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Golf World Defends Paige Spiranac for Voicing Out Against Harsh Twitter Criticism

Published 06/01/2022, 10:30 AM EDT

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People all over the world use social media to connect with people and create content to entertain their followers. After switching her career from professional golfing to social media influencing, Paige Spiranac also tries to reach her followers with entertaining content. 

Recently, the retired golfer received criticism for the way she presented herself on the internet. Spiranac retweeted her criticizer’s post on Twitter and captioned it with a heart whelming message. 

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Spiranac became a social media influencer after retiring from professional golfing. Within a couple of years, she became the most followed golfer on Instagram, with 3.3 million followers. Notably, with 25-years of his career and 15-majors, Tiger Woods still has only 2.9 million followers on Instagram. 

As a social media influencer, Spiranac often has to face negative comments on the internet. “I really struggled with the negative comments at first,” she said in a Q&A Instagram Story video. “But then I realized that they don’t know me, the true, real me.” 

“They just know this persona, this character that I play,” Spiranac further added. “…and so, I was able to detach myself from the negative comments and really just have so much fun with it.” 

Significantly, the 29-year-old is an ambassador of the CyberSmile Foundation. It is an NGO that deals with all forms of cyberbullying and online abuse. The Foundation also provides support to the victims and also encourages others to spread positivity through their posts.

According to her caption, Spiranac tries to make sure that her followers are happy and entertained. And she called out to the person who tried to degrade her for creating such content. 

The golf fans’ reaction to the criticism Paige Spiranac received online!

In less than a day, Paige Spiranac received more than 500 comments and more than 5k likes for the post. Since the golfer had to face criticism online, most of her followers and golf fans poured her with comments to uplift her positivity. 

Notably, her retweet even reached some of the known figures in the media industry. They also came to the aid of the golfer with funny and positive comments.

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According to the comments, almost everyone seemed to enjoy the content Spiranac creates for online media. Additionally, they conveyed messages to the golfer to make her move past all the negatives she receives.

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Spiranac has more than 3 million followers on social media who support her for making humorous and entertaining content. Nevertheless, what do you think of the situation?

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Written by:

Anjana Prabhakaran

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Anjana Prabhakaran is a Golf content writer at EssentiallySports. She has completed her Master's degree in Public Administration and considers researching as one of her hobbies. As her family is interested in sports, Anjana grew up watching every sport on television.
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Jito Tenson

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