So whenever the hate happens, what did you do? Like what's your thought process? How do you handle some of the pretty ignorant comments that come through? Yeah, I mean, it did bother me. For the first, I want to say six to eight months, I let it ride. I would just reply, like I would just, I think pretty much out of the gate, I was pretty much just like, I'm just going to say that I appreciate you watching and commenting. And I let the comments ride.
I didn't delete them or shadow ban those comments, which maybe I, I mean, everything happens for the way it's supposed to happen or whatever, but I wanted people to see how I would react to them and I wanted people to be able to say, you know, to see me through it, right? And to see a human being that's actually responding to them.
I would say, you know, maybe more happened than I actually realized, but what I did see was there were some of those comments that were really, really rude, really like just nasty, like terrible comments to make about another person in general. And I'm like, well, you know, maybe they would get, well, they would get a lot of likes. You know, some of the couple of them got a lot, a lot of likes. I would get a handful of likes on my like, I appreciate you watching and commenting.
Sometimes I'd get people that say like, oh, you know, I didn't realize that you would actually read this or that you'd see this or whatever. And it changed, you know, so I think for, to a certain extent, it did what I was wanting it to do. But then part of me was like, these comments are kind of consuming me, even though I'm not letting, like, I appreciate you watching commenting. It gives me a good chuckle because I'm like, there's, you know, to me, a lot of those comments have no context.
Like they just don't, like you didn't do the research. You didn't try to have a conversation with me. I'm like, I'm not a big TV show watcher, like, at all. Like my wife watches way more TV shows than I ever do. But I did watch Ted Lasso and the whole like, you know, be curious, not judgmental thing really hits home. And it's made me look at things differently.
And even in like, in real life situations where I've like had to deal with like yelling parents and stuff while coaching one of my kids' soccer games. That my kids, six, they're mostly kids on the team or five, you know, and just dealing with the screaming and just being like, I'm just doing my job here. Like I'm doing the things that are supposed to be done. And you know, if you want to come and have a conversation, just come and talk with me.
But screaming on the sideline, like I can't even acknowledge it because I'm too busy trying to make sure that we're, you know, doing what we're supposed to do here. And I translate that from the, you know, dealing with those comments. It's like, well, we all have people that we didn't like or whatever we didn't get along with and things didn't go the way we wanted them to with those relationships. But even before that, like I've always been of the mindset of like, everybody deserves to be happy.
Like even if the crappiest people that they're just doing really mean things, like there's a reason that they're doing it. We can't forget that because they're not just doing it like, cause they're like the Joker or something. They just like want to see the world burn. They're people too, you know? So it's important to remember that like they have a situation going on and it's still hurtful. But like, so the weight of those comments kind of caught on me.
But then I started to think and I'm like, you know, why let somebody else who has a similar thought process be able to just click a like button and move on with their life, right? To a really nasty comment. Like, no, no, no, no, I'm talking about just like, oh, I don't like the video or whatever, just shut up or whatever, like something stupid like that. Like I tried the, oh, I'll try pitting their comment at the top. Well, the fact that matters, most of these people have zero content.
So they have zero skin in the game, right? Like their comment literally means nothing because they have nothing weighted. Like it's not like they have this, oh, I have my own following of 50,000 people and like, I don't want people to see that I'm nasty or whatever. Like so it's like, oh, you think they're nasty comment pitted at the top. And it's like, oh, they probably won't like that very much, you know? And maybe they do have content.
Maybe this is just their rando account that they're choosing to do it on. And maybe I know that some of that is happening out there. But so ultimately I decided about, I want to say eight, nine months into it to say, you know what? I'm going to go through all my comments and I'm just going to hide those comments, hide those people, hide this people from the channel and they can comment all they want or whatever. And I don't have to see their comment anymore.