>"lol smark opinions don't matter. marks and casuals

>>918336
Smarks will watch and complain regardless of the product.
Casual fans are the ones they should be attempting to bring in, the reason so many people used to watch wrestling every week wasn't because they were smarks, it was because the product was over with the casual audience

>>918381
But they've been booking to this "casual" audience for almost 15 years to a consistently-declining fanbase.

>>918336
>casuals eat up everything
>marks eat up everything and defend the WWE
>smarks automatically hate WWE and only watch Indy wrestling until their favorites go to WWE where they bitch about their favorites not instantly holding all the titles and main eventing all the ppvs
>in reality Vince and the WWE are concerned with making money, pleasing their investors, and that has caused them to stick to formulaic business practices that guarantee a steady income
>a constant shitfest no matter what you do

Look, to an extent you have to take the good with the bad and Vinny has to be willing to make changes to his practices in order to keep the product relevant. But this insane idea of pleasing one side or the other is only helping to make the company stale. (Not saying it's the only thing.)

>>918669
> Vince is concerned with making money

Literally everything he's done since WCW died refutes this.

>>918501
yet revenue remains good, something smarks wouldnt add to

>>918785
> cannibalising PPVs
> house show tickets drawing poorly
> record low ratings

>>918802
>one jimmy buying cena merch equates to 10 smarks

>>918820
Show your working.

>>918820

Cena action figure at walmart:
$10
$2 store profit
$4 to make/package/ship it
$2 for the company
$0.20 for Cena
$1.80 for WWE

yea, that dollar or two they get from each piece of merch outweights all the money they get from actually performing in front of tens of thousands of people

they get a lot of money from merch, but when your ratings are shit, they're going to be getting less and less from advertisements, which has always been a huge draw - whether it's commercials, or general sponsors

The Attitude Era was all about catering to the smarks. Heyman went wooing the smarks first at ECW, then his routine got copied by the Ws. That was a period of expansion for the industry.

Now we're in a period where Vince's attitude seems to be that people should like what they're told to like and smarks are (one way or another) told to get fucked. And it's a period of contraction in the industry.

The only people who cannot join these dots are marks and McMahons. Even the casual crowd get it.

>>918501

But they haven't been booking to the casual audience. If they were booking to the casual audience, the casual audience wouldn't be declining.

The AE, and Ruthless Aggression, brought in the casuals.

>>919002
Bump for unrecognised salient point

>>919079

There's nothing salient about it. The Attitude era was booked for casuals. You know who a casual is? The 20 year old frat boy who wants to see latex handprints on Sables puppies is a casual.

The real salient point is that WWE is booked for neither the smarks or the casual audience. WWE is booked for children and marks. And that doesn't appeal to casuals or smarks.

>>919114
pretty much this
Go back to TV14 at least, have edgier storylines, more blood, more gimmick matches, and occasionally have something like a Seth vs Cesaro Iron-man match to keep the smarks happy

>>919114
>>919135
> le "blood & tits" meme

If you think that is exclusively why Attitude was successful, you've missed the point.

>>919139

"he shows more of the tit"

lawdy, what i would give to hear the actual audio of Teddy saying that

>>919139

It's not the only reason. Storylines mostly making sense and matches having real stakes was part of it too, and that's what the smarks liked. But sex and violence were what made it cool for the high school and college casuals.