Ryder says ZTLIS "changed the business"

[froggyfrog]

"Well when I started it, I knew something had to be done. I hated my stock in the WWE. I was a nobody. I wasn't on the shows. I didn't even have an action figure. I didn't have an 8x10 promotional photo. So as far the YouTube show, in February of 2011, my parents got me the flip camera for Christmas. I really didn't know what to do with it. Maybe I will just start a YouTube show and it kind of took off. I did it for a hundred weeks straight. It should have ended after 50. After I became the U.S. champion, WWE came to me and said "we want to move this to our YouTube channel." I was really hesitant to do it and I should have said no. That was the end of the Z! True Long Island Story in my opinion right there when I made that switch to the WWE YouTube channel at around episode 51. The fans just assumed I sold out, when I was still doing all the work and putting it on their channel and they instantly turned on it. Then WWE was editing it and taking things out., even though they said they weren't going to touch it. Then it just became a job and not fun. For the most part the last 50 were horrible, but the first 50 changed the business. Now Raw is all about social media and Tout, and Facebook, and Twitter. They weren't like that before Z! True Long Island Story. "

www.411mania.com/wrestling/news/275437/Zack-Ryder-Explains-Why-Z!-True-Long-Island-Story-Died.htm

He takes credit for the rise of social media in the WWE. I think he sounds delusional.

[VKMTV]

As a former Broski of the Week, I have to say I don't even think I bothered to watch the last 30 or 40. Especially when it basically became a weekly wrap up of his tv time.

[Kevin Hamilton]

He's up his own ass with that one.

[BorneAgain]

The term "changed the business" is a bit of an exaggeration. While I give credit to Ryder for his use of social media, the concept of using an internet show for entertainment purposes and establishing a wrestling was hardly Zack's invention. If anybody deserves credit for that its Miz and Morrison who more or less invented the WWE kayfabe internet show back in 2008 with the Dirt Sheet and initially gave Zack his first actual personality. The only real difference was that the Dirt Sheet was polished and Ryder's show charmingly low rent.

[Mozenrath]

It definitely played a part in WWE seeing the possibilities of Youtube and the like for getting guys over, but he is patting himself too much on the back for this.

[Clash, Never a Meter Maid]

The most he did was give WWE a reason to further commit themselves to something they were already dabbling in.

[FinalGwen]

I thought people were meant to do the bitter anti-WWE rants AFTER they got fired. Ryder's changing the shoot business!

[Orange]

s***, he's going to be one of those guys that, in 20 years' time, only does interviews in which he bashes the WWE, isn't he?

[Waffel113]

[Clash, Never a Meter Maid]

Mar 1, 2013 19:56:03 GMT -5 Orange said:

s***, he's going to be one of those guys that, in 20 years' time, only does interviews in which he bashes the WWE, isn't he?

I dunno, for as big a head as he's getting, he hasn't reached the "debut TNA promo from 2008" level yet.

[Indiana Miz]

He's kind of right.

[BigWill]

Mar 1, 2013 19:54:15 GMT -5 FinalGwen said:

I thought people were meant to do the bitter anti-WWE rants AFTER they got fired. Ryder's changing the shoot business!

Matt Hardy did it first.

[Red Impact]

We don't sell out in the Palace of Wisdom.

[A Platypus Rave]

Mar 1, 2013 19:51:59 GMT -5 BorneAgain said:

The term "changed the business" is a bit of an exaggeration. While I give credit to Ryder for his use of social media, the concept of using an internet show for entertainment purposes and establishing a wrestling was hardly Zack's invention. If anybody deserves credit for that its Miz and Morrison who more or less invented the WWE kayfabe internet show back in 2008 with the Dirt Sheet and initially gave Zack his first actual personality. The only real difference was that the Dirt Sheet was polished and Ryder's show charmingly low rent.

The Dirt Sheet was not the first kayfabe internet show, there was Byte this for one... but other than that the Heartthrobs had a bunch of internet promos,

as well as things like Five questions with the Champ when Cena first won the WWE championship back in 2005.

[Brother Nero....Wolfe]

Honestly? I don't see what's insane about this. The WWE didn't give a crap about social media until Ryder used to sell merch. Frankly, he's an idiot sometimes but that's a perfectly fair claim to make.

...Now if you want to dispute that this change was not for the better, that's also a very fair point.

[BorneAgain]

Mar 1, 2013 20:06:15 GMT -5 A Platypus Rave said:

Mar 1, 2013 19:51:59 GMT -5 BorneAgain said:

The term "changed the business" is a bit of an exaggeration. While I give credit to Ryder for his use of social media, the concept of using an internet show for entertainment purposes and establishing a wrestling was hardly Zack's invention. If anybody deserves credit for that its Miz and Morrison who more or less invented the WWE kayfabe internet show back in 2008 with the Dirt Sheet and initially gave Zack his first actual personality. The only real difference was that the Dirt Sheet was polished and Ryder's show charmingly low rent.

The Dirt Sheet was not the first kayfabe internet show, there was Byte this for one... but other than that the Heartthrobs had a bunch of internet promos,

as well as things like Five questions with the Champ when Cena first won the WWE championship back in 2005.

Byte This generally blurred the line a lot between shoot and kayfabe though, and the various other internet shows never made the impact or were referenced on TV as much as Miz and Morrison's show.

So yes, not the first, but the first to actually be a big deal for the characters/performers.

[percymania]

He has a point. "Changed the business" may be a bit of an overstatement though. Time will tell.

[Brother Nero....Wolfe]

I think Ryder's biggest mistake here is that this will eventually cause the entire locker room to chase him down with torches screaming "HE'S THE ONE THAT FORCED US TO START DOING SOCIAL MEDIA SHIT. GET HIIIIIIIIIIM!"

[Magic knows Black Lives Matter]

Mar 1, 2013 19:53:36 GMT -5 Mozenrath said:

It definitely played a part in WWE seeing the possibilities of Youtube and the like for getting guys over, but he is patting himself too much on the back for this.

[BiloxiParish]

God I dislike Ryder.. Social Media Changed the business, just like it changed everything else in the world. The Twitters, Facebooks, and Youtubes have spearheaded a revolution in the entertainment world.. All Ryder did was no different than any body else who has posted on a media site some original content..