I think they were genuinely hoping they could rehab Jinder now that they had him. The problem is, they skipped right to giving him a title shot without putting any of the work in. The guy was a level that made “jobber” look good in comparison, then suddenly Smackdown got him, they threw him in the main event, had him…

“Deadshot, a frequent Batman villain”

MichaelJeter explained this better than I could in another comment below this thread. I defer to that rather than regurgitate his points.

“Others got away with it” is not a defense. Come on man. You’re better than that.

Yeah, this thinking had people falling over themselves to try and excuse my uncle when he died. My uncle was a monster. Once a person goes past a certain point of scumminess, I think it should be fair game to call a spade a spade. Dying shouldn’t give you any special priveledges if you’re a worthless piece of crap.

Yeah, I’ve had great success with Kickstarter too. I’ve backed sixteen projects over four years; of that, six have already delivered, three are releasing in the very near future, three are chugging along just fine without any warning signs, one is late as hell but has had a frequently updated beta and has never gone…

Yeah, the details were in place, this time. Kurt clearly intended to give Braun the night off from jump and likely had it planned before Monday. If Braun has the night off and you don’t originally plan on a match for Big Show, why go to the extra trouble of reinforcing it? Plus, it’s such a rare occurrence anyway,…

It was integral to mine. I think I still have some old, ratty, busted VHS tapes of old PPV’s like Summerslam 1992 and the first thirteen Wrestlemanias hanging around somewhere. My mom and grandma would occasionally come home with a WWF PPV tape they found in a discount bin for me. It’s pretty much how I got started…

Yeah, that one got me good, too. I will never not appreciate an unexpected pro wrestling reference. Especially from a cut as deep as Macho King and Queen Sherri era feuds with Dusty Rhodes, Miss Elizabeth and Sapphire. I wonder how many people even remember that? I feel like the most anyone remembers of that period is…

What’s darkly humorous about all this is that they’re inadvertently handing Google/Youtube all the justifications it could ever want for whatever it does. Who do they really think they’re going to beat here? Yeah, content creators drive traffic, but Youtube barely makes ends meet as it is and a lot of garbage is now…

Yeah, the sudden loss of Samurai Jack for the week actually kind of blew the joke for me. It’s still amazing - “no, really, we actually did it, but none of you believed us because it’s April 1st” is always a great gag when someone pulls it - and I get why they had it on loop for a while, but I’ve been looking forward…

Unfortunately for him, he might have just helped force Youtubes hand on a couple things, to the point it might be too late to pull back.

That day on Youtube changing might be coming sooner than people think. Big advertisers are starting to bail on Youtube over misogynistic and racist videos. It’s been a thing in real news today.

Me. It gave me an excuse to drop him. His videos had gone to shit, but I kept holding on in hopes it would improve. Finding out he has shitty views made it easy to hit unsubscribe and move on.

There’s an odd blind spot when it comes to some people from different ethnic backgrounds where they throw in with racists and don’t seem to understand the racists would throw them under the wheels of a moving bus the first chance they got, support or not.

I actually unsubscribed from him over some of his comments on different protests, which flew under the radar a bit more. But it wasn’t a difficult decision to make, partly because I haven’t found his videos particularly entertaining in a year or more and had stopped watching them even before he’d started making an ass…

There’s also the fact that, back in the 90's, most anime didn’t make it over here because we weren’t much of a market for it at the time. What did make it over came down to the stuff they had confidence in. Now, we’re a decent enough market that most stuff makes it over; anything that doesn’t, well, it’s the internet…

They really can’t. At least not if they want to maintain their lifestyle. Youtube costs a boatload of money and barely breaks even. That’s why there are no competitors on its scale; it costs way too much freaking money for no real benefit, which is probably going to become a problem for Google at some point too.

It’s really not, because without the platform, the Youtubers really don’t have anything, and the platform itself is almost unsustainable. Nobody talks about it, but Youtube does not make money, or if it has, not much, and Google acquired the damn thing over a decade ago for a billion and a half. That’s why you see a…

I think it says a lot when a Fox News guy says, on air, to someone from the party they essentially fellate and working with the President, that “Obama whined about Fox News all the time, but he never called us the enemy of the people.”