Aliyah Believes Bot Accounts Targeted Her with Smear Campaign in WWE

Former WWE star Aliyah is finally speaking out about her exit—and she’s not just talking about her in-ring career. She’s calling out what she believes was an orchestrated digital smear campaign targeting her online, and claims the hate she received didn’t even come from real people.

In a recent interview on the Identity Crisis podcast, Aliyah reflected on the surreal nature of her time in WWE—specifically the contrast between her live crowd reactions and the wave of hate she’d find waiting online after the show.

“With the three-point-17-second, um, record-breaking moment — that’s insane. Yeah. So, I mean, it was such a trip because, especially toward the tail end of my time over there at WWE, I’d go out there, you know, I’d get a great reaction, great crowd response, and then I’d go back to my hotel room, I’d go on Twitter, and I’m just getting eaten alive, you know?”

Aliyah went on to explain how bizarre it felt to receive massive pops from live audiences—only to open Twitter and see repetitive, aggressive messages. And the most confusing part? She said the messages didn’t even appear to come from actual people.

“They’re not even coming from real people, and you’re just looking at it and you’re like, wait… is the call coming from inside the house? Like, what is going on here?”

She didn’t stop there. Aliyah described a pattern of identical phrasing being used by multiple faceless accounts—many of which had the default “egg” avatar and no clear signs of authenticity.

“If I’m seeing a tweet that says something-something-something, and then the next one is saying the same exact thing but it’s a different account… and then it’s the same exact thing but a different account… and all the accounts are just like eggs. Like, you guys can get a little bit more creative. I mean — hire me, I’d love to work at that department, you know?”

The interviewer summed up her point by suggesting these were likely fabricated or bot accounts programmed to spread a specific critique. Aliyah agreed—and said it didn’t feel accidental.

“It’s the pattern of it — of it just being the same exact thing… when something seems a little bit rigged almost, I would say. Right? Like rigged by the algorithm, or bots rigged a little bit, I’d say.”

Aliyah also peeled back the curtain on how social media perception can be controlled to manipulate the audience—something she believes WWE may be using strategically to elevate or bury talent.

“It’s one way to be like, okay, you don’t run the show, we run the show, and we’re gonna pick and choose when you get the reaction and when you don’t… definitely it could be a control tactic. It’s a business at the end of the day. You know, you gotta get your money.”

While Aliyah didn’t name names or point fingers directly, her message was clear—just because the hate is loud online doesn’t mean it’s real. And sometimes, silence in the arena says more than a thousand egg accounts ever could.

Do you think Aliyah is right about bots and perception control in wrestling—or is social media just that toxic sometimes? Drop your thoughts below—we want to hear your take on this one.

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