Brett Cooper

So she said, that's what I'm effing talking about.

And obviously you can be like, oh, Brett, she shouldn't be swearing, whatever.

But like she had so much joy, like after retiring because she had fallen out of love with the sport, coming back on her own term saying, I'm not going to fit into your mold.

I'm not going to starve myself.

I'm not going to prioritize this over just being a young person and having friends and pursuing other things.

I just want to do this because I love it.

And then crushing that routine like this, like she hadn't even received her scores yet.

She had not won a gold medal.

She was just so happy to be on the ice doing what she loves.

Like, how can you not root?

For that, like again, it's just infectious, but she is not the only one who has evoked that feeling.

Like people are already pointing to how she primarily, but also other skaters like Quad God are completely changing the sport.

One person posted and said, four years ago, figure skating looked like a sport where you won by driving literal children to the point of mental breakdowns.

With Alyssa Liu's win, it looks like a sport where you win when skaters have agency and freedom to be themselves and skate to find joy.

And I'm not going to lie, guys, you know this about me, but I am so emotional.

So as I was scrolling through and like bookmarking all of these posts, I started tearing up at some of the before and after fan edits, like showing what she looked like when she was skating as a little girl.

She would come off the ice and she would be crying.

She would be so upset with herself.

And then now how she's skating today.

There was one particular edit that was set to a...