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Originally Posted by Mota
I've found in the past there there has been a huge difference in the WWE audience between a TV taping/PPV and house shows. Perhaps with the lack of quality writing of the product in recent years, that they've driven away some of the smarter audience to other programs, and it's mostly the house show type audience that is loyal to the end?
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The crowd I saw last night, honestly, seemed ... almost incapable of knowing quality from not quality.
I've seen "smarter" (to the business) crowds at indy houseshows in bumfuck nowhere. I'm talking "wrestling is real but the moonshot was fake" fans. The subtle distinction I might give last night's crowd is that some of them do kinda sorta know there's a certain amount of fakery/illusion, they simply give zero fucks.
Part of that is the concentration of single-digit aged kids. But part of it isn't.
One of the many realizations I had last night was that Vince was probably right to ignore the IWC entirely when it came to putting butts in seats, at least for PPV-level shows.
Those people were there to pop for intro music, chant a few off-color things, mark for the personalities they like, lose track of which competitor they were cheering/booing. And to buy merch. Oh dear GOD at the amount of merch.
The number of grown adults carrying replica belts alone was staggering.
And I ain't even hatin'. They had fun.
But the stuff that bothers some of us? They couldn't possibly care less.