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You guys are forgetting a pretty big thing.
The target audience in the Attitude Era was males, ages 18-34.
The target audience now is children, ages 0-5.
What will a male aged 18-34 do at a show that a child, aged 0-5 won't do at a show? GET FUCKING DRUNK. When you're drunk, you're louder and your inhibitions go away. You'd go NUTS at a wrestling show. Even if you weren't drunk at an Attitude Era show, there where enough people around you who were and you didn't feel weird for going ballistic.
Live shows these days are totally different. I never used to see so many kids back in the day. Kids like to cheer, but some kids are still really timid, and they're not as naturally loud as a drunk adult. Also, who do you think brought the kids to the show? Their parents who PROBABLY don't even give a fuck about wrestling, but they're trying to make their kids happy. They have no reason to get loud.
Now a guy like me will go to a show today. I'll still get drunk and I'll WANT to go ballistic, but there will be a ton of kids around me so I hold myself back a little bit as to not offend their parents.
Just something else to think about.
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