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#HijackImpact
by Hero Sun 09 Mar 2014, 11:06 pm
An online movement among member of the so-called Internet Wrestling Community (IWC) to “Hijack Impact” was foiled this week when no spectators showed up to a Total Non-Stop Wrestling (TNA) taping.
Wrestling fans in online forums and on Twitter conspired to “hijack” a broadcast of Impact Wrestling by cheering the bad guys, booing the good guys, and incessantly chanting the names of talented-but-underutilized wrestlers such as Eric Young.
The intent of the protest — dubbed #HijackImpact on Twitter — was ostensibly to “send a message” to TNA President Dixie Carter that the company needs to listen to its fans.
The rebellion fell flat, however, when not a single fan showed up to an Impact taping this week due to a combination of poor event promotion and widespread apathy among fans.
TNA matchmakers scrambled to put a positive spin on the lack of audience, billing every bout on the show as an “innovative empty-arena match.”
The failure of #HijackImpact comes on the heels of a failed #HijackRaw campaign, in which a packed Chicago crowd cheered and booed and chanted and otherwise behaved exactly like a wrestling audience is supposed to behave, achieving nothing.
(Taken from Kayfabe News)
Wrestling fans in online forums and on Twitter conspired to “hijack” a broadcast of Impact Wrestling by cheering the bad guys, booing the good guys, and incessantly chanting the names of talented-but-underutilized wrestlers such as Eric Young.
The intent of the protest — dubbed #HijackImpact on Twitter — was ostensibly to “send a message” to TNA President Dixie Carter that the company needs to listen to its fans.
The rebellion fell flat, however, when not a single fan showed up to an Impact taping this week due to a combination of poor event promotion and widespread apathy among fans.
TNA matchmakers scrambled to put a positive spin on the lack of audience, billing every bout on the show as an “innovative empty-arena match.”
The failure of #HijackImpact comes on the heels of a failed #HijackRaw campaign, in which a packed Chicago crowd cheered and booed and chanted and otherwise behaved exactly like a wrestling audience is supposed to behave, achieving nothing.
(Taken from Kayfabe News)
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Re: #HijackImpact
by Hero Mon 10 Mar 2014, 7:39 am
From the photos that's been sent out from the Lockdown PPV this article wasn't far wrong, 1,500 attendance for a PPV, more people watch Macc Town on a Saturday afternoon!
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Re: #HijackImpact
by Kay Fabe Mon 10 Mar 2014, 9:36 am
I can't6 remember writing this, I musta been drunk!
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Re: #HijackImpact
by dyrewolfe Mon 10 Mar 2014, 1:00 pm
Olly wrote:INCREDIBLE LOLZ
Not to mention INCREDIBLE FAILZ!
Don't suppose anyone from 606v2 fancies giving it a go?
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