A top WWE star has opened up about his experience with social media and having a moment of “full collapse” because of it.
WWE’s Becky Lynch and Seth Rollins appeared as the latest guests on the Something’s Burning show hosted by Bert Kreischer.
During the conversation, the topic of social media comments came up, which led to Rollins opening up about his experiences and why he doesn’t use social media much these days.
He explained:
“I had a bad experience with it, but I’ve kind of got it under control these days.
“It’s like a vicious cycle. In our business, it’s immediate, where you do a thing, and then you get an immediate response right away, because it’s live.
“So immediately, you get the live response from the audience feedback, but now you have this social media effect where you get the live response on social media, and then you get this retroactive response in the days following where everybody analyzes it and picks it apart, and there’s hot takes, and the algorithm, whatever gets traction is going to be usually negative or a hot take, and that gets amplified, and you start to trick yourself into thinking that’s the reality.
“And when you’re already feeling bad about yourself, or bad about what you’re doing from a creative standpoint – and then you have that on top – it just starts to pile on, and you start to really feel a certain way about what you’re doing.
“And I found that was really affecting my personal life. It was affecting my relationship. It started to affect my decisions in my relationship and the way I was interacting with her (Becky Lynch), and it was like, really messing everything up.
“I kinda took a moment of full collapse to come back and be like, ‘What am I doing? Let’s get this under control.’ So I did. This was probably, what, 2019 this went down I would say.
“After that I got it under control, and now I spend a lot less time on social media than I used to back in the day.
“I still have it, but I did get rid of the cesspool that is Twitter or X or whatever. I’ve dumped that. Instagram exists, but I don’t really read comments on Instagram ever. I don’t really get into the weeds on that.”
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The former WWE World Heavyweight Champion then added:
“The fact that everybody feels they need to have a f**king opinion about everything. That’s the thing that I go, ‘What are we doing here?’
“You don’t need to have an opinion. You can just say nothing. Or you can talk to your friend about how much you hated the latest Marvel movie. You don’t need to put that crap on social media. You don’t need to. Nobody gives a s**t about you and your opinion.
“They want to have control. They think they might. And to their defense – these opinion junkies – we’ve given them a little bit the liberty of saying, ‘If you have a strong enough opinion and it takes hold enough, we will change course.’ And that happens from time to time.
“That’s the beautiful thing about our business, partially, is that you can pivot when things are wrong.
“A good example of this is the recent R-Truth situation, where R-Truth’s contract didn’t get negotiated and it got leaked online that he had been released. The fans went, ‘What the… we love R-Truth! What are we doing here? We need R-Truth. Everybody needs an R-Truth.’
“And it got to the point where the executives in WWE said, ‘You know what, they’re right, we do need R-Truth, we were wrong.'”
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