Olympics 100m champion Noah Lyles has hit out at his fellow athletes who take lightly the reception their content receives from fans online.
American sprint king Noah Lyles has aimed a thinly-veiled dig at athletes and content creators who take lightly the number of views they receive from their videos online.
It is not uncommon to hear statements like; “My video only got X number of views,” from content creators and with athletes also having ventured into the same, they have been heard using similar words.
Those statements are meant to lament about what the owners of the videos perceive to be poor reception but for Lyles, it is being ungrateful.
The Olympics 100m champion has sought to make fellow athletes appreciate more what they get from their content online because its impact is huge.
Noah Lyles may have recorded a winning start to the season he could not match what his track rival Kishane Thompson managed hours earlier.
Taking to his Instagram stories, Lyles slammed such athletes in the best way he knows how. The Sprinter posted a 10,000-seater arena full of fans watching a tennis match then accompanied it with a caption that had a loaded message.
“My video only got 10k views. 10k people:..” he posted, showing how significant such a number of views can be yet some are dismissing them.
It is a message that will serve as a wakeup call to athletes who do not appreciate the fans that tune in to watch their content and perhaps also inspire others.
Lyles is among athletes who are big on content creation, opting to tell his story rather than waiting for it to be told by others.
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Noah Lyles sought to show fellow athletes what 10k views could tranlate to.
The six-time world champion has a YouTube channel with 287k subscribers, which he uses to update his fans regarding various projects he is working on or his training, as well as hosting fellow athletes.
He recently teamed up with fellow Olympics champions Grant Holloway and Rai Benjamin to launch a new podcast called Beyond the Records which has so far attracted 6.4k subscribers on YouTube, having been unleashed to the public just a little over a month ago.
