During the discussion, Blindboy revealed his unique attitude to dealing with trolls on the internet and we will definitely be taking his advice into consideration in the future.

“If I could just give you one little point on trolls. I find an interesting way to approach trolls is actually to try and have compassion for them. Seriously, if someone is being incredibly nasty online, that’s not a happy person. Even though they might be at home having a giggle, that’s not a happy person because that’s not rational, happy, human behaviour.

“A happy human is someone that is able to express compassion, a troll is someone who is in quite a bit of pain, but they might not be aware of it. First of all, a troll has created an identity of absolute hatred that they portray themselves as, I think as a means for them to not feel anything.

“The trolling that I have to deal with is if I put up a piece of work, I get people being particularly nasty about it. Fair enough, some people may think what I’m doing is a piece of shit and that’s fine, for them, it is objectively a piece of shit.

“But some people are incredibly nasty and when I see a troll being incredibly nasty, that says to me, that’s how nasty that person is to themselves when they try to do something, that’s what it is. So by allowing myself to have compassion for that person being nasty, I then don’t take that negative energy on and it doesn’t affect my boundaries and I can grow a bit as a person.”

We couldn’t agree with him more.

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