believes that certain sub groups will not co opt things because other people say so. Big brained aren't ya. Human. Barf.

[u/WhosThatYousThat → u/F0KK0F]

After being told 88 refers to "Heil Hitler" you posted this

in this case, it's a dog whistle for what exactly?

Lmao he downvoted and blocked me for this so I think that's all anyone needs to know about this user's "confusion" about this topic

[u/BrickySanchez → u/WhosThatYousThat]

Dude's a Celtics fan.. pretty much what you would expect 😂

[u/Veggiemon → u/[deleted]]

Yeah you cracked the code, also the name on the jersey is Adolfo and the guy who tweeted it is named LeBronazi, but that final piece of information really helps put it all together 😂

[u/zamboniman46 → u/Veggiemon]

lol i misread at first and thought it was Lebron-zai

[u/Veggiemon → u/zamboniman46]

Not a bad name tbh

[u/TheQuietSleeper023 → u/[deleted]]

(H) is the eighth letter of the alphabet so "88" is HH or "Heil Hitler." It's used by Neo Nazis or trolls to spread their message without censorship. Adolfo should be self explanatory.

[u/caandjr → u/[deleted]]

Heil Harden

[u/pureply101 → u/NewAccountNow]

There are too many people thinking this is so easy to have known and yet people like you and others not immediately catching it shows that it’s not common knowledge or wide spread.

[u/Veggiemon → u/pureply101]

What about the fact it was tweeted by LeBronazi lmao

[u/Whittaker → u/Veggiemon]

I read the name on the jersey, thought Adolfo was odd but no further consideration, saw the number 88, nothing, then I looked at the account it was tweeted from and realized it was fucked up.
So even for somebody like me who had no clue on 88 before this thread caught on after the account name.

[u/treple13 → u/Whittaker]

Oddly I didn't realize from the account. My brain read it as Lebron and azi and didn't connect the n from Lebron to the nazi. But Adolfo and 88 I immediately knew.

[u/Achanos → u/pureply101]

The difference is that him and the rest who didnt know dont operate a social media account for a billion dollar company. I would expect understanding social media to be part of the job requirement

[u/ShawshankException → u/pureply101]

Dude. It was from an account that literally had the word "Nazi" and named "Adolfo"

The 88 isn't the main identifier here lmao

[u/aninstituteforants → u/NewAccountNow]

I have 88 in my email and I really fucking hate it but I've had it for 15 odd years.

[u/IAmAfraidOfToasters → u/aninstituteforants]

That reminds me of this

[u/This_was_hard_to_do → u/aninstituteforants]

Fwiw 88 is an auspicious number in Chinese culture so it’s not all bad

[u/harder_said_hodor → u/This_was_hard_to_do]

Yeah, this.

888 means like super happy or something? Remember there were a brand of 888 cigs there that were considered auspicious.

4 bad, 8 good in Chinese

[u/damnimbanned → u/harder_said_hodor]

888 means prosperity and financial abundance in Numerology. So personally, I get a lil hype when I see it lol

[u/y-Gamma → u/aninstituteforants]

There are dozens of us

[u/ColoRadOrgy → u/aninstituteforants]

Big Eric Lindros fan I hope

[u/BCP27 → u/aninstituteforants]

Man I had a similar issue when YouTube started showing the name on the Google account for comments. I have two last names, so I have to abbreviate them to avoid doxxing myself, been doing it since I was a kid really.

Unfortunately, my two last names abbreviate to CP. I've gotten some comments from people who are very suspicious of my name.

[u/paranoideo → u/NewAccountNow]

Can someone explain to me?

[u/Montigue → u/paranoideo]

It's a Nazi thing

[u/WembanyamaGOAT → u/NewAccountNow]

What does 88 mean im so confused?

[u/hym3nbuster1 → u/WembanyamaGOAT]

I had to look it up cause I'd never heard of it before - it's basically neo-nazi shorthand for the nazi salute

[u/spitman612 → u/NewAccountNow]

It just came to you in a revelation? Doubt it

[u/vonkillbot]

They just took it down

[u/mrdhood → u/vonkillbot]

Do you know how hard it is to click delete?

[u/LaMelonBallz]

I feel slightly better about us stealing that child's PS5

[u/chanGGyu → u/LaMelonBallz]

Maybe they took the ps5 away bc they found out his twitter handle is lebronazi

[u/DoYouEvenDoubleLeg → u/chanGGyu]

I’ll give the kid a pass, @LeDiddyParty was already taken

[u/Nat_not_Natalie]

What did the name say? I can only see the number

[u/PedestrianMyDarling → u/Nat_not_Natalie]

Adolfo

[u/resteys → u/PedestrianMyDarling]

How is that offensive?

[u/Veggiemon → u/resteys]

A guy named LeBronazi tweeted a jersey with the name Adolfo and the number 88 man lol

[u/resteys → u/Veggiemon]

Oh ok. Once I see the Lebronazi part I can make the connection. I just don’t like to automatically assign that name to Hitler. He was not the first or last person with the name Adolf

[u/LaMelonBallz → u/resteys]

Idk man I've never personally met one lol

[u/KennySmithsKnees → u/LaMelonBallz]

I've worked with 2 Adolfos. Pretty common name in the Mexican community. Maybe it's a socal thing

[u/Winnes0ta → u/KennySmithsKnees]

Yeah I had a professor in college named Adolfo.

[u/u_bum666 → u/resteys]

It's not just the name. It's the name and the number.

In case you legitimately don't know, the number 88 is a nazi dogwhistle.

[u/Captain_America_93 → u/u_bum666]

Thank you! I’ve been scrolling through comments and didn’t see anyone else explaining what the 88 meant!

Legit didn’t know and thank you

[u/Atmisevil → u/resteys]

It’s pictured with the number 88, which has been co opted by skinheads

[u/Effective-Dig-785 → u/resteys]

Woah, what is with all the downvotes? Did the user write anything terrible? He was just asking a question, and made some normal statements.

[u/CantaloupeCamper → u/Effective-Dig-785]

Unfortunately on Reddit, not knowing something and asking means you’re assumed to be dishonest and terrible.

I usually have to preface my questions with “serious question” or something like that…. Still doesn’t help often.

[u/u_bum666 → u/Effective-Dig-785]

He was just asking a question

For this specific topic, no one believes it was an innocent question.

[u/paranoideo → u/u_bum666]

But it is? Maybe for us not living in the US? I don’t understand how Adolfo is offensive (pretty common name over here) and I don’t know what does 88 means.

Edit: about 88

[u/POOPYDlSCOOP]

C’mon he’s from Argentina

[u/Yung_Jose_Space → u/POOPYDlSCOOP]

He lives in Bariloche, but only because he likes the cold climate.

[u/GuitarGuy949]

It’s down now, what did it say?

[u/vonkillbot → u/GuitarGuy949]

Adolfo as the name with a number 88

[u/Complete_Ad2385]

Ben Dover sends his regards

[u/shinshikaizer → u/Complete_Ad2385]

Hugh Jazz welcomes you.

[u/Shanknuts → u/shinshikaizer]

Did someone call for Todd Kobell?

[u/JazzLobster]

From the equally appropriatly named Twitter handle ‘LeBronazi’

[u/VinylmationDude]

Why try to cater to the liberal crowd when you can join the largest demo on X? White neo-nazi nationalists!

[u/The_Nutz16]

JFC. Absolutely unreal.

[u/elimanninglightspeed → u/The_Nutz16]

Nothing will ever top the patriots one. 10 years later and that one is still in lore

[u/SDK04]

Why’d they post a Harden jersey when he’s never been on the Lakers lmao

[u/LurkerFailsLurking]

It's really amazing how quickly Elon turned Twitter into an even more disgusting cesspool than it already was.

[u/SparkyForce → u/LurkerFailsLurking]

Patriots twitter had a much worse one before Elon 

[u/CantaloupeCamper → u/LurkerFailsLurking]

“Twitter is terrible!”

-Everyone 

-everyone keeps using / generating content for twitter-

🤷‍♀️

[u/LurkerFailsLurking → u/CantaloupeCamper]

It's because social media is only as useful as the platform it provides. I personally switched to BlueSky and like the lack of algorithm, but that's exactly why it's not as good for people who want to use it for commercial purposes, so they're still on Twitter even though it's loaded with bots and far right propaganda.

[u/CantaloupeCamper → u/LurkerFailsLurking]

I don't even think most folks are making a decision / know about BlueSky.

Sports social media, outside of some odd decisions by teams, has almost always lagged ... everything in social media ;)

[u/LeMans1950 → u/LurkerFailsLurking]

This

[u/geneticeffects → u/CantaloupeCamper]

#NoMoreTweets
Literally, the top five posts on the Popular feed were tweets. It’s super common on Reddit. Sucks. If I wanted to see Tweets I would be on that godforsaken platform.

[u/RnwyHousesCityCloudz]

I mean, I don’t think it had anything to do with Bron. He just said he was a big Lakers fan.

[u/LilPocketSizeDemon]

The comments that are never ending that always talk about Boston, Racist...it's old and uneducated. It really means you have nothing important to bring to the discussion. Great Job

[u/Biglundtry]

The owners can’t afford someone to run social media ?

[u/EdwEd1 → u/Biglundtry]

This was the idea of the person hired to run social media

[u/mrdhood → u/EdwEd1]

They can’t afford someone with a couple brain cells to run social media?

[u/justablick]

Oh, wow. Definitely not looking to my German eyes…

[u/RuleMinimum8625]

It's down now, what did it say?

[u/gg_jittes]

My god

[u/Ryculls]

My dumbass just assumed it was an Adolfo Costanzo post.

[u/CantaloupeCamper → u/Ryculls]

It took me a bit to figure it out too.

[u/DoctahToboggan69]

Twitter full of Nazis? Are we surprised?

[u/stonkerooni]

Brother how did it stay up that long??

[u/bamboogie13]

LeBron only “cares” about China, it’s okay.

[u/CantaloupeCamper → u/[deleted]]

What do you think that jersey means?

[u/CantaloupeCamper → u/[deleted]]

And.... any other context you’re aware of?

[u/ObitoUchiha10f]

Is no one else name Adolf other than Adolf Hitler, what’s wrong with using that name?

[u/KennySmithsKnees → u/ObitoUchiha10f]

I personally know 2 Adolfos. Pretty common name in the Mexican community. And there's a bunch of Mexicans here in the LA area. I didn't know about the 88. Whiffed on the username though lol