Triple H pays no mind to the online complaints regarding the WWE product.
WWE Chief Content Officer Triple H was a recent guest on FLAGRANT. When asked if there’s anything he’s ever written that he thought would pay off big but ended up bombing instead, Hunter took the opportunity to say his piece regarding online complaints of the WWE product, stating that the internet isn’t a real place.
“Here’s the beautiful thing about our world. The internet is not real life, right? And the bitching and the f*cking complaining that is on there is not real life,” Triple H said. “You could read the internet, and it’ll sound like this thing is dead.
“And I’ll use Cody [Rhodes] as the example, ‘Cody’s already jumped the shark, he’s dead as a babyface.’ And he’s like, ‘Really? I don’t know. I’m in an arena with 10-15,000 people every night going ape shit for me, selling the most merchandise, but sure whatever you wanna say on the internet, that’s the golden rule.’
“So the beautiful thing for our business, unlike a movie, or a TV show, or even a book or anything else, is that we have a focus group. You go up, and you do standup, right? You do your standup for a year before you do the TV special or whatever, a lot of times, right? Because you’re trying out all the shit. And you’re seeing what works and what doesn’t.
“If you’re terrible at your job, you just do it the way you want to do it, and it bombs. If you’re good at your job, you tweak things, you change things, make it seem fresh all the time, but you’re shifting along the way until you get to where it’s just right, and then you go put it out there, right? As we begin to tell these stories, you know this is working, this is not working.
“And whether people are bitching online or not, the reaction of people live, ‘Jey Uso’s terrible! What are they doing?’ The merch, the reaction in the crowd, everything he does, it’s just the opinion of a few people.”
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