Haters Gonna Hate

Let's skip the part where I come up with lots of excuses as to why I haven't posted anything for yonkers. Okay? Okay.

I think the internet is wonderful. But like, wonderful. Were it not for the internet, I do not know how I would spend slow evenings, let alone how I'd organise a get-together, find out how tall celebrities are, update the world on the boring minutiae of my life or cyber-stalk. However, wherever there is awesomeness, there are people who want to ruin everyone else's fun. There's always a Kraft to the Dairy Milk, a Fox to the Firefly, a...something else to something else (I'm tired). And for the internet, there are haters.

You can find them by scrolling down on any YouTube video, blog, public tweet, tumblr post, etc. And frankly, I would like them all to just bugger off. What do you gain by having a go at a perfect stranger? A tiny rush of bullying one-upmanship. Go you.

It's not something that's really been turned on me (to have haters, you first need to have people who take an interest), but the once or twice it has, it seriously feels like a slap in the face. You don't think it will bother you; why should you care about a randomer who's clearly sat at their computer for so long they have actually a) come across you b) read/watched what you have to say and then c) spent time considering a way to slam it. But on the flipside of that, it hurts because this person obviously cannot have any justifiable reason to dislike you.

In life, I don't like people who are rude for no reason. I don't like customers who scream at the staff in the bank, I don't like train ticket-people who don't take pity on your friend's forgotten railcard, I don't like myself for yelling at a taxi company (even if they were an HOUR late...). Because at the end of the day, it's going to get you nothing except hatred and irritation. So really, why bother?

I feel so angry, looking down the comments of a YouTube video and seeing angry bile that some sad little creep has spewed out, in order to try and upset someone they've never met. It's pathetic, and those people should be ashamed. Because actually, I think it's probably THEIR opinion that no-one cares about.