So, let me reiterate as the person outside the industry: I’m the fan. I’m the one you’re trying to entertain. And I am telling you clearly: I love the art, I love the drama, I love the wildness… but I am not here to watch you die for my fun. The ugly part of this business is built on exactly the opposite assumption: that we, fans, are bloodthirsty, that we want trainwrecks, that the only way to hold our attention is to keep escalating how close to catastrophe you get. So let me stand up and push against that lie: “No, my pop is not worth your neck. Next time someone suggests you a stupid bump, remember this: not everyone is here for the gladiator shit.” You don't have to like my tweet, you don't have to agree with it, you don't have to care about my opinion, but if my tweet lands in your head as “oh, people do notice the danger when we get dropped on our necks,” then I have done my part. Thank you for coming to my TED talk. Stay safe, stay wild❤️‍🩹

Give this man all of these things he asked for he deserves it all. 1. Statue of himself 2. A mural on the side of Times Square and Madison Square Garden 3. Danhausen Parade 4.Danhausen Day #WWE #AlwaysKnicks #Danhausen

Why does @Danhausen look like the world's most adorable demogorgon???

So happy to be a part of this timeline!!!

DANHAUSEN CURSE IS REAL @nycgov @NYCMayor give @DanhausenAD his floating balloon and a blimp and human monies and a statue and the keys to the city and the free beer forever STAT

whoohooo

I tried my best to watch sportsballs tonight because Danhausen, but man. Basketball science has moved on, and I appear to have been left at the bus stop of history. This is not an "everything was better in the Chicago Bulls days" complaint. It is more that I no longer know how to read what I am seeing. The basketball I remember looked like chaos being mastered by individual human beings. Distinct bodies arrived with their own gravity and imposed themselves upon the game. You could watch the collision of wills happen. Older NBA players often looked denser and more visibly powerful through the torso, shoulders and legs. Not universally, obviously, but the visual grammar was different. Now elite players often seem optimized for length, acceleration, switching, repeated sprints and surviving enormous minutes across a stretched floor. The result is those long, tensile bodies: absurd reach, very little excess mass, joints and tendons doing frightening amounts of work. And then they begin to move at impossible speed, and the ye olde chaos seems to have been processed into precision science. Every movement measured. Every angle calculated. Five men moving as components in a spatial algorithm, becoming pure intention moving through a vector field. It is beautiful, but human spontaneity gets compressed into an industrial rhythm. You can almost hear the system clicking through its decision tree faster faster faster, to outpace the opponent's algo. The old game had systems too, of course. But the players still read to me as separate human forces colliding with one another. Now they can look like highly specialized instruments built for the current geometry of basketball. And the commentators no longer help me translate it. There is too much data. Too much explanation of what is efficient and optimal and historically significant. Commentators are the ones who sell us the game. They tell us where the fear is, where the rage is, where somebody has decided that this possession belongs to them. They are supposed to turn movement into myth. Instead I feel like I am listening to technicians describe the performance of a very expensive, very complex, very well oiled system. I can tell that what I am watching is magnificent. I simply cannot parse its language anymore. Anyway, Danhausen may continue uncursing the Knicks without me. It is 5 a.m., the basketball singularity has occurred, and I have been left behind outside its event horizon.

literally me rn

i genuinely have no idea what i am looking at LMAO

Haven't watched sportsball since 90ies i think? The Chicago Bulls, Michael Jordan era, the whole stuff of legends. And here I am seated for the stream with a freshly bought NBA League Pass, a child again, waiting for the magic to happen. @DanhausenAD, 👀👍 Let's Go @nyknicks!

REPOST THIS IF YOU BELIEVE THE KNICKS ARE WINNING THE NBA CHAMPIONSHIP TONIGHT 🏆 #AlwaysKnicks

Knicks fanhausens 🥰

I've got this very vague but deeply uneasy feeling that more and more of our wrestling guys are getting caught up in some new wave of NFT and crypto scams. Whatever one thinks of NFT and crypto - I am kind of liking them both as concepts, - the recent wave of wrestling-related bullshit keeps reminding me that our dudes are sometimes ridiculously athletic theater kids who barely have the time or energy to pay attention to anything beyond their beloved trade, which can make them easy prey for grifters. I still remember one of them referring to the internet as "the World Wide Web" a few months ago. @shiloh_wwe, to the rescue! 🔦🦝🌩️ The wrestling world needs your expertise on how to avoid becoming both a target and a front for a crypto scam!

What if... What if @tristanangels03 is the new generation's gratitude to Hunter Hearst Helmsley and @shiloh_wwe is the new generation's gratitude to Undertaker, who is the new generation's gratitude to HBK then? 🤔 #WWENXT

well it is all fun and games but it's half past 5 AM here and i'm a potato

Solo has the shittiest luck in recruiting people into his MFT... Maybe he shouldn't've touched Wyatt's Lantern after all? #SmackDown

me, rn #SmackDown

Solo, my man, you ducked up SO BAD You ducked up even without the Bloodline interfering, man. They never actually interfered, man, and you did, what the duck 😢 #SmackDown

the crowd is confused if it should shout OOOH when Royce hits or YEAH if they shout YEAH when Knight hits already 🤣 #SmackDown

Finn Balor and his 28 abs 🔥 #SmackDown

Knight is looking unusually on edge tonight, he even misses some phrasing in his speeches, which happened last time ... never? I sure hope it's kayfabe shit not him getting irl things going on about KOTR. #SmackDown