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>and it still hasn't recovered
I think this is the funniest and most ironic part, and how I know the people who "unironically" praise and love Cena now ARE the ones who grew up with him, tolerated him so much that it turned into stockholm syndrome, or normies who only know of him through memes and let that warp their perception in all of their low critical IQ. Cena (and Triple H) TANKED RATINGS. They OBJECTIVELY did. People will throw a bitchfit and threads about people who "made ratings drop" back in the old days like Bret and Shawn or whoever - NONE of them came close to what Cena did. And this is how bad it was, in the long term: even when WWE is available on a GLOBAL PLATFORM like Netflix, purely internet reachable, no cable programming, no exclusive deals or anything, just 9.99 on fucking NETFLIX - THEY STILL ONLY CRACKED BARELY SUB 7 MILLION VIEWERS. They had 8 million viewers in 1999! And you mean to tell me that people, an entire global population of over SIX BILLION, are so uninterested in wrestling, that even when opening the global gates they only draw in six... million?
...Really?
For clarity, 6 million of 600,000,000,000 is 0.00001%.
Hell, let's cut that generously and account for kids, no internet access, a complete lack of interest or awareness of pro wrestling and/or WWE and assume the limit is 1 billion.
That is STILL 0.001%.
And even if we use the US' current population, which is around 342 MILLION, let's say it's 100 million for graciousness.
That's still 0.06%.
They can't even get ONE PERCENT of the population to give a shit.
Cena has done irreperable damage to WWE, only made worse by Roman's utter apathy during his push and Vince's obsession with him. And shit like this is why I'm not personally upset by his garbage tour, because he deserves it because he's a fucking hack and a fraud. I'm only more upset it was wasted TV time that could've been used elsewhere.
