Is it even possible to be a Mark nowadays

[Chris Decker-The Wild Rover]

In the days on the net fans (i also have a strong feeling that this era will be known as the internet era) is it even possible to be completly oblivious to anything that goes on backstage

example:

go to google.com and type in WWE to your search engine. you get this
www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=WWE&btnG=Search

now after getting done with all of the actual WWE owned websites, the first website you come across is lordsofpain.com, a dirt sheets website.

now say you don't wanna just look up WWE, usually people would just look up Wrestling. So type in wrestling to your search engine, you get this
www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=Wrestling&btnG=Search

now other than the WWE, TNA and a few amatuer wrestling websites, you come up with: The Observer, Prowrestling.com, 1wrestling.com and other scattered Dirt sheet websites.

now say you wanna look up something on John Cena on Youtube
heres the first video i found, its his old titantron video.
youtube.com/watch?v=Gz8r7vJAMUU

check out the comments left where you can naturally see who would be a Smart Mark, and who would be a Mark.

my question is, Is it even possible to forgo the reality that is wrestling and take it for what its worth. I'm not trashing by any means of these fans. but when the early 90's and earlier hit, I was not aware of things like Sid stabbing Arn Anderson or Ultimate Warrior Holding up Vince for money at SS 92. but nowadays they even mention backstage things right out in the open. Hell TNA is based towards the NET fans, and if your a casual fan and you Turn on TNA and you see things like VKM skits, or Rhino burning the ECW world title, this is gonna make someone intrested.

Considering my internet has been out all day and I litterly did NOTHING in my apartment, I watched my Wrestling DVDs and was htinking of this all day.

Any comments??

[leemir]

My 8 year old bro is a Smark, lol so I dunno if it's even possible. He watch Japanese wrestling, WWE, TNA & ROH but he still thinks it's a shoot so he's kinda a mark but smarky!

[mragent]

I know a bunch of marks. Their the people who really like it but watch it the same way most of us watch movies. You turn your brain off and pretend its real. That's gonna be the next era of marks are people who understand its fake but don't care and for the two-three hours its on its real to them.

[Tyfo]

Yes it is possible. Some people just don't really care to look up stuff outside of wwe.com or tnawrestling.com, etc. They watch the shows on tv and thats it until the next show is on.

My cousin is the same age as me and has watched wrestling since 1994, he dosent regularly go to wrestling sites outside of wwe.com, he asks me about stuff from time to time and I tell him, but he dosent go out of his way on his own to find stuff out. So yes, it is possible.

[The Freakin' Deacon]

Yes, I sit next to a mark in my Technology class. He's 100% pro Cena, DX, Batista and Lashley. He wonders why Kane and Undertaker don't look alike even though they're brothers. He gets bored watching Londrick, Finlay or Matt Hardy. He wonder's what Jeff did for 3 years. I could go on and on.

[Tyfo]

kieth said:

Yes, I sit next to a mark in my Technology class. He's 100% pro Cena, DX, Batista and Lashley. He wonders why Kane and Undertaker don't look alike even though they're brothers. He gets bored watching Londrick, Finlay or Matt Hardy. He wonder's what Jeff did for 3 years. I could go on and on.

Jeff wonders the same thing.....

[therob]

when I clicked on the cena video I was listening to Thrice and it went perfectly with the video.

[Scott]

It's absolutely possible. I know the backstage stuff, I can recognize the talent of the flippy guys, but I still love guys like Cena and Batista.

[Nickie James]

Heck. Even WWE.com is a dirtsheet website by itself. It's impossible, internet-wise.

[Nite-Owl Marks For Bloc Party]

Yes, a friend of mine at college is.

[salTy]

HE says it's possible.

[WWHHHD]

mragent said:

I know a bunch of marks. Their the people who really like it but watch it the same way most of us watch movies. You turn your brain off and pretend its real. That's gonna be the next era of marks are people who understand its fake but don't care and for the two-three hours its on its real to them.

So why are you watching it because you just explained every wrestling fan out there.

And sure it is possible to be a mark in the internet age... Just stop coming to the boards and reading "dirt sheets" its not that hard, I did it for three months and I really enjoyed wrestling the way I used to when I was a young lad.

[Cactus Jack]

Kinda.

[OGBoardPoster2005]

All my cousins are Cena/Rey/Batista fans.Its funny because I played my 13 year old cousin in SD vs Raw with his created player and John Cena vs Me and Jericho and we squashed the hell out of him and Cena and he said afterwards that we cheated and in real life Cena would've won.