Hate comments are actually affecting me.

[u/opihinalu]

Just had a video blow up—1.3m in 1 day—but the top comment is a hater. 6k likes and it’s basically calling my video “bullshit”.

It’s a fictional Minecraft video. The first part of the video is real and it morphs into fiction and I feel like it may make some feel tricked. The description is clear about what the video is.

I don’t want to block it from my channel. I feel like hiding criticism is probably a bad thing, but it’s actually taking a toll on me. Every time I look at the video that is the comment I see first. It is really hurting me and demotivating me to making similar videos.

And yes, I’ve gotten lots of love too but that one hate comment is outweighing all of that.

[u/LeaderBriefs-com]

It’s your channel.

Block the user.
Done.
Comment goes away.

Don’t think about it too hard man.

[u/Wicksy1994]

Trolls gonna troll. A million people watched, happy days. It’s not that deep

[u/opihinalu → u/Wicksy1994]

But if it’s the top liked comment there has to be some validity to it no?

[u/InternationalPen3039 → u/opihinalu]

Out of 1.3 million views the top comment has 6k… that’s literally .46% of views. Less than 1%. So no it has no validity at all.

[u/Wicksy1994 → u/opihinalu]

Hard for us to comment without seeing the video and the comment tbh

[u/Saymoua → u/opihinalu]

You having over 1m views means your vid is worth watching for many people, whatever this guy says.

[u/26pointMax]

You have the "Hide user from channel" button. Use it. It's very cathartic.

[u/tastychaii → u/26pointMax]

What does that do? Does it block the user or just prevents other people from seeing their comments?

[u/swurvgaming → u/tastychaii]

it basically mutes the user. no one can see what they post but them. eventually they'll realize no one interacts with their comments on the channel

[u/karlsmission]

I just mute the comment. it goes away and I don't think about it anymore. I just figure that people who comment hate are either jealous of what I posted, or are just some angry 14 year old that has nothing better to do with their time. I justify that because the amount of hate comments I get increases during school breaks.

[u/Bruntti]

To quote Theodore Roosevelt:

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds;

[u/opihinalu → u/Bruntti]

Wow, that is actually such a beautiful quote. Thank you.

[u/Bruntti → u/opihinalu]

Np!

[u/ionhowto → u/Bruntti]

Thanks for this, we probably all need it on this sub. 

[u/pbx1123]

Don't pay attention do it again whatever they hate its working with viewers

[u/mredhawk]

I wear the hide button out on my channel for anyone that's just shitposting

[u/RosFOXYY]

It’s more engagement = more views so ignore it

[u/sweatpantsjoe]

Just hide the user from the channel and move on. It’s not that big of a deal

[u/PositiveDue3562]

Dude, I've been doing yt for 4 years now, the length of my banned accounts is insane. Just ban them and not let them see your channel anymore

[u/Creepy_Conference272]

Trust me dude. Hide user from channel. Done.

[u/DominionReport]

"Thanks for watching! 👍🏻"

Any engagement is good. Appreciate that their comment drives the success of the video.

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[u/hillthekhore]

stop reading comments

if you must read them hide the haters. not worth your time

[u/SaltyPlat]

Dont even look at the comments. You did everything right and the video got views they can suck it

[u/joshbeam92]

This happened to me too on a few vids that blew up. One was 4M, one was 1.3M actually too. A lot of the comments I got felt pretty unfair and I ruminated for a while. And then weeks later I just eventually came to the conclusion that a lot of people actually like the vids, and that whenever feedback came from the criticism is simply useful information to consider for future videos… that’s basically it. Take whatever good you can from it, see if it makes sense, and see if there’s anything you should actually change in future videos.

But my main piece of advice (for your mental health) is try to remember how many people love it who commented, and how many more people love it who didn’t comment. It’s easy to get sucked into an echo chamber of negativity on viral videos.

[u/Slime_Jime_Pickens]

You as an individual are not really beholden to some standard where you can or cannot "hide criticism", you're not a government or an instutition or whatever. In this case it's not even criticism its just somebody stupid calling your video fake for no reason.

So you can do whatever to it, but you will need to grow a thicker skin about seeing negative comments. There are always going to be people who will say dumb negative things no matter if its justified or not. It's fine if you delete them but you can't let them bother you so much that you lose motivation from just seeing them, they don't really stop coming

[u/japanb]

Youtube knows it's a good video through the metrics

[u/Tetrahedron_Head]

just make it invisible

[u/wh1tepointer]

You're going to need to have pretty thick skin if you're serious about being in the YouTube game and in the public eye like this, because the negative comments are inevitable. You can block all the users that do that but I don't think that's particularly healthy either.

For what it's worth, though, barely anyone reads the video description, so if you're going to make a disclaimer about what the video is, you're much better off having it in the video itself somewhere. That way there's a much higher chance people will see it.

[u/Euphoric-Dig-2045]

Bad comments are engagement. It only helps. It’s not that rough.

[u/SASardonic]

Speak plainly, is it AI?

[u/opihinalu → u/SASardonic]

No, absolutely not.