A since-deleted message board put up from the favored impartial Clemson website Tigernet.com made the rounds Sunday night courtesy of the satirical social media account “Message Board Geniuses,” claiming star Clemson QB Cade Klubnik had been concerned in a automotive accident close to campus and couldn’t transfer his arm or shoulder.
The put up was bogus, Cade’s mom Kim Klubnik informed CBS Sports activities when reached through textual content message.
“Fortunately, it’s pretend information,” she mentioned. “Cade is ok!”
A preseason All-American, Klubnik can be one of many most important characters of the 2025 faculty soccer season — the star quarterback for faculty soccer’s No. 4 general group, which opens the season Saturday in a titanic house battle vs. LSU. However that celeb doesn’t make it OK for his well being to be made right into a joke on-line, both by an nameless troll poster or unfold by an nameless account that offers gas to mentioned troll posters.
In a social media panorama that’s more and more fraught with phony info, dupes, AI-generated photographs and the like, dangerous info can have actual penalties. Klubnik’s household needed to take care of the actual penalties of that.
“My coronary heart has not stopped racing since somebody shared the story with me,” Kim Klubnik. “How can somebody be so merciless?”
That is the second time throughout fall camp through which a famous person quarterback had an damage rumor go viral. It beforehand occurred with LSU quarterback Garrett Nussmeier, whose knee tendonitis become a torn ACL within the unverified rumor mill that’s message boards and social media.
Nussmeier’s knee did get banged up. These within the LSU program have been baffled with how a minor knee damage — at a follow that wasn’t open to the general public — might flip right into a maddeningly inaccurate sport of phone on social media.
There was no Klubnik automotive crash, although. And outdoors of a ban and a block, nothing will occur to whoever poster “JacobyMoore” is, who spun fairly a yarn that caught fireplace on social media. Clemson followers will need to have recognized him as a South Carolina fan trolling their board, as a result of they’d already began tongue-in-cheek retaliation posts about “Beamer automotive accident,” referring in fact to rival Gamecocks coach Shane Beamer.
“How can or not it’s OK to unfold rumors like this?” Kim requested.
