10 Desperate WWE Superstars That Used Social Media As A Cry For Help

Following Bayley on Twitter shortly after her era-defining battle with Sasha Banks at NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn was a joyous accoutrement to the similarly elated persona she portrayed on television at the time.

Though her friends and contemporaries Banks, Becky Lynch and Charlotte had all graduated to the main roster shortly before she lifted the strap she’d fought so hard for, there was no sense of any disappointment emanating from ‘The Hugger’. Her own path was rooted in the inherent socialism at play in something as competitive as NXT - she’d work to get an entire new division prepared to enough to cope with her absence. In 140 characters (and several videos), she expressed her gratitude and adoration for her life every other day in a way that married up with the determined and heroic champion on the other side of the lens every Wednesday.

It was not a character that espoused a deeply-ingrained frustration with the mechanisms she purported to adore.

"Just let me cry a little bit longer, I ain't gon' smile if I don't want to, we all can't be like you, I wish we were all rose-colored too” are the lyrics to a Paramore song she quote-tweeted, commenting herself that the video of lead singer Hayley Williams having her dreams and aspirations corralled out of her struck a deep chord.

The band are a regular feature on her profile, but the scale of heartbreak at her current plight is not. 2018’s Bayley needs far more than a hug - both emotionally and creatively, she needs support.