Viewership is down (for reference, WCW in it's dying days was pulling double what WWE is now in terms of ratings), live attendance is down, house shows are being cancelled. WWE is profitable at the moment because of the sweeheart deal it lucked into with Fox, but that's going to change quickly as they keep hemorrhaging eyeballs.
Your brand is only as good as the product, and in this case the performers holding it up. Ignore that at your peril.
Also I'm just going to say it; there are no billion dollar MCU films without the Chinese market and this is an audience that has, broadly speaking, advocates for annexation and authoritarianism. I genuinely do not care what the Chinese audience thinks, in fact, any movie that is popular in China has a strike against it as far as I'm concerned. You simply cannot tell nuanced and intelligent narratives in that marketplace.
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I 100% couldn't agree more. Except that the last Avengers movie made over 2 billion without China. And Black Panther, Age of Ultron, Avengers 1, Infinity War, and Iron Man 3, all made over a billion besides China. But besides those you hit the nail on the head and really opened up my eyes. I mean, Captain Marvel only made 974,000,000 Million, and Captain America: Civil War $973 Million without China respectively, and I don't even want to tell you how Spider-Man: Far From Home performed without the aid of the Land of the Rising Sun (Spoiler Alert: It's only in the low $900 Millions!).
Yeah, in the least I think we need to get at least 1 box office flop from marvel before we need to starty worrying about them.
And the amazing thing about the MCU is that thus far, they have managed to put out two dozen critically/commercially sucessful movies. In comparrison Sony, Fox, and WB struggle to string together more than 2 movies in a row which aren't considered flops for one reason or another.