>>14954107Right, I forget this place is full of unironic retards. Lemme explain to you apes how business works so we can finally squash this AE mainstream media shit once and for all. If anyone ever bitches about it, screenshot this post and post it.
Haven't any of you, a SINGLE one of you wondered why WWE is still around despite "not being in AE", "not being in mainstream media anymore"? The answer is simple: people are BUYING.
Staying in business is literally a numbers game. Let's break it down to some simple math.
Say you have 100,000 people buy 20 dollars worth of items each during AE. Bit audience, so merch is much easier to roll in. That's 2,000,000.
Now during "one of the lesser eras", surely the income was down, right? And it very well could have been. But let's say you have 10,000 people, BUT they buy 200 dollars worth of stuff. THAT is also 2,000,000. And instances like that is how WWE kept staying alive during their "dark periods", because of passionate (though you can call them autistic) fans, or parents buying shit for their kids, whatever. But that's how they did it. And that's how they did it for WM40. If the desire to buy is there, it doesn't matter if it's 100,000 or 10,000 as long as you get the same result. Wrestling may not be mainstream, not talked about on the news daily for whatever controversies, wrestlers not getting signed by hollywood contracts left and right, but it is LITERALLY the most profitable it has ever been, why? Because of the desire to buy. Call it passion, autism, immaturity, or whatever. The current average audience likes WWE. And you don't need to be mainstream to be mainstream successful, as we have objectively seen. It's not as """"big as the Attitude Era"""", but it sure as shit is making way more money. Audience wise, it's not hitting the same heat. But it is making way more money than AE, the Golden Age, Hogan, Rock and Stone Cold ever did.
