xenogears

a million shades of light

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first and foremost i am here to amuse myself
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i love weird and bad video games, speedrunning, professional wrestling, and rodents
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i hate computers
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i know online wrestling WWE fandom is truly going to shit when i see an article titled It Is Okay To Boo Someone At A Wrestling Show

really speaks to the kind of audience WWE has cultivated, which unfortunately is exactly what they want: a bunch of people who don't care about the quality of wrestling and just want to see their favourite characters doing moves regardless of whether or not they're any good at them


and like, shit, i'm not fucking judging anyone for not being a great wrestler. i'm judging WWE for putting not-great wrestlers in spots they are not ready for

the tweet from rhea is just nuts. if she was doing it for heel heat, great job on that front, but that's not the vibe i get at all. i don't think WWE's audience was meant to take it that way, nor would they ever. it feels more like she's trying to protect a coworker. which, i understand. the impulse makes sense. she probably knows this person, wants to help her get better, etc.

WELL, SHIT, MAYBE SHE SHOULDN'T BE LEARNING HOW WRESTLE ON THE BIGGEST INTERNATIONAL STAGE THERE IS????

she's been in 13 matches!! 13!!!!!!! i'd be pretty fucking upset if i was paying money to see a show put on by the biggest wrestling Sports Entertainment company in the world and got shown someone who has spent less than two hours of her entire life wrestling in front of a crowd. also this match was her vs anti-vax nia jax, so i'd be booing the moment it started too

the idea that we should applaud someone for simply trying at all, for going out there and giving the best they've got, does not make any sense in the context of a paid performer working a show for the biggest promotion. like, shit, i'd be more forgiving towards this if it took place on an indie show. i remember the GCW crowd treating cezar bononi like shit and i felt awful seeing it. dude was trying to improve and worked, in my opinion, a Just Fine match. GCW is not the fucking big leagues. i don't really care how sloppy things are there

as the article mentions, none of this is her fault. this isn't an attack on maxxine dupri (i know nothing about her, i have never seen a second of her wrestling) but rather an attack on WWE for continually putting people in these positions where they're expected to do things far, far beyond their level of experience

it's a shame this toxic positivity has sprung up at the exact same point in time that WWE has been putting on some of the absolute best their women's division has ever had to offer. women have been some of the biggest stars in the company for the last... god, it's nearing a decade now, isn't it? holy shit. anyway. it just sucks that now instead of celebrating that women's wrestling is being presented seriously and taken seriously by fans, attention has turned to... everyone being worthy of praise because they tried? i don't get it. it feels like it's undermining the accomplishments and advancements made over the last decade in the presentation and expectation of quality in WWE's women's division

anyway. i really hope the Stan Culture that's infected wrestling fandom moves on soon. tired of seeing it. tired of all the fake positivity. tired of the death of wrestling criticism. not that i'm much of a critic i'm just a dumbass who half-watches shows

it just occurred to me as i go to click "post now" that i'm not yet sure how this differs from jade cargill. why'd the crowd boo maxxine but everyone regularly went nuts for jade? why did i go nuts for jade? did they really do that good of a job hiding her flaws as a very inexperienced wrestler? was it just a presentation thing? i feel like AEW was mostly good at playing to her strengths (being large and kicking ass) so maybe it's just another case of WWE trying to force people into matches that don't hide their shortcomings

that reminds me, i'm so curious to see how jade does in WWE. maybe they should let her fucking wrestle


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in reply to @xenogears's post:

i haven’t quite found the words for it yet, but there is a toxic poptimism in the air right now that’s even bigger than wrestling. i do love the implications from wrestlers that us loser marks with normie jobs don’t have, like, job performance expectations? like we’re all just dancing through life out here, not a care in the world. i work retail and i have had multiple coworkers threatened with bodily violence because a customer didn’t like how they were doing their job. like take several seats, you know?