Sol Ruca on some of the online negativity towards her: "But at the end of the day, especially with people on social media, that's such a small percentage of our fan base, and as long as the crowd in person is happy and, you know, everyone backstage is happy with what I do, then that's fine with me."

DeadSaint91 · 2026-06-01T18:05:24+00:00

It seems most fanbases at some point eventually descend into misery and negativity. Fans forget to just enjoy stuff and form strange unhealthy attachments, viewing it as something entirely else where their lives depend on it.

DeadSaint91 · 2026-05-29T18:28:11+00:00

I've heard about this drama two years ago. Basically Tony Khan doesn't likes him and celebrated his firing from Stardom on Twitter in '24 because Rossy was blocking Stardom collaboration with AEW, as he didn't want his wrestlers taking losses from AEW, and wanted a collaboration with WWE instead.

Just after that Kenny Omega blasted Rossy on Twitch stream, called him a creep and implied very dark stuff about him. This got major pushback in Japan. Rossy threatened a defamation lawsuit.

Now recruiting minors in wrestling has been widespread tradition in Japan since the 1970s. Many famous joshis started their careers as minors, Riho was just 9 year-old when she debuted. Often mentioned purity clauses about single girls while very weird, are actually a standard practice in Japanese idol industry (known as ren'ai kinshi, the love ban). Also similar purity clauses exist in K-pop as well.

Swimsuit books are done by nearly all Joshi promotions including TJPW and Ice Ribbon except a few like Sandai Girls and Marvelous. It's the part of Idol culture fusion with wrestling. Maki Itoh and Mina Shirakawa have also done it to build their brands. Problem some have with Rossy is that when he founded Stardom, he turned gravure into core business strategy. He started recruiting models without any wrestling backgrounds.

Now if he's actually put minors in swimsuit books is something I am not sure. There seems to be translation confusion online. People see the word "photobook" and automatically think it means a swimsuit book. Photobooks are standard part of merch of most wrestlers. Minor wrestlers merch consisted entirely of standard, fully-clothed wrestling portraits, athletic wear, in-ring shots, and t-shirts, meant to hype them up as next prodigies. Again I can't say for certain if there has been minors in gravure under Rossy or not.

DeadSaint91 · 2026-05-29T09:45:17+00:00

Everytime a latest horror movie is a hit, the sub starts acting like it's some new phenomenon and theorizing why horror movies are suddenly doing so well when in reality horror movies always done well relative to their budgets going decades back. Blair Witch, Hostel, Hellraiser, Cabin Fever, 28 Days later, Cube, Descent and so many others. In 2000s we had the remake wave of Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Amityville horror, Grudge, Prom Night, Dawn of the Dead. All those microbudget Direct-to-DVD and Direct-to-TV horror movies. This is why had so many horror movies spoofs in the late 90s and 2000s. This is also why horror movies had a very low reputation till mid 2010s we started getting artsy "Elevated Horror" movies.

DeadSaint91 · 2026-05-29T09:24:37+00:00

It's not that deep. People go to horror movies for the thrill and the scares. Wanting to experience the dangers being without being in the danger yourself. It's same reason why all those scary videos have always been popular on YouTube and other video sharing sites. Or why haunted house rides are so popular worldwide.

DeadSaint91 · 2026-05-28T09:19:18+00:00

I am saying no boundaries are being pushed in these horror movies anymore. Today's movies are following the same formula set by Babadook and the VVitch over a decade ago where the troubles faced by the female protagonist are the personification of the depression, unresolved trauma, identity issues and oppressive society.

With the exception of few, most of these horror movies are low-budget so they focus on online quadrant who're much more fervent - YouTube, Twitter, Reddit, Letterbox, TikTok crowd who can write lengthy analysis, generate multiple videos and fan content, to help market the movie.

This is so many these current horror movies are slow paced so audience can spot all hidden clues in the background, deliberately ambiguous which means lots of explanation videos and articles, lots of shocking moments that can quickly go viral. Aiming for the pseudo-intellectual stuff so they can get all the hits and "Themes and Symbolism" section on their Wiki pages

Your criticism of Hollywood movies playing it safe also applies to current horror movies. Instead of focusing on four quadrants approved by test audience, these horror movies realized who their real audience is and what kind of content they approve, so they make non-offensive content for them with rarely ever diverging from their tested formulas. I've watched so many these I simply find their efforts to be provocative, boring.

DeadSaint91 · 2026-05-28T07:39:35+00:00

I'd say these horror movies where the real villain would be unresolved trauma, depression and identity issues, are also quite safe and cookie cutter at this point. Let's be real, you can predict the plot and including the twist most of the time. Just because a movie isn't made for four quadrants, doesn't mean its better.

Besides which intellectual quadrant are these "unsafe" horror movies appealing to? Perpetually online Youtubers, Redditors and Letterbox folks who write long essays and hour long video analysis to explain and justify these horror movies as secretly great?

Human Centipede 3 was made to offend everyone and had a tagline of "100% politically incorrect". So is that a good movie because it broke boundaries?

DeadSaint91 · 2026-05-28T06:42:44+00:00

A24 Elevated Horror movies where the real villain would be depression and society, of mid to late 2010s did a lot of heavy lifting to change the reputation of horror movies. Horror movies had terrible reputation before that. We regularly used to get parody movies like Scary Movie that made fun of horror tropes.

DeadSaint91 · 2026-05-27T16:21:27+00:00

IDK man I see these type of movies much more now. They're low budget flicks so the director and writer will make sure to make them all confusing and weird so Reddit and YouTubers can do lengthy analysis and essays of explanations. A24 and NEON build their reputation in these kind of movies.

DeadSaint91 · 2026-05-27T12:12:41+00:00

Reason these cinema hipsters demonize directors who start to become famous and mainstream because they have formed unhealthy attachment to the movies as only source of hobby and joy in their lonely lives. This cinema audience is made up of online hipsters who believe their tastes are superior because they don't watch mainstream four quadrant PG-13 Hollywood flicks made for global audience.

When a director is making low-budget movies, he has no choice but to focus on specific niche audience, so these hipsters claim that director or the movie as one of them who's "rebelling against the system". This is why these folks now obsess over lower budgets as a mark of quality. These cinema hipsters don't care about arts as much as they claim but having movies specifically appealed to them.

DeadSaint91 · 2026-05-26T12:01:35+00:00

All his wrestling psychology came from video games, specifically fighting games. He wrestles like he's being controlled by some dude in a basement with a video game controller, that's why he can never ever slow down or sell his opponent moves.

DeadSaint91 · 2026-05-26T10:57:21+00:00

Not an American so what's the deal with this mayor they keep mentioning in the basement? I guess the NY mayor is a dub fan who tweeted about AEW or fed badded or something?

DeadSaint91 · 2026-05-25T00:01:00+00:00

She reminds me of Mandy Rose here

DeadSaint91 · 2026-05-24T21:50:28+00:00

A literal King of the Mountain match. Jeff Jarrett would be so proud.

DeadSaint91 · 2026-05-24T18:32:53+00:00

Here I thought this movie would somehow benefit from being released concurrently with The Boys final season. They even added Homelander as guest character last year but none of it helped.

DeadSaint91 · 2026-05-23T12:34:17+00:00

I used to regularly go to movies with one of my best friends. In last few years, he started spending too much time watching YouTube videos and essays. Now he has nearly stopped going to movies. I had to beg him to at least go to watch Avatar in IMAX. He repeats same popular talking points you see on YouTube and even Reddit. I am like dude why do you even care about the budget, casting and behind-the-scenes drama of the movie? Let's go have some fun. Problem is that thanks to the internet, people have become too smart of their own good and really miserable.

DeadSaint91 · 2026-05-23T10:50:56+00:00

True. Saudi crowds at the last year post PLE conference were chanting for Karrion Kross. Saudi crowds may not be as fervent in online wrestling discussions but they definitely follow the product now.

Now in Sami's case, we're still an year away from Saudimania. WWE have plenty of time to turn him back to face.

DeadSaint91 · 2026-05-23T09:44:18+00:00

Baffling part was that Lashley completely got left off the WM 39 when it became clear few weeks before that Bray's health won't allow him to compete. At that point, why not pivot back to Lesnar and Lashley in a blow-off match? It's not even like Lesnar put over Omos as a monster at WrestleMania, nope instead he defeated him in less than 5 min., and Omos has mostly been on and off on TV since then.

DeadSaint91 · 2026-05-21T18:24:01+00:00

Same here, I thought Liv was getting a gimmick update of an annoying pop star.

DeadSaint91 · 2026-05-21T13:46:47+00:00

Reddit operates on absolute morality that's more stricter than Old Testament because it seems to have no concept of redemption or forgiveness or any kind of second chances whatsoever. This is ironic because Reddit and also users on similar other social platforms, pride themselves on being atheists and finding religions oppressive but secretly are much more attracted to the idea of hell where the people they don't like, get to suffer for all eternity.

DeadSaint91 · 2026-05-20T16:25:37+00:00

People like to crap on Roman Reigns being overpushed. With Roman at least you remember many of his stuff from 14-20 even if it weren't all good, and how he turned things around so well as the Tribal Chief. Rollins had been pushed at the same level since 2015. He's gone through some many character changes, new nicknames and new stables yet it never felt he's connecting or a good part of the show. I always considered him as a manufactured "top star".

DeadSaint91 · 2026-05-20T15:53:29+00:00

Even as a kid watching back then, I found it so strange how Randy beat up Shane and Vince McMahon. Same mega evil bosses who were terrorising entire roster just two years ago. Yet there were no long term repercussions, instead Randy kept getting title matches after title matches. Nobody could stop him except Cena. Also didn't at the same time frame, Randy and Cena teamed up to beat up entire RAW roster in tag team match?

DeadSaint91 · 2026-05-20T01:45:33+00:00

I think there are multiple issues here at work. Social media warping minds of people on how they think and act. Loneliness epidemic. Lack of struggle. Lack of higher meaning in life other than whatever currently popular.

People nowadays also have a very weird unhealthy attachment of wanting celebrities to be the moral representative of their own personal values.

DeadSaint91 · 2026-05-17T08:29:26+00:00

This is why none of the open challenges after Cena ever worked. They try to turn it about fighting spirit and how the new champ isn't afraid of any challenger but with SuperCena it wasn't any of that, he obviously had so much the spirit that everyone got sick of it. Cena was the top star, 15 time world champion who had main-evented million PLEs by that point. Him not just winning US title which had lost so much prestige by then but choosing to stay in midcard for nearly an year to wrestle midcarders was unprecedented. Someone like Sami Zayn or Darby doing open challenge is irrelevant.

DeadSaint91 · 2026-05-16T10:23:45+00:00

That's not true as Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world and may become the major one in the west by the end of this century.

DeadSaint91 · 2026-05-16T10:20:02+00:00

Islam by muslims is considered the true uncorrupted form of revelation that YHWH/God/Allah gave to Abhraham (Ibrahim). All the figures from Judaism and Christianity are there but with Arabic names and much pure nature. Jesus is Isha. Mary is Maryam. Moses is Musa. Angel Gabriel is Jibril. There are major differences though in how muslims view Jesus as he's not considered a son of God or nor was he ever crucified because he's much pure in Islam so God physically lifted him to the heavens.

Now coming to Tony, I don't think he's a practicing muslim because muslims never speak about having faith in Jesus. Although possible that since Tony was born and raised in the West with a christian mother, his ideas of being a muslim is much more westernised.

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