10 Times WWE Actually Admitted It Sucked
8. Edge Campaigns Against Stupidity
At the tail-end of the godforsaken 2000s, WWE unveiled a new General Manager to oversee the developments of flagship programming: The Anonymous RAW General Manager, who would issue their decrees via laptop computer, and a really, really annoying noise. And before Michael Cole read out the emails, the laptop made a beeping sound.
It was so, so unbelievably stupid.
These men and women were literally under the orders of a machine, reducing their already not-ideal perception as worker bees, toiling under the weight of autocracy, to robots not programmed with the function of agency. The contrived blocking that facilitated this was just awful - and it got even worse!
Edge agreed with this assessment, and since he was programmed to speak the words of his creator, his creator agreed, too.
By 2010, the laptop had developed sentience and could speak. To wit: they could cut an unscripted promo, and the human beings could not. After Edge defeated John Cena, the GM spoke up in a Johnny 5 voice, f*ck this, f*ck all of this. "You need to play by the rules," the GM said, on one of several dumb and inconsistent occasions on which action replay was a thing.
Edge, who had campaigned against the "stupidity" of the Anonymous GM, promptly destroyed the laptop.
He, under the narrative framework of the show, outright told us that the show was stupid.