Seems every single race on youtube, the vast majority of comments are in praise of Katelyn Tuohy. Like easily the top 20ish comments all exclusively praise her. Am I missing something? (This isn't to diss her, she's a great runner).
It's definitely weird. I always figured the people that make threads praising her while ignoring those that finished ahead of her are simps, but it looks like there are multiple simps. Slight possibly it's family, but the tone is usually more simp-like.
I like her as a runner too, but the way the threads are focused on her, the rah-rahing, is cringe.
Katelyn developed a very big following based on how she ran in high school and winning NXN three times. She won Gatorade track and XC athlete of the year. She was on the cover of Sports Illustrated. She was featured in the NY Times. And she was/is discussed on here endlessly. Her high school videos garnered milions of views. It was not just that she won or her times but also how she ran and competed. I think people who became aware of her in high school are happy to see her doing so well in college, especially after injuries and the pressure of expectations.
More importantly she just had an amazing NCAA meet. National runner up in the 5000 and the 3000 is eye-opening no matter what some of the trolls on here want to say. People are going to commet about that.
It's definitely weird. I always figured the people that make threads praising her while ignoring those that finished ahead of her are simps, but it looks like there are multiple simps. Slight possibly it's family, but the tone is usually more simp-like.
I like her as a runner too, but the way the threads are focused on her, the rah-rahing, is cringe.
It's not weird. She was the most well known in high school, people are going to follow her more than people they don't know, especially since she has had a resurgence. Literally the same thing happened with Webb, Ritz, Fernandez....even when they were getting beat the talk was always about them.
Tuohy has more followers but the question was about popularity. Many people follow people that they despise. There are 10 Tuohy haters for every lover.
It's definitely weird. I always figured the people that make threads praising her while ignoring those that finished ahead of her are simps, but it looks like there are multiple simps. Slight possibly it's family, but the tone is usually more simp-like.
I like her as a runner too, but the way the threads are focused on her, the rah-rahing, is cringe.
It's not weird. She was the most well known in high school, people are going to follow her more than people they don't know, especially since she has had a resurgence. Literally the same thing happened with Webb, Ritz, Fernandez....even when they were getting beat the talk was always about them.
I have heard of tuohy, but the way she dominated in HS and my general lack of knowledge of women’s times I just assumed she would win everything in NCAA.
Seems every single race on youtube, the vast majority of comments are in praise of Katelyn Tuohy. Like easily the top 20ish comments all exclusively praise her. Am I missing something? (This isn't to diss her, she's a great runner).
katelyn tuohy simply is the greatest female hs distance runner, nxn and new balance are the most popular hs running meets in xc and track and she runs yearly, winning championship one after another for years and years, earning fans from all ages .. you go to youtube and milesplit and flotrack uploads all her vids again and again and it still would get 300k views easily, tuohy was the face of hs running, and now shes at college, fans are still paying attention to her running career, fans know she went through lots of lows, but shes now healthy and running faster than her hs self, distance running community loves tuohy because she has done a lot for the sport for the younger generation, only sprinter fans dont get why shes so popular ...
Seems every single race on youtube, the vast majority of comments are in praise of Katelyn Tuohy. Like easily the top 20ish comments all exclusively praise her. Am I missing something? (This isn't to diss her, she's a great runner).
anyways her social media following is quite big despite not posting a lot, biggest out of the college distance runners and sprinters (only boling has bigger following), and also bigger than 99% of the professional distance runners.. katelyn's last 5 instagram posts averages 27k likes w 200 comments....several posts at 30k+ and 40k+ likes, impressive numbers, and in you look at who liked her post, its the college runners, elite runners and pretty much the entire distance running community..
Best HS CC. Runner Cook ( only girl to win Two national titles in the same year, and fastest time, and faster 2 mile time than Tuohy)
call me when natalie cook breaks all these, but i guess not.. she only has outdoor season left, sadly she cannot beat half of tuohy's credentials, not even close
58x ny state section 1 champion 11x new york state champion 9x new balance national champion 5x national dmr champion (anchor) 3x nike national xc champion 3x nike regional xc champion 4x county xx champion 40+x xc champion
30 straight xc wins 21 new york state records 4 national high school records 2 american u20 records 5x gatorade player of the year
high school bests: 1500m 4:14 1 mile 4:33 (hs national record) 3000m 9:01 (hs national record) 3200m 9:47 (hs national record) *i5000m 15:37 (hs national record)