What was the meanest comment you've ever got?

[echoeotto]

But the guy kept up this barrage, sending me messages he didn't have the nerve to deliver to Richard personally. So I blocked him.

Probably the best course of action. What else can you even do in that sort of situation?

[Kamikaze]

Dude got salty at my team because our comic had an older gay couple being adorable. He decided that it was justification for using slurs against the queer community. Got the ban hammer dropped on that guy and it felt great 10/10 would recommend banning jerks

[skicoak]

Not really a comment, more an unfortunate chain of events leading to a public humiliation (but I got thick skin so it's now just a funny story)....

I had destroyed my ankle days before a local comic convention. I had done a Vertigo Sandman piece I had worked hard on that I was keen to enter into the fan contest. But my ankle was a mess, tore everything but the achilles tendon so it was a big clumsy brace and crutches.

A buddy, who was also going, convinced me it would be fine. We'd get a wheelchair at the venue and could still have a great time. Reluctantly, I agreed.

I was, and still am, a big guy. So when we get to the convention center and find out all the chairs are gone...banging around clumsily in the tight aisles was a bad idea. I parked my butt in a chair and my buddy submitted my entry. We agreed he should go enjoy the show and just check on me occasionally.

Spent the day reading comics and drinking soda, so not a bad day.

Time for contest winner announcements, I take third... in the 13 year old and under category. I'm 25 years at the time.

So hobbling on crutches, in front of a crowd of confused people, I have to go explain how someone made an error...and I still only managed to take third.

[dawgofdawgness]

I bet that that person actually copy pastes that comment on any novel that isn't theirs It IS wattpad after all

[Hexigate]

Fortunately I have not been faced with very toxic and senselessly demeaning comments; it's been pretty good. There was one case when someone went on a comment-storm through my earlier stuff about me being "pretentious" for having certain elements in the whole world-building thing, as well as...idk, comments about the art style at the time and whether I was going to remake the earlier pages. I don't consider my interaction with that guy particularly bad; he rubbed me the wrong way in the start, but we talked and his comments became more and more benign as the pages went on.

[spicy_sweets]

Right?? It's funny how they deleted it after I responded nicely tho

[gh0stcr33p]

I've never gotten any real mean comments, but I'd say the ones that kind of offended me were when people sometimes say that my art style looks like steven universe

[nascentechuva]

I wanna thank all the ruthless flame I received on Fanfiction.net. When I was in my early teens and borrowing other people's internet to post my stories, my iCarly fanfictions were disparaged, raided, and targeted by grammar crusaders on their holy mission to purge the site of whatever they deemed an attack on sacred fan-literature. I was almost a casualty, but I ended up using their cruelty to better my writing. (Though if I met them face to face, I'd cut off my tongue before I'd admit that.)

Part of me wishes I could say that the flame came out of nowhere, but that part of me would be in deep denial. Spanish is my first spoken language, so a lot of what I wrote was poor phonetic English. A majority of the comments I received were a mix of personal attacks and "strongly-worded" advice. I was called a beaner and a wetback numerous times (despite the fact that I was born in the U.S and wrote that on my story,) but BUT bUt I was also told the proper way to spell certain words and form coherent sentences, and I learned it later if only just to bitterly comment back.

This is unique to my writing experience, but I'll always appreciate twenty long condescending rants about where my book goes wrong as much as the single comment that fawns over it . Little things, like a character coming across as dumb or a comment saying that someone doesn't resonate with the storyline, do not bother me and are welcomed. I was exposed to it young, and I did my fair share of crying already. But not much fazes me in terms of comments anymore.

If anything, Tapas has me on edge with all the nice comments, I keep thinking someone's holding it all in. Waiting. Watching. Hoping I'll slip up. Well, I already did. Multiple times. They're late. Chop chop.

[BlueDragon]

On my old Deviant Art, I had a lady tell me she couldn't believe I'd gone to college and my art was mediocre at best. It hurt at first, but later I didn't mind, because it was true. I thanked her and asked for some suggestions on how to improve, and she actually became a friend/watcher. She eventually left DA, and I later closed that account for other reasons.

She was really rude about it, but I was lucky enough to get her to talk and help me improve as an artist. Some people are trolls, others just have no social skills XD

[PaulieBlade]

I don't really get mean comments. My speciality is losing subscribers. People just run, they don't say a word.

[TheFireDragon]

That time the teacher told me I look as stupid as my doodles...oh you meant online. Surprisingly, none yet. It seems the real world continues to lose it's appeal compared to this greater one. Yeeesss indeed...（ꏿ ω ꏿ）

[erma]

I thankfully haven't encountered anything super mean on my comic pages (though that could change at any time the story takes a new turn). However, there was one person who basically went "the two main girls look exactly the same." and announced they were going to stop reading the comic. :'D

[BlueDragon]

Woooow...how unprofessional of that teacher! Seriously, who does that

[indagold]

I think someone said my music sucked ass back in 2013. Granted it did suck ass now i've improved and it sucks less ass. I don't recall having many bad comments the entirety I was online, even on tapas just absolutely confusing ones.

[Plyasm]

I don't think I've gotten mean comments before but it hurt more when I shared my story and a particular person who read it had a lot of criticisms about it...except the criticisms were all basically them not understanding my style of writing.
Not being able to make them enjoy my story hurt more than receiving hate D:

[Teowi]

I've only gotten positive and supportive comments on my art and writing on the internet, which I'm very grateful is the case.

The passive-aggressive comments came, however, when I said that I would stop producing free content. It felt so backwards.

[DiegoPalacios]

"what is this feeling?....compassion?, love?, but i am the embodyment of hate, nooooooooooooh!" (ceases existing)

[NickRowler]

I don't get a lot of comics but I did have someone compare one of my older comics to Lose from CRL-ALT-DELETE after only reading the first 10 pages. I told them the robot dies and they told me that it would be as bad as the infamous meme. Honestly I kept the death in and no one cared. It just made the person sound like an ass.

[kimketli]

It seems like he was not serious. I mean he got notifications, right? So he was subscribed to your comic.

[spadesart]

i think ive had to delete a rape joke or two from a very well known tapas commenter