CM Punk explains quitting Twitter.
The Straight Edge Star recently spoke to ESPN New York to promote this weekend’s Saturday Night’s Main Event from Madison Square Garden. The WWE Champion will be competing in a big tag team match at the show with SummerSlam title implications.
During the talk, he was asked what prompted him to finally quit Twitter. CM Punk first mentioned how it’s a cesspool of negativity, largely driven by bot forms amplifying negative sentiment:
I don’t even know how many of them are real people anymore. I honestly think it’s like bot farms, and they just attach onto whatever the hell an algorithm is. They repeat and regurgitate what other people are saying. So it winds up just being this cesspool of negativity. It’s pretty wild, and it’s pretty unhealthy.
I’m Just Gonna Stop Looking At This: CM Punk
CM Punk then revealed the one comment that made him quit the site entirely. He recalled the time he saw someone celebrating while he was out with a foot injury:
The thing that got me to abandon Twitter was I shattered my foot. And like I just saw somebody say they were happy about it. It didn’t hurt my feelings. I just went, ‘Oh, this is not a comment that I would have seen if I didn’t look at Twitter, so I’m just gonna stop looking at this.’
The 47-year-old also talked about taking time off from WWE after WrestleMania 42 and revealed the real reason for his absence. You can check out his remarks here.
