This is going too far

**Funky Fly** · 09-08-2009, 07:53 PM

This all goes back to 2003. Cena gets a shit gimmick (a white rapper wrestler? Really?) and somehow makes it work. He's so good at it that they're forced to turn him face. For a while, he's still the same cocky bastard but he fights heels and it's amazing. Then someone gets the idea that he's the next Hulk Hogan, so they figure it's time to water him down a little bit, give him a catchphrase (choke on these nuts? Really?) and eventually turn him into a vanilla superman the kids can get behind. Now it's all going tits up. The core audience HATES it and boos to such an extent that they actually have to acknowledge his unpopularity on tv.

So you figure at this point, they may as well drop the kiddy shit in favour of the bad ass from 2003, right? Nope, they just change their target audience to kids and keep on shoving him down our throats.

It's a classic case of giving the consumer what you want and not what they want. Seriously, if kids didn't buy stupid shit, the WWE would be dead by now.

09-08-2009, 07:53 PM	#32
Funky Fly The Satanic Mechanic Posts: 52,521	This all goes back to 2003. Cena gets a shit gimmick (a white rapper wrestler? Really?) and somehow makes it work. He's so good at it that they're forced to turn him face. For a while, he's still the same cocky bastard but he fights heels and it's amazing. Then someone gets the idea that he's the next Hulk Hogan, so they figure it's time to water him down a little bit, give him a catchphrase (choke on these nuts? Really?) and eventually turn him into a vanilla superman the kids can get behind. Now it's all going tits up. The core audience HATES it and boos to such an extent that they actually have to acknowledge his unpopularity on tv. So you figure at this point, they may as well drop the kiddy shit in favour of the bad ass from 2003, right? Nope, they just change their target audience to kids and keep on shoving him down our throats. It's a classic case of giving the consumer what you want and not what they want. Seriously, if kids didn't buy stupid shit, the WWE would be dead by now.