Health influencer Joey Swoll quits social media over Hulk Hogan backlash
Joey Swoll says he’s ‘carried out’ after being criticised over sharing a video of himself dressed as Hulk Hogan within the fitness center.
The health influencer, recognized on-line as ‘CEO of Gymnasium Positivity’, was slammed for posting an previous clip of himself understanding in a elaborate costume costume of Hogan, who handed away on the age of 71 final week (24 July).
Swoll, 42, has since deleted the video through which he wearing a Halloween costume at Gold’s Gymnasium in California.
A lot of the criticism comes after Hogan, born Terry Bollea, used racial slurs to explain his daughter Brooke’s black ex-boyfriend in 2007.
Hogan apologised when the audio recording was made public in 2015 and mentioned his behaviour was ‘unacceptable’.
He was briefly fired from the WWE earlier than being reinstated into the Corridor of Fame in 2018.
His endorsement of Donald Trump, in line with his opposition, was thought-about to be ‘controversial’, and Hogan was booed on the premiere of Netflix’s WWE present in January 2025.
Now, in Swoll’s first apology, the content material creator used the phrase ‘colored’ as a substitute of the time period ‘individual of color’ throughout a livestream.
“It’s a very outdated, very offensive time period. Somebody educated me and informed me that it wasn’t okay to make use of that, which I instantly apologised to everybody and mentioned ‘I might by no means try this once more’,” he admitted in a follow-up video posted on 28 July.
He additionally claimed he was unaware of a number of the controversy round Hogan, including: “I did not know the extent of all of the horrible issues that he had carried out. Since final evening, I’ve carried out quite a lot of analysis and discovered the entire horrible issues that man has carried out, which is far more than simply making a mistake and being human.”
“I might be a hypocrite if I didn’t maintain myself to the identical requirements. I’m human, I’m nonetheless rising and studying and I promise to all of you I’ll do higher,” Swoll added.
“I’ve nothing however love and kindness in my coronary heart, I’ll proceed to attempt to make the world a greater place.”
Nonetheless, taking to X the subsequent day, he insisted that he’s ‘carried out’ with the criticism, showing to announce he was quitting social media.
“All the great I’ve carried out, all of the folks I’ve helped, all for nothing,” he informed his 1.1 million X followers.
Swoll additionally has 5.4 million followers on Instagram and eight.1 million on TikTok.
@thejoeyswoll I’m sorry. I take full accountability as I too, am nonetheless studying and rising. I’ll do higher.
“I really hope all of the folks I’ve impressed do nice issues of their life and pay it ahead to assist others and keep it up my message.
“However irrespective of how a lot good you do, folks simply await a purpose to hate you and tear you down.
“You both die a hero, or reside lengthy sufficient to be the villain. Thanks to your help. I’m carried out.”
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