Definition

The useful claim is narrower than 'everything is kayfabe': wrestling gives the corpus a concrete practice in which fabrication can require real competence and real consequences can occur inside a worked frame.

Key works

From wrestling podcast to earthquake gimmick

Jumbo Dumbsludge / NEVER FORGET begins the Baggot arc inside a retro wrestling podcast, where expert recall is itself part of the hosts' performance. INSTRUCTIONS NEVER... returns with a supernatural trident that finally snaps “like any other gimmick.” Pseudobaggot is kayfabe made civic: an assumed identity becomes a livelihood, a lair and a reality until the prop breaks.