The Undertaker Has Joined Instagram, Crushing Your Childhood Once And For All

I’m so glad I came up in a time before social media and the internet. SO GLAD. Imagine trying to be wrestling fan in an age with social media. The reason wrestling was so great as a kid was because it was so easy to believe it. There was no internet with spoilers. No Twitter gossip or backstage stories ruining the storylines. You parked yourself in front of the TV on Monday nights for Raw is War and waited to see what Stone Cold would do next. There were no push notifications to tip off what matches would happen that night, or wrestling insiders trying to spoil who would be returning at a PPV.

But furthermore, the characters. The reason I got into wrestling as a kid to begin with was because Kane was horrifying. The pyro, his size and strength, his elaborate background story, it all clicked. Now…he’s running for mayor and campaigning on Twitter. How are you supposed to be scared of Kane when he’s wearing a golf shirt and khakis? Also, imagine being a kid and hating a wrestler’s guts…and then you when you hop online you see his real name,  his family, and his most recent Make a Wish video. Would completely ruin the aura and mystery of it all.

So now…we have lost the last of them. I hate the fact the Undertaker is now on Instagram. He was the last of the guys who never broke character. Always kept kayfabe. Always scared me no matter what. And now…he’s on Instagram. If he starts posing with fitness tea I will throw myself off a bridge.

So though I’m disappointed in Taker joining the Internet, I am optimistic to see where this goes. He’s been so private and secretive his entire adult life, a little peak behind the curtain at the real life Undertaker is very cool. I guess I just have to accept he is a real person, after all. So while it stinks, I can be optimistic that we’re in for something cool.