>>15697448Supply and Demand. There was no organic demand for AEW to add Collision, but they did it anyway and have been suffering ever since. There was no organic demand for AEW to add more PPVs, but they did it anyway, and have suffered ever since. There was no organic demand or need to add Ospreay, Okada and Mercedes - and put titles on all 3, and feature them heavily on TV, while putting more established AEW talents on the back burners - but Tony did it anyway, and the product has suffered ever since. It's not as if AEW Dark episodes were doing a million views, first month, per episode. The average was a couple hundred thousand. So it's no surprise that Collision is doing a couple hundred thousand per episode.
The point of opening up a 3rd restaurant or 2nd car dealership is because your current businesses are running out of space, too cramped, or are TOO BUSY to provide great service to everyone. The idea isn't that you open up a 3rd restaurant and within 2 months, restaurant #3 is doing exactly the same business as #1 and #2. The point is that you give your customers more choices of where to go that are more convenient, and perhaps bring in new customers that were previously too far away from your other locations. But if restaurant #3 performed like shit 2+ years later, you'd have to be an idiot to keep it running and not realize that maybe you expanded too quickly.
AEW expanded too quickly, didn't grow their audience fast enough, continues to not grow their audience (because it's a niche product primarily catered to gatekeeping dickhead shut-ins), and we're seeing the consequences of that. It's not a universal thing that happens across the board to everyone, no matter how much you try to make it seem that's the case.
