7. It Fired Up The Jaded Seen IT All Before Fans...
Wrestling, like all other forms of entertainment, suffers from its fair share of individuals who knowingly conform to a fan archetype that I like to call, the jaded fan. Jaded fans, often acting like (and usually also looking like) Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons, seem to take no pleasure whatsoever from the entertainment products that they obsessively consume and define themselves by. It is as if their own self-loathing has turned outwards and attacked the media franchises that they so nerdishly identify with, somewhat like a septic toenail, or a recurring rash on its privates. To a jaded fan (of Jay Effer effer being the operative word), no contemporary story is as good as the classic period and the classic period was only good because it was better than the current sh!t. A jaded fan cannot watch anything without comparing it to something else and has nothing good to say about anything they see. Jaded wrestling fans are perhaps the worst of all, as they can quite happily sit through an amazing wrestling match, barely pay attention to it and then summarily dismiss it as crap. In wrestling, Jay Effers are the kind of fans that hate Sheamus for his limited moveset and for allegedly exploiting his friendship with Triple H, but then wax lyrical about the genius of Kevin Nash. Youll be unsurprised to learn, however, that in Nashs heyday, they hated him too. This guy sucks, that guy sucks, that match sucked! etc etc etc It is painful to watch a Jay Effer at work. Hardcore wrestling, however, took the average Jay Effer by the balls and squeezed them until the bored b*stards face turned bright blue. Hardcore was new, it was different and, crucially, nobody could claim to have seen it all before. Of course they liked it (for a while at least).
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