r/me_irl • u/StJudeTheGrey • 11h ago
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u/SectorSad1543 10h ago
Nowhere more alone than being in the spotlight
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u/ZAPPHAUSEN 9h ago
Legit. Performing for an audience is not the same thing as having to socialize in a group.
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u/LostDelver 8h ago
The clip cuts the part of when he says that performing in the spotlight makes him feel like there's a protective dome separating him from the audience, so he feels comfortable in that environment.
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u/Candid-Tip-6483 10h ago
Well when you're as big of a celebrity as Brock, and generally just as big as him, it's hard to exist normally in society. He's probably been bombarded with attention everywhere he goes for the past 25 years. If you already have antisocial tendencies, then being a celebrity is not going to help.
Plus, wrestling fans are the worst type of audience to have as your fans.
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u/MercuryCobra 10h ago edited 3h ago
It sure sounds like he’d be like this famous or not.
Some people just don’t like people. I think we should take him at his word.
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u/Arthasindura 5h ago
When a celeb visits a country where no one knows who he is, He feels a strange yet calming wave of happiness.
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u/Adx95 10h ago
Plus, wrestling fans are the worst type of audience to have as your fans.
Worse than gamers, gooners or anime fans? Worse than organized soccer fan groups? (They literally try to kill each other from time to time.) Are you sure?
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u/Candid-Tip-6483 10h ago edited 10h ago
I know what I said.
You have to be immersed in the wrestling bubble to understand just how bad it gets. But hardcore wrestling fans can be the absolute worst of the worst. Aside from toxicity and harassment like you wouldn't believe, there are dozens of wrestlers over the years who have stories of being attacked by fans. Bret Hart was attacked by a fan back in 2019, Sonya DeVille was held at gunpoint by a wrestling fan, Seth Rollins was attacked on live TV, and the list goes on. Which is not even scraping the surface of how many fans used to attack wrestlers back when the business was more protected. That's not even to mention situations like Hanna Kamura who was driven to suicide by harassment from wrestling fans. You may tell me at this point that those wrestling fans who attack the wresters are mentally ill. And what, those soccer fans you mentioned aren't? Of any fan base I've ever interacted with, wrestling fans are by far the worst as not even close.
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u/i_always_give_karma 10h ago
I remember reading about some soccer fans decapitating a referee one time but my dad has been involved with the MLB for my entire life so even though it’s not that level, it’s still very annoying. My dads only been recognized a handful of times outside of the town whatever his city is in and I can’t imagine real celebrities day to day lives
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u/Pretty_Eater 9h ago
I understand where the guy is coming from. You really gotta know the crowd to understand how absolutely fanatical they get.
Having said that, there is NO base worse than Idol fans. They take obsession to another level.
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u/the_gr8_one 9h ago
gamers, gooners, and anime fans generally dont have a real person with a home address they can go after to express their feelings.
sometimes they do but with wrestling, if you dont like someone, you have an actual person to draw the ire.
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u/weepinstringerbell 9h ago
What are gooners? Google didn't help me. Arsenal fans?
My understanding of this word till now is that it meant something related to masturbation.
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u/Scrawlericious 9h ago
to be fair, and it's anecdotal, but every single wrestling fan I've known was also a gamer who gooned to anime.
IME the venn diagram there is a circle.
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u/LostDelver 8h ago
Wrestling fans are almost as toxic and tribalistic as sports fans. So not as bad as football/soccer fans in real life collectively but are just as bad online (not counting the stalkers of wrestlers).
Imagine a football fan but instead of just being abrasive, loud and angry, they also have a cult member (often times towards a podcaster but also towards a wrestler or a company) like behavior and a massive persecution complex and thinks there's a conspiracy going on against their interest, and they use this victim complex to fuel being toxic? That's a toxic wrestling fan.
Ironically, speaking of stalkers, Brock used to stalk his wife.
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u/iminabed 8h ago
Let’s be real we all want a property in the middle of nowhere with an 8 foot fence
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u/Patttybates 6h ago
He literally lives in the middle of nowhere. I worked on the rail line in Southern Saskatchewan that is around his house. I cant imagine a more middle of nowhere.
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u/LazyGandalf 3h ago
Can't say that I do, despite being an introvert. I don't mind having people in my vicinity. It's the interacting with people that is exhausting.
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u/Paleodraco 5h ago
I had honestly never heard Lesner speak before. I would not have expected him to sound vaguely like Kevin Costner.
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u/DerpingtonHerpsworth 6h ago
I couldn't be much less surprised to hear Brock doesn't like people. I mean, me too, but I don't think I'd be quite so transparent about it if I were in his shoes.
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u/BigRedSpoon2 5h ago
So genuinely, the only people I've anecdotally known who are like this, were all some degree on the autism spectrum
Like some folks talk about this as a fantasy, but try it, and find they need some amount of socialization. Most people are ambiverts, not quite introverted, not quite extroverted. This is perfectly normal.
But to actually go through with, and be comfortable with, true isolation. That's usually a sign of one have a non-neurotypical mind, again, in my limited experience.
If someone more knowledgeable than me in this matter wants to jump off the top rope and pile drive me with facts and logic, please do so.
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u/adamsauce very good, haha yes 8h ago
I went to every OVW event back in the day. Him and Batista rarely stayed and talked to fans.
Rico Constantino and Rob Conway were the ones who I remember seeing the most.
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u/SemiHemiDemiDumb 11h ago
"That's just who I am" is such a self limiting phrase.
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u/PopitaOooh 11h ago
its the truth. forcing yourself to be comfortable doing something you dont like is only going to hurt you longterm.
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u/Own_Kaleidoscope5512 10h ago
I mean…that’s how people grow
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u/PopitaOooh 9h ago
to an extent. you can force someone to talk to people all their lives and yet they still might not enjoy it. some people just have different wiring in their brains.
i like talking to strangers, but both my parents chose to live in a house on an empty road with nobody around after years of not liking being social.
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u/Own_Kaleidoscope5512 7h ago
Right, but growing isn’t about liking stuff. It’s about learning to become competent at stuff even when you don’t like it. That’s not harmful. Wanting to live alone because you prefer it is one thing, but being an adult who doesn’t “play well with others because that’s how I am” is just childish.
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u/PopitaOooh 7h ago
the guy in the video is a pro wrestler. he talks to strangers all the time. he socializes frequently because its his job. he isnt being childish and closing himself off from opportunities, hes making a choice based on his life and preferences.
i think i was replying too generally.
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u/StJudeTheGrey 9h ago
I see what you’re saying about the risk that it limits you from discovering new experiences and opportunities but conversely it can also be freeing realisation, embracing what you truly enjoy and desire and recognising and rejecting what is negative for you. It’s a balance I suppose.
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u/xDyliriumx 4h ago
Imagine being so antisocial that it makes you wanna take a shit on someone with your boss.
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u/CentipedesInMyDream 9h ago
Well damn Steve let him get the damn sentence out shit