1. Eddie and Chris dying saw immense changes to the industry even they couldn't have possibly predicted, even right down to the fundamentals and how matches are conducted these days and what moves are performed. The rise of knowledge about concussions saw the industry have to change from the ground up.
2. The rise of UFC saw an alternative form of combat fighting that drew away the alpha male and dudebro crowds and they haven't been back since, even with MMA's waning popularity.
3. The industry is no longer being gatekept from the marks sitting in the front row thinking that they are able to get into the ring.
4. Wrestling turning back into child and family friendly entertainment coincided with the rise of capeshit movies that was a catalyst of corporations finally adapting nerd culture and selling it to the masses. An entire generatiuon of basedboys wanted their wrestling matches tro stop resembling actual atheltic and physical contests and become more like the anime/superhero fights they had been inundated with in the cinemas.
5. Trannies and women becoming more and more of a focuse leads to more emotionally-driven and feminine reactions and demands.
6. Kevin Nash geting raped in the summer of 1992
Show them any clip from any year in the 90s of ECW and watch them recoil in horror. Its levels of testosterone by the performers and the crowd that could melt through cups if they pissed in them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oaRPBaoT18&t=81s&ab_channel=informatiuonworld