10 Times WWE Actually Admitted It Sucked
3. Every Time They Glorify The Attitude Era...
...they tell you that the New Generation Era sucked.
If it didn't suck, they wouldn't have had to put an end to it. Vince McMahon in his famous December 1997 speech even acknowledged that fans were bored of the old archetypes, which he permanently reintroduced five years later, but that's another matter.
If you take WWE's word for it, the New Generation sucked. It didn't draw, but it didn't suck. They will point towards the unfunny, patently bullsh*t occupational gimmicks, as if the majority of them lasted more than a month, as evidence that Vince, the absolute picture of machismo and bravado, just needed a challenge from a competing alpha male to summon that gigantic c*ck of his out of his suit trousers and piss, once more, on the territory of others.
It's a tall tale of dogged determination spun in order to get him over as the grapefruit-balled genius, but to arrive at the third act of his story, WWE has to rubbish years of its own existence. Those years are held very dearly to the same demo that props this operation up, and they are buried because it's easier to get Road Dogg to say "Mantaur? What was that all about?" on a talking head than discuss the complexities of art versus commerce.
Basically, they're d*cks to Bret Hart when they do this and they didn't deserve him.