The founder of Barstool Sports criticized pop singer Normani’s performance at the MTV Video Music Awards Sunday night, protesting what he considers a double standard between his “cruel” website and suggestive dancing on national television.
Dave Portnoy, 44, pointed out the turns of the Fifth Harmony student about his fellow singer Teyana Taylor, 30.
‘That’s good. Barstool Bad, ”he told his 2.6 million followers over a video about himself talking during the awards ceremony.
“I just want people to know, right now it’s on VH1, just like cable TV, anyone can watch that.
“People say that Barstool is too cruel, as if, as you know, we are sexist and sexist pigs, we can’t let people see him, also from above, smoking, but this girl, who puts on her face * and scissors, right now on VH1, it’s great. “
Dave Portnoy, 44, found a double standard in handling Barstools and Normani’s performances at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday
“I just want people to know, this is on VH1 right now, just like cable TV,” he said, adding that people often criticize his site for being “sexist, sexist pigs, they can’t let that people see it “
Normani, 25, danced suggestively with fellow singer Teyana Taylor, 30, during the show
“But this girl, who looks like her face and scissors, right now on VH1, is great”
Normani, 25, was promoting his latest single Wild Side.
According to the website, Portnoy founded Barstool in 2003 as a newspaper for men who “love sports, play, play golf and chase short skirts.”
It has evolved as an outlet that hosts several bloggers and collects viral videos on various popular Instagram accounts, but maintains strong roots thanks to Portnoy’s leadership, with a loyal and sometimes harsh male audience, and daily posts from crowned women. the “Smokeshow of the Day.”
Portnoy founded Barstool in Boston in 2003. He has since become a media juggernaut with a loyal audience that is now in talks with Major League Baseball to broadcast the Arizona Bowl.
Responses to Portnoy’s nightly conversation were split, with at least one user pointing to Portnoy’s irony by criticizing sexually suggestive content.
“I never thought we’d see a pearl grabbing the portnoy,” one user said.
The company is in talks with Major League Baseball about the live rights to the Arizona Bowl, which will be hosted online on Barstool platforms.
The 7-year-old game faces members of the Mountain West Conference and the Mid-American Conference
According to the Washington Post, discussions with MLB have sparked criticism based on Barstool’s less-than-stellar reputation.
Responses to Portnoy’s nightly conversation were split, with at least one user pointing to Portnoy’s irony by criticizing sexually suggestive content.
“MLB has long had a basic demographic problem, with an increasingly aging male audience,” tweeted Christina Kahrl, sports editor of the San Francisco Chronicle.
Your answer to this is to try to elevate a subsection of the sports market with a particularly horrible history of misogyny and bigotry? Jackie Robinson’s sport deserves better.
In 2017, ESPN canceled a program based on a Barstool podcast following the internal decline in employees, according to the Daily Beast.
It happened after ESPN host Sam Ponder tweeted about photos from a 2014 blog post in which Portnoy called it “BIBLE THUMPING FREAK,” whose main requirement was to “make men hard “.
ESPN President John Skipper said at the time, “Although we had approval about the program’s content, I was wrong to assume that we could distance our efforts from the Barstool site and its content.”
Portnoy then went to Ponder and a journalist who covered the story in several blogs, inspiring his young readers to do the same.
Portnoy was briefly suspended from Twitter in June, though the reason is still unknown, according to the New York Post.