Time for a shameful confession: my hype for Gary Harris is lower this season than it has been in previous seasons.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m still #hypedforgaryharris. It’s just that, I don’t know, it seems like he’s not having these hyper-efficient scoring show-outs as often this season as he was last season. The stats tell me he’s scoring at pretty much the same rate, albeit on worse percentages, but that alone shouldn’t be enough to diminish my hype as much as it has.
Perhaps my lack of enthusiasm stems from the fact that my viral hashtag creation, #hypedforgaryharris, only saw a mild amount of adoption from the internet at large. When I created the hashtag, it was done with purposes other than to promote Gary Harris and the high level of his play; it was to make me money through royalty fees as well as branded merchandise.
Do you know how much money I’ve seen from my creation? Two dollars. That’s it. And I only got those two dollars because I made my dad read my tweets out loud and then I charged him for saying the hashtag out loud. For some reason, I thought that the people who come up with these viral hashtags become millionaires from their work, and maybe they do, but whatever their methods are to rake in the cash, I’m totally missing out on it. I suppose that, if I wanted to sell t-shirts with the hashtag on them, I would need to contact somebody to make the t-shirts since there’s an implicit threat that I would sue anybody who made such t-shirts without my permission. Maybe that’s where I screwed up.
So, long story short, #hypedforgaryharris is still a real thing and it still (kinda) reflects my feelings about Gary Harris. But its days as a money-making venture have passed and so there’s not as much of a reason for me to push it.