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   CJ Bellwether (siege@octodon.social)'s status on Monday, 01-Apr-2024 00:39:40 JST CJ Bellwether

   the things you miss when you skip Rampage.

   #AEW

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     CJ Bellwether (siege@octodon.social)'s status on Monday, 01-Apr-2024 01:09:35 JST CJ Bellwether

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     theres a long going argument in wrestling fandom that theres a ceiling for wrestling in terms of how many tv shows there can be, specifically how many wrestling companies can have their own tv shows going on.

     to try and get across whats happening, imagine if there was only Big Brother, and that everyone who watched it was convinced that really theres only enough interest in reality tv to support one reality tv show.

     Wrestling is a soap opera, or a reality tv show, or queer drag barely dressed people getting sweaty and fighting in a roleplay like way. There isnt really a ceiling on that as a medium, its just that for two and a half decades theres only been Big Brother.

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     CJ Bellwether (siege@octodon.social)'s status on Monday, 01-Apr-2024 01:10:07 JST CJ Bellwether

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     in the UK when we had our own wrestling tv shows, grandmothers were one of the largest demographics of people who watched it because GILFs will be GILFs.

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     CJ Bellwether (siege@octodon.social)'s status on Monday, 01-Apr-2024 01:13:02 JST CJ Bellwether

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     • Coding Cottagecore Bogwitch

     @forestpines we stan a wrestling nan

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     Coding Cottagecore Bogwitch (forestpines@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 01-Apr-2024 01:13:03 JST Coding Cottagecore Bogwitch

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     @siege my nanna was a massive fan, would go and watch events held in her home town, and absolutely, devoutly believed it was "real"

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     CJ Bellwether (siege@octodon.social)'s status on Monday, 01-Apr-2024 01:15:09 JST CJ Bellwether

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     • Shrig 🐌

     @Shrigglepuss World of Sports Wrestling is just great to watch footage of. I love to show people some stuff with Johnny Saint in it.

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     Shrig 🐌 (shrigglepuss@godforsaken.website)'s status on Monday, 01-Apr-2024 01:15:10 JST Shrig 🐌

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     @siege I stumbled into an exhibition of wrestling stuff from ye olde days once! They had a load of costumes from Big Daddy and stuff on display, was really good!

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     CJ Bellwether (siege@octodon.social)'s status on Monday, 01-Apr-2024 01:17:06 JST CJ Bellwether

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     • Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊

     @theogrin Yeah, if Lucha Underground had been properly funded and backed in a way that wasnt a total mess with people not getting paid i am convinced its take on wrestling as soap opera would have absolutely grown a whole new audience.

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     Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊 (theogrin@chaosfem.tw)'s status on Monday, 01-Apr-2024 01:17:07 JST Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊

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     @siege

     Sometimes it's about people fighting (and occasionally losing to) a mannequin.

     Who says there has to be a cap? There might be a lot of different shows, but there are a lot of different fans, and some folks are in it for entirely different reasons. Heck, the same argument could have been (and has been!) made about sci-fi space operas, and while I'm agnostic in my likes -- Farscape and Battlestar Galactica are equally on my watchlist -- there's pretty much always room for more.

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     CJ Bellwether (siege@octodon.social)'s status on Monday, 01-Apr-2024 02:54:04 JST CJ Bellwether

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     • Dusty Perkins

     @dupe i think you could absolutely create a new form of sports entertainment with an alternate sport sure.

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     Dusty Perkins (dupe@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 01-Apr-2024 02:54:05 JST Dusty Perkins

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     @siege Does it count if the sport at the center of the drama is different? I was reading an article about a reality show centered around F1 racing and thought to myself, “this is wrestling.”

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     CJ Bellwether (siege@octodon.social)'s status on Monday, 01-Apr-2024 03:14:39 JST CJ Bellwether

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     • Poppers the Pony

     @poppersthepony oh yeah. she was definitely big into it. Her and old Captain Lou.

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     Poppers the Pony (poppersthepony@sfba.social)'s status on Monday, 01-Apr-2024 03:14:40 JST Poppers the Pony

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     @siege I think a young Cyndi Lauper tapped into this on the videos for her 1st album.