10 Wrestling Storylines That Vanished Without A Trace
9. GTV
WWE love jumping on a trend. Sometimes it works, other time it's times it's GTV. With the rise of reality TV and hidden camera shows in the late 90s, the company began to air superstars caught unaware backstage in grainy black-and-white CCTV-like vignettes.
What started as rather banal candid moments of wrestlers picking their noses or stinking out the men's restrooms started to escalate. The hidden cameras caught Meat cheating on Terri Runnells and the Mean Street Posse faking injuries, furthering storylines.
The original plan was to have the culprit be Goldust, which was pretty clear from the get-go since they were originally marked as "GDTV" before someone backstage realised how obvious that was. This fit since the character would be used for a lot of seedy, perverse, or boundary-pushing stories and at that time was looking to return to air. However, when Dustin Runnels departed the company for WCW, it left WWE at an impasse. Famously, MTV comedian Tom Green (whom you might know from Freddy Got Fingered or Road Trip) was considered but Vince didn't like Green's style of humour.
As such, they did what WWE always does when they can't think of an answer: they pointed in another direction to distract their audience and then brushed it under the rug.