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Logan Paul: Die-Hard Wrestling Fans Are Upset About The PRIME Center Ring Sponsorship (www.fightful.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I promise, if you're a die-hard WWE fan, you'll forget about it. It'll start to be standard practice and I don't think it'll be as distracting as y'all think."

This reeks of the people online that post if you don't like something to quit watching, then turn around when somebody posts saying they will with the line "see you next show" without looking at the ratings and seeing people have quit watching, what makes it more egregious to me is that they know it's mostly diehards that are propping up the slipping ratings.

As to the sponsorship, I hate the location, I think the Slim Jim sponsorship was the better idea, the ring apron, the barricade, the announce table, and the turnbuckles were better than the middle of the ring with that iron-on ad; especially because it's something wrestlers of the past have talked about not liking due to it being slippery. But... I didn't overspend on the company and need to make that money back, so what do I know?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It makes me literally crazy that there's basically no sport--at this point almost no activity whatsoever--that you can watch without an ad being in front of you at every single moment.

There's ads stuck on the screen over the action, commercial breaks between actions, placed products all over, ads on the floor, ads on the walls, ads on the equipment, ads on the fucking athletes, everything, everywhere!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There's virtually no media without ads anymore. I can mostly stomach it if the content is free and the ads are not intrusive. But now it's normal for paid content to have ads. There are ads in full price video games. Advertisements have infected everything to the point it is malignant.

More specifically to wrestling, ads have been a major aspect as long as I can remember (thanks for trying to shove Stacker 2 down my throat as a minor), but at least paid events were limited to a logo during replays or animations at the top of the show. The state now is just excessive and it's gunna get worse before it gets better.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Advertising has expanded way beyond just media at such a crazy pace... If I could be a hermit and live in the woods away from it, I'd consider it... but I'd hate giving up the internet, the ultimate advertising partner.

If you buy a WWE or AEW shirt and it can't just have the wrestler on it, it must have the company logo on it, when you buy a t-shirt now it likely has the company logo somewhere on it where others can see it, shoes have swooshes, hashes, NB, etc brandished on them... it's just hard to get away from ads or even being a billboard yourself.

When you buy a car it comes with the car company logo on it, and then the dealership puts their name and address as well.

As you mentioned games...

There was an ad expo recently where they were promoting a new advertising scam to grocery stores, facial/phone monitoring of customers would trigger targeted ads at customers as they walk down the aisles. If you are old you might remember the coupon machines, it would work similarly to those, attached to the shelf and would play an ad as you come by. Some Walgreens locations have been testing new coolers, instead of clear glass it's ads of what is inside the cooler.

The world is an oyster for the wealthy to push their ads on you to make more money.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Advertising shits in your brain.

And there's nowhere these assholes won't push to add more more more, no matter how much you pay, no matter how high their profits, no matter how ugly the results.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

if you weren't upset about logan doing a clickbait video in suicide forest but you're upset about this; please examine your priorities.

logan and jake have always been clickbait hacks