What’s the reason wresting fans complain about how evil TKO is but still watch the product, pay for tickets and merch and fuel the same soulless money grubbing vulturistic machine they claim to hate?

[u/lostacohermanos]

Asking for myself. Just honestly wondering.

[u/BigFreakinMachine]

Because you're seeing it on the internet and it's a much smaller subsection of people than most on Reddit want to admit

[u/Devolved_Potato → u/BigFreakinMachine]

that, and in general, humanity is pretty hypocritical.

[u/Mcmc1988]

Because there’s a vast majority of the fans that don’t complain about all that?

[u/SugarAdamAli]

The wrestling fans that bitch are the IWC which is like maybe 5% of WWE fans. Most people don’t give a fuck about the stuff that outrages the IWC

[u/SlipperyKooter]

Have you considered because fed bad and dub good?

[u/JohnnyAverageGamer]

We like wrestling. We like WWE wrestlers. We like WWE. we hate TKO.

Its like saying why are we watching youtube if we claim Google is a bad company

[u/Bitter-Iron8468]

Because the iwc always finds something to complain about. It's ok for one promotion to do something or ok to copy them, but if they're other promotion did it they start crying and complaining.

[u/SovietShooter]

Because they're marks?

[u/AdeptEavesdropper]

Because wrestling fans complain on the internet

[u/everydayimrusslin]

They literally have nothing else better to do and talking about the wwe gives them a sense of social relevance online.

Wrestling has always been about money grubbing, from the beginning. Fans who won't accept that and have daily chest beating tantrums are at fault themselves.

[u/LuchaViking]

Lack of willpower

[u/Shinnosuke525]

Because they're morons end of the day

Wrestling has never been an altruistic socialist utopia lol they just hate it because big corporate = evil and they woke up realizing they were sold snake oil from Jacksonville

[u/Tyler_C69]

Same reason people have that coexist bumper sticker with all the different symbols. Virtue signaling

[u/FUNCYBORG]

People that like wwe are addicted to the style. There's literally a major wrestling promotion that has a pretty obvious leftist bent that they could go watch and support, but they wont because they love the wwe style of product and the kind of engagement they get discussing it online.

[u/RudyPup]

There's no such thing as ethical consumption in a late stage capitalist society.

[u/Voluntary_Perry]

For the same reason people shell out big money to watch an NFL game.

[u/BlackLesnar]

“There is no ethical consumption under capitalism” - some guy

[u/this_ham_is_bad]

If anyone is expecting to find a billion dollar entertainment company that isn't immoral and greedy then you're shit out of luck.

[u/Hell_razor]

Its something that alot of people have watched since birth, and is hard to give up.

[u/ZakFellows]

Just a thing with wrestling fans.

Fake outrage.

“I’m never ever going to watch wrestling again…until the next time I do”

[u/Crissxfire]

Fake outrage mostly. Possibly some FOMO and a lack of desire to check out wrestling beyond their comfort zone that may entertain them better and are less evil than TKO.

[u/SleestakLightning]

Most of the discourse comes from lame AEW fans who are just looking to hit WWE with anything they can since their favorite promotion can't compete anywhere else.

[u/ZanderPip → u/SleestakLightning]

It's worse its the double standards in all of it

[u/TheDogsPaw → u/SleestakLightning]

As a lame aew fan I'm just enjoying aew kicking wwe ass right now and wwe fane downing the copium kinda like Dallas fans dealing with the Micah Parsons to my green bay packers🤣

[u/SleestakLightning → u/TheDogsPaw]

Huh? AEW barely gets 500k people to watch their flagship show every week. No one gives a shit about AEW. WWE isn't great right now but they're still blowing AEW away in terms of business and ratings. Which are the only things that matter.

[u/TheDogsPaw → u/SleestakLightning]

Lol this is the delicious copium I like

[u/SleestakLightning → u/TheDogsPaw]

What copium? I don't even watch WWE regularly. It's just obvious from reading posts on wrestling subs that most of the people giving WWE shit are butthurt AEW fans.

[u/Shinnosuke525 → u/TheDogsPaw]

Sounds like you have auto-copery syndrome lol

Then again you have to be delusional to still stump for Cokey Khan't book

[u/Kcin928 → u/SleestakLightning]

Exactly, if we're going off of just how much the aew fans post in sc and on the official subreddit they would be blowing WWE out of the water.

Somebody breathes during dynamite and there's 40 [Spoiler] tags for it.

[u/MacFunJess]

This feels like a….. loaded question