A Brief Lesson on the Dos and Don’ts of Composing Mean Messages to Celebrities
How to have your mean messages to celebrities taken seriously
I get lots of negative emails, tweets, and Instagram messages. My integrity, humanity, and sanity are often called into question. I get called the n-word and a bunch of other words too nasty to list. It reminds me of Jimmy Kimmel’s segment where he has celebrities reading mean tweets they get.
Social media has given everyone a voice but, unfortunately, when some people use that voice, they don’t realize how badly that reflects back on them. Most these responses are merely limp insults, the kind children shout at each other in a schoolyard. You can just picture the person sending it off and feeling like they just said something clever. Sadly, most of these messages are dismissed and forgotten by the recipients because, though the messages are filled with sound and fury, they signify nothing.
Perhaps that’s because I spend 2-4 days researching and writing articles while some responders spend 10 seconds spewing their response.
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Here’s one typical email I received recently in response to my post, “Should We Just ‘Leave Kyrie Alone’?” In the post, I comment on the dangerous impact on society of Kyrie Irving refusing to be vaccinated.