Wow, as an all life metalhead that listens to pretty much every genre (from heavy rock through thrash, death and grind to funeral doom and even drone occasionally) I can relate so much to this, but it never crossed my mind to relate this to wrestling.
I can sometimes in talks with others shit on something I don’t listen to at all like modern pop, but I love stuff (songs) from the 80’s and the 90’s, maybe there are songs here and there after that, that I can sorta like, but my general opinion is that pop sucks for the longest time, and now I even have HARD TIME getting into the new bands from the genres that I am listening to - I find them all bleach, stale and generic, all sounding (instrument and vocals alike) the same (WTF happened with the vocals variety FFS - I can’t tell one from another in those new bands and in the old days could instantly recognize any singer from any band?). I read this article a while back that around their 40’s people’s brain kinda stops to “sponge” new music, cause if you have a huge library in that said brain it gets oversaturated with information, so it gets hard to process new stuff. As a person who, when listening to music, I listen to whole albums and not a single track from an album or a band, in later years I find myself getting harder and harder into finding new stuff that I actually like and will insert into my “library” for regular rotation. I find myself listening to the old stuff more and more, instead of going the other direction with opening “new horizons”. I can check some of the recommendations from friends and once in a blue moon I’ll be surprised by something, but I will not spend my time going and bitching all day long how this band is bad and that band is bad.
I don’t know where I was going with this, hahaha. Just wanted to expand on the point of “don’t like - don’t watch/bitch”. I guess you can have an opinion and occasionally drop some of it, but I’ll consider you having some issues if you are doing this constantly and extremely in a negative manner.
I stopped watching regular WWE after nearly 24 years doing this on a weekly basis. I can check on a PPV here or there, but I find myself just getting reminded why I stopped watching their product. This and listening to podcasts where I hear something that really intrigues me and I am like “Alright! Imma go find and watch this, sounds pretty cool!” and then I hear about the next segment that is something WWE patent lobotomized and all my enthusiasm is gone. I guess this comes from the point that I can’t watch a fragmented product. I need to have as full a picture of it as I can, so I can enjoy and have a “correct” opinion about it, as I do with all the albums of all the bands that I am listening to DAILY - it’s what I do. Yes, there may be a stinker of a song or two here and there among those albums, but in general, when the entire album is good it is such a pleasure to listen to, while if it’s bad… I can get back to it occasionally cause I have some sentiment towards it, but in general it won’t be in my constant rotation list.
I guess this is what I did with WWE as a product - took them out of my rotation circle and it’s only because of podcasts I am listening to I follow them still, cause, well, I am still a fan (of sorts). But I hate skipping through products because of bad fragments in them, so I just prefer to skip those products as a whole. I can still have an opinion on it based on past experiences and monthly or bi-monthly checks of some event, but in general I’ll bitch (and praise!) for what I saw at that particular event (I think I’ve made a big post about the second day of WM this year, cause I was so appalled from that Fiend match that I just had to start writing and then it followed with the women and it got worse so I had to continue writing and… just had to finish with the gimmick after).
Hope someone will read this wall of text and get something out of it. I think I lost the plot somewhere in the middle.