I watched an interesting panel earlier from a MAGfest of a few years back, where several YouTubers I enjoy discussed and shared some of the worst comments they'd received, both on and off YouTube. It was both extremely entertaining and rather sad.
I've been fairly fortunate over the years in that I haven't had that many obnoxious commenters. There have been a couple, to be sure, but when I say "a couple" I literally mean that — I can think of just two specific examples, neither of whom have bothered me for a while now.
And it's not a matter of not getting commenters either — I'm fortunate enough to see a few people in my Likes and comment sections on a fairly regular basis, some of whom I've come to think of as actual friends. This is certainly a far cry from what was shown off on this panel — and given said panel was a good few years back now, I suspect it's only gotten worse since then.
I feel extremely grateful that I don't have to deal with this, because I know I'd find it extremely upsetting. Whether the reason I don't have to put up with this is because I'm a relatively small scale creator or because I set appropriate expectations with the tone and style of my content, I'm not entirely sure. I just know that so far as avoiding comment hate goes… I seem to be doing something right for the moment!
Long may it continue, eh.
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