The Hack has been Hacked: Marcus Hayes loses control of his Twitter account

Something stopped us mid-scroll Tuesday. Marcus Hayes of the Philadelphia Inquirer posted a tweet that just didn’t look or read right. Something was clearly off and as it turned out, his account was hacked.

Here’s a screenshot for when the actual tweet is eventually deleted:

Honestly? Good for Marcus. According to the tweet, it appears he made what the Philadelphia Inquirer pays him as his yearly salary in a single day.

Unfortunately, it’s just another story of an older guy clicking a link he shouldn’t have and handing over the keys to his account. It happens. Not the most dignified way to go out, but here we are.

We shouldn’t sit here and say we’re happy about it. That would be inappropriate. But it is nice, even briefly, to not have to read the divisive slop he regularly puts out on this city’s biggest publication.

Marcus Hayes has spent the better part of his career at the Philadelphia Inquirer writing some of the most aggressively bad sports takes this city has ever been subjected to, and Philadelphia sports fans have largely had no choice but to just take it.

That’s how legacy media works. You get a column, you keep the column, you say whatever you want, and the people who disagree have no real recourse because you work for the paper of record and they don’t.

Almost no recourse, anyway. Unless you’re Joel Embiid, who famously confronted Hayes in person last year over the bullshit he wrote about his family and brother, who tragically passed away.

On that note, we’ll hit Marcus Hayes with a classic Embiid tweet.

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— Joel Embiid (@JoelEmbiid) February 10, 2022

So yeah. The hack has been hacked. A man who has made a career out of riling up a fan base now knows what it feels like to have zero control over his own platform. There is something almost cinematic about that.

The Inquirer will keep publishing. Hayes will get his account back. The takes will continue. Philadelphia will keep reading them and getting mad about them, because that’s the relationship this city has with its own media, and nobody seems interested in changing it.

But for one brief moment on Tuesday, the universe had a sense of humor. We’re not going to pretend we didn’t notice.

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