Pro hooper Caitlin Cunningham -- known online as "Caitlin Dark" -- has been making waves for their unique on-court appearance ... and they tell TMZ Sports they're down to team up with the WNBA superstar who inspired their new nickname!!
00:00I have always worn, I guess, gothy kind of makeup when I play.
00:07I've always worn it even not playing.
00:09It's just kind of the extension of my personality,
00:12the heavy eyeshadow and eyeliner and stuff like that.
00:17And then, yeah, I've always been known in Australia
00:20as like the goth basketballer.
00:22But I guess these images, I had more of a drastic look
00:26or I just kind of did more of a goth, like a crow-esque vibe
00:32and then the images were taken and I just thought nothing of it.
00:36My friend took the photos and I put them on my Instagram
00:39and then it just blew up.
00:41But, yeah, it's always been me.
00:43It's always been my thing.
00:45It's, yeah, something I've always done on the basketball court.
00:49I always get attention everywhere I go, but I guess now it's just even
00:53on a world scale, which is crazy.
00:57I like it.
00:58I think that I've been receiving so many beautiful DMs from people
01:03just saying how inspired they are to be themselves
01:07because they've seen me be myself.
01:10And I love that position of being a role model for people
01:14who feel a bit different on the outside and then they see me
01:18and I help them empower themselves.
01:22I think that's so powerful.
01:24If I had that when I was younger, I would have been mind-blown
01:29by an athlete doing it.
01:30Be whoever you want to be.
01:32You can be multi, like multi-disciplines.
01:35You can love music.
01:37You can love sport.
01:38You can love basketball.
01:40You can love make-up.
01:41You can, like, be who you are and have no boundaries
01:47and be non-binary in the sense of just whatever you want
01:54to express.
01:55Yeah, I think it, yeah, it's just so cool that people have really taken
02:01to this kind of my presence and it's representing so much more
02:07than just me.
02:07It's just being authentic, I guess.
02:11I get people calling me goth Caitlyn and then now everyone's calling
02:17me Caitlyn Dark.
02:18I think it's clever and obviously, like, to put me in the same category
02:23as Caitlyn Clark is insane, so I'll take it.
02:28It would be a pretty cool commercial if Nike want to do something
02:32like that or Theta Raid.
02:35No, I think Caitlyn Clark, yes, icon.
02:42And if I'm, like, if people want to link us up and make some iconic content,
02:49let's do it.
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