On The Indies
Jun 23, 2022
4 minutes
BY LOCHLAN McGRATH
IT WAS ONLY two years ago when the pressure cooker known as “Wrestling Twitter” hit a critical point, a moment that would be described as a reckoning for the entire industry. Yes, the biggest turning point in our collective indie history started on “The Bird App,” when the #SpeakingOut movement kicked off a summer of no love. For those fortunate enough to avoid the pitfalls of Twitter Dot Com—and who didn’t participate in the ever-cursed Facebook discourse—allow me to briefly explain.
For indie wrestling, Speaking Out was our version of the #MeToo movement, a moment that started with an indie star being named as an abuser in a personal account posted to Twitter, and
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