"Thank You Hater!" by Clever Pie and Isabel Fay

[Video Link] "Dedicated to hard working internet trolls everywhere." (Thanks, Jesse Thorn!)

Mark Frauenfelder is the founder of Boing Boing and the editor-in-chief of MAKE and Cool Tools. Twitter: @frauenfelder. Come and hear Mark speak at the ALA conference in Chicago on July 1.

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tw1515tw

Gay

;)
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  LEAVE JUSTIN BIEBER ALONE!
A. .

I liked the part where the gibbon was awesome
tw1515tw

and when will Dawn Porter cut her blooming fringe?
http://www.facebook.com/genti.gl Gentjan Lici

hahahaha great
Eddie Perkins

This is awesome, but sadly, exactly what trolls want, acknowledgement of their existence, any kind of attention. They’re a pretty sad bunch of people.
ocker3

How to humiliate any hate-spewing masturbating gibbon. Just repeat their words. They’ll froth! (and not in a good way).
JProffitt71

Wow, just wow. I love this, it feels like a weight lifted off my back.
jimh

So this is sarcasm, right? Because some of those comments are really hurtful.
- tw1515tw
  
  You mean some troll-like comments after a video that’s sarcastic towards trolls, on a site like BoingBoing? Now I’m unsure if your question was asked in a sarcastic way. This is some sort of knowing-sarcastic-space-time-continuum spiral.
  - jimh
    
    Yeah, that’s what I was trying to create.
    An infinite WTF SARCASM? loop.
    - Jonathan Roberts
      
      But what if that comment was sarcastic and jimh was really offended? (Head explodes)
- Warren_Terra
  
  I suspect the people shown in webcam-style shots responding to hateful comments they’ve received are responding to actual hateful comments they actually received. Certainly the one Richard Herring reads out is of a piece with the sort of stuff he was bombarded with after he dared to criticize Ricky Gervais
  - euansmith
    
    …and he had a Hitler moustache too… I’m just saying… no smoke without fire…
http://www.jjsaul.com Jim Saul

Just to pick the scab, I had to check the comments on youtube:

Who cares, trolling is for the people, it’s not some bullshit school of thought. But please, to those watching, do me the favor and make it legit, make my dreams come true.
TheLifePerfect in reply to krossdude35 (Show the comment) 5 minutes ago

I will fuck off when I’m good and ready to fuck off, you bossy bitch.
TheLifePerfect in reply to NimmoPie (Show the comment) 8 minutes ago

why does everyone thing trolling is a bunch of incomprehensable homophobic/racial/sexist slurs? trolling is where you come back (using intelligence) at those idiots who do this and unsuspecting people
krossdude35 8 minutes ago”

Oh what a brave new world it is, that has such people in it.
- toyg
  
  People like this have always existed. Before the internet, they’d just be called “assholes”.
  - http://www.jjsaul.com Jim Saul
    
    They still are. But before the internet, they were not ubiquitous.
    
    What was the name of the guy in the cell next to Hannibal Lector in the Silence of the Lambs? That’s what youtube comments sound like.
    
    Then when you see what these people are in real life, they’re so fragile themselves they seem one harsh comment away from making a noose out of their power cord.
    
    The constant rape threats are the worst. I can’t imagine what the effect of that unending bombardment is on someone who feels physically vulnerable.
  - http://twitter.com/VisceralVixen Visceral Vixen
    
    Sigh. ‘Tis true. Except before the internet they had to go to all the humongous effort of yelling from the windows of moving vehicles.
    I daresay the internet means they no longer have to leave their parents’ house in order to try to inflict their unpleasantness on the world, so in a sense it has made it easier.
- euansmith
  
  Gammas, the lot of them…
Gutierrez

Looking at the comments on YouTube at what point is trolling so meta it’s performance art?
- miasm
  
  ‘pissing in an ocean of piss’, is, I believe, the proper label.
  - euansmith
    
    At this point it is time to wheel out the big guns and turn the scatological metaphor all the way to number two.
snagglepuss

…I wonder if Isabel Fay also likes to throw a pound of raw hamburger into a pack of hungry dogs ?

Because this video would be pretty much the equivalent bait for trolls.
- RadioSilence
  
  Well if it keeps even just a few from commenting elsewhere on youtube it will have done a good job, in my eyes.
- http://vincenzoravina.tumblr.com/ Vincenzo Ravina
  
  Whatever gets views, I guess. Are you gonna do the hungry dogs thing as a video or can I do that?
  - snagglepuss
    
    Help yerself.
HahTse

This…

This…

This is really good ^^

Thanks Mark!

I really hope this won’t become an earworm…
humanresource

[masturbates furiously]
- euansmith
  
  Bad gibbon! Naught gibbon!
Palomino

It’s hard for me to imagine that someone would purposefully be on the internet just to harass someone. But I can see them now, lining up their diet soda, pepperoni sticks and salty chips, and settling in for a long night of hateful insults. It happened to me on Reddit a couple times. The moment one of my photos posted, there was a nasty “I hope you die you dumb fuck” response. It was then that it dawned on me the term Troll didn’t mean a monster under a bridge, but a vile human who “trolls” for tear- filled responses. It takes a psychotic frame of mind, and I wonder what it’s a gateway from or to.
Evil Paul

Best thing since “Fuck Me, Ray Bradbury”
- ocker3
  
  I would argue it comes close, but doesn’t Quite surpass it (perhaps influenced by a lack of recent dating in my life *sigh*)
http://twitter.com/kramski Kramski

How dare she expose and humiliate the trolls who were trying to have an intimate rape threat moment with her etc etc.
Tetsubo Kanamono

I post daily videos on YouTube. Within the past two weeks I have received two daeth threats and a ‘LAZY PUSSY’ comment (I advocate the idea that people are more important than profits). I love this video.
cellocgw

Since nobody else is lowbrow enough to post it, here goes: Wow, I didn’t see that last shot coming!
(rim-shot (oops another double entendre))
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=540700688 John Stevenson

1) Install Adblock
2) Go to YouTube
3) Mouse over a comment
4) Right click and choose ‘Adblock > Block This ad’
5) Select a level of filtering that hides all comments - DIV[id="watch-discussion"] works for me
6) Never see a YouTube comment again
7) Be happy
http://twitter.com/ColumbusArea Adolph Marx

I can’t believe no one’s pointed out that it should be “Thank You COMMA Hater”… damned illiterates..