>>6892846You're over simplifying.
1. Punk isnt Bryan, they were both pushed and held back very differently.
2. The television program was better, merch or not.
3. IF bryan happened to be presented to the audience with 5 years of brainwash to all the kids and fans in india like Roman, instead of actively held back and cooled off, maybe Bryan would have moved more merch.
There is an idea that you have to choose either good television or basic brainwash.
Vince acted like those were your only binary choices.
he truth is you can actually do both at the same time, if youre a competent writing staff, which WWE has really Never been.
Game of thrones didnt become huge because it catered to normies and dumb dumbs, it became good with patient well written story lines.
Stupid people, the masses, will actually enjoy more complex story telling even If they cant explain what they like or why they like it.
