Twitter has once again served as the battleground for another entertainment world beef, this time drawing combatants from the world of music, sport, and television.
A feud that erupted between Australian basketball stars Liz Cambage and Andrew Bogut has now ensnared homegrown rapper Briggs and even Ryan Moloney, best known as Toadfish Rebecchi on Neighbours.
Cambage had tweeted about attending a Black Lives Matter rally a couple of weeks ago, calling the event “a powerful, yet peaceful afternoon” calling for an end to police violence against people of colour.
However, NBA star and outspoken “anti-SJW” Bogut wasn’t sold on the whole ‘don’t shoot innocent, unarmed people’ thing, and suggested protesting against police brutality in Melbourne was like “protesting for less jumbo jets to be on highways“.
Cambage tweeted that it was “a rally, not a protest” and suggested Bogut educate himself. “Highly regret that tweet,” he later wrote. “Did some research and shocked at the number of police shooting ppl in Melb. Apologies.”
When Cambage quipped that it was “better late than never”, Bogut went into full-on troll mode, replying, “Would not have guessed better late than never is your mantra! Know of any music festivals I can skip training for in Rio?”
For those whose memories don’t go back that far, Cambage famously made headlines when she was barred from appearing as part of the women’s national basketball team after attending Splendour In The Grass instead of training.
The feud, or more specifically Bogut’s attitude, eventually caught the attention of Briggs, who suggested the athlete tune into the ABC’s then-upcoming Four Corners report on the abuse of juvenile detainees in the Northern Territory.
“You might learn something,” Briggs suggested. “Thanks self anointed CBF world champ!” Bogut snapped back, “Great to hear from you.” That’s when Moloney, or at least a Twitter user who spends a lot of time convincingly portraying him on social media, chimed in.
Moloney, aka Toadie, wanted to know where the Briggs-Bogut beef came from, to which Briggs responded that it was inspired by Bogut being an “ignorant goose”. When Toadie suggested the two make friends since they both have “loud voices”, Briggs corrected, “He doesn’t have a loud voice, just a loud mouth.”
