Even by Dave's standards... What the actual fuck?!?!? CAN'T LET ANYONE ENJOY ANY WRESTLING THAT WASN'T COMMERCIALLY SUCCESSFUL! MUST ONLY EAT MCDONALD'S AND LISTEN TO THE EAGLES! What on earth is happening in his brain?!? - ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

davidbix.bsky.social • 1 day ago

Even by Dave's standards...

What the actual fuck?!?!?

CAN'T LET ANYONE ENJOY ANY WRESTLING THAT WASN'T COMMERCIALLY SUCCESSFUL!

MUST ONLY EAT MCDONALD'S AND LISTEN TO THE EAGLES!

What on earth is happening in his brain?!?

Comments

mohawkfour.bsky.social•1 day ago

WWE is essentially just Disney. Generally inoffensive to spend an hour or two with. Can be watched by all ages. Rarely, not often, something is legitimately good and can be enjoyed by grown-ups. But really it’s just a product aimed at kids and folks who don’t care much for quality and just want slop

redrook1.bsky.social•1 day ago

I kinda think he's been fully subsumed by the talking points of the weirdos who constantly try to bait and argue with him.

I bet if he explained it, he'd say he was trying to point out the hypocrisy of people liking this but complaining about rating numbers or ticket sales.

bshatman.bsky.social•1 day ago

MBA ass brain

dyingsignals.love•1 day ago

i truly think this a major part of the reason he just utterly ignores the thriving indie scene now.

dyingsignals.love•1 day ago

Sorry i’m still thinking about this. Literally none of the wrestling that Dave can claim to enjoy was grounded in successful always making profit ventures & he’s a fucking joke if *that* is the marker of good wrestling.

mrstephenpike.bsky.social•1 day ago

Dave buying paintings at Homegoods.

mikecampbell411.bsky.social•21 hours ago

You know it’s bad when jdw runs in to dunk on him.

boredompeejeterson.bsky.social•1 day ago

Has his brain melted over time or was this just a matter of having less exposure before social media?

theboxenking.bsky.social•1 day ago

Devis advocate here: It's possible that that was his point. He's weird and maybe I'm totally wrong but I think that he may have clumsily been trying to show how dumb it sounds when people obsess over the financials of something they would otherwise enjoy.

Maybe.

davidbix.bsky.social•1 day ago

Now he's going with the idea that he was being sarcastic, which it didn't read like at all, in large part because he says shit like this seriously.

misterjayem.bsky.social•1 day ago

I read it as sarcasm, but there's no version of "if you like that then you're dumb" that would surprise me from him.

mongoebooks.bsky.social•1 day ago

This is literally just what Dave would have said if you asked about this period on WOR 15 years ago. Not really a big deal that he's doing his thing towards a twitter blue check.

davidbix.bsky.social•1 day ago

It's not that he said it, it's that he decided to do it as a quote tweet of someone being like hey look at this cool finish

mongoebooks.bsky.social•1 day ago

Who cares it's a twitter blue check. It's not like some actual person was saying this, it's some guy trying to farm money.

davidbix.bsky.social•1 day ago

I don't think it's that at all

mongoebooks.bsky.social•1 day ago

Dave isn't consciously doing leftism against the blue checks but I can't imagine caring that he's shitting on some dumb shit a grifter is saying for whatever reason.

bunnysuicida.bsky.social•1 day ago

I wonder if he's become too engrossed in the idea of trying to place everything in a historical context. He has the knowledge and his brain will not allow him not to share it. It's something I was guilty of during my brief attempt at punditry.

crumbledcolumns.bsky.social•1 day ago

The best selling art is the best, so therefore Thomas kinkade is Dave’s favorite painter

andrewsnarks.bsky.social•1 day ago

He's been business-brained to the detriment of his wrestling criticism for quite a while now, but yes, it's clearly getting worse.

hugetinymistake.bsky.social•1 day ago

It's probably the worst I've ever seen. He didn't used to make EVERYTHING about it.

bonerboy69.bsky.social•1 day ago

I’m not on Twitter anymore but i am fairly fluent in Dave. I’m guessing he means that people are fondly remembering this even though it was actually bad for business at the time, while using business to gauge whats good and whats bad in 2025. Even though he does that a lot.

ralphie9181.bsky.social•1 day ago

Everything is ratings and business with Dave now it’s excruciating to listen to. It’s like he doesn’t enjoy wrestling. Bryan is watching old shows and saying things like “The pulled an AEW” whenever something is screwy

dudefelice.bsky.social•1 day ago

Could it possibly be that he has spent so much time talking about success metrics that he has lost the plot otherwise?

danrackley.bsky.social•1 day ago

As someone who eats both McDonalds and listens to The Eagles….Dave ain’t got the issues I got. He’s likely ingesting large quantities of Murphy’s Oil Soap.

lessusefulthings.com•1 day ago

I strongly disagree with his opinions on nearly everything at this point. He is so focused on looking through his very narrow and subjective lens and anything else he has to dump on. And when he's called out for that (or anything) he just doubles down further. It's ok to just enjoy wrestling.

nofunatparties.bsky.social•1 day ago

For someone who has followed him for a while, has he always been like this? I fear he may have contributed to the demise of quite a lot of competition being like this?

xantar.bsky.social•1 day ago

This type of money over all posting feels like a direct reflection of the world in 2025. He would historically talk about attendance but never as brazen as "you see this great sequence here? The company is in the toilet". That feels extremely new. I don't remember him being like that ever.

nofunatparties.bsky.social•1 day ago

Such an awful way to look at any art.

carlosthedwarf.bsky.social•1 day ago

PWG Dave would never say this, sad times

wareaglerk.bsky.social•1 day ago

He's so bad at social media. He has so much knowledge to share with so little understanding of how to share it.

ronniescoresman.bsky.social•1 day ago

Gone with the wind was a bomb. Now a classic. Apply Dave's logic to that

wrightsaidnick.bsky.social•1 day ago

To be fair, the next time he rates an AEW match gets 5 stars, someone should come back with how many tickets it sold or the TV ratings. He’ll likely argue with you, there completing the paradox.

drklght.bsky.social•1 day ago

Maybe he got cte from watching so much wrestling

derekinthesky.bsky.social•1 day ago

This is why him and Alvarez (in particular) are so enamored with the current WWE product including the hottest storyline: the business is so hot look at these gates

pmcgregor.bsky.social•1 day ago

This sentiment is a plague right now