Why Wrestlers Are Deleting Their Twitter Accounts

By Andrew Pollard / December 20, 2021

Following in the footsteps of the likes of Cody Rhodes and Jade Cargill, both Tay Conti and Jordynne Grace have now decided to take a break from Twitter.

For Conti, her management team has put out an Instagram Story detailing how the AEW star is spending some time away from social media, but that said management team will be posting on Conti's behalf. In Grace's case, she at first seemed to delete all of her tweets before then completely deleting her account.

So, why are wrestlers now opting to axe Twitter?

The simple answer is sadly the toxicity that can come with social media and in particular with Twitter. For every well wish or compliment, there are even more people who use Twitter to lash out, to throw shade, to send abuse and to just swarm the platform with negativity.

To take Tay Conti as an example, she has recently received a ridiculous amount of abuse from 'fans' who seem to think she had a role to play in Sammy Guevara and his former fiancée Pam breaking up. So much so, the Spanish God himself has had to take to his own Twitter to state how he and Pam split up back in October and how nobody else was involved in this break up.

In 2021, everybody has an online voice and some choose to get their kicks by using that voice to send hate. It's a sad state of affairs, but that's unfortunately something that seems to show no indication of going away anytime soon.

While we're at a point where mental health and wellbeing is now thankfully highlighted and spotlighted by society more than ever before, it's disappointing to see that some people's online behaviour fails to take into account what impact their words can have on someone.