Blake Monroe is done letting strangers on the internet decide how she feels about herself. After admitting online hate had gotten bad enough that she actually started changing who she was, one simple conversation at Chick-fil-A completely changed the way she looks at it.
While speaking on The Nikki & Brie Show, Monroe pushed back on the idea that wrestlers can simply close Twitter and forget about the abuse waiting for them online. For her, it had already started getting inside her head.
“Obviously what we do, we get a lot of hate. And it is a lot. And you might think it’s as easy as turning off Twitter. It’s not. It really affects you.”
Then someone close to Monroe gave her a reality check while they were sitting inside Chick-fil-A. Nobody there knew who she was. Nobody was sitting around worrying about Blake Monroe. So why was she spending so much energy worrying about what complete strangers thought about her?
“Nobody here knows you and nobody cares. It’s like nobody is thinking about you right now. Nobody is worried about you, so why do you care? You are in your own head so much.
It changed my whole way of thinking. I’m like, ‘Oh actually nobody cares about me.’ Like you sit in your head and you think all this stuff, it’s such a waste of time.”
That realization came after Monroe noticed the criticism was doing more than simply upsetting her. She never considered herself particularly self-conscious, but the constant negativity online had started changing the way she behaved and viewed herself.
“I didn’t think I was a self-conscious person, but I was definitely like, I think changing and becoming more like because of, I think just online and like how bad things can be.”
“It’s like you’re losing yourself for the wrong people.”
That was the line Monroe eventually refused to cross. Wrestling fans are always going to have opinions about what she does, but changing herself to satisfy people she doesn’t even know was costing her considerably more than their approval was ever worth.
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