John Cena Comes Out As A Caleb Hearon Fan Following MrBeast Diss

Earlier this week, YouTube giant and junk-food salesman Jimmy “MrBeast” Donaldson launched an unprompted public attack on actor, writer and comedian Caleb Hearon after Rolling Stone listed Hearon above him on their list of 2025’s top influencers. Yesterday, Hearon got some support that none of us could see coming.

The same day that Donaldson tweeted a picture of Hearon’s face in the Rolling Stone article with the caption, “According to this list a guy with 1 million followers is more influential than me. What did I do to piss off The Rolling Stones (sic)?” the content creator with an estimated net worth of $1 billion took down his post and pursued peace with Hearon’s fanbase. As Donaldson quickly learned, Hearon’s preternatural propensity for pinpoint-accurate insult comedy is shared by many of his mentally ill, gender-nonconforming, service-industry-working followers who flooded Twitter and TikTok with vicious clap-backs so that Hearon didn’t have to.

Then, yesterday, a hyper-masculine, super-A-list star surprised Hearon’s majority she/they following by posting a screencap of Hearon from the 2024 romantic comedy film Sweethearts in seeming support of the internet’s sixth greatest content creator. Perhaps someone needed a tag team partner who could read Edge into submission.

Hearon’s fans were appropriately shocked and delighted that WWE legend and multi-hyphenate superstar John Cena would post a caption-less picture of Hearon right as they were rallying around the So True with Caleb Hearon host after an unexpected slight from a social media giant. “Cena a confirmed Calesbian!???!!?? Love it!” one Hearon-head commented under Cena’s post.

“John Cena on So True when??” another fan asked.

A different Hearon follower snarked, “I wonder if this person has more influence than Mr beast.”

One more added, “We really got chronically online John Cena in 2025.”

Critically, Cena and Hearon are co-starring in the upcoming Netflix comedy movie Little Brother, which began principal photography last month. There’s a strong chance that Cena completely missed the MrBeast drama that drove Hearon’s following into a frenzy this week, and the above post was simply a planned promotion of the collaboration as Cena and Hearon wrap filming on their new movie.

At the same time, we can’t rule out the possibility that the comically inclined Cena is deeply invested in the queer comedy podcasting scene and Hearon’s casting in Little Brother was no coincidence, nor was the timing of Cena’s Instagram post. Donaldson already knows that Hearon has plenty of she/theys that are shooters, but now Hearon has he/hims that are champs.