I am just going to come out and say it: Being a wrestling fan in 2017 - particularly a WWE fan - is not fun anymore. When I first started watching, I was eight, and it was 2003ish, so that definitely plays into the bias of this article: There was no social media, there was no lingo (that I knew/used), and it was just my brother, my mom, my dad occasionally, and me watching, and it was the bee's knees. Nowadays, it's all hashtags, what's trending, and people arguing over who gets pushed, who deserves what, why heels are superior to babyfaces, WWE making business decisions, why booking matters... and it's such overrated talk.

As fans, this should be out of reach for us; we were never meant to hear insider terms like "bury" or "jobber" because we would overuse those terms (spoiler alert: we do); we were never meant to hear about "booking" - news flash, wrestling is scripted and choreographed - because fans would scream who deserves what (spoiler alert: we do). People can hardly enjoy the program anymore because we've grown obsessed with rumors and speculation and predicting the show that we already know what's coming - what elitists are we that because we know insider terms and what booking is, we feel owed something.

We have lost what it means to be a fan; we get so consumed by posting on social media about how after one loss Sasha Banks is now a jobber or if she wins another championship, Sasha is now over-pushed (she is neither of those things).

This article is in no way trying to deter you away from being a fan and having emotions about the product (please continue complaining about it with me!), but it is explaining how we need to remember what it's like to be a fan and not feel owed anything. When I go to live events and see kids decked out in their favorite's merch, they are alive. You think they care if so-and-so is being overpushed? No, they're too busy being fans of the product and y'know, watching the match unfold - they aren't cosplaying as the leader of Bullet Club and trying to hijack a WWE show to get attention.

So in light of this, I am going to make a change: I want to focus on the characters and the storylines, not the people playing the characters. I will let storylines get a chance to be told before I make a judgment. So-and-so is not overpushed; I just have seen too much of them (Get the point?). At the end of the day, I just want to enjoy the fragment of childhood I have left as an adult.