The problem with all of these WWE wrestlers who can't take criticism well is that they fail to understand that they are part of a TV show and currently that TV show is not very well made.
Its like a cast member of The Walking Dead insulting fans who are critical of the show because those fans should be so grateful that they get to see zombies on TV and should understand how hard the actors work. Get the fukk out of here with that bullshyt.
I'm saying. Yet when they aren't happy with their creative, the fans are the first ones they go crying to in an effort to drum up support.
Fan entitlement is a thing, but not in the way most creatives these days talk about it. Fans running up to you at 4 am in an airport or hotel and demanding you sign their cup with no respect to you as a person is entitlement. Fans who think the show can only be good if it follows their fantasy booking ideas is entitlement. Fans going on twitter and talking wild about wrestlers when they don't respond to them is entitlement.
Fans critcizing the show because they don't like it is not entitlement. It's....fans being fans. Everyone, from the highest paid actors in Hollywood to your average Youtuber with a couple thousand subs, has to deal with fan criticism. Is that criticism always insightful or fair? fukk no. Fan communities are full of people that confuse knowing a little more than nothing with knowing a lot. That's been true since the dawn of the internet.
That said, people are still free to form opinions on the media they consume. The tribalism among wrestlers (and artists and youtubers and actors and whoever else) where no one is supposed to say anything bad about them and every criticism is immediately dismissed as entitled whining is tiresome. Like Woods is mad people say Takeovers are better than the main roster show. How is that our fault? People watch both and form an opinion, and it's not like people don't give the main roster their props when they put on a good show. I bet you he doesn't mind all the people saying Smackdown is better than Raw or people calling the New Day vs Usos matches MOTN. I mean, he should, since it's all the same show right? Liking one part more than the others is being entitled.
Fans can be stupid as hell, but these wrestlers cannot take critcism to save their lives. Honestly, it's part of why Vince gets away with pushing them around. He's either got them brainwashed or knows they don't have the stones to challenge him in anyway.
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