So how do you deal with people online fucking with you? In other words, trolls. Everyone has been trolled online in some way, shape or form, whether you want to admit it or not. But what do you do when someone bugs you online? Well, in most cases (most cases with people that know how to handle themselves), you can ignore them, you can laugh at them, or you can block them. It's a really foolproof system, dealing with people you don't like online. And worst comes to worst, if the person bugging you persists, then hey, you can always write them off as a loser who literally has nothing else to do.
Now, some people like to deal with people bugging them by bugging them back. You've probably seen dramatic comment readings on youtube (which I personally can't stand seeing but that's besides the point) where people take dumb comments, either from trolls or from just generally dumb people and (try and mostly fail) to turn it into humor. Whatever works for the person making the video, though, perhaps that's how they feel best coping with dumb people.
There's something I don't really get about that approach though. You're taking time out of your day and taking effort to make something just so some person giving you a hard time can now be advertised through your channel. That to me makes no sense. What makes less sense to me than just advertising the person's whereabouts is making a youtube poop to spite them.
I'm guilty of doing this, admittedly. I've done it once or twice before. But rather than using the videos I made as a platform to be all like "THIS GUY IS A RETARD RETARD RETARD, JACKASS" it'd just be a youtube poop using whatever person I didn't like. Here's the part where I show an example!
If anyone has followed my internet escapades for many years (or if you're a fucking creep and looked up the extensive history in like 2 days on your own (i'm talking about you zach tomcat)) You'll know that I was not overly fond of Mariofan682. At all. But I made this anyway. It was fun.
Two examples! Oh yeah! This was another dude I'm not too overly fond of. My nickname for him was Pete Rose because of his unfortunate haircut. I actually checked up on this guy in the past few months just because I was curious and whatever he was doing that was dumb three years ago, he's still doing now. Bummer.
Notice that what I didn't do in my bitter youtube poops was say stuff like "I hate these people, flag them down" etc etc. I can think of more than one instance of that happening with other people in the Youtube Poop community (some of them go here) and to be completely honest it's pretty horrifying thing to have people, sometimes with large amounts of subscribers, going to these lengths all over someone that called them a dork or something.
Spite youtube poops are interesting in a way. It forces the people making them to pour lots of time and effort into a person they don't like. That, to me, is a very counter productive way of dealing with your personal problems. I'm no therapist, but ideally you'd try and distance yourself from people you don't like, right? I have never had a spite youtube poop made about me (or at least I don't think I have, who knows at this point) but if I ever came across one, even if it was just downright abusive, I'd give it a like. That shit is flattering.
Hell, it'd probably be more flattering than people that just make normal youtube poops of my content. There's a bunch of that and it's all in good fun. But for someone to be so angry at me that they'd go to my channel, browse through all my videos, pick one, watch it to make sure it's the right one (just giving me more views), download it (you're paying for internet that you're using to download my stuff), and make a whole masterpiece in whatever editor you use, where you could deal with crashes, slowdowns, all the usual problems a video editor could have, all for me. That would be so fucking cool to me. It's a shame it hasn't happened yet. Maybe it won't happen because I wrote this, so that's actually a good thing.
Just in case you didn't read any of this or just don't want to invest a mad amount of time into reading my many words, i'll put an
unusally large text break in the page to direct your attention to my
condensed version of this rant, which is: Don't make spite youtube poops. You're wasting your time. Mkay.
Now, some people like to deal with people bugging them by bugging them back. You've probably seen dramatic comment readings on youtube (which I personally can't stand seeing but that's besides the point) where people take dumb comments, either from trolls or from just generally dumb people and (try and mostly fail) to turn it into humor. Whatever works for the person making the video, though, perhaps that's how they feel best coping with dumb people.
There's something I don't really get about that approach though. You're taking time out of your day and taking effort to make something just so some person giving you a hard time can now be advertised through your channel. That to me makes no sense. What makes less sense to me than just advertising the person's whereabouts is making a youtube poop to spite them.
I'm guilty of doing this, admittedly. I've done it once or twice before. But rather than using the videos I made as a platform to be all like "THIS GUY IS A RETARD RETARD RETARD, JACKASS" it'd just be a youtube poop using whatever person I didn't like. Here's the part where I show an example!
Supermariofan682 Shits Out Homosexual Koreans (March 17, 2012)
If anyone has followed my internet escapades for many years (or if you're a fucking creep and looked up the extensive history in like 2 days on your own (i'm talking about you zach tomcat)) You'll know that I was not overly fond of Mariofan682. At all. But I made this anyway. It was fun.
Pete Rose Adopts an Ethiopian (January 4, 2012)
Two examples! Oh yeah! This was another dude I'm not too overly fond of. My nickname for him was Pete Rose because of his unfortunate haircut. I actually checked up on this guy in the past few months just because I was curious and whatever he was doing that was dumb three years ago, he's still doing now. Bummer.
Notice that what I didn't do in my bitter youtube poops was say stuff like "I hate these people, flag them down" etc etc. I can think of more than one instance of that happening with other people in the Youtube Poop community (some of them go here) and to be completely honest it's pretty horrifying thing to have people, sometimes with large amounts of subscribers, going to these lengths all over someone that called them a dork or something.
Spite youtube poops are interesting in a way. It forces the people making them to pour lots of time and effort into a person they don't like. That, to me, is a very counter productive way of dealing with your personal problems. I'm no therapist, but ideally you'd try and distance yourself from people you don't like, right? I have never had a spite youtube poop made about me (or at least I don't think I have, who knows at this point) but if I ever came across one, even if it was just downright abusive, I'd give it a like. That shit is flattering.
Hell, it'd probably be more flattering than people that just make normal youtube poops of my content. There's a bunch of that and it's all in good fun. But for someone to be so angry at me that they'd go to my channel, browse through all my videos, pick one, watch it to make sure it's the right one (just giving me more views), download it (you're paying for internet that you're using to download my stuff), and make a whole masterpiece in whatever editor you use, where you could deal with crashes, slowdowns, all the usual problems a video editor could have, all for me. That would be so fucking cool to me. It's a shame it hasn't happened yet. Maybe it won't happen because I wrote this, so that's actually a good thing.
Just in case you didn't read any of this or just don't want to invest a mad amount of time into reading my many words, i'll put an
unusally large text break in the page to direct your attention to my
condensed version of this rant, which is: Don't make spite youtube poops. You're wasting your time. Mkay.