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| Cornette would hate to see PigPoopBalls and throw up all those sliders he's scarfing down Photo Credit: Kevin Steen |
You might think that Cornette's gig with National Wrestling Alliance POWERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR would make him a little more cautious on throwing around things like wishing people to kill themselves, but his latest go-around in Twitter only resulted in a slap on the wrist statement from Dave Lagana. It's not surprising even if it's disheartening given how much of a right winger NWA owner Billy Corgan is. But even if he himself has to pull back on his Twitter shtick, he has no shortage of surrogates, including podcast co-host Brian Last. He made a claim that Joey Janela injured Marko Stunt during the All Elite Wrestling Dark tapings, and when Janela replied with how the match really went down, Last didn't back down and instead continued slandering him.
Janela's replies, however, show a fundamental problem with trying to reason with these assholes. As long as Janela continues to reply in earnest, Cornette and his cronies will continue to prod in an attempt to get them to settle it in a wrestling angle. I mean, Cornette already tried (and failed) to do the same thing with the Young Bucks. Vader successfully angled his way into a match with Will Ospreay over Twitter critiques, and he even got an unanswered win over him. Will it work with Janela? I mean, who knows. He's a carny like Cornette, and AEW will probably allow him to work Spring Break going forward. I am not banking on an angle out of this, but I mean, I can't discount the opportunity being there.
At least Cornette's endgame appears to be more work. What about Vince Russo and his surrogates? He's too toxic to get work in his field, and his most notable surrogate, Glenn "Disco Inferno" Gilbertti, wasn't any good when he wasn't washed. And yet they're both out here with outlandish, inflammatory takes that have no endgame other than to make people mad. Does Gilbertti think that Bea Priestley or Mayu Iwatani are gonna see his sexist tweet and say "oh wow, he's right, we'll leave moves that our forebears in joshi invented to the men?" All tweets like that do is drive engagement to the people making them with no ear to whether that engagement is constructive. All Gilbertti has done is give Priestley and Will Ospreay red meat to be annoying on Twitter, even if in this case, both Priestley and Ospreay would be justified in their annoyance.
The stock answer is that "oh, everyone should ignore these trolls" which is well and good in theory. However, whenever Cornette tweets about Joey Ryan, Ryan responds. Janela responds to Last. People in the business who don't give a shit what the arbiters of good Twitter usage thing. They're workers. They work. So what measures can folks like you and me who don't want to see shitheads like Russo or Last or Cornette or Gilbertti from spewing their bullshit all over Twitter? The answer is right before your eyes. Just look at what leftist Twitter users do to people with bad political takes. Posting disgusting or offensive pictures in reply to bad takes is really the only way to combat said bad takes.
Folks like the Cornette Cult and Russo's subscribers, who by the way are rival gangs who don't like each other, don't take to reason and logic all that well, because one, they're not smart enough to handle logic and reason, and because, two, they're zealots who don't want their minds changed. However, posting a picture of the pig with a turd resting upon his enlarged testes, as Deadspin commenters were wont to do, or a photo of Kermit the Frog with his penis hanging out, as Inokiist Twitter favored, does more than explaining how every single finish used today was probably invented by a woman between 1985 and 1995. If one person does it, they might get blocked, which in a way frees that person from having to see aggressively bad takes (unless they're screenshotted which uh). If EVERYONE did it to every post these dipshits made, well, it would be a stronger message than anything smart that you could say.
You see, these idiots thrive on their ideas being presented, because they can frame it as a "debate" instead of them spewing out bigoted bullshit under the guise of caring about the industry. If enough people just shitposted in reply to these bad posts, then it hammers home more of a message that what they post isn't worth anything more than a glib picture in reply. Ideally, it will stop them from posting and keep the temptation away from wrestlers like Ryan, Janela, and Ospreay, who thrive on making bullshit grievances on Twitter works that benefit them monetarily. If it doesn't stop them from posting, and there's a good chance these fucksticks don't know how to feel shame, at least you can get a chuckle out of posting a gif of a rhinoceros spewing shit out of its rectum instead of getting mad that Brian Last doesn't respect your attempts at educating him on why he's wrong.
The key to dealing with these assholes isn't ignorance or logic, but mercilessly mocking them until they get the point. Jim Cornette doesn't deserve your explanations. He deserves to get a shoot chokeslam into a pit of vipers. However, since you would be charged for assault in that case, the next best thing is to post goatse at him until he gets the hint. And if he doesn't? Posting funny and gross pictures at bigots and idiots is way more fun than worrying about how bad their bad takes are on the timeline. At the very least, it would be therapeutic for you.
