>>7555102Young kids only have a 3-year attention span for a type of product before their tastes in entertainment pivot.
It's what Vince struggled with after the 80s boom. Those kids grew up and their tastes changed, but the WWF was still peddling cartoon matches. That's how WCW caught its second wind, by appealing to the 80s kids who turned into 90s young adults.
The attitude era also had just 3 years of major popular success before the tide changed and the product had to change along with it.
AEW is 3 years old now.
The people who showed up for Dynamite in 2019 have changed their mind since then.
Their tastes have changed.
The marks who liked All-Friends Wrestling in 2019, even 2020, are now dissatisfied with AEW and don't want to see it.
The live audience in the first Dynamite was 12k. You're not gonna get that again the second time of course, but maybe the venue will draw 9k? 8k?
They drew less than 4k people in the same venue 3 years after starting the show there.
The stuff between Punk and the Elite and hangnail Adam Gayge made AEW's loyal audience break from the magical spell and they're now asking themselves if AEW is even worth watching.
