{"id":47302,"date":"2020-09-15T08:46:37","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T12:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=47302"},"modified":"2020-09-15T08:46:37","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T12:46:37","slug":"its-hard-to-even-describe-the-cringe-of-randy-orton-apparel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=47302","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s hard to even describe the cringe of Randy Orton apparel"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Perusing through my news feeds, I came across this story that detailed how WWE wrestler Randy Orton has apparently released a clothing line<\/a>, known as SLTHR; presumably as in \u201cslither\u201d because his in-ring persona is that of a snake-like aggressor who cannot be trusted and strikes quickly.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

After looking at his announcement image for five seconds, and the painfully low-effort design of Old English typeface, and the horrible utilization of the no-vowel spelling of words as if we\u2019re trying to go back to Aramaic, and my face literally did the Steve Carell from The Office face<\/a><\/em> meme.<\/span><\/p>\n

Holy shit man, it\u2019s hard to really put into words just how terrible the idea of Randy Orton clothing is.\u00a0 It\u2019s awful because in all the years Orton has been on screen in non-gear attire, it\u2019s always douchey bro clothing, and it basically validates the blurred line between character and person that Orton\u2019s personal clothing line is basically the same kind of crap.\u00a0 It\u2019s awkward because as much as Orton loves to pick fun at wrestlers with indy pasts or those who he feels has not made a respectful amount of money in their careers, a guy schilling out his own apparel seems a little desperate to be making more money himself.<\/span><\/p>\n

And it\u2019s just plain bad, the way it looks, how it\u2019s branded, and how it\u2019s \u201cannounced,\u201d over social media.\u00a0 If the one shirt is any indication of what any other products are going to look like (I can\u2019t under good consciousness make any conceited effort to check out the rest), I wouldn\u2019t be too optimistic.\u00a0 I\u2019ve never actually see anyone wear a WWE-licensed Orton shirt in public before, not even ironically, so I have a hard time believing anyone would be willing to actually spend real money and purchase much less wear Orton\u2019s SLTHR crap either.<\/span><\/p>\n

Another funny thing to me is that this is barely a week removed from where Vince McMahon himself put the company on blast, to tell all wrestlers to stop using their WWE gimmicks and likenesses to try and profit on shit like Cameo, Twitch or any other third-party creative outlets.\u00a0 Orton is notoriously infamous for being coddled and protected by the WWE, and numerous wrestlers past and present have all insinuated all the rules he\u2019s been allowed to bend and outright break, on account of his privilege, and this is turning into a glaringly prime example of just such.\u00a0 Sure, \u201cRandy Orton\u201d is actually Randy Orton\u2019s name, and there\u2019s nothing against the rules of him using it to sell his own shit, but the optics of this combined with the eggshells all his other peers are walking on certainly doesn\u2019t help the overall picture.<\/span><\/p>\n

Overall, just everything about this is cringeworthy and turrible.\u00a0 For a guy that is currently being billed as the greatest wrestler of all time, it reeks of desperation, and much like Orton himself, seems so very flat, boring and completely lacking in creativity.\u00a0 But hey, if there are any wrestling fans out there that get put into the friend zone<\/a> of anyone they\u2019re unrequited crushing on, at least now they have an official shirt that can wear to really drive home the reality of the situation.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Perusing through my news feeds, I came across this story that detailed how WWE wrestler Randy Orton has apparently released a clothing line, known as SLTHR; presumably as in \u201cslither\u201d because his in-ring persona is that of a snake-like aggressor who cannot be trusted and strikes quickly.\u00a0 After looking at his announcement image for five … Continue reading It\u2019s hard to even describe the cringe of Randy Orton apparel<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[79,45,191,90,54,49],"class_list":["post-47302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-cashmoney","tag-fail","tag-greed","tag-hypocrisy","tag-wrestling","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47304,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47302\/revisions\/47304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}