The Oakley Forum Is Big Cat's New Happy Place

By Friday night the bit had already metastasized. TJ Hitchings, never one to leave a runner on base, slapped on the Oakleys and made it official — Friday night, shades on, anything can happen. That is the Oakley Forum ethos translated to a Stool guy's timeline in real time.

TJ

@TJHitchings

Friday night. Oakleys are on. Anything can happen. t.co/FvKT0eCulG

And then, hours after the cameras stopped rolling, Big Cat was apparently still thinking about it. A late-night tweet from him basically read like a man trying to convince himself to delete the apps and go join a sunglasses forum full-time. Heaven, he called it. A website that hasn't been updated in 15 years, full of bros who have life figured out better than the rest of us.

Big Cat

@BarstoolBigCat

Can’t stop thinking about the bros on the Oakley Forums. Those guys have life figured out better than any of us. Just put on their oakleys and chat with the boys on a website that hasn’t been updated in 15 years. Heaven

The funny part is the gravitational pull is real. Converts are already showing up — randoms posting their first Oakley fit pics and crediting The Yak for the recruitment pipeline. Whether this becomes a real bit or burns out by Monday is anybody's guess, but for one Friday night the Stool corner of the internet collectively decided that the move is shades on, phone down, talk to the boys. Hard to argue with that.