Chelsea Green’s decision to walk away from Twitter after the MAGA controversy has now picked up support from an unexpected corner: Jonathan Coachman.
The former WWE announcer came to Green’s defense on Gabby AF after she deactivated her account following the MAGA controversy, blasting the fans who turned her political denial into days of harassment. To Coachman, the entire backlash was absurd from the start because Green isn’t even an American citizen.
He couldn’t understand why so many people were convinced they knew Green’s political beliefs, especially when she had already publicly denied being MAGA.
“What are we doing, dude? What are we doing? She’s Canadian. The woman can’t even vote in the United States of America. And you’re coming after her thinking you know anything about her beliefs in politics because she did something that was a trending video… I can’t… I can’t.”
The controversy began after Green fired back at a social media user who falsely labeled her MAGA. She responded by stating she is Canadian, cannot vote in U.S. elections, is “not MAGA,” and identifies as “a liberal / democrat.” The clarification did little to stop the attacks, and Green eventually deactivated her X account before later joking on Instagram that she’d “touched grass” and “deleted X.”
Coachman doesn’t think she lost anything by walking away. When Gabby AF mentioned that Green looked noticeably happier after leaving the platform, Coachman immediately agreed. In fact, he said he reached the exact same conclusion after changing the way he uses X.
“But I bet she feels good. I bet she feels good because, Gabby, I stopped reading my…”
For Coachman, X stopped being a place to interact with people a long time ago. These days, he said, it’s simply where he posts his content before moving on. Instagram and Facebook still feel worth engaging with, but he believes reading replies on X became more exhausting than productive.
“Well, I will tell you, for X, I stopped reading my mentions. Like right now on my X, you know they have the number, like unread and stuff? Right now I’m at 189 is my number. Uh, and then I’ll just hit X and just let the new ones just click, click. And when I started using X to push out content… like Instagram is not a bad place. Like I get a lot of people that reply and then I’ll take a reply and then I’ll do a video on that. I like Instagram. I love Facebook. Both of those have been fantastic. X… X is only there for me to push out. That’s it.”
The turning point came when Coachman decided to see who was actually behind many of the insults filling his notifications. What he found surprised him. After checking profile after profile, he realized almost nobody throwing abuse his way had built any kind of audience themselves.
“And once I stopped reading those mentions, my God, did I feel like a weight was lifted off because almost every person—I don’t know if you’ve ever done this—but I did it for about a month, six months ago. I went into everybody that told me I was an idiot or I wanted to have a job at WWE or whatever. Not one person, not one, had over 100 followers. I’m like, why am I worried about somebody I would never go to and talk to or ask a question or certainly ask career advice? That’s when I stopped.”
Coachman believes Chelsea Green reached the same point. Rather than spending every day fighting strangers online, she simply walked away. Judging by her Instagram post afterwards, he thinks deleting X wasn’t a defeat—it was probably a relief.
Do you agree with Jonathan Coachman? Did Chelsea Green make the right decision by leaving X, or should she have stayed and ignored the backlash? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.
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