We write posts about fans and others in the public being inappropriate with pro wrestlers all too often — and it happens a lot more often than we write about it, too. I’m confident that almost everyone reading this knows not to camp out at airports and hotels for autographs, let alone try to rush talent in the ring at a show or turn up at their house. Those things and more keep happening though. The reasons for that are way, way, way out of my control, but in case it helps to repeat it:
Please don’t do things like that, or any of the other ways people violate the boundaries of wrestlers and other celebrities.
Now here are two recent examples. Sharing them may be part of the problem, but I’m not sure about that. Pretty sure I’m not the only one who can’t help but pay attention when we hear about these kinds of things…
One is actually a few weeks old, but still hasn’t been addressed by the big tech companies enabling it. After a meet and greet with AJ Lee at the Big Event Entertainment & Sports Expo in New York last month, a fan used an app and some photos from the con to create a deep-fake video that appears to show Lee kissing him on the cheek, and the two of them kissing each other on the lips. He then uploaded it to YouTube and shared in on social media sites, including X/Twitter.
This is inappropriate and it is harassment. Please delete.
But neither the person who posted and presumably created the video, Alphabet-owned YouTube, nor Elon Musk’s “free speech”/cryptocurrency promotional vehicle have done so. The Big Event did ban the person in the video from attending their cons in the future, at least.
More-traditional-but-still-creepy-and-wrong harassment is still happening too, don’t you worry. Jey Uso posted on his Instagram Story to again remind ticket-buying customers that they’re welcome to YEET with him during his entrance, but they have to stop touching him.
IF U SEE ME in public shi
Please don’t walk up and poke me
Or touch me.
How many strangers poke yall ass in a day??
Bout 38 for me…
For real, people, you know you’re not supposed to do that. Any of it.
CM Punk posted this on his Instagram Story back before Clash in Paris, but it still applies. I’m sure he’d add “in person or virtually” in light of recent events…
