Summary

Chris Van Vliet says some of his oldest interviews still circulate online on a regular basis, even more than a decade after they were first recorded.

During a recent conversation with Sean Ross Sapp, Van Vliet said he still gets tagged in entertainment interviews from years ago, including clips featuring Anne Hathaway, Woody Harrelson, Dakota Johnson and Leslie Mann. He also pointed to a wrestling example involving John Cena and The Rock, noting that older interview moments can suddenly feel current again when later storylines line up with what was said at the time.

Quote from Chris Van Vliet

"It’s crazy. Like it’s still so wild because I’m someone who loves content in general, not just making it. I love consuming it as well. So it’s crazy to me when I’m on my own feed and I’m scrolling through and I’m like, ‘Wait a second.’ There’s three entertainment interviews that still go viral to this day of mine. The Anne Hathaway one, that was 15 years ago. The Woody Harrelson one, that was 13 years ago. The Dakota Johnson and Leslie Mann one, that was 10 years ago. There’s not a week that goes by that I don’t get tagged in one of those and it always makes me laugh."

Van Vliet later pointed to a wrestling interview that took on a different life once later events made the clip feel newly relevant.

"It’s also funny when I’ll interview somebody and then six months later, a year later, the thing they were talking about has now either come true or they reference it, like the John Cena interview from two years ago when I was like, ‘Hey, the Rock’s heel now. What would it look like if John Cena and the Rock were a heel at the same time?’ He’s like, ‘Oh…’ That thing like got popped up and shared everywhere a year later. I was like, ‘Ah.’ That’s always fun."

How the John Cena clip keeps resurfacing

Van Vliet's Cena example is the clearest wrestling takeaway here. Once John Cena and The Rock became part of a later heel conversation, that older interview regained value for fans who wanted to revisit how the idea sounded before it matched the broader WWE landscape.

That gives Van Vliet's archive an unusual shelf life. Instead of living as one-week interview content, certain clips can re-enter the wrestling conversation when a character shift, storyline turn or fan debate makes an older answer feel timely again.

Sources

As reported by Fightful.