2 Simple Ideas That Can Help You Avoid Nasty Comments And Stop Harping on Them
There’s no need in getting angry.
I don’t understand the power of negative comments.
Like, I know why people would get mad at them. No one wants to see a negative comment on their feed every day. Social media gets draining sometimes.
However, it becomes quite a nuisance when you see other people who claim they don’t care about negative comments still partake in the foolishness. Let me preface this article by saying that the first step in dealing with negative comments is to ignore them. Not put them on blast to your followers.
But let’s get further into the nitty-gritty, shall we?
You can be one of two people when it comes to negative comments — you have to decide.
These are both people I’m subscribed to on YouTube. I still love both of these YouTubers, but they clearly handle negative comments differently.
Person #1: She runs a YouTube channel with her husband. They’re a wonderful couple who do reactions. I tune in to watch their anime reactions and some of their gaming live streams.
It seems like every other live stream they have, they always go off on someone in the comments.
Why just today they went on a rant about how people don’t support their channel and always want them to react to stuff they don’t like. She keeps running her mouth about how people don’t check their Patreon to see what they’ve already reacted to before asking them in the YouTube comments. It happens a lot.
I still love them though.
Person #2: This girl gives no fucks about who is in her comments section on YouTube. She has amazing commentary on political issues concerning Black people and she’s a great activist. She moderates comment herself so there are never any negative comments on her videos.
She even has moderators so if they see a bad comment on her live streams, their comment gets deleted and they get blocked within 2.5 seconds.
Whenever she sees a negative comment, she just puts her middle finger up, says “fuck you”, blocks you, and keeps it moving. She doesn’t say anything else after that. She doesn’t harp on negative comments.
You have to choose if you want to be the person who gets heated over comments or the person who just blocks and moves on.
If you can’t choose which person you want to be, you’ll never figure out how to approach comments. You’ll make impulsive decisions and get into Twitter fights for days.
It ain't worth it dog.
Every negative comment runs up your traffic.
I learned this from Person #1 believe it or not.
If people hate something so much that they leave a negative comment, more people start flocking in to leave other comments (good or bad). Heck, if someone starts a fight in the comments, that’s even better. More views for me.
Someone just left me a negative comment on Twitter today and I laughed because they didn’t even spell my name right when they mentioned me.
I’ve learned to ignore and keep it moving now. It’s not like I responded much in the first place. Quite frankly the first person that ever left me a negative comment on Twitter got blocked.
So stop thinking of negative comments as bad omens.
I’m telling you right now those people don’t know you. And they don’t want you to know them either because most of the time they don’t even have their face as their profile picture. They want to leave their bad comment and hide.
Don’t give them the light of day.
Just watch that traffic run up and get that money.
Final Thoughts
This is what people are missing when it comes to negative comments: Thick skin and perspective.
You get to decide if you want to be Person #1 or #2. That’s it. Choose if you want to harp on nasty comments or block them and wash your hands clean of the bullcrap. After you pick whether you want to have thick skin or not, you have to look at comments from a different perspective. Look at them as wins rather than losses. Hey, more views=more notoriety.
So don’t stress about negative comments okay?
They’re probably bots anyways.
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