The AFL’s website has been roasted for its tone deaf TikTok video that featured Brisbane champion Michael Voss discussing his sudden departure from Carlton.

Voss, one of the AFL’s greatest players, made the decision to quit his position as coach of Carlton last week, but it became public on Tuesday and the AFL’s website was quick to grab an interview with the universally respected champion.

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The AFL’s media team then went about promoting the interview across its various platforms, but it was the TikTok video that raised eyebrows for all the wrong reasons.

On TikTok, underneath the Voss interview, the content creator decided to run footage of the popular video game Subway Surfers.

Veteran journalist Caroline Wilson has savaged that decision, calling “disrespectful’ and baffling.

AFL media have been questioned over their tone deaf TikTok video that featured Michael Voss. Credit: @AFL.com.au

“I am swiping AFL.com,” Wilson said on Channel 7’s The Agenda Setters on Tuesday.

“They get the big exclusive interview today with Michael Voss and on their promotional TikTok video, they underscore a coach who has been sacked doing an exclusive interview with their man, Damian Barrett, with Subway Surfer. I don’t get it.”

Splitting the interview with video game is a strategy designed to increase “watch time”.

“So people watch the video below and listen to the video above. It’s all to do with the algorithm. It’s over my head ... I’m just giving you the reasons why,” Cornes said.

“I think it’s disrespectful,” Wilson said.

“He’s a three-time premiership champion, a Brownlow medallist, talking about the end of his coaching career. I am staggered.

“What a sad state of affairs.”

AFL great Luke Hodge agreed.

Surely they pick and choose when they play it,” Hodge said.

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Cornes, 43, said: “I don’t think it’s aimed at people our age.”

But Wilson did not care.

“People who aren’t our age might learn something by listening to Michael Voss,” Wilson said.

“Unimpressed, AFL.com. Hang your head in shame.”

Hodge later joked that it “looked like a good game”, while Dale Thomas said (with tongue in cheek), “is there a video above?”