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ParanoidObsessive posted... If most of what you know about AEW comes from what you hear Cornette tell you, then your view of the company is incredibly poisioned, and it's going to negatively shape your perception of any footage you DO see out of context on YouTube (especially if you're only looking for the "worst" aspects of the show, which are the things Cornette is most likely to talk about anyway). It would be like if your entire view of politics was shaped by only reading the political topics on PotD.

Out of context? What more context can you give this crap? These are full length videos that the COMPANY itself is putting out there, like a toddler proud of showing his parents that they crapped their diaper.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

It's telling that so many other wrestling analysts online love AEW (Dave Meltzer included), and that Cornette's only response to that is to call everyone who disagrees with him an idiot or a shill. Because it cannot possibly be that entertainment is subjective and different people will like different things, no, Cornette must be 100% objectively correct about everything he says about everything he ever talks about, and anyone who disagrees is objectively wrong.

It's telling that you highlight Dave Meltzer who has long been a Kenny Omega shill -- giving him 20-star matches years before AEW -- and whose excessive praise for AEW has led many to suspect that Tony Khan has been paying him (something reinforced by one of Meltzer's tweets to Cornette).

ParanoidObsessive posted...

The worst part is, as a lot of people have pointed out, the only reason he talks about AEW as much as he does in the first place is because he knows the more he bashes it, the more attention it gets him, and the more money it makes him via his podcasts. He basically ceased to be a real person years ago, and has basically transformed into his heel character more or less permanently (which is kind of appropriate, in a way, for someone who worships kayfabe as much as he does). He's basically trapped in a permanent state of cutting promos

Which is a silly go-to defense for trying to undermine legitimate opinions about how awful AEW is. Cornette can get a lot more attention by lambasting wrestlers people have actually heard of and discussing wrestling incidents people actually care about than talking about AEW. If anything, Cornette bashing AEW has helped AEW since it's free publicity for people who enjoy watching train wrecks.

After all, listeners and viewers are more likely to gravitate towards shit they've actually about. If you look at the top 10 videos on his YT channel -- which he'd stopped uploading to years ago after a dispute with YT so all of the videos are pretty recent and just clips from his podcast -- not ONE of those top videos is about AEW. One it goes down to the top 50, only two have AEW in the title and the draw for one of those isn't AEW, it's VKM. Most are about wrestling history involving wrestlers people know and care about. And sure, AEW -- as well as the WWE -- is going to come up on his podcast week to week because it's not like much other wrestling is running


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