Let’s Get Deep

Before we get into the gist of today’s blog post, I’d just like to say a huge WELCOME to all of my new fabulous readers!  Thank you for your support J  As always, don’t forget to check out my YouTube channels, my Twitter, Instagram, and all of that fun stuff.  And if you have any video/blog post requests, feel free to tweet them to me, or leave comments on my blog or videos!

And now for today’s post… I’ll admit, this is probably one of the hardest posts I’ve ever written, and this is one that I’ve been contemplating even writing (or filming) all day long.  But I feel like this is just something that I have to do in one way or another.

As you all know, I have been doing YouTube videos for about a year now.  And in that time, I have generally gotten a great reception.  While I do not have a large number of subscribers, I feel like I have a nice small little family.  However, in the past few days, the haters have come out, and they’ve not been nice (duh!)  And while I knew this would eventually happen when I began making videos and putting myself out there online in this way, I never imagined how… cruel or blunt total strangers can be when typing anonymously behind a keyboard.  I suppose you hear about it, but never believe it until it happens to you.

I’ve had comments made about my looks, my weight, and my physical health.  Not to mention the methods I’ve used to gain my audience (which we recommended by extremely successful YouTubers). 

So how are these things considered ok?  In what universe, by whose standards is telling someone they need to go to the doctor to have their health checked appropriate?  They don’t know me, or the fact that I DO have health problems.  They obviously don’t know about my AllisonFit series or that I’ve recently lost 15 pounds in 2 months (GO ME!!!!).  And why would they?  They just want to assume that they’re always right.

Believe me, I KNOW I shouldn’t let this bother me.  But, I’m human, and it does.  These are just the first few people that I’ve had act like this openly on my channel.  The comments made on my videos were disliked and marked as spam by very kind viewers on my channel.  So when I saw that had happened my natural curiosity took over and I looked at them.  And of course, I wasn’t pleased with what I saw.  But, I am truly grateful to those people who marked them as spam- if you were those people, THANK YOU. 

In the end, I ended up removing the hateful comments from my channel.  I do not know if this was the best decision, but I did not want a large amount of people to see them and begin analyzing them and believing them to be true.  I had also considered responding to them, or even private messaging the haters, but did not want to add more fuel to the fire.  What would you have done in this situation?

Hopefully, dealing with haters on YouTube will get easier.  I’m sure it will.  These people obviously don’t know me, and will never know me in the way that my family and friends do.  So I can’t let it get to me, right?