WWE saw plenty of people hammering the dislike button after Tiffany Stratton’s Crown Jewel cash-in, but apparently nobody backstage is losing sleep over it. As far as the company is concerned, getting people angry enough to react still means they’re getting people to react.
During a Q&A session, WrestleVotes was asked about the heavy negative response Stratton’s title win received online. According to WrestleVotes, WWE doesn’t necessarily view all those dislikes as a bad thing because the important part is that people are interacting with the content.
“I know there were a lot of dislikes on social media, but that’s just as good as a like. As long as there’s an interaction, they don’t care.”
And there were definitely a lot of dislikes. WWE’s YouTube video of Stratton cashing in her Money in the Bank contract on Chelsea Green had around 28,464 dislikes compared to only 9,004 likes at the time of writing.
That works out to roughly 76% dislikes, so this wasn’t exactly a case of a handful of angry viewers making some noise. The cash-in received a pretty brutal reaction online, with some fans also complaining that Stratton eventually turning on Green had become too predictable.
Stratton herself certainly hasn’t been acting bothered by any of it. She recently jumped on Instagram Stories with a photo carrying the message: “Tiffy 2 X Hoes Mad.” She even added “Hoes Mad” to the Story, making it pretty obvious that she was leaning into the reaction rather than trying to calm anybody down.
The controversy started at Crown Jewel after Green defeated Liv Morgan and celebrated winning the Women’s Crown Jewel Championship. Stratton initially appeared to be helping her friend before cashing in the Money in the Bank contract, hitting the Prettiest Moonsault Ever and leaving Riyadh as WWE Women’s Champion.
We also reported that putting the title on Stratton was part of WWE’s attempt to turn her heel again after the company felt her babyface run hadn’t turned her into the “megastar” they hoped she would become. If getting people pissed off is part of that experiment, all those dislikes apparently aren’t being treated as a problem — they’re still engagement.
What do you make of WWE reportedly viewing Tiffany Stratton’s massive number of dislikes as being “just as good as a like”? Let us know what you think in the comments.
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