John Cena is many things—the biggest pro-wrestling star of his generation, a Hollywood actor currently entering the A-list, and, most relevant to this article, a hilarious weirdo on Instagram.
For years, Cena has been posting caption-less images on the photo-sharing social media platform, sometimes with clear intentions, such as paying tribute to his upcoming Suicide Squad character Peacemaker, who will star the James Gunn-helmed sequel followed by his own HBO Max series, some left completely up to interpretation.
“Welcome to my Instagram. These images will be posted without explanation, for your interpretation. Enjoy,” reads the bio on the West Newbury, Massachusetts native’s page.
On Sunday evening, Cena shared an edit of Ron Killings, better known as the WWE wrestler R-Truth, in Cena’s Peacemaker garb, a joke on Truth’s ongoing bit that Cena is his childhood hero, despite being six years younger than he is.
The problem, however, was that Cena cropped out the artist’s name from the piece—Saudi artist and graphic designer Abdulmalik Ali Al-Muwizri, who has a large following online for his humorous photoshops and original art, in addition to his work as the official designer of wrestling legend Chris Jericho, currently employed by All Elite Wrestling.
Abdulmalik was upset to see his name taken off the post.
“All I know is next time I attend one of your matches @johncena I will chant Cena s*cks for cropping my logo and for saying The Rock writes his promos on his wrist on national TV,” wrote Abdulmalik to his more than 41,000 Instagram followers.
After hours of wrestling fans coming to Abdulmalik’s defense, Cena made another captionless post on his Instagram, this time a zoomed in image of Abdulmalik’s name and logo.
“Haha thank you man @johncena! You made me way happier and I’m very grateful for that! Thank you again so much,” wrote Abdulmalik on Twitter.
We’ll never know for sure what exactly Cena was thinking, but he certainly has made the day of one talented man in Saudi Arabia.
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