On social media, I've "interacted", as in they like fairly obvious tweets that of course they'd like if they seen them so it doesn't matter, with Asuka, John Cena, Kairi Sane, and Bianca Belair before. Nothing worth getting into with any of those but I will say one of Kairi Sane's kinda made me feel sad for her (she's liked three of tweets before I think, the other two fall into the not worth mentioning category). So for the NXT awards they have the fans vote on them on twitter using the hashtag, and I have no idea if the fan vote actually matters, I kinda assume it doesn't but also I was incredibly bored and that kills a few dead minutes. Kairi Sane was up for one of the awards so I wrote Kairi Sane & the Hashtag, and that was it. Nothing else, didn't tag her, didn't have any reason for the vote, just her name & the hashtag. And when I clicked the notification that said Kairi Sane liked it, I made sure it was the real Kairi Sane, and just though "well that's sad." Because when I tag them it makes sense but I this meant Kairi Sane was spending her time on twitter, just either searching her name or scrolling through the hashtag and liking every post she saw that voted for her. And like, I understand that having support from countless people is quite a validating and that it's not taxing process, checking twitter is something most people with phones can do quite easily (me not so much, my phone doesn't run twitter, it can send messages to twitter but it can't actually load the app), and she might just done it to past the time on the toilet or something but I just think back to that Brian Kendrick interview where he talked about how sad it was that when people come back from the back they often don't seek out advice from their peers watching their matches in order to improve but instead go to twitter to check their notifications. There's something I find pretty sad about that, and this made me think Kairi probably does that too. This doesn't make me like her any less, and I'm not surprised but still.
As for in real life I have met wrestlers too. The first one I met was Matt Bloom. Why do I call him Matt Bloom and not A-Train or Tensai? Because I wasn't a wrestling fan when I met him, he came to my school because his mom, Mrs. Bloom, was a teacher at my school and all the classes that year go to go to the auditorium while he did a speech and he took a class photo with all three classes. It meant nothing to me outside of a chance to get out of class.
As for meeting a wrestler when I while was a wrestling fan, I've met two. Tommy Dreamer for one, I shook his hands because I didn't have enough money. I regret this meeting because I wanted to say "Hey, remember that time in ECW when you took both Beulah and Kimona at the same time because you're hardcore?" then he'd say "Yeah" and I'd say "You're my hero" and we'd all have a good laugh but I couldn't remember Kimona's because let's be frank, nobody remembers her. I don't even like Beulah or Kimona but I thought Dreamer would get a kick out of it. I also met Booker T, he signed my duck. This meeting I regret far less.
