4/06/2011

Haters Gonna Love Hating

I hate haters. Does that make me no better than them for hating?

Actually, I don't hate haters. I just don't understand the mind of a hater. Before I delve into the subject further, for the 2 of you who read this who would like the cultural definition of hater, here it is, courtesy of urban dictionary:
A person that simply cannot be happy for another person's success. So rather than be happy they make a point of exposing a flaw in that person.

Hating, the result of being a hater, is not exactly jealousy. The hater doesnt really want to be the person he or she hates, rather the hater wants to knock somelse down a notch.
This would be definition #1 (thusly, the most culturally relevant definition) for "hater" out of the 116 entries, so let's just use this one.

I came across a facebook link a friend posted of someone who posted a youtube video on behalf of her friend, who supposedly closed her channel and deleted her videos because of some haters.

As you can see by this chart, which I totally did not just make up on the fly to prove my point, shows a sharp rise in hating as technology has become more rampant in the United States from 2001 thru 2010:



Hater % amongst the population has gone from around 12% in 2001 to 70% in 2010, according to the latest data provided by Bolek Statistical, Inc. (BS, Inc.). Data suggests the lure of anonymous/faceless hating through the use of Internet has brought out the inner-hater in much of America.

Don't believe the graph? That, my friend, makes you a hater. Welcome to the 70% of the population.

If all you spend doing in a given day is disliking videos on youtube and talking crap in Internet forums, get a life. Really. You have less of a life than me- this coming from a guy who engulfs himself in social media and who has 10 people regularly read his pointless blog of non-hatred material.

I wish Facebook could have a dislike button for you haters just to be able to identify you better, but they don't. Wait, forget a dislike button. A hate button.

"Hate the player hater, don't hate the game". Don't mind if I do.