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So whenever the hate happens, what did you do?

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Like what's your thought process?

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How do you handle some of the pretty ignorant comments that come through?

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Yeah, I mean, it did bother me.

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For the first, I want to say six to eight months, I let it ride.

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I would just reply, like I would just, I think pretty much out of the gate, I was pretty

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much just like, I'm just going to say that I appreciate you watching and commenting.

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And I let the comments ride.

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I didn't delete them or shadow ban those comments, which maybe I, I mean, everything happens

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for the way it's supposed to happen or whatever, but I wanted people to see how I would react

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to them and I wanted people to be able to say, you know, to see me through it, right?

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And to see a human being that's actually responding to them.

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I would say, you know, maybe more happened than I actually realized, but what I did see

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was there were some of those comments that were really, really rude, really like just

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nasty, like terrible comments to make about another person in general.

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And I'm like, well, you know, maybe they would get, well, they would get a lot of likes.

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You know, some of the couple of them got a lot, a lot of likes.

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I would get a handful of likes on my like, I appreciate you watching and commenting.

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Sometimes I'd get people that say like, oh, you know, I didn't realize that you would

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actually read this or that you'd see this or whatever.

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And it changed, you know, so I think for, to a certain extent, it did what I was wanting

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it to do.

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But then part of me was like, these comments are kind of consuming me, even though I'm

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not letting, like, I appreciate you watching commenting.

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It gives me a good chuckle because I'm like, there's, you know, to me, a lot of those comments

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have no context.

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Like they just don't, like you didn't do the research.

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You didn't try to have a conversation with me.

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I'm like, I'm not a big TV show watcher, like, at all.

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Like my wife watches way more TV shows than I ever do.

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But I did watch Ted Lasso and the whole like, you know, be curious, not judgmental thing

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really hits home.

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And it's made me look at things differently.

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And even in like, in real life situations where I've like had to deal with like yelling

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parents and stuff while coaching one of my kids' soccer games.

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That my kids, six, they're mostly kids on the team or five, you know, and just dealing

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with the screaming and just being like, I'm just doing my job here.

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Like I'm doing the things that are supposed to be done.

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And you know, if you want to come and have a conversation, just come and talk with me.

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But screaming on the sideline, like I can't even acknowledge it because I'm too busy trying

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to make sure that we're, you know, doing what we're supposed to do here.

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And I translate that from the, you know, dealing with those comments.

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It's like, well, we all have people that we didn't like or whatever we didn't get along

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with and things didn't go the way we wanted them to with those relationships.

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But even before that, like I've always been of the mindset of like, everybody deserves

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to be happy.

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Like even if the crappiest people that they're just doing really mean things, like there's

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a reason that they're doing it.

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We can't forget that because they're not just doing it like, cause they're like the Joker

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or something.

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They just like want to see the world burn.

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They're people too, you know?

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So it's important to remember that like they have a situation going on and it's still hurtful.

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But like, so the weight of those comments kind of caught on me.

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But then I started to think and I'm like, you know, why let somebody else who has a

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similar thought process be able to just click a like button and move on with their life,

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right?

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To a really nasty comment.

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Like, no, no, no, no, I'm talking about just like, oh, I don't like the video or whatever,

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just shut up or whatever, like something stupid like that.

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Like I tried the, oh, I'll try pitting their comment at the top.

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Well, the fact that matters, most of these people have zero content.

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So they have zero skin in the game, right?

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Like their comment literally means nothing because they have nothing weighted.

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Like it's not like they have this, oh, I have my own following of 50,000 people and like,

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I don't want people to see that I'm nasty or whatever.

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Like so it's like, oh, you think they're nasty comment pitted at the top.

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And it's like, oh, they probably won't like that very much, you know?

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And maybe they do have content.

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Maybe this is just their rando account that they're choosing to do it on.

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And maybe I know that some of that is happening out there.

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But so ultimately I decided about, I want to say eight, nine months into it to say,

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you know what?

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I'm going to go through all my comments and I'm just going to hide those comments, hide

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those people, hide this people from the channel and they can comment all they want or whatever.

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And I don't have to see their comment anymore.