Right opinion

What is right opinion?

One big thing when it comes to dealing with social media is haters. And I agree! It's scary to be judged by people all the time. I didn't care about the opinions of others at all when I started my youtube channel, but when I gained more subscribers and views, I started overthinking it. Would be fantastic to make face to face first impressions with everyone who pass by my channel. That's just impossible now, because people are going to have a first impressions of me based on first two minutes of the video.

I have been overthinking how I express myself in a way that I can maintain a really positive community.  Big thing is opinions. Many get angry when they disagree with me about something.  So usually when I share my opinions, I also go through the opinions of others as examples that there are many people with different options. Sometimes telling opinions like this it seems that I didn't share my opinion at all, even if I did and just told that I understand others had opinions also. Sometimes I'm very neutral, so I don't necessarily take a position. I also try to point out that all these behaviors are normal and I don't try to say that one's opinion is worse than the other. Often people with strong opinions behave in that way by mistake, however not always. 

(I'm not so good with bringing my thoughts through english.. so writing this blog post is a little scary for me)

Why it's so trendy to dislike something?

It seemed to be more "cool" to loudly dislike something than be polite. It is cool to say "everyone can like what they like" but for example when someone likes Fortnite, Dab or Logan Paul? There is soo many these kind of things that are just trendy to dislike.

I started to be scared about how much criticism "supposed to be funny" things get when someone doesn't find it funny. For example when someone finds something sad, there is rarely someone who stands up and says that it's not. When someone says same thing about a funny thing, those who find it funny; smiles and be quiet and most of the people stand up to say they don't get it and it's not funny because of whatever reason.

For example when Chris was showing Rick and Morty clip in the class when we talked about comedy. Many loudly impressed themselves that they didn't like Rick and Morty at all. I think it is rude to start conflict about it just because they don't like it.  I personally don't watch that show but I had none problem that clip that was shown. Respect others, you are literally telling through your actions that "that is not good, you should not like it, you have bad taste". And automatically that makes other person feel bad. I'm sure that most of you didn't even see this as being rude while doing it and just wanted to bring out their opinion, but it is important how you bring your opinion out.

And scary thing about this is that it is really common reaction that people do to funny things. If you show funny meme to your friend and they say that it is not funny, you stop laughing at it too or start to explain that it is and they are wrong. Everyone has their own taste! So in this situation there is no better opinion. Why is this so common? How is it different to react to sad or scary things? All these are strong feelings. Are positive things just easier to criticize?

There is not much that I can say to help you when you feel scared or sad of getting hate on the internet but when you are starting to build community around your brand, they will be on your side. And when someone leaves an intentional hate comment, don't give them attention and make your reaction as boring as you can. Haters/trolls just want fun reactions to laugh at, nothing personal usually. One hate commentator once told me that he tries to be the most famous hate commenter and to be in the comments of everyones every video.  Imagine someone having such a boring life that they end up doing that. 

Here is my power up that I do when something bothers me: 

Find your power song and look at yourself in the mirror. Feel the energy and remember how you live your unique life just for yourself! You won't let anyone stop you. Next time when you will face negativity - you stand proudly and say that this makes you happy and you like doing it and that's amazing! People tend to reflect the opinions of others. So your happy attitude and positivity is sure to amaze  and make others think more positively about it too!

Here are some nice comments I have got:

- Miranda