Sports journalist mistakenly targeted by X users amid BAFTAs chaos

It seems that X users are having a hard time understanding that multiple people, particularly in the UK, might share the same name.

John Davidson, a content editor and freelance journalist from England, has become the target of online scrutiny after users mistook the sports writer for another John Davidson, a Tourette’s sufferer and activist.

In a post promoting his podcast, Davidson (sports journalist) is met with resistance from an X user who asks, “You’re really not gonna address the BAFTA awards?”

Davidson, in response, says, “No champ, I’m not.”

Under the post, other people began to comment, thinking that the sports journalist was John Davidson from the BAFTA award-winning biopic.

“Look, man, I understand that you can't control it, but not apologizing has the black community thinking that your stance is ‘Eff how you feel. I got what I got, so it is what it is.’ This was a televised worldwide event. If ever there was a time to apologize, that time is now,” said another X user.

“Apologize to make it simpler,” said one X user.

X users quickly realized that the users, who most said were American, were mistaken and started making a joke of the whole thing.

“I see Americans are struggling to grasp the concept of multiple people having the same name,” said columnist Samantha Smith.

“I stubbed my toe earlier today…APOLOGIZE.”

“Can you at least apologize for liking The Simpsons?” one X user said, as Davidson frequently references the cartoon on X.

“You should’ve known better than to go by that name, though,” another user jested.

Davidson has seemingly met almost every demand to apologize, satirical or not, with defiance.

Until he seemingly cracked and claimed he was apologizing for all major world events.

“I apologise for everything. JFK's assassination, world hunger, war in the Middle East, climate change, cost of living crisis, and what some other bloke said at the BAFTAs, who wasn't me. Happy now?”

Regardless of the disclaimer, people still continued to hound the wrong Davidson.

Davidson has since added in his bio that he is “NOT SCOTTISH” and “WASN’T ON THE BAFTAS.”

What happened at the BAFTAs?

An incident involving Tourette’s sufferer and advocate, John Davidson, and Sinners star, Michael B. Jordan, occurred at the latest BAFTA ceremony.

Davidson, who attended the 79th BAFTAs following various nominations for the biopic I Swear, a story of his life with Tourette’s syndrome, repeatedly shouted racial slurs at Black actors and production while at the awards ceremony.

While Jordan and co-star Delroy Lindo were presenting, Davidson could be heard shouting the N-word.

Both men seemed unshaken by the racial slur but later said that they felt let down by BAFTA and were left feeling unsettled.

“We did what we had to do,” Lindo told Vanity Fair, but the Sinners actor told the press that he wished “someone from BAFTA spoke to us afterwards.”

The story has gone viral, and social media users have taken to X, Instagram, and TikTok to share their opinions on the ordeal. But the situation isn’t exactly clean cut.

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