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Anonymous Sun 26 Jan 2025 17:57:23 No.16839630 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>16839663 >>16839672 >>16839698 >>16839829 >>16840316

Anti-smarks be like
>sure he does nothing but rest holds for 20 minutes and gets gassed during his entrance but at least he makes a lot of money for the promoter!!

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 26 Jan 2025 18:04:25 No.16839663 Report

Quoted By: >>16839752

>>16839630
>at least he makes a lot of money for the promoter!!
And that's how you know he's good. A wrestler's job isn't to make a few smarks clap by doing flips, it's to make as much money as possible by being as entertaining as possible. Your hypothetical rest hold guy mogs people like Ospreay and he doesn't even exist.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 26 Jan 2025 18:06:10 No.16839669 Report

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smarks be like
>i dont like his athleticism
and then spend 16 hours a day in front of the computer

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 26 Jan 2025 18:06:45 No.16839672 Report

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>>16839630
If he does all that and still draws then he must be doing something right

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 26 Jan 2025 18:08:27 No.16839681 Report

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Yeah, Nash is what you get when you prioritize anti-smarkism

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 26 Jan 2025 18:10:55 No.16839698 Report

Quoted By: >>16839739 >>16839762 >>16840196

>>16839630
Goddamn I wish you motherfucking zoomers knew what "smark" means.
Hint: It doesn't mean workrate fan.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=smark
https://fluentslang.com/smark-meaning/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_professional_wrestling_terms#S

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 26 Jan 2025 18:14:32 No.16839723 Report

Quoted By: >>16839739

So flippy shitter vanilla midgets with no gimmicks are for smarks and sloppy botching big tall hosses who have only 3 moves are for anti-smarks, but who do fat slow territory old school type wrestlers and unathletic death match spot monkeys appeal to?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 26 Jan 2025 18:16:42 No.16839739 Report

Quoted By: >>16839766

>>16839723
Neither vanilla midgets nor botching hosses have anything to do with smarkiness.
A smark is a person who follows the dirtsheets to know the goings on in the business without ever having been involved themselves.
The vast majority of posters in this board are fucking smarks. The actual type of wrestling they enjoy is irrelevant.
See >>16839698.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 26 Jan 2025 18:18:41 No.16839752 Report

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>>16839663
>A wrestler's job isn't to make a few smarks clap by doing flips, it's to make as much money as possible by being as entertaining as possible
I don't think that's quite accurate. A wrestler's job is not to be as entertaining as possible while making as much money as possible. The wrestler's job is to wreatle and to follow the booker. It's the booker's duty to make entertaining matches between a few guys on the roster, but it isn't the wrestler's job to be inherently entertaining. You just don't know much about the business.
>Your hypothetical rest hold guy mogs people like Ospreay and he doesn't even exist.
Again, I'm not sure that's accurate. I think in your hypothetical that they're about as good as each other. A single guy can only be expected to sell some shirts and put some butts in seats. If Ospreay does that then he's fulfilling his end. So they're both doing their jobs.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 26 Jan 2025 18:19:58 No.16839762 Report

Quoted By: >>16839787

>>16839698
It's almost like words change meaning over time. Remember what gay used to mean? Of course you do, faggot.
No, I didn't sign my post.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 26 Jan 2025 18:20:54 No.16839766 Report

Quoted By: >>16840228

>>16839739
I'm tellin' ya right now, zip it!

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 26 Jan 2025 18:25:42 No.16839787 Report

Quoted By: >>16839795 >>16839804

>>16839762
They do, but it hasn't in this case -- you smarks simply tried to turn it around on others because you hate being called out for what you are.
You're an actual fucking smark dude. As understood by the vast majority of people who understand wrestling terms.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 26 Jan 2025 18:26:45 No.16839795 Report

Quoted By: >>16839808 >>16839845

>>16839787
>but it hasn't in this case
It clearly has in the past few years tho. Smarks are the people that put workrate over everything. I also didn't read passed what I quoted.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 26 Jan 2025 18:27:51 No.16839804 Report

Quoted By: >>16839808

>>16839787
You know literally everyone in the world knows wrestling is scripted now right? Smark has CLEARLY shifted meaning.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 26 Jan 2025 18:28:46 No.16839808 Report

Quoted By: >>16839813 >>16839815 >>16839852

>>16839804
>>16839795
You guys just want it to have shifted meaning because, let's face it, the traditional meaning is *absolutely* talking about you.
This is some mega cope on your parts dudes.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 26 Jan 2025 18:29:26 No.16839813 Report

Quoted By: >>16839827

>>16839808
You seem really low IQ

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 26 Jan 2025 18:29:49 No.16839815 Report

Quoted By: >>16839827

>>16839808
It has shifted tho. Sorry you can't keep up with the times.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 26 Jan 2025 18:30:37 No.16839822 Report

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Anyone who has ever thought about, cared about, or discussed how much money a wrestling promotion has made us, by definition, a smark.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 26 Jan 2025 18:31:20 No.16839827 Report

Quoted By: >>16839836 >>16839973

>>16839813
Smark literally means "smart mark." Marks who think they are smarter than the rest of the marks.
You're literally embodying the term here.
>>16839815
Says everyone who desperately wants to escape a label that applies dead on to them.
You're an actual smark. As in the people everyone traditionally made fun of. Own it dude.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 26 Jan 2025 18:31:53 No.16839829 Report

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>>16839630
>sure he does nothing but rest holds for 20 minutes and gets gassed during his entrance but at least he makes a lot of money for the promoter!!
You can just say CM Punk anon. It's okay

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 26 Jan 2025 18:32:38 No.16839836 Report

Quoted By: >>16839844

>>16839827
LMAO this dude just can't keep up with the times. I almost feel sorry for you.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 26 Jan 2025 18:33:21 No.16839844 Report

Quoted By: >>16839849

>>16839836
cope

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 26 Jan 2025 18:33:27 No.16839845 Report

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>>16839795
>Smarks are the people that put workrate over everything
So it has shifted to mean almost the opposite of what it used to mean? Caring about the wrestling is what makes someone a smark?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 26 Jan 2025 18:33:43 No.16839849 Report

Quoted By: >>16839855 >>16839885

>>16839844
But enough about you

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 26 Jan 2025 18:34:07 No.16839852 Report

Quoted By: >>16839874

>>16839808
The original smart mark was typically referring to like, observer readers. So even though we're all smarks by definition, it was always used to poke fun at those types of wrestling fans

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 26 Jan 2025 18:34:22 No.16839855 Report

Quoted By: >>16839862

>>16839849
Whatever you say smark.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 26 Jan 2025 18:35:15 No.16839862 Report

Quoted By: >>16839885

>>16839855
but enough about you.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 26 Jan 2025 18:36:33 No.16839874 Report

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>>16839852
Again, it referred to the people who cared about knowing the ins-and-outs of the business despite not being involved with it.
People have always watched wrestling to enjoy matches. There was already a word for that. That word is "mark."
"Smark" is the term for people who take it beyond that. Like those of us who post in this board. But it applies to *all* of us; anyone who thinks they're above it because they ironically prefer bad wrestling is simply a retard. Not an anti-smark.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 26 Jan 2025 18:37:33 No.16839885 Report

Quoted By: >>16840229

>>16839849
>>16839862
kek, it gets under your skin so hard that you're an actual mark that you had to regurgitate the same response twice.
You're literally broken dude.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 26 Jan 2025 18:49:52 No.16839973 Report

Quoted By: >>16840059

>>16839827
>Marks who think they are smarter than the rest of the marks
blud doesn't even know what "smart" part actually means yet he's lecturing about terminology

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 26 Jan 2025 19:01:58 No.16840059 Report

Quoted By: >>16840155

>>16839973
"Smart" in the sense of "smart mark" means people who think they're somehow informed about the business despite the fact that they've never worked in it.
You know, like you do when you talk about what you think about wrestlers outside of kayfabe, when you talk about drawing dimes like you're somehow in the industry, when you talk about ratings...

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 26 Jan 2025 19:14:36 No.16840155 Report

Quoted By: >>16840177

>>16840059
Let me educate you little guy: it means smart to the business, as in knowing that it's fake. Every wrestling fan in the world knows that it's fake now, other than maybe Indians.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 26 Jan 2025 19:17:48 No.16840177 Report

Quoted By: >>16840196

>>16840155
You're so lacking in reading comprehension that you're basically repeating what I said yet you have the gall to claim you're educating me.
It goes beyond knowing that it's fake -- it's the people who dig into the minutiae beyond kayfabe thinking they know everything despite not *actually* being in the business, caring about things that have no bearing on what the average casual viewer would ever concern themselves with.
You know. Like (You) do.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 26 Jan 2025 19:20:19 No.16840196 Report

Quoted By: >>16840209

>>16840177
By your own definition (>>16839698)
it does not mean that. But yes I am a proud smark, you for some reason seem ashamed of being one.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 26 Jan 2025 19:22:01 No.16840209 Report

Quoted By: >>16840215

>>16840196
I have no shame being a smark. I post here too.
I just get tired of seeing it tossed around to mean something it doesn't. Liking matches or knowing about history doesn't make you a smark. The thing that we all do here, on the other hand, does.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 26 Jan 2025 19:23:27 No.16840215 Report

Quoted By: >>16840223

>>16840209
Do you know what "workrate" means?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 26 Jan 2025 19:25:00 No.16840223 Report

Quoted By: >>16840232

>>16840215
Of course.
Because I'm a smark too. That's the whole point.
We're all smarks here. I'm just tired of people pretending they're somehow above that by leaning even deeper into it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 26 Jan 2025 19:26:08 No.16840228 Report

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>>16839766
Or what? Gonna threaten me with a chainsaw?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 26 Jan 2025 19:26:20 No.16840229 Report

Quoted By: >>16840237

>>16839885
but enough about you

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 26 Jan 2025 19:26:51 No.16840232 Report

Quoted By: >>16840248

>>16840223
Do you know what "anti" means?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 26 Jan 2025 19:27:17 No.16840237 Report

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>>16840229
kek, ATA and this time it was funny.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 26 Jan 2025 19:29:01 No.16840248 Report

Quoted By: >>16840256

>>16840232
Do you know what "you're a fucking smark too" means?
Because that's what it all boils down to.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 26 Jan 2025 19:30:34 No.16840256 Report

Quoted By: >>16840296

>>16840248
That's not important. I'm trying to help you understand the meaning of "anti".

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 26 Jan 2025 19:32:49 No.16840268 Report

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Smarks really hate being called out for ruining wrestling don't they.
There is no one on the planet that isn't a smark except for maybe idnia.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 26 Jan 2025 19:36:15 No.16840296 Report

Quoted By: >>16840329

>>16840256
Yes, please lecture me about how leaning into a particular behavior (in this case, "smarkiness") makes you anti that thing.
You don't work in the wrestling industry. You will never work in the wrestling industry. You don't have insider experience regarding the things you're talking about. You are absolutely a smark. And when you play it up as though you somehow "know-it-all" despite never having been involved you are not, in fact, an "anti-smark."
It's really that simple.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 26 Jan 2025 19:39:18 No.16840316 Report

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>>16839630
Kek droniEs really didn't like this one

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 26 Jan 2025 19:41:44 No.16840329 Report

Quoted By: >>16840339

>>16840296
I already said I'm a smark. Which is why I made this thread to poke fun at anti-smarks. But you for some reason are trying to lump them with us.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 26 Jan 2025 19:43:29 No.16840339 Report

Quoted By: >>16840350

>>16840329
I'm just saying they're not really anti-smarks. It's a misnomer. If anything they're mega-smarks.
I definitely didn't mean to step on your toes though. If anything I thought I was adding support to your point really. Guess I just suck at this and should shut up.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 26 Jan 2025 19:45:30 No.16840350 Report

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>>16840339
Anti-smark has been used to describe the Wolfcuc types for over 10 years now. No need to change what's worked well.

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