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**Mr. Nerfect** · 06-23-2022, 02:51 PM

Hmm, I think the point is valid, but a lot of how we conceptualize time is constructed with hindsight too. And wrestling informs culture just as much as it flows on from it. Steve Austin was very 90’s, but he put a lot of that into the period too. I wonder how much is horse and how much is cart.

Technology has opened us up to a globalized (and gentrified) world. But it also allows different tastes and viewpoints to be exalted. I don’t know if it’s fair to say that the past few decades haven’t had an identity. I think they’re going to be associated with youth growing up with information at their fingertips and its clash with the people it scares, for example. It’d be hard to talk about media in the 2000’s and 2010’s without talking about Marvel and streaming.

There’s definitely stuff to talk about culturally. It’s just hard to talk about it in the corona of it all sometimes. I think, anyway.

But I do see your point about branding. A lot of that has been a conscious decision by the WWE that really started way back when they were the WWF and first went public in 1999. I think they might be trappings of their own design. Looking at their profits, they probably desire it.

06-23-2022, 02:51 PM	#136
Mr. Nerfect Posts: 61,634	Hmm, I think the point is valid, but a lot of how we conceptualize time is constructed with hindsight too. And wrestling informs culture just as much as it flows on from it. Steve Austin was very 90’s, but he put a lot of that into the period too. I wonder how much is horse and how much is cart. Technology has opened us up to a globalized (and gentrified) world. But it also allows different tastes and viewpoints to be exalted. I don’t know if it’s fair to say that the past few decades haven’t had an identity. I think they’re going to be associated with youth growing up with information at their fingertips and its clash with the people it scares, for example. It’d be hard to talk about media in the 2000’s and 2010’s without talking about Marvel and streaming. There’s definitely stuff to talk about culturally. It’s just hard to talk about it in the corona of it all sometimes. I think, anyway. But I do see your point about branding. A lot of that has been a conscious decision by the WWE that really started way back when they were the WWF and first went public in 1999. I think they might be trappings of their own design. Looking at their profits, they probably desire it.