Dan - DP | HCW

Lifelong fan of wrestling / Anything #BritWres | Host of @TheHCWShow

There's more to life than this... Surely...?

[The HCW Show - Pro Wrestling Show @TheHCWShow]

Interview w/ Team 'Heart O'Mack' Denzel Mack & Alexander Lockheart @ Catch22 Pro Wrestling's 'Wrestlevision'!

#ProWrestling #Catch22ProWrestling #Catch22 #WrestlingInterview #IndyWrestling #Indies

[✨ Nixi XS ✨ @nixi_pw]

My opinions broke containment whoops

[The HCW Show - Pro Wrestling Show @TheHCWShow]

I attended Hustle Wrestling! First time in over 3 years! Check out this video from the event!

#SupportIndyWrestlers #SupportIndyWrestling #IndependntWrestling #HustleWrestling

[Dan - DP | HCW @DpuizY]

@Nemesis_Paradox Just generic 'fan voting' like that's ever been true in the past 😅

Also I have no idea, sounds like something AI has cooked up in TKO offices

[✨ Nixi XS ✨ @nixi_pw]

This statement is working under the false assumption that graphic design isn’t also a physical art. Graphic design was done with pen and ink from the invention of the printing press til the 1980’s. And still can be today.

Every digital design tool is in some way analogous to a physical practice. “Draw circle” is a compass. “Undo” is an eraser. All of these individual actions take human decision and action to perform.

The long series of creative decisions and physical actions to execute those decisions, in sequence, is the human process for creating art. Be it digital or traditional. It requires the human hand in motion, creating step-by-step from the mind. It draws from inspiration and opinion; cultural knowledge and vision. Our minute human biases are reflected in each of those small actions to create. That’s true of a painting or a poem or a digital logo.

AI is stealing from that work and compiling sludge that mimics the assumed results of those efforts. But without the intention in its creation, it can never be real art. It’s inhuman and algorithmic. It does not contemplate the specific shade of green strokes in the grass or the blend of a gentle shadow on a bird’s wing. It doesn’t move its hand to change the contour of a mountain. It has no vision, it has no human creation. It’s an algorithm making slop via theft.

AI could never see the water lillies at Giverny with the perspective of an artist going blind. AI could never look out an asylum window in Southern France and paint a starry night blanketing an imagined village outside. AI could never take the image of a Greek goddess and simplify its wing into a perfect swooping line, drawn at just the right angle to convey motion.

AI can’t create anything new because it doesn’t have vision or experience. It has no perspective to execute. Whether using physical or digital tools, all artists have life and experience that guides their hands in creation. An algorithm cannot replace that intention and purpose.

A digital tool is manipulated my a hand. GenAI instead creates what it assumes a hand might do, based on a learning model that can only generate the median assumed output of real artist’s stolen creations. The first is artistic, the second is not.

[✨ Nixi XS ✨ @nixi_pw]

Overheard some indie wrestlers argue that using AI for their merch is the same thing as an artist using a fill color tool

“They don’t understand the creativity that goes into my prompts. That’s more work than designers do! They just press buttons!”

The game is cooked, guys 😞

[Dan - DP | HCW @DpuizY]

@Elliottt93 I never got the appeal of the use of AI tbh... fully agree with you

[Elliot @Elliottt93]

Seeing so many AI generated booking designs going about. I don’t know if they’re doing it themselves or if someone is doing it for them, but if you’re out there generating these AI designs for new wrestlers who maybe don’t know any better, you’re damaging their image.

Do better.

[TATE MAYFAIRS 🇬🇧 @TateMayfairs]

More Than Ever

It’s Time for the UK to have its own mainstream Pro Wrestling product

[The HCW Show - Pro Wrestling Show @TheHCWShow]

NEW INTERVIEW DROPPED on YOUTUBE!

I sat down with 'The Bootsale Bandit' JAKE DYNAMITE to discuss his career so far! Tune in on this Bank Holiday for an hour of discussion with one of the most promising stars under the tutelage of THE Greg Burridge!

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[The HCW Show - Pro Wrestling Show @TheHCWShow]

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NEW VIDEO Release on YouTube!!
Its an Indy Review (and vlog)!

#IndyWrestling #SupportIndyWrestling #Catch22Pro
#ProWrestling #UKIndies

[Dann Read - Movie Guy. @DannRead]

Fellow promoters

Seeing talent you’ve worked with go on to achieve big things is genuinely special. Of course you want to celebrate them.

But there’s a difference between celebrating someone and trying to position yourself as the reason for their success.

If they want to give you your flowers they will, but let them make the call for themselves.

This is their moment. Don't try to make it about you.

[The HCW Show - Pro Wrestling Show @TheHCWShow]

If you enjoyed seeing UK Independent stars on NXT on Tuesday, then this is a message for you!

#wrestling #prowrestling #indywrestling #supportindywrestling #supportindywrestlers

[TATE MAYFAIRS 🇬🇧 @TateMayfairs]

I lived by this for years

If I don’t know you I do not owe you my free time to help you build your podcast

Collaborations work when two parties bring eachother value

[Elliot @Elliottt93]

THANKYOU FOR 4K FOLLOWERS 🥳❤️

Unexpectedly hit 4K over the last couple of days and I'm super grateful for anyone who chooses to click that button. The last few years have meant so much to me and I'm still determined to keep going and reach all the goals I have.

Here's a few of my most recent non-promotion works from the past few months of this year, a mixture of commissions and my own personal projects. And thankyou again for being part of this journey. Any likes, shares etc always go such a long way and make all the difference to who sees my content.

And of course if you want some quality design work to represent you or promote upcoming bookings etc, I'm always contactable either by DM on here or Instagram 😁

Lots of love as ever ❤️

[Dan - DP | HCW @DpuizY]

@Elliottt93 Also hate the fact that they posted that article, trying to paint it like it had nothing to do with the guy holding the camera being a creep

[Elliot @Elliottt93]

Well within his right. Stop filming wrestlers going about their day. Why is this so difficult to understand? If they’re not wrestling, or you haven’t asked for permission first, you have no right to film them.

Common decency is completely lost amongst entitled fans.

[Dan - DP | HCW @DpuizY]

@queenoftheringg Liv/Stephanie
Femi/Lesnar
The 6-person ladder
Rhea/Jade

[Elliot @Elliottt93]

tl;dr I'm annoyed.

"That's just the way of the world"

Then change it. Be the difference. Don't alienate your fanbase just because "that's what everyone else is doing".

Wrestling isn't like football or other sports because in those, your team can win or lose depending on the day. Wrestling is about being a fan of a character, a person who you relate to, or who impresses you. Enjoying the stories and the drama.

Wrestling fans want to be entertained and engaged with the people on screen. They're not there to spend their whole earnings to watch their team win, they are there to escape and enjoy themselves.

@TKOGrp need to realise that some people rely on wrestling for a multitude of reasons, be it for social interaction, emotional support, or just finding something that makes them smile. Abusing that trust is not what pro wrestling is built on.

Business is business, we get that. All wrestling companies are looking to make money. But even WWE knew when they were taking too many liberties, but now TKO is at the helm, that care for fans has gone.

As someone who has been a fan for roundabout 25 years, it's just a direct insult. I used to tell myself I was gonna get to a WrestleMania in the States at least once in my life. Now I've pretty much resigned to the fact that it's impossible, because I simply cannot afford it. And there will be many fans who feel exactly the same.

I know this is just a rant into the void, nobody actually gives a shit, but it's been boiling my piss for the last 12 months and it feels good to write it all out.

[Chris Danger @thechrisdenker]

Idk who needs to hear this but that voice in your head that tries to tell you you’re not good enough or you don’t deserve good things to happen is a bitch ass liar

Don’t listen. Keep moving.