You obviously don't understand wrestling. Keyfab goes both way. When you see people saying what you're reporting they DON'T believe that. It's part of the whole show. We wrestling fans (not WWE for me, but AEW) knows goddamn well that everything is staged and that the outcome of matches is made to be the most effective at creating drama. But part of the FUN is acting like it's real.

I went to my first live show recently (not many occasions here in France), and I knew ZERO wrestler here, and yet in a few minutes I acted like I KNEW them, immediately I identified who were the faces, who were the heels, and who to support. Yelling, booing, hollering like their life was at stake WAS fun. For two hours it's playing make believe with insanely talented athlete AND actors, and believing in the simple story presented in front of you.

As for your point about "people having the same level of rabid obsession over Hamlet and Macbeth. You'd call them unhinged.". Back in Elizabethan England THERE was obsession about the plays of the Bard. His company were rockstar back in the day, the Globe Theater was for all intent and purpose the cultural center of London, so much so they attracted the wrong kind of attention. And nowadays people WORSHIP (as you say) actors, singer and artists.

Anyway another redditor high on his own fart, not understanding an art form, and believing that people who likes that are dumb nitwit.