Eddie Kingston: Social Media Makes People Feel Like Their Opinions Matter... It Doesn't

Eddie Kingston puts things in perspective.

Kingston recently spoke with Taylor Wilde for her Wilde On podcast. Wilde said one thing she enjoyed about his work is that Kingston’s promos hint at a ton of life experience, but no one actually knows much about his personal life. Kingston says that’s by design because it’s how he was raised. He went on to say that social media has given some people the idea that all of their feedback matters, but it really doesn’t.

“Yeah, well I raised like that. I was raised like it was nobody’s business and nobody gives a fuck. You have your opinion and my mother would tell me that opinions are like assholes and everyone’s got one and they all stink. I guess the age — and I’m going to sound like an old man yelling at a cloud,” Kingston explained, “but I guess the age of social media has made people feel like their opinions matter.

“And look folks, I’m not going to lie to you, it doesn’t. It doesn’t really matter. If it makes you feel good, if it makes you feel good for that day to Tweet or put something out and you’re bashing someone,” Kingston added, “Even if you’re praising somebody, the good and the bad, it doesn’t matter at all at the end of the day.”

Why Eddie Kingston left Twitter

Wilde then asked if that contributed to Kingston closing his Twitter account. Kingston shared how something he saw about former AEW Women’s World Champion Riho. That, compounded with his being upset about missing an international trip due to COVID, led to him leaving the app.

“Nah, I quit Twitter because I saw some nasty shit that someone wrote about Riho. And I was having a bad day as it was anyway,” he explained. “I got COVID, I was supposed to go to Ireland, and I got COVID before going to Ireland. So I was already mad and I was just flippin’ through my phone. It was a guy — it wasn’t even a person, it was a goose egg [the generic Twitter avatar] gimmick. But it was just some nasty shit and I’m like, ‘I’m over this.’ I was like, ‘I’m done.’ It just became toxic, it was worse than MySpace. Yeah I’m dating myself.”

The conversation then led to a lighter exchange where Wilde and Kingston reflected on some of the fights that would stem from friends being in and out of people’s “Top 8” lists. Kingston says his Top 8 was always porn stars and rappers, so no one could give him grief.