This chapter critically contextualizes resistance in social media to the rise and adulation of Caitlin Clark, a two-time National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) college women’s basketball player of the year at the University of Iowa and widely credited for the increased fan interest in women’s basketball. We develop a cultural/critical and political-economic consideration of Clark as a White, heterosexual basketball phenom from rural middle America in a sport that is often signed (albeit not always accurately) as Black, lesbian, and urban. We then develop a rhetorical critique of social media resistance to Clark by analyzing Reddit discourse across subreddits regarding sport, gender, and racial identities. This includes complaints on the character of male affronts about Clark’s abilities in the male preserve of basketball and contrasts with a consideration of the character of female complaints that question Clark’s general worthiness for adulation by calling out heteronormativity. Next, our analysis of race focuses on derisive discourses attributing Clark’s success to her “whiteness” and privilege in the context of a Black-dominant sport. Lastly, we focus on disparaging discourses linking Clark’s glowing reception to the sociopolitical construction of a mythically “wholesome” middle America that, by extension, plays into pathologized media construction of urban America. We conclude with an intersectional assessment of social media “hate,” of both Clark personally and what her success in the mainstream more broadly represents.