10 things that the rock band Phish has in common with WWE

#4 Slang within the community

Overheard on Phish lot: "Its like Amazon, but for wooks." Stay Wook, Pham. #phish

— Uncle Buck (@BuckyBuck2001) July 3, 2019

As wrestling fans, there are plenty of genre-related phrases, slang, and jargon we are regularly used to hearing. These include "booker," "territory," "over," "heel," "babyface," and "jobber," and that's just the tip of the iceberg. If someone you are talking about wrestling with is not familiar with one or more of those words within casual conversation, odds are that you are immediately going to stop taking their viewpoints seriously.

Apparently, those sorts of fan hierarchies exist within the Phish community as well, as you probably don't want to be viewed as a "wook" or a "noob." From what I can tell, as an outsider, a "custy" is also looked down upon although on the surface they look like they have their affairs in order.

Then again, "smart" wrestling fans can actually be as grating to speak with for a long period of time as a "1.0" within the Phish community. Those, for the uninitiated, are fans before you were and, as such, they know more than you do. The "2.0" fans -- who joined the Phish community "at some point after Phish came back from their hiatus in 2002, and before they officially broke up in 2004" -- are arguably comparable to wrestling fans who came onboard after ECW and WCW had collapsed.

Looking into the future, the "3.0" fans of Phish may not be too far off from today's younger AEW fans. They may not have been around for the "prime" that the business had to offer, yet by use of the Phish equivalent of the WWE Network -- presumed to be a mix of tape-trading, Reddit and other means of archiving Phish -- they are able to grasp the past, present and future of their hobby.