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Post by Bear Skin Rug on Jul 3, 2015 2:57:58 GMT -5
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Post by Savage Gambino on Jul 3, 2015 7:32:22 GMT -5
This reminds me of that Simpsons episode where Homer chides Bart for "getting greedy" by changing his report card D into an A instead of a somewhat more believable B. Yeah my first thought was "a 'D' turns into a 'B' so easily. You just got greedy. " It's not as though the universe is handing them enough L's, but they have to seek them out? Greedy is damn right. 5.000 to 70,000 overnight? Did they learn nothing from Ma$e having to delete his social media accounts after he lost 1.5 million followers in a spam account sweep? They're literally paying money now to be embarrassed down the line.
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Post by This Player Hating Mothman on Jul 3, 2015 15:28:59 GMT -5
There's a lot of LOLTNA in here, but the most amazing part to me is that 65,000-ish twitter bots were used to bolster the follower figures for a backstage figure who doesn't show up on television, but they apparently never considered using those huge numbers to maybe make their on-air talent look better? The current TNA champion has less than ten thousand more followers than someone that a casual fan would have no reason to ever know the name of. If all of these bots are at their disposal, why the hell are they not putting them to work making the talent look good and like stars? That might help a little with trying to convince DA, if not some other network, to pick them up. Fitting that on top of TNA doing something stupid and laughable, they manage to utterly f*** it up.
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Post by SUPES on Jul 3, 2015 15:35:52 GMT -5
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Post by Brandon Walsh is Insane. on Jul 3, 2015 16:57:24 GMT -5
There's a lot of LOLTNA in here, but the most amazing part to me is that 65,000-ish twitter bots were used to bolster the follower figures for a backstage figure who doesn't show up on television, but they apparently never considered using those huge numbers to maybe make their on-air talent look better? The current TNA champion has less than ten thousand more followers than someone that a casual fan would have no reason to ever know the name of. If all of these bots are at their disposal, why the hell are they not putting them to work making the talent look good and like stars? That might help a little with trying to convince DA, if not some other network, to pick them up. Fitting that on top of TNA doing something stupid and laughable, they manage to utterly f*** it up. I'm guessing they were doing a trial run on Ryder so they didn't 'hurt' any of their talents.
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Post by Welfare Willis on Jul 3, 2015 17:48:44 GMT -5
There's a lot of LOLTNA in here, but the most amazing part to me is that 65,000-ish twitter bots were used to bolster the follower figures for a backstage figure who doesn't show up on television, but they apparently never considered using those huge numbers to maybe make their on-air talent look better? The current TNA champion has less than ten thousand more followers than someone that a casual fan would have no reason to ever know the name of. If all of these bots are at their disposal, why the hell are they not putting them to work making the talent look good and like stars? That might help a little with trying to convince DA, if not some other network, to pick them up. Fitting that on top of TNA doing something stupid and laughable, they manage to utterly f*** it up. I'm guessing they were doing a trial run on Ryder so they didn't 'hurt' any of their talents. It's faulty logic though. No way 65,000 people would follow a balding tub of goo like Bob Ryder. It's just begging people to investigate what's up.
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Post by This Player Hating Mothman on Jul 3, 2015 19:10:14 GMT -5
There's a lot of LOLTNA in here, but the most amazing part to me is that 65,000-ish twitter bots were used to bolster the follower figures for a backstage figure who doesn't show up on television, but they apparently never considered using those huge numbers to maybe make their on-air talent look better? The current TNA champion has less than ten thousand more followers than someone that a casual fan would have no reason to ever know the name of. If all of these bots are at their disposal, why the hell are they not putting them to work making the talent look good and like stars? That might help a little with trying to convince DA, if not some other network, to pick them up. Fitting that on top of TNA doing something stupid and laughable, they manage to utterly f*** it up. I'm guessing they were doing a trial run on Ryder so they didn't 'hurt' any of their talents. That's still really dumb of them, though. If the main roster guys gained these followers slowly, it'd not only be subtle, but make sense; they advertise the twitters of their talent on TV every week, after all. But instead, they have someone whose paltry 5k is going to look even more noticeable when this week TNA lost more viewers relative to last week than he gained followers. Nobody would blink an eye if everyone gained a thousand-ish followers a day, just because nobody is really keeping that close a track on big numbers like that, while giving it to Ryder ensured that everyone immediately knew that something fishy was going on. I'll admit that trying to avoid hurting the reputation of their talent is a good idea, but holy shit did they mess this up extra hard.
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Post by ICBM on Jul 5, 2015 19:39:20 GMT -5
This furthers my theory that hardcore TNA fans aren't actually real people. I would genuinely be interested to know how many actual hardcore TNA fans are left after everything that's happened. When you strip away the ironic TNA fans, the ones who just watch Impact because they just want to see some form of wrestling, and the ones who watch to see how bad Impact is, how many dedicated fans can there be left? 100,000? Maybe 200,000? I'd love to see a survey or something. c I was a devoted fan from 2005-2012. I quit after apathy set in and the direction I thought was there evaporated during the Hogan/Bischoff era. Occasionally I check in, but I cannot find a thread of what's going on and so I bail. I wcthex Impact last week and it was actually ok. But it didn't bring me back. I'm done man. Interest in the Global Force deal isn't enough for me. It just isn't what it used to be and I don't care enough to come back full time
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Post by xCompackx on Jul 5, 2015 20:07:51 GMT -5
I would genuinely be interested to know how many actual hardcore TNA fans are left after everything that's happened. When you strip away the ironic TNA fans, the ones who just watch Impact because they just want to see some form of wrestling, and the ones who watch to see how bad Impact is, how many dedicated fans can there be left? 100,000? Maybe 200,000? I'd love to see a survey or something. c I was a devoted fan from 2005-2012. I quit after apathy set in and the direction I thought was there evaporated during the Hogan/Bischoff era. Occasionally I check in, but I cannot find a thread of what's going on and so I bail. I wcthex Impact last week and it was actually ok. But it didn't bring me back. I'm done man. Interest in the Global Force deal isn't enough for me. It just isn't what it used to be and I don't care enough to come back full time I was kinda the same way before Hogan/Bischoff. I mean, I won't pretend that I was a huge TNA fan in 2009 or even that I frequented the TNA section before the Russo/Spike thing started, but I still watched Impact fairly regularly when I had a chance to. It's just when things started to get really stupid that it wasn't worth watching anymore. I mean, WWE has done and still does stupid things, but even still there's a limit to how bad wrestling can get before you just can't watch. And then this Destination America stuff happens and I become sort of an ironic TNA fan because this news is hilarious.
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Post by ICBM on Jul 5, 2015 20:32:55 GMT -5
c I was a devoted fan from 2005-2012. I quit after apathy set in and the direction I thought was there evaporated during the Hogan/Bischoff era. Occasionally I check in, but I cannot find a thread of what's going on and so I bail. I wcthex Impact last week and it was actually ok. But it didn't bring me back. I'm done man. Interest in the Global Force deal isn't enough for me. It just isn't what it used to be and I don't care enough to come back full time I was kinda the same way before Hogan/Bischoff. I mean, I won't pretend that I was a huge TNA fan in 2009 or even that I frequented the TNA section before the Russo/Spike thing started, but I still watched Impact fairly regularly when I had a chance to. It's just when things started to get really stupid that it wasn't worth watching anymore. I mean, WWE has done and still does stupid things, but even still there's a limit to how bad wrestling can get before you just can't watch. And then this Destination America stuff happens and I become sort of an ironic TNA fan because this news is hilarious. That's the thing too man. WWE drove me out in about 07 and I stopped watching it except for hot stuff that demanded attention (Bret Hart comeback, HBK retirement, Sting, Punk). I jumped on board with TNA and was satisfied by every yard marker they hit. It was watching them grown that was so great. Getting into prime time, going on the road for a PPV, signing Booker T, Foley, going on the road for live events, passing a million and a half viewers and holding them etc. seeing the homegrown stars develop and become main events (Bobby Roode, AJ, Daniels, Storm, Joe, MCMG, Matt Morgan). I was emotionally attached to them but it changed. I forgave or explained off some of the silly stuff they did but more and more I couldn't. Killing Desmond Wolf who the fans chose to be the guy was a big one, but I explained that off by assuming he'd get his later. Then they repeated the exact same mistake with Pope. Pope was over stronger than anyone TNA ever had. The match was struck. WWE would have had him on every billboard across America. They'd have had him on Today, GMA, Michale and Kelly, SNL, ESPN, Twitter, the whole schmear. But no...no they just gave him less time and phased him out. I'll get ve the Hogan/Bischoff era three stars that they made. Bobby Roode, Aries and Bully Ray. Bobby was almost there anyway. Aries could not be stopped. But they killed both of them in favor of Bully and never went back. I applaud them for some things they did since I stopped watching: Eric Young finally became the star he tried so hard to be The American Wolves kept the TNA tag team division afloat (the tag div was a hallmark of TNA for years) They somehow brought back Kong...too bad they dropped the ball
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