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Originally Posted by SlickyTrickyDamon
He's retired due to injury. Fans can't YES a clear health. They did not forget about him at all. If anything the YES chants are a permanent reminder of what he did.
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Even after he won the title the second he lost it fans started getting less and less involved. You started seeing more an more "haters" popping up all over the place, and the chants got less and less prevalent. By the time that Roman won the Rumble people were broken to the point that they didn't even care anymore. That all happened before he retired, dude. WWE proved that they could break the fans will with Bryan. They bent for a bit, but as soon as they were able WWE crushed the little "revolution" and went back to their old ways without a single fuck given. Same thing happened to Cesaro and Ambrose to lesser degrees. All the Daniel Bryan experiment proved was that in the end WWE always gets what they want.
As for the YES! chants they have nothing to do with what Bryan did anymore. People chant them for anything they remotely like now. Hell, they chant YES! for people that embody exactly what Bryan's movement stood against. Even Roman has elicited YES! chants in the past.
I'm not arguing that Bryan didn't accomplish some amazing things in his career, but to say his little revolution succeeded is just false. It barely got him over the hump, and it hasn't helped anyone else reach that level either.