How to survive online mobs.
The 5 Rules to Follow When Dealing with an Online Mob
The 5 Rules to Follow When Dealing with an Online Mob
Have you ever had hundreds or sometimes even thousands of angry people spewing hate at you online? Cursing you, threatening you, declaring that they’re going to ruin you?
I have. I have also been friends with or have advised several other people who have been through it.
I was thinking about that as I saw Joey Swoll, who’s one of the real good guys in the fitness space, badly mismanage getting attacked by an online rage mob.
It started after Hulk Hogan died and Joey Swoll reposted an old video. He said some very basic, nice things about Hulk Hogan…
This is pretty standard stuff, right? When an iconic entertainer dies, it’s not the least bit unusual for people to throw a few compliments his way. Many other people, myself included, also did that…
However, Joey Swoll caught a lot of flak over this because many years ago, Hogan had audio of him saying the N-word released, and even worse to most liberals, Hogan spoke at the Republican National Convention on behalf of Donald Trump and did a truly amazing, much-talked-about job of it:
In any case, Swoll originally stood tall after…