10 Ways To Make WWE WrestleMania 36 NOT Totally Weird

7. Set Up A Live Watch Along

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There are enough performative fans out there who'd relish doing the job.

You know the type. You love the type, even though they are conning you with their performative positivity. They will tell you that an old white dog turd of a RAW was in fact good, in a bid to capture the Twitter followers (and their Likes) who still love the product in earnest and avoid an ad hominem heckle from the toxic swamp. They will gladly and convincingly react to an unremarkable match playing out to literal silence as if it's any good.

Use the connectivity that staves off anarchy. Get the talent involved too, obviously, in contained, remote spaces.

"And now let's switch over to hear the thoughts of Rhea Ripley!"

Actually, it's a good job she's scheduled to perform.

Being less flippant about it, this might, if not done obnoxiously, go some way towards emulating the atmosphere that makes this remotely viable. Picture-in-picture reactions with the sound turned up might, just might, inform the power of Edge's big Spear comeback, or the Undertaker's throat-slit gesture.

Once again I am asking for you to recognise that putting a big bag of popcorn in the hands of Big E is invariably the best idea.

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