So yeah, I think, yeah, I mean, for me, I kind of lump comments
about my YouTube channel and comments about the podcast in sort of the same
category of comments from the internet. And given there that there are like,
1000 a day of those, it's very hard to feel something for everyone. And for the
most part, I feel absolutely nothing for the vast majority of these comments.
Yeah. It is like the ones that comment on specific things that, as you said, are
the ones that kind of go through the noise. So for example, if someone says, I'm
funny, I would take that as like the biggest compliment. Just because it happens
so rarely. If someone says that, oh, those biceps are looking good, I often take
that I often take that as like, oh yeah, you know this, because this is
literally something I'm working towards. If someone says, I really liked the way
you talk, I quite I quite like that, because I'm like, oh, that's kind of sweet.
If it's a comment around something very specific, like I, you know, I did a
video the other day talking about like my toxic relationship of productivity
hashtag clickbait title. There were quite a few comments from other YouTubers
who commented on that saying that, oh, wow, this is this exactly the stuff I was
feeling. And he really articulated what I was thinking. And that kind of stuff
feels good. But often like, I find myself doing that thing, when I'm on the
toilet where I'll look through my 99 plus Instagram dm notifications look, like
look like look like and just sort of taken what the message is saying. If it's
like a long wall of text, I'll like do a thing where I'm like, okay, because now
you can see if they've got like three followers and three following, then, you
know, chances are that they're not active on Instagram, I can probably discount
most of what they're saying. And I'll have a quick glance through it to see
okay, anything interesting here. No. Okay, move on, move on, move on.
Occasionally, there is something interesting, maybe one every 30 messages, where
if like, as especially if it's, for example, someone who's gotten into medical
school, and saying thank you man, I'd reply to that be like, oh, this is
amazing. You know, this is kind of cool. If it's comments about the study stuff,
I reply being like, ph, that's cool. Thanks. But yeah, for the most part, it is
like a flick off. Like, it's just like, in a way it feels. I often feel kind of
bad about it, especially because, like an instant Instagram dm, that is not a
reply to a story. It's like something or someone's gone out of their way to do.
It's taken them some level of time and effort to do it. Especially if it's like
a long ass email. And we get like 50 plus long ass emails each day, where people
have gone out of their time to really articulate for two pages, what problem in
life they've got, they're just like, okay, cool, cool. Yeah, this is way too
much to deal with ignore, rather than an even attempting to reply to that would
take up half an hour of my time.
