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Panthera posted...

What exactly defines hot or over here? Nothing in AEW attracts nearly as many viewers as what Raw or Smackdown do, and in terms of social media engagement and stuff like youtube views the gap gets a lot wider. Like you're really arguing that AEW Dark with its 200-300k weekly viewership is a legit place to help people make feel like stars but a really bad Raw segment still being 5+ times that and more than Dynamite can come close to means the entire show is irrelevant? WWE isn't even relevant to discussing AEW's roster but if you want to bring it in it's far more popular than AEW is so why is the latter's popularity enough to make them unassailable if the former's isn't?

If I remember correctly, Youtube views for WWE stuff is normally from other countries (and if I remember even further, their Youtube numbers from India were exclusively why they wanted to branch out there before).

But all you need to do is look at demo ratings to see where the actual excitement is. AEW by far has more momentum going for it, and those are numbers not counting the DVR numbers, which Meltzer has said are ridiculously high.

They literally plucked Jungle Boy back and threw him into the swing of things out of nowhere and people went nuts for him all over again. So I don't think there's a tremendous mismanagement of talent, and it's clear they've been biding their time for Rampage, where they get another hour to showcase their talent to a wider audience. Another hour will help them tremendously. But the fact that they can slide in a lot of these guys into Dynamite after them not being featured for a while and they're still getting more bombastic reactions than probably 95% of the WWE guys says a ton.

I do think it's a bit weird to criticize it a ton here since... well, it's working?

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