Dylan Marron Has Conversations With People Who Hate Him

Online comments sections have become synonymous with cruelty,
hatred, bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, and the jerks who spew
that kind of thing out. Most of us roll our eyes at that or, if
at all possible, avoid even looking at that dispiriting part of
the internet altogether. But Dylan Marron is not most of us. When
his viral comedy videos led to strongly vitriolic comments aimed
directly at Dylan, he started collecting those comments in what
he called his Hate Folder. He wondered who these people were who
were making them and what they were like in real life. This
interest led to the podcast and book, Conversations With People
Who Hate Me.


Dylan was able to trace the haters, often through publicly
available Facebook accounts, and get many of them to agree to
talk on the record. In conversation, his subjects were often
revealed to be, if not always apologetic, at least complicated
people.


In this episode, Dylan talks about what the comments and
conversations have meant to his mental health and his view of the
world.


Get your copy of Dylan's book, Conversations With People Who Hate
Me wherever books are sold. Listen to Conversations With People
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Twitter @dylanmarron, Instagram @dylanmarron, and on his Youtube
channel.


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