Internet fans, perhaps not all of them but certainly the vast majority, complain that WWE doesn't "listen" to them and to what they say in their on-line editorials, message board ramblings, feedback sent straight to the company through WWE.com, etc. "Vince claims to give the fans what he wants, but he never does!" they rave as flecks of foam spew from their mouths onto their keyboards. Well, geniuses, Sarah will do you all a favor and tell you exactly WHY WWE, and Vince, could give bucket of guinea pig piss what you have to say.

1. 60% of internet fans type shit that a third-grader would read and go, "Wow, he's a moron". Seriously people, learn to spell, it isn't that difficult. Type your rants up sometime on Microsoft Word, it will actually tell you when you have a word spelled incorrectly. Then you will look like less of an uneducated peon. You think anybody who works with WWE is going to get online, read some trash on a message board that says something like "raw sukt, evilotion had 2 much air tyme n rvd shulda 1 the belt DaMnIt"? OF COURSE NOT.

2. After coming to the conclusions that 90% of the internet fans are sheep, Vince and company probably decided to cut back on the amount of time they actually get on the internet in an attempt to actually find anything worth reading. If I was Vince and saw that every single site was whining about my daughter and my son-in-law, and saying things that they're in no position to know about (not just the internet fans but also the writers whose crap they feed off of), I would be able to say, "Yep, we're clearly not going to find anything of worth here." And he'll go back to paying attention to things like the crowd reaction at live shows, or the kayfabe letters that get sent to Pro Wrestling Illustrated, before he logs on again to see all of the abuse raining down upon himself and other members of his family.

3. Internet fans are, whether they want to believe it or not, a minority. Cases in point: the internet would have you believe that Chris Benoit is the best thing on TV; yet his segments never draw the most ratings and you can hear a pin drop while he wrestles: the internet would have you believe that nobody on earth wants to see Triple H on TV at all except for a small group of female fans; then when you watch Raw, he gets some of the biggest pops on the show, always gets a huge crowd reaction during all of his segments, and his stuff always does good ratings: the internet would have you believe that all fans would always rather see a good technical wrestling match than a promo segment or something geared around entertainment; go back and watch some tapes and tell me what the crowd was more into- Chris Jericho vs. RVD, or an Austin-Bischoff skit? The point I'm trying to make is that it would be easy to tell if internet fans were the majority simply by how the crowd reacts on live shows. If everybody really hated Triple H, the crowd would respond to him accordingly. If Chris Benoit were the best thing on TV, he would've already had the WWE Title by now because the enormous crowd reaction would've made it known that he's the man. But it hasn't, he's not, and John Cena is- and it was the live crowd that got John Cena over, when the internet community was still lukewarm on him and said the gimmick would never work. Let's face it, we, the internet fans, the know-it-alls, the "smarts", are the minority- but personally, I think that's a good thing. If WWE geared everything around how the internet wanted it, Raw and Smackdown would both suck, Triple H wouldn't have a job (and yes, the company would be much worse for it), and the WWE Title would be permanently nailed to Benoit's waist. Thank god for the marks.

4. The double standard of the internet bashing Vince all the time, writing what a horrible human being he is, etc, and then expecting him to actually do them favors by giving them what they want to see, is flat-out ridiculous. Oh yeah assholes, he's going to read you calling him a piece of shit after his comments on some HBO interview, and then he's going to yield to your every whim and give Rob Van Dum the World Title. Hell, if I was in his position, I'd have RVD lose a match, cleanly, to Spike Dudley out of sheer spite, just so I could log on the next morning and read hundreds of semi-literate morons damning me for all eternity. It would actually be quite enjoyable and humorous.

5. Maybe the best reason is because he doesn't HAVE TO. I know a lot of people will say, "FINE. WE'LL JUST STOP WATCHING THEN AND HE'LL GO BANKRUPT. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAAAA." You see, that might work in theory, but it doesn't hold up. First of all, it doesn't hold up because internet fans, again, are the minority- if they stop watching, you think the ratings are gonna plummet to 1.0's? NOPE. Not by a long shot. Secondly, the theory is garbage because internet fans are hardcore wrestling fans- or else they wouldn't take so much time out of their lives to actually go to wrestling sites on the net (I have plenty of friends who get on the internet every day, who are fans, but never go to wrestling sites). They WANT to watch the shows. And what are they gonna watch if they "boycott" WWE? Are they gonna pay $10 a week to see Lex "Charles Manson" Luger and D-Lo Brown on NWA-TNA? Are you kidding me? What, are they going to spend hundreds of dollars to import Japanese wrestling tapes? Go out and buy a satellite dish to hook up so they can watch Japanese and Mexican wrestling? Please. No, they will continue to watch Raw and SD every week, because they are addicts. Wrestling is like a drug; I'm addicted, you're addicted, they're addicted, we're ALL addicted. Saying "I just won't watch anymore" like so many idiots do after they see one thing on Raw that pisses them off (cough)Katie Vick(cough) and then actually NOT watching anymore is ludicrous. It would be like somebody smoking for 20 years and then saying, "I will never have another cigarette starting tomorrow." It just doesn't happen. So yeah, if you want to SAY you'll "stop watching"- go ahead and say it. You'll still watch. Your little self-righteous boycott might last one week, two at the most- but eventually you WILL watch again. So does Vince have to listen to internet fans? No, he doesn't. They're not large enough to hurt his company, and they can't do it anyway because they don't have the willpower to stop watching. When he gives you what he gives you, most of the time, it's because the majority- in other words, the live crowds who represent the masses- wants to see it. Bill Goldberg got the World Title because the live crowds love him, and that reflects the majority. The internet, on the other hand, thinks he is a talentless slug and shouldn't even be in the company, period. Who does Vince listen to? The majority- in other words, NOT the internet. Deal with it.

That about sums it up. Face it smart-marks, you can whine, rant, rave, foam, and send out your little on-line petitions all you want- it's not gonna amount to anything, nor should it. Got a problem with it? Oh well. Don't worry, I'm sure Christ Benoit (no, the "t" at the end is not an accident) will get the WWE Title soon, so that Vince can temporarily make you stop contemplating suicide. Of course when you move on to another topic to bitch about, he'll realize it's all for naught, and go back to booking what the MAJORITY wants to see.

Have a nice day! :-)

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