Smark Era..... Good or Bad?

[Cool King]

Originally Posted by Ruien So we have been in this snark era for awhile now. Whenever there is a semi awesome spot in a match we get the "Holy Shit" and "This is Awesome" chants. We have AJ Styles and a dude with more body fat than Curtis as our champions. Everything the internet community wanted basically.

I didn't want this.

I'm cool with Styles as champ though. I think he's a pretty good heel champion and a perfect fit on SmackDown. I'm really enjoying his stuff.

As for Owens, he's just shite.

Originally Posted by SlickyTrickyDamon I also have no problem with "you deserve it." All of those chants are about praising the wrestlers so there should be no problem with it.

The problem there is that the Smarks chant that to all their "Internet Darlings", so they chanted it to Kevin Owens, even though Owens is a heel (and a big one at that) and cheated/got help to win the title.

Why would you congratulate and praise someone like that who's a bad guy and didn't win the title "legitimately"?

I'm not a fan of the Smark chants.

Chanting "Holy Shit" when two people are staring each other in the ring or "This Is Awesome" when someone pulls out a move that some Japanese wrestler does, is just annoying now.

I'm also not a fan of chants that follow wrestlers from the Indies, like Sami Zayn's "Ole" chant. To me, that chant is El Generico's and Sami Zayn is not El Generico. He's Sami Zayn. If El Generico came to the WWE and then unmasked and proclaimed to be Sami Zayn, then sure, "Ole" chant until your heart's content.

I also wouldn't say it annoys me as such, but when UK fans create a chant that follows a wrestler, that "gets to me" a bit, like Enzo's chant where his name is sung to the tune of "Seven Nation Army" or "Fandangoing".

It's hard to put into words, but whenever fans that aren't British do that, it just feels like they're trying too hard to be British fans and failing at it. It just feels weird.