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Side Hustle School

Ep. 3049 - STORY: Internet Trolls Eat Their Words In This Comedic Cake Hustle

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project

Business, Entrepreneurship, Careers

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

After seeing a mean comment on Dolly Parton’s Facebook page, a woman realizes the absurdity of internet trolling and bakes up a hilarious and ironic side hustle.

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0:00.0

Lemonada.

0:10.8

Internet trolls eat their words in this comedic cake hustle.

0:15.3

After seeing a mean comment on Dolly Parton's Facebook page, a woman realizes the absurdity of internet trolling and

0:21.8

bakes up a hilarious and ironic side hustle. Hey, what's up friends? Welcome to side hustle school.

0:27.5

Chris Gillibow, your host here. This year, we're bringing you some remixes of our early years

0:32.4

best stories, especially from 2017 and 2018. When we first got started. We were a baby podcast. In early 2018,

0:39.6

we only had a few hundred episodes done. Isn't that crazy? We've now got 3,000 plus episodes.

0:44.4

So if you weren't listening back then, these stories are completely new. If you do happen to

0:49.1

have an incredible memory, while each one is being re-recorded, and we'll also include some new

0:53.1

updates in some cases.

0:55.2

And this story is about reading online comments.

0:57.8

You know, you're not supposed to do that, right?

0:59.5

It's like a great way to be miserable and interact with sometimes the lowest form of

1:03.2

humanity.

1:04.1

Perhaps not always, but basically there is that rule of like never read the comments.

1:08.2

Don't read the comments on news sites in particular.

1:12.8

Just don't do it. It's not good.

1:19.1

But in this case, a woman reads that mean comment on Dolly Parton's Facebook page and she decides to fight back in this really creative, funny, as I said, absurdly ironic and hilarious way. So if somebody

1:25.7

on the internet has ever said anything mean to you,

1:28.2

you might like this story. And I'll bring it to you in a moment when our program continues.

1:40.4

One day, Cat Thek was taking a mental break from her copywriting job when she noticed something on Facebook that struck her as completely ludicrous.

1:48.5

Someone had left a comment on Dolly Parton's page, and it said, your mama be so disappointed in you.

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