I don't know why it is offensive to ones like you who seem to be bothered that he's complaining about something he's saying is untrue being written about him.
I also don't think see why his past should have any bearing. If you admitted something in your past, should I assume that you are doing it today just because of a comment you made that could be interpreted several ways. The SI writer assumed something, Elliott called SI out for it. I can't see any reason to belittle Elliott for that.
It’s not offensive to me at all, I think it just shows his lack of maturity, decision making and common sense to announce to everyone that he is high and drunk with his history. Why draw more attention to yourself? He acts surprised every time he does something stupid and it gets attention. How many more times will it take for him to figure this out?
It’s real simple, a 5 year old could do it. If you can’t behave in public, don’t go out. If you can’t use social media without drawing negative or unwanted attention to yourself for being dolt, then don’t use social media.
Please don’t play naive, we all know what he meant. Everyone knows he smokes weed, so what, they called him out for what he admitted to and now he acts like his image is tarnished because of that? Hardly, most people already know he’s as dumb as a pile of rocks and most people don’t care about weed, it’s the fact that he was dumb enough to tell everyone he was high at the time.
And yes, if I had a history of alcohol abuse, then I do a live feed and say I was hammered, krunked, loaded, tanked, etc when I thought the camera was off and people assume I was drinking that would be a logical and safe assumption. I could crawfish and say “my buddies say plastered is when you drink too much water” or “I say tanked all time after I do a heavy set in the gym” but that would make me look even more foolish.
BTW, why did he act so surprised that the camera was still on if he didn’t mean he was high? Why didn’t he just say he was “low key faded” during his live feed if it didn’t mean he was high?
As I said, it’s not a big deal, it just shows how dumb he is and invites more scrutiny and unwanted publicity.