WWE's Network/YouTube content exists in a parallel universe

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This might be the upteenth time a thread has been made about this...

...but why? How come these wrestlers show such great personality and a side of themselves on YouTube interviews, Talking Smack, Raw Talk, UpUpDownDown and even THE FREAKING BUMP but look completely phony on their weekly/monthly programming?! The inconsistency is almost more confusing now than it's ever been.

I remember back in 2016 when watching Talking Smack was almost essential. Segments actually led to angles people cared about, certain feuds got more screen time...and then, whoosh, gone ---- nope, people are having too much fun with this stuff. The current incarnation is pretty much a rotting corpse, no matter how many awesome Paul Heyman promos we've had.

Just watching the post-match promos on YouTube from Elimination Chamber, like...even the wooden backstage interviewers show personality and inject their own opinions on stuff! It's (most likely) ad-libbed! It once made me believe OMOS was cool!

Micromanagement and inconsistency are two of the reasons I couldn't care less about watching WWE week-to-week. When absolutely every factor of the programming comes down to an elderly man's indecision and his daughter's overreliance on buzzwords, it's looking far less likely that something fresh and organic's gonna slip past the radar. And when it does..."well, you know".

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(yes that is most definitely a shot at Bruce too lol)

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The left hand doesn't talk to the right hand.

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People have to make peace with the reality that WWE isn't interested in making very compelling pro wrestling shows; they're invested in creating content, and doing so as cost-efficiently and as easily and in as much quantity as possible.

I've been stewing on this a lot as it pertains to tons of other kinds of entertainment media (sports, video games, movies, theme parks, etc.) but the ultimate goal all these entertainment conglomerates have now is to get larger enough that they can alienate every fan they've got and still be perfectly fine, "too big to fail". The goal isn't to make a product that people interact with, a service that people can use, a work or a story that people can really relate to, etc.; the goal is to appeal to other corporations and/or to the incredibly wealthy, and to create a general sense of FOMO around things because "hey, this rich influencer likes <whatever>, I wish I could buy that/see that/go to that, too!", with the end goal of getting just enough of us non-rich types to get desperate enough to scrape our savings together for whatever high priced product they're aiming to offer (e.g. spending $8,000 on Super Bowl tickets, or whatever Wrestlemania tickets are running now) due to said FOMO.

Allowing wrestlers to really showcase their personalities? Too risky, both in terms of possible content issues and due to the potential to step on whatever the current plan is, e.g. can't have someone getting over organically, can't have anything derail the current main event plans, etc. The easy money is in just doing whatever it is you've been doing, no matter how neglectful of your core product or fans, and let the money train keep rolling in.