Social media is a mess of a disaster of a cluster of a disgrace.
Joseph Pinion knows this. The Arkansas guard poked fun of the rumor-mongering space of the internet on Thursday when he tweeted he would return to the team next season.
per source i will be returning 🫡
— Joseph Pinion (@josephpinion2) April 6, 2023
In case of lost irony, the Arkansas Basketball official Twitter account retweeted it.
Pinion, a native of Morrilton, played in 26 games his freshman season with the Razorbacks. He broke double-digit minutes four times and scored in double figures in three of those four games, largely as a 3-point specialist.
He’s the second player from last year’s roster to announce in as many days his return. Forward Jalen Graham is also back.
Pinion deserves credit for his joke, too. Almost everyone is always leaving or staying or hurt or not-really-hurt or transferring in or not transferring in. Your cousin or brother-in-law or co-worker or the player’s uncle or pastor or ex-girlfriend or whatever always has the scoop and you heard from him.
It’s ridiculous because of things just like that that everyone’s voice has theoretical equal power online. Comments to Pinion’s tweet were tongue-in-cheek, too, but only somewhat because of social media’s near-constant use of sarcasm, you never know.
At least, for now, we’re all 99.9% sure Pinion will be back.
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