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school had factions when I was young.. if you was reppin wolfpac or hollywood or vice versa 
The WWE is going after the Teenage Demographic
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Beautiful Bobby Eatin
SWEEEEEEEEEETNESS!
"Hey Dean, I heard your interview and I'm sorry. You were right. How about this time instead of pooper scooper you say shyt shovel? HA HA HA!!!!! That's good shyt!!!!"
A lot of shyt over the decades is cyclical: fashion, music taste,movie style etc, but I personally just can't see wrestling ever being "cool" again
Throughout history, wrestling has rarely been cool among teens. But I'll wager to bet that its cooler among teens now than it was 10 or 5 years ago. Because it's a different group of teens with different sensibilities.shyt I was in my teens from 08-13, even then I didn’t tell nikkas I fukked with wrestling much & interest was fading quick. I can only imagine how teens now feel about the shyt
I think the movie 21 Jump Street explained this perfectly: its cool to be a geek these days. Being into 'different' shyt is what kids find cool. That explains the recent indy movement, the memes and video game references on Being The Elite, UpUpDownDown, the huge social media clout of Joey Ryan, characters like Orange Cassidy, etc..
PlayerNinety_Nine
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Vince need to find a drunk drug addict junkie who looks like lil pump and talks like tekashi
Maybe enzo. To lead the new generation
Enzo was their Tekashi. I imagine he was pitching a ton of stuff and Vince reacted to it the same way he did because he'd never seen Scarface when Razor started his gimmick.
He was doing all the same stuff - dying his hair, mouthing off, making shytty records, hanging out with celebrities. He was so true to the gimmick that he got jammed up by the law too.
Maybe the closest they got to having some sort of mirror in mainstream culture since 'Summer Of Punk' predated Occupy Wall Street. Daniel Bryan's Eco gimmick is up there too.
Enzo was their Tekashi. I imagine he was pitching a ton of stuff and Vince reacted to it the same way he did because he'd never seen Scarface when Razor started his gimmick.
He was doing all the same stuff - dying his hair, mouthing off, making shytty records, hanging out with celebrities. He was so true to the gimmick that he got jammed up by the law too.
Maybe the closest they got to having some sort of mirror in mainstream culture since 'Summer Of Punk' predated Occupy Wall Street. Daniel Bryan's Eco gimmick is up there too.
I don't see the connection between the two at all. Ultimately Summer of Punk was the most pro capitalism, fukk you I got mine angle possible, where Punk was pretty easily pacified by more money, more merch, and ice cream bars. The main basis of the angle on and off screen was "plaster my face on more merch, Vince".
PlayerNinety_Nine
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To me - the angle and the movement shared the idea of a younger generation trying to make their voices heard to an older generation that controls all the resources.
I remember I bought some DX sunglasses from target back in 1998 and wore them to 1st gradeschool had factions when I was young.. if you was reppin wolfpac or hollywood or vice versa
for real tho, early teens attn span is quick n once they get disrupted its onto sumthin else. for me i feel like after 9/11 hapened, i was immerssed in the media coverage n i didnt eveb realize smackdown didnt air that week. i completely 4g about wrestling
Enzo was their Tekashi. I imagine he was pitching a ton of stuff and Vince reacted to it the same way he did because he'd never seen Scarface when Razor started his gimmick.
He was doing all the same stuff - dying his hair, mouthing off, making shytty records, hanging out with celebrities. He was so true to the gimmick that he got jammed up by the law too.
BRING BACK ENZO!!!
I guess the first promo kind of was that in a general sense, but the rest of it was "lol fukk you pay me" and "fukk you I got mine" immediately after. His run as heel champion touched more on changing the status quo than Summer of Punk did. That shyt stills runs through today where he's whoring himself out to anything that will pay him to use his face: Comic books, fighting game release parties, NASCAR commercials, etc. Punk just wanted the bag and didn't give a shyt about anything or anyone else, in and out of character.
This should've been their goal from the start. You start with the PG stuff with the children audience and you gradually mature up with them. I thought they did that with my audience growing up going from tail end of Rock-N-Wrestling, to the New Generation to the Attitude Era. I guess I gave them too much credit
that's what I was thinking.
I thought this was always the plan, and that's how they reel in their lifer marks.
LOL.
most of the wrestling in the attitude era was piss-poor.
and the undertaker's promos were trash during that period. I remember by '99, his gimmick was all the way stale. hence, the reason why they re-packaged him as a biker when he came back.
and sometimes, wrestlers just need the green-light. look at the ringmaster stuff they had Austin doing when he first came over to the WWF. that was the low-point of his career.
you mention DX, but who wanted to see a promo from any of those guys before they were in DX?
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