8 Things That Still Make No Sense About AEW
7. Too Much Still Takes Place On Being The Elite
Being the Elite has served as a great marketing tool for certain current AEW stars over the past several years. With fans encouraged to tune in on a weekly basis, The Elite utilised this online video series to bring eyes on their antics - which served them particularly well for the times that The Elite weren't performing on an internationally available platform on a regular basis.
Now though, with the aim being to position All Elite Wrestling as one of the true big boys of the wrestling world, it's far too niche to have storyline nuances and progression play out for what is simply too small an audience.
In terms of numbers, each episode of Being the Elite seems to average somewhere between 150,000 and 200,000 views on YouTube, with some videos obviously getting far fewer views and others more. But if you're looking to compete on an international stage and position yourself as a genuine rival to WWE's stranglehold on the industry, anything even remotely of significance should play out on your biggest possible platform - which is your Wednesday night international TV slot, rather than your vastly smaller YouTube reach.
Being the Elite was perfect to keep The Young Bucks, Kenny Omega, Adam Page, and certain others in the spotlight while they were competing for promotions not widely viewed on a global scale, but the times they have a-changed for The Elite.