YMMV / Diva Dirt

• Ensemble Dark Horse: Bobby soon became the favourite writer on the website due to his positive attitude and funny writing style.
• Girl-Show Ghetto: The site is in the ghetto by choice and embraces it.
• Growing the Beard: 2009 when the website started covering TNA and the indies, and the writing became less biased. They also started getting bigger names in interviews.
• Harsher in Hindsight: The sheer amount of abuse and mocking of Ashley Massaro was seen as trashy yet acceptable back in 2008 - but becomes heart breaking in hindsight as of Ashley's suicide in 2019. The fact that the only notable website covering women's wrestling was encouraging the world to laugh at her mental health problems is a sad reminder of how cynical and vicious the internet of the late 2000s could be.
• Heartwarming in Hindsight: Krissy Vaine talks about pitching a character who would be something of a nerd, have a top Face as their supportive friend and go through character development to become top of the division as a "graceful swan". While her idea was shot down, it did end up playing out for two eventual stars in WWE; A.J. Lee and Bayley, who were indeed celebrated for being unconventional.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Maria Kanellis getting such a thrashing during the site's early days, considering she would eventually join as a writer.
  • Melanie also spoke in one article about how she couldn't imagine Maria wrestling on the indie circuit after she left WWE. Maria ended up doing exactly that, and winning over many of her detractors.
  • When Lilian Garcia, Torrie Wilson and Candice Michelle gave an interview about their Tough Enough talk show, conversation strayed to things said on the internet when Candice was getting pushed. And Melanie was giving the interview. Torrie even said "but Melanie didn't write any of those things".
• Hollywood Pudgy: Candice Michelle was attacked for being out of shape when she was dealing with an injury.
• Moment of Awesome:
  • Melanie's fantastic editorial concerning some Smart Marks taking the 'models vs wrestlers' debate too far.
  • Melanie also highlighted the other Double Standard that often showed up on the internet in an article about Tamina Snuka.
  "Many assume that because Tamina has a heritage in the business that she’s at the same level of a Beth Phoenix or Natalya, but she isn’t. She was signed by WWE with little experience and brought up to the main roster quite quickly. Because of her strength and size, Tamina is able to look a little more at home in the ring compared to some of the other Divas who have slimmer statures, and I think this could be one of the contributing factors as to why she doesn’t necessarily receive the same criticism as other girls with less experience."
  • When critics and reviewers were tearing NXT Season 3 apart for its general badness, Cryssi remained professional and reviewed each episode seriously. She was even determined to find five positive things in each episode (though she admitted it was difficult with the infamous match between Kaitlyn and Maxine).
• Once Original, Now Common: It was one of the first websites to properly focus only on women's wrestling - and it was 2008, smack bang in the Diva Era, where most columnists had nothing but disdain for women's matches. Nowadays with much more media devoted to women's wrestling, it might be lost on newer visitors to the site how unique and innovative it was; many of the newer sites were in fact inspired by Diva Dirt.
• Tear Jerker: Krissy Vaine's article Anatomy of a Grizzled Diva, detailing just how much pressure she and her fellow developmental Divas were under to maintain their good looks; she ended up spending half her monthly pay on botox and cosmetic surgery at the age of twenty-six!

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