>>18977824As someone who actually watched their shows, I thought it was a really interesting and visionary take on wrestling with EC3 as the ideas guy and his cinematographer friend making match look aesthetic.
The one thing I always hear about CYN is that it was a rightwing promotion. This was a meme that people really wanted to be true because it was easier to label something as right wing and dismiss it than actually engage with the product itself. In reality, CYN made rainbow merch for one of it's openly out wrestlers, EC3 said trans rights are human rights, and they were working to develop a character for Marina Shafir. I also believe they were a wrestler co-operative, but not sure on that one.
The meme that it was a right wing promotion comes almost entirely from a reddit post on squared circle that claimed CYN was being funded by Donald Trump. The mods shamefully allowed this to sit on the top of the sub for a day before pulling it, but by then people had come to associate the promotion with Trump and his milieu. It didn't help that this was the time AEW was in brand building mode as the 'revolutionary' org and didn't want a grassroots brand upstaging them. From then, the lie spread and the brand was damaged. To this day, you'll meet wrestling fans, many of them claiming to be smart, who will regurgitate the nonsense, because it played into their bias.
