>>16118941Traumatised people put too much emotional investment into the escape pursuit from their pains and grievances.
In the case of wrestling, they can attach to a talent like Cody and get seriously upset if anything bad happens to him, because of their narcissistic co-dependency on Cody being successful and winning the belt so he can finish his story.
The investment is such that if Cody loses, they feel like they lose, which puts them back in the trauma stupor they're trying to escape.
Now take WM40.
Cody finishes his story, wins his belt, becomes the undisputed champion, happy days.
The fans are happy, the codependents are happy.
Then this woman starts crying into the microphone.
Now it doesn't matter if she actually marked out and felt the emotion and got overwhelmed.
Her crying into the microphone pulled those traumatised people out of their comfy zone.
That's why they despise her and want her gone. She inadvertently blocked their escape route by "stealing the show".
But wait, there's another angle.
Some guys do exactly the same thing, forming a narcissistic dependency relationship with talent, but with girls.
Some guys did that with Samantha Irvin.
And when she got attacked by the hurt fans who lost their smile when she cried, they got worked into a fucking shoot over their fappy queen getting disrespected, thus them personally getting disrespected.
TL;DR: the typical wrestling fan in 2024 is an overentitled co-dependent narcissist who can't take an L
