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Originally Posted by Emperor Smeat
Why are you so dense when it comes to discussing anything related to viewership.
And what part of WWE spending years courting a younger fan base with Cena ended up them failing to convert them into a new tv core base for the future do you not understand. They were leaving en masse while Cena was still there, not just after, because WWE was doing a terrible job keeping them invested for the long term.
Besides trying to shove Reigns into a Cena mold instead of letting him develop into his own thing, that lack of a bridge created by the Cena era contributed just as much to Reigns' struggles in becoming the next mega star for WWE.
WWE being massively profitable these days has a lot more to do with the changes in the TV industry and WWE marketing themselves as a sport than anything they've actually done. WCW had a similar mentality of ignoring all their real problems because they were making record profits only to crash hard when that bubble burst.
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I’m not the one who parrots Dave Meltzer on these things. I wouldn’t worry about my density. You do realize that the ratings aren’t literal measurements, right?
Was the plan to convert the kids into a long-term fan-base or was it to profit off them short-term and secure big meaty TV rights and family friendly sponsorship deals from him? Because I’d like to see some evidence that it was definitively one and not the other. Ooh, but that ruins the narrative, doesn’t it?
It’d be great if the kids stuck around. No one would argue against that. But to suggest that it was the linchpin of the WWE’s business model is fucking insane, especially when the ratings were falling under Cena anyway. If the idea was to get kids, then actually getting kids might have been a good idea. But the WWE’s business plan wasn’t what you say it is, nor what Meltzer said it was, because Meltzer is selling a story to people like you.
This is hard to except, because Vince McMahon is a cunt and it makes some people feel very stupid, but the man is a genius at readying his product for the marketplace. Some of his business dealings are shady as fuck, but there’s a reason the WWE is mega-profitable right now, and absolutely none of it has to do with WWE “failing” to hook the Cena kids (who were always going to grow up).
Roman Reigns is irrelevant to the conversation, haha. You are just spiralling out into internet talking points like you always do when you get called out and need to scramble to find a borrowed point.
People cannot separate their view of the WWE’s content from their success as a business. They’re uninspired by Brock Lesnar title reign #7 so they make up a story about how the sky is falling and Vince is an idiot because he didn’t push Zack Ryder and let him go to TNA.