10 Dark Secrets Wrestlers Accidentally Revealed
8. Twitter Likes, Various
Do...do wrestlers not realise that, when they press the heart button under a Twitter post, that this information is available to all users on the platform by visiting their profile and filtering to 'Likes'?
And that this glimpse into their real-life personality might affect how people perceive their onscreen characters?
Twitter is strange in that regard. Wrestling is a work. It's fiction. A television show that nobody earnestly believes in. A wrestler in 2023 should be allowed to hold certain beliefs and express them, and adult fans should have the capacity to forget this when they switch the telly on.
That said, if you're playing a wholesome friend character who has a bit in which you hug to articulate your feelings, it's probably not a good idea to do the irresponsible and uninformed "I'm just asking questions" gimmick about vaccines in your Twitter likes. Also, if you're working for a company, it's probably not a great idea to bury it as not merely bad but actually dangerous, as Jim Ross did in 2018 by liking a tweet critical of NJPW posted by Disco Inferno. That did not help, at all, with the feeling that JR didn't have any passion for his post-WWE commentary run - which he has often vociferously denied.
In 2019, Sasha Banks liked a tweet burying WWE for being so boring that the poster couldn't even sit through Raw anymore. Earlier this year, Jack Perry, fanning the flames, liked a tweet claiming that CM Punk assaulted people during Brawl Out.
This passive aggressive behaviour surfaces quite often, and it's weird. Do wrestlers think fans are dumb enough to believe that their fingers slipped?
Yes. Yes they do.