Comment on Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason?

• warbond@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  athlete Athletes compete or strive against others to attain a goal, TV wrestlers perform.

  source

  • mostNONheinous@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You could say there goal is to perform for that audience, as a team….of athletes.

    source

    • warbond@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      No idea why my previous comment shows as quoted, but whatever

      My argument is that if they were actually competing that would mess with the performative nature of the storytelling.

      source