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the curious case why everyone hates eileen gu

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do you hate her or do you just hate the world we live in?

Tech Twitter feels especially like a shithole this week where if you’re not commenting on a girl from SF being hot enough, you’re shitting on Eileen Gu, whose recent Netflix snippet has made the rounds. She does not say anything bad in it, only that she trains like she’s never won and competes like she’s never lost, and how she must switch from being self-critical to self-assured the moment she steps up to compete. the aforementioned interview However, the quote retweets are primarily both men and women shitting on her, with one woman commenting that her mid-life crisis is going to be…

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