Matty Paddock

I just want the talent, staff and everyone safe. There is no amount of money that goes to a company that is worth risking lives.

If you care even a little bit about media, especially wrestling media, please read this, and please share it. For EVERY wrestling content creator and plenty of fans: If you ever do an original interview, break original news, this will likely affect you. I was made aware recently that @Sportskeeda and @SKWrestling_ have a "no backlinking" policy. Which means they'll take the work that YOU did as a writers, interviewer, podcaster, creators, post it on their site, and not bother linking back to or crediting your original work. They do this so they can manipulate Google SEO so they rank higher on your own original work than you do. It's manipulative, and predatory. Aggregation is a common thing, and linking back to the original source or embedding a video is common courtesy. This GREATLY affects a lot of the younger creators, and the people that work for outlets that get paid per click -- and there's still many of them. I messaged six editors about this Friday, both of their accounts, and their email. I even reached out to @rdore2000, who is well aware of other media members with these concerns, and he blocked me. Not one reply from a single editor of a website website that has made at least six figures aggregating my work alone about why they can't link back. Let me explain why they won't link back. One, it would help the google ranking of any of the original creators. They don't want that. I've brought up a number of issues with them -- they presumably used AI to falsely write that a wrestling manager had an underage bride. They run a referral program with little to no oversight that has claimed wrestlers have cancer that didn't, and even used AI generated half naked pictures of women's wrestling talent, that the talent themselves asked me to help get removed. They've either ignored it, or played dumb. A number of media have reached out to them about these issues. They clearly don't care about that, even though they make their money off the backs of those people. They might care if the people who consume their content take issue with it.