“That is the ugliest effing shirt I have ever seen.”

You get a new shirt and you are genuinely excited about it. You wear it out, feeling cute, and a complete stranger stops you just to say, “That is the ugliest effing shirt I have ever seen.”

Most people would not sprint home, throw the shirt away, and question their entire identity.

You would probably think, wow, that was rude… and keep walking.

That is the energy I want more people to have with internet comments.

Because yes, feedback can be helpful.
Valid criticism exists.
Sometimes there really is something to learn, clarify, or improve.

But bullying is not feedback.
Mockery is not wisdom.
Cruelty is not insight.

And when a post starts going negatively viral, those lines get blurry fast.

That is why one of my real rules is this:
if something is getting dogpiled, do not sit there and read every comment trying to sort out what is useful and what is not.

Because once hundreds or thousands of people are piling on, your brain is no longer calmly evaluating feedback.
It is absorbing volume.
And volume can make nonsense sound true.

If there is something genuinely worth learning, you can get that from one grounded person you trust.
You do not need to harvest self worth from a mob.

So yes, stay open.
Be teachable.
Own what is yours.

But also learn to recognize when people are not offering correction.
They are just throwing rocks at your shirt.

And you do not need to redesign your whole life because strangers on the internet had a loud opinion. ❤️

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