MJF thinks wrestling fans online need to log off once in a while, making it clear they should stop treating Twitter like it’s real life.
While speaking to Shut Up and Wrestle, MJF said he didn’t even become aware of internet wrestling fandom until around his junior year of high school, which he believes was around 2012. Once he did, though, he realized pretty quickly that the loudest people online don’t always represent real life.
“Oh, I didn’t become aware of Internet wrestling fandom until about junior year of high school. Oh God, that would have been 2012 I think.”
Then the AEW World Champion made his bigger point. He said internet wrestling fans are not the majority. In his mind, they are just loud online, and people confuse Twitter with the real world way too often.
“And by the way, I don’t think it’s the majority at all. I really don’t. It’s a vocal minority online. People think, you know, life is not Twitter. I tell this to everybody like, oh God, put your phone down, walk away and breathe. You know what I mean? That’s not life.”
MJF then brought Mick Foley into the conversation, saying Foley would have had a nightmare dealing with Twitter during his prime. He joked that even after the legendary Hell in a Cell match, some fans online still would have complained that it should have been bigger.
“I can’t imagine what Mick Foley would have went through if during his career Twitter existed. Because I promise you the Hell in the Cell match would have happened and you would have had a whole handful of people being like, man, they could have made that bigger.”
And knowing the Hardcore Legend’s reputation for pushing himself to insane limits, the Salt of the Earth said that kind of criticism might have made him try something even crazier the next time.
“So then poor Mick, who’s a psycho, would be like, well, I got to do something way more fucking insane next time I go out there.”
Bottom line, MJF believes online fans can be loud, but they are not the whole audience. His advice is simple: put the phone down, breathe, and stop acting like Twitter is real life.
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