 At times, crowds would chant "New Day rocks" along with the team even though they continued to portray villains on-screen.Kenny Herzog of "Rolling Stone" named the group as WWE's "Wrestlers of the Year" for 2015, describing them as "a hat-trick of pro-wrestling awesomeness" having "transformed from preachy dreck to a source of constant entertainment".In early 2016, Aaron Oster of "The Baltimore Sun" described them as "the most entertaining wrestling act of the past few years".