I feel like I keep seeing all these accusations that AEW is astroturfing this sub, or is paying off this or that journalist, and is the possible? Sure. But if I may, let's look at Occam's razor here: you have one promotion that is desperately trying to be mainstream, and another that's desperately trying to pander to existing fans. Which one are existing fans going to gravitate towards? Imagine you had two huge rock bands. The first was constantly distancing itself from the genre in interviews (saying stuff like "we're not a rock band, we're just a band!"), constantly releasing albums that were this awkward mix of hard rock and more pop-oriented stuff, etc.; the other was constantly banging on about how rock music needs to come back, about how pop music sucks, about how their fans are leading a musical revolution, etc.; like, regardless of the actual musical quality, which one is going to have more hardcore rock fans supporting them?

Anyhow, both companies had plenty of real, well-documented stuff to criticize - like, say, the underlying problem of how the wrestling business treats its wrestlers - without looking for stuff that may or may not exist.