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Addison Rae mocked for landing UFC reporter gig after studying journalism for '3 whole months'

Addison Rae joked that she took three months to learn sports journalism to cover Ultimate Fighting Championship events

TikTok star Addison Rae, who made name for herself through her dancing videos, found herself in hot waters after she bragged on Twitter about her reporting gig on the Ultimate Fighting Championship, joking that she had three months to learn sports journalism. 

Sharing pictures of herself at the highly anticipated sporting event on July 9, wearing a green dress and holding a microphone, Rae wrote, "I studied broadcast journalism in college for 3 whole months to prepare for this moment." While some of the Twitter users took issue with the fact that a TikTok star was reporting the UFC event, others slammed Rae for making light of journalism as a profession.

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'Stealing job from the deserving'

One user wrote, "Addison rae im sorry but thats a disgusting joke do you know how many sports journalists struggle everyday just to get a degree let alone a JOB not everyone can be famous and be self centered like you living in la doing tiktoks #UFC." Another commented, "How tf was 3 months of journalism enough for this." A third remarked, "Imagine working 4 years in college, studying journalism and having 30k in debt just for a girl who is a tiktok ballerina take that position just for being tiktok “famous” Just thought I educate ur dumbass #addisonrae #dumbass." The next quipped, "Stealing jobs from those more deserving, very classy."One more chimed in, saying, " You already steal dances and recreate them badly.. now you gonna do.this badly??? i don't get it.. why do people stan this chick????"

Another noted, "And to think that many people work day and night to pay for a university degree and for you to come and take away the job without seeing all the suffering of each journalism student. LMAOO Money fixes everything, I wish I had money and fame." A person reacted with, "So what makes you qualified to do this job and not someone who genuinely loves mma." One of them said, "the AUDACITY.. do you know how many people who are more trained and qualified who have been studying this and putting their WHOLE life savings into college that you took this away from. i have a friend who studied for SIX YEARS only to have thus shoved in her face. disgusting" A commenter tweeted, "some people work really hard for jobs like this. and she gets it because she is famous? this is so unfair, im so sorry to the people that have worked their A** OFF to get into journalism!"

Previously,  UFC teased Rae's appearance in a video that also featured retired mixed martial artist and former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Forrest Griffin in an Instagram video that was captioned as “New prospect on the roster.” “I got to work with Addison a little bit today. She is probably the best talent I have seen. I hear she has already got a good career going, but if she didn’t, she is now a fighting expert, and I do want to take all the credit for that," Griffin said.