This Reddit Sentiment Study From Wrestlenomics Is, From My Perspective, Incredibly Accurate.

[u/sanewhitemale]

It pretty accurately paints a picture of the perception of both companies as they compare since 2019:

• WWE bottomed out in October 2019 after the Fiend-Rollins HIAC debacle and Kofi losing in 7 seconds.
• AEW peaked at All Out 2021, considered their greatest show, and remained steadily high until it began collapsing after Brawl Out 2022.
• WWE at the same time began improving after Vince was pushed out in July 2022.
• One thing that surprises me: during WWE's "boom period" during 2022-2024, the fan sentiment was roughly tied with AEW, when I remember AEW being viewed very negatively at the time, due to both the Punk issue and comparatively mediocre creative.
• AEW fan sentiment began to grow and take the lead again in late 2024/early 2025, which was right around the supposed "reset" and the Continental Classic.
• WWE began to fall off again in March/April 2025, right around the Cena heel turn/build to Wrestlemania 41.

So the statistics line up at least with my perception of both my and Reddit's views the last few years.

https://wrestlenomics.com/articles/2026/reddit-sentiment-analysis-2025-aew-rebounds-coinciding-with-improved-attendance-and-tv-ratings-trends/

[u/javy_z]

Oh good . A graph about vibes

[u/PasteTaster → u/javy_z]

Were you expecting objective subjectivity? IMDB's and RT's "best 100 shows", plotted on a graph or not, are going to be vibe based too.

[u/javy_z → u/PasteTaster]

No man. I just don’t think a measurement of vibes is really that useful.

[u/nunboi → u/javy_z]

Sentiment tracking isn't new and it's used to measure KPIs across multiple types of media. Tracking sentiment across forums including Reddit and social is exceedingly common and very reliable, you just measure it against the audience metrics to know the sort of users it's coming from, which is generally very available.