I’ve been a nerd my whole life but I’ve had to suppress it. A few years ago I decided to quit it. I started collecting the nerd junk I always wanted. I was depressed and surounding myself in what I wanted helped. Only thing was there wasn’t anyone for me to talk to about it. I live in a rural country town so there’s not a lot of fellow nerds. I decided to make a tiktok channel. I post every single day about something nerdy I wanna talk about. I kinda understand how toxic the internet can be. I’ve dealt with hate comments over the years. I feel like I’m pretty used to it. Lately tho I’ve had a video blow up like never before. It has 1.5 million views and growing. Its great it was a sponsored video so I made a pretty penny off it.
I got a lot of new followers. Sadly it has a dark side tho. I believe that only 10% of people suck. The bigger the number the bigger that percentage is tho. I’ve had an influx of misserable people stick to my page. For the most part it doesn’t faze me. Most of the hates the same. I’m a grown man that collects figures so I must like kids in their eyes. Some people will waste their whole day spamming my videos calling me the p word. As someone that was abused in that way I’d be lying if I said it didn’t sting a little. It’s mostly depressing how people can get foaming at the mouth mad over me collecting figures.
Its complicated because I’d like videos to do well. Its nice seeing the comments of people claiming I make their day better. But it’s a bit much.