10 Problems EVERY Wrestling Company Has In Common
2. An Inability To Penetrate The Mainstream
How many nights have you spent aimlessly scrolling Netflix or Prime, only to be confronted by an endless series of thumbnails?
You'll have heard that several of these shows and movies are worth your time, but you can never pick. So much looks like a seven because, in this atomised cultural landscape, so little feels like a 10 that you can't not watch for fear of missing out. And so you scroll, and scroll, because, conditioned by capitalism, it never quite feels like it's premium if it isn't expensive and it doesn't come in a neat, physical package.
Money is flung at so many properties, reboots and purchased originals alike, in a bid to retain a share in an oversaturated market. All we see is thumbnails, and those thumbnails bleed into one another within the same price point, further disrupting a sense of worth long since lost.
This is what wrestling - stigmatised as whole load of old fake sh*te devoid of options by WWE's dual monopoly and decline - is up against.
Here's a truth, that you may not like, but it's truth nonetheless:
By critical consensus, WWE sucks sh*t.
By critical consensus, beyond some iffy moments that AEW does tend to address, the company has met or exceeded lofty expectations.
Neither are mainstream concerns because the very concept of a mainstream is itself dying.