Wednesday, October 10, 2018

Bring on the Trolls

By: Ray Rauth – Twitter @rayrauth


If you don’t me I’m a YouTuber and I talk primarily about the New England Patriots but I do chat about other sports too from time to time. One thing that I learned a long time ago is that no matter what you do not everybody is going to like you, and if you make YouTube videos and develop any kind of following you are going to attract trolls, that’s just the way it is.

Now I’m going to be honest, they used to bother me. But over the last couple of months and I had the time to reflect on things I started to realize that having trolls isn’t that bad of a thing. If you are a YouTube and you have gotten to the point where you have people taking the time out of their day to troll you, then you’re doing something right. The only mistake I occasionally make now is engage with them, not because they bother me, more because in order to enrage them you sort of have to stoop to their level and it’s the image that I’m trying to portray, so I have made a now to myself not to engage with them anymore.

Here’s the thing, if you are a YouTuber then view counts and minutes watched are important. Every time a troll clicks on your video just to talk some smack that is a positive for your overall analytics. Don’t even be upset that they gave you a thumbs down, because the people that really enjoy your content will give you the thumbs up and it will balance out. I have two trolls that click on every single one of my videos and leave some sort of comment about how I’m awful and they wish I would go away. My question is; “If you hate me so much, why do you keep watching my videos?” I watch a lot of YouTube and when I don’t enjoy somebodies content I stop watching it. I don’t watch every single video they put out just to leave a negative comment, because my life does not allow me to look for things I don’t enjoy, I spend my life doing things I like.

So, if you’re being trolled don’t sweat it, because these are people who have literally nothing better to do with their life then go on YouTube and troll….When you really think about it…..I kind of feel sorry for them.  


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