>>13047730>I would bet a lot of money that less than 2% of AEW's regular audience have ever watched more than one classic AJPW match.100% true
We're on 4th generation IWC now
1st gen was 90s, they were the hardcore ECW and Japanese tape traders who gushed over AJPW and All Japan Women watching religiously
2nd gen was dot-com boom, late 90s early 00s, they were the first wave efedders who liked ECW, FMW, Big Japan, and other Xtreme shit, and liked roidy hosses on the undercard or insane spot monkeys like Sabu. Lot of file upload trading.
3rd gen was 00s-10s internet expansion, they generally liked workrate, flippers, the Indies and Japan but were the first generation of smarks to come in raised on Meltzer/Alvarez exclusively rather than the trader culture which died out around 08-09 with the rise of youtube and streaming. Matches being easier to access meant easier to pretend you'd seen shit when actually you just read a Meltzer review and watched a 3 minute highlights reel on YouTube set to fallout boy or disturbed.
We're now in late 2010-2020s corporate internet era. Everyone is a progressive LGBTQ-NB+ who thinks it's a moral duty to boo WWE and cheer flippy spergs because they remind them of themselves. They fixate on headcanon and think that by simping along they're helping the show but haven't got the attention span or interest in going watching old stuff because if they did they'd see how much of it is done terribly today by poor cosplayers.
>t. Late 2nd wave smark who misses finding megaupload links of some insane Jap taking a powerbomb on landmines 
