Bryan Danielson has never been much of a social media guy, and hearing him talk about it, he doesn’t sound like he’s missing much. The former AEW World Champion says one of the biggest frustrations comes after he does interviews, when people start reacting to things he supposedly said that don’t match what actually came out of his mouth.
Speaking on The Nikki & Brie Show, Danielson explained that he occasionally runs into people upset over comments attributed to him, only to find himself wondering where those quotes even came from.
“Yeah. But isn’t there… and this, you know, I’m speaking out of ignorance ’cause I’m not on it. But my understanding when I read it, the proportion of positive things versus negative things is actually low because they’ll keep you… more negative things. They’ll keep you on it with more outrage. They’ll keep you on it with hate speech or things that you either strongly agree with that are very polarizing or things that you strongly disagree with and you’re like, ‘What? I can’t believe so-and-so said this,’ or, you know, whatever it is.”
Danielson then explained that the same thing happens after he speaks with the media. He’ll do an interview, go about his day, and later have someone confront him over something they believe he said.
“I find it whenever I do, like, a media interview… somebody will come up to me like, ‘I can’t believe you said this.’ I was like, ‘I said what now?'”
After Brie Bella pointed out that it happens all the time, Danielson said the biggest problem is that social media isn’t built for context. In his view, once comments get chopped up into short posts, all the nuance disappears and the conversation quickly turns into people blaming each other and pointing fingers.
“Because nuance is not something that’s appreciated on social media, right?… Even with that, there’s no room for nuance. There’s no room. And there’s also, like, the blaming and pointing fingers and all that kind of stuff. Yeah, it’s just what’s nice for me is it’s not a part of my life, you know?”
Danielson has never hidden the fact that he prefers keeping his life offline, and hearing him explain it, it’s easy to understand why. From his perspective, it’s not the interviews that create problems—it’s what happens after those interviews get chopped up, reposted and stripped of their original context.
Do you agree with Bryan Danielson that social media often twists people’s comments, or do you think it’s just part of being a public figure? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.
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