The GOAT found herself in a brutal social media storm that summer. Simone Biles had defended a transgender high school athlete, sparking a vicious online battle with Riley Gaines. The backlash was relentless, and comments poured in from every direction, turning advocacy into a personal attack. Even after apologizing for her heated remarks, the noise wouldn’t stop. Biles had had enough. She deleted her X account, choosing silence over the chaos. This is the risk being a public figure brings; Biles talked of this. Her thoughts-
“Yeah, that can be sometimes annoying because you don’t realize the impact or just how big it’s gonna be. And so most of the time it’s always been pretty positive, and even if it’s not, it’s, I feel like it’s always spun in a positive light because of one, the people that are surrounding me as well as the fans.” Simone Biles said in a podcast with the Olympics, streamed on the organization’s YouTube channel today. While she does say positive things, social media has not been very kind to her in recent times, and she talked of that as well.
The gymnast added in the podcast, “But this time I feel like the culture of social media has changed so much where it’s almost put me in a position of not wanting to share as much. And I’ve always tried to share as much so that people can relate, and we can be open and honest. And now it just makes me want to, I don’t know, it’s not like hiding, cause I don’t hide away from it, but be more private.“
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