Hello, beautiful, beautiful beings of light, and welcome back to another episode of Expand with yours truly Elizabeth April.

So today I want to talk about hate.

Like, let's just do it.

Let's just talk about all of the nasty, gnarly commentary from all of the keyboard warriors

that are going on around the world. It doesn't even matter if you are a public person.

You most likely have experienced some form of either observing hater comments or troll comments or participating, not saying that you are

the troll, but participating in sort of a back and forth battle on a comment thread or what have you.

And then maybe some of you are actually in more of the public eye or on social media and you've received hate. I feel like

probably most of you have, even if it's just a personal account. Everyone loves to talk. And we are in

this day and age where everyone wants to share their opinion. And what I find anyway is the most polarizing opinions

are usually the ones that garner the most amount of attention, whether that be a good

attention or bad attention. This is kind of the dynamic that we're in, which honestly

sucks because everyone's opinion or perspective

or comment that is kind of right, even keel, right down the middle, not super bad, not super good,

they just kind of get looked over. They just kind of get washed over. They're just like blending in,

you know, whereas the main comment threads on

no matter what the topic is on, it's going to create that sort of energy. So I want to maybe

backtrack and talk about my experience with trolls and haters online. So of course, like, the industry that I'm in is such that it's not

a widely accepted topic. Like, nothing that I've ever talked about has been widely accepted

or honestly even understood. It's kind of like, this is not the case, but this is a good example.

It's kind of like I'm coming from the future, maybe even 20 years in the future, 50 years in the future,

and I understand dynamics in a different way.

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