So having wrestlers making fun of people for liking wrestling is supposed to be a smart way of getting heat?
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It's such a stupid idea as well as hypocritical. Honestly all those random people in the segment got more heat than Alexa so no one benefited from it.
Heels making fun of wrestling fans for being losers is usually supposed to get heat, yes. They've been doing it for decades. Bayley is the audience surrogate. That is her gimmick: That she was one of you and is now in WWE. So when they heel makes fun of her for being a loser wrestling fan, the audience is supposed to identify with that and get mad at Alexa bullying Bayley (and by extension, themselves), and want to see Bayley beat her ass.
It's no different than Rude calling the audience fat, or DiBiase calling them poor. In any other era before the past 6 years, everyone would understand that it's basic ass heel heat instead of going into ***OMG WWE HATES THEIR AUDIENCE, THIS BOOKING MAKES NO SENSE RANTRANTRANT, THEY'VE RUINED HER CHARACTER*** nonsense. This is nerds being too smart to watch the show as a passive viewer and instead watching not for who wins and loses, but who is getting pushed and buried. These are the same nerds who complain about Ziggler not being credible enough to face Nakamura, then complain when he beats someone like AJ to give himself some credibility. The same nerds who complain about WWE's inability to create new stars who then complain about Jinder because INDIARATINGSSTEROIDS.
Alexa is still considered to be a shytty wrestler on most places on the internet. Charlotte and Sasha more or less did the same promos towards Bayley and people didn't get mad because Charlotte and Sasha had credentials and people still liked Sasha at the time. What I see, time and time again, is the largest section of what used to be the IWC and whatever it is now being so smart but still wanting to believe that they manufacture their own below the surface stories to get them to the desired reaction WWE wants in the end without feeling they got "worked". They've created this whole world for themselves to allow themselves to continue watching and "enjoying" the shows, a world that WWE occasionally dips into from time to time just to fukk with them. Kayfabe 2.0, as it were.
Current examples:
You're supposed to not like Jinder because he's a seemingly undeserving champion who came outta nowhere to steal the title. Smart fans don't like him because of steroids/he's not a good worker/push into India. But the result is the same.
You're not supposed to like Alexa because she's bullying Bayley for being a loser wrestling fan, which is indirectly insulting the wrestling audience. Smart fans don't like Alexa because she's not a good worker/only pushed because she's hot/WWE hates their audience. But the result is the same.
You're supposed to be upset that Dolph Ziggler got a match with Nakamura and beat AJ because he's an unlikable dikky heel that people stopped taking seriously. Smart fans get mad when Ziggler wins against higher ranked guys because they see it as burying the guy who lost instead of giving Ziggler credibility to prove show that his push at the top of the SD card is warranted. There's also the idiots that always complain about heels never winning clean, until they win clean against someone they didn't want to see lose and now they're mad about that, too. Still, the result is the same.
And 20 other examples that all end up with people creating their own reasons for why they're giving the desired reaction. It makes them feel like they have power over what they're watching instead of being, well, marks. So they play the meta game to feel above it, thinking they're getting one over on WWE, who doesn't give a flying fukk why you boo or cheer someone they want you to boo or cheer.