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Golf influencer Paige Spiranac has taken the brunt of the negativity social media has to offer as she has grown her following to more than a million across multiple platforms.
Spiranac wrote on X Thursday that there was at least one social media user who was a shining light for her, even through all the criticism she receives.
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Paige Spiranac attends Netflix’s “Happy Gilmore 2” New York Premiere at Jazz at Lincoln Center on July 21, 2025 in New York City. (Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)
“There’s this guy who comments ‘big cans’ on everything I post,” she wrote. “In a world full of hate and despair, I know he will always be there for me to lift my spirits
“He’s never missed a post in years.”
Spiranac has returned sparingly to social media, explaining last month that she had been in a “funk”.
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Paige Spiranac watches her teammates putt on the No. 6 green during the 2023 Kaulig Companies Championship Pro-Am at Firestone Country Club, Wednesday, July 12, 2023, in Akron, Ohio. (Jeff Lange/USA TODAY NETWORK)
“… And it’s not like a one or two day thing,” Spiranac wrote on his Instagram Stories in February, via the New York Post. “This has been going on for a little while. I feel like I’ve just been so in my head about everything and I’m just trying to work through it. I think that’s why I haven’t been posting as much because I’m just overthinking everything and I just feel like my anxiety has taken over.
“I’m trying to push myself out of it and write more and get back to what I was doing before. I feel like I haven’t been active because I’ve just been in my own head, in this kind of funky rut, and we’re working through it.”
Spiranac lamented how her audience and others have not seen her correctly, saying she believed she was “actually really misunderstood.”
Paige Spiranac attends the 2025 US Open with Maestro Dobel Tequila, the “Official Tequila” of the US Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on August 28, 2025 in New York City. (Anna Webber/Getty Images for Maestro Dobel Tequila)
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While she admitted that her “track” has caused her to stay away from golf a bit, she said she hopes to create more of a fun-focused golf series in the near future.
