Add as a preferred source on Google CM Punk revealed that the foot injury he suffered in 2022 also played a role in his decision to quit X.
In a recent interview with ESPN New York to promote Saturday Night’s Main Event at Madison Square Garden, the current Undisputed WWE Champion said the platform has turned into an environment dominated by negativity, fake accounts and opinions repeated by algorithms.
“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. 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 injury happened on June 1, 2022, just three days after Punk defeated Adam Page at Double or Nothing to win the AEW World Championship. He broke his foot diving into the crowd during his entrance on Dynamite, needed surgery and was forced out of his planned match against Hiroshi Tanahashi at Forbidden Door.
Despite quitting X, Punk still uses Instagram. According to Punk, the app is mainly useful for finding coffee shops and gyms in the cities WWE visits, along with sharing animal videos with friends.
The topic also gained traction this week, when Punk criticized false statements generated by artificial intelligence and revealed that he had previously been contacted by the FBI over death threats he received.
Punk is set to be in action this Saturday at Madison Square Garden, teaming with Cody Rhodes against Gunther and Sami Zayn. Should Gunther and Zayn win, the Undisputed WWE Championship match at SummerSlam will turn into a Fatal 4-Way Match.