Hello.
Hello!
Today we're going to show you how to get rid of trolls.
Yeah, nasty mean horrible trolls,
they're a pain sometimes
Yes.
and bad for your mental health as well.
Yes.
So today we're going to give you some tips
on how to, well, stop them appearing on your channel altogether for a start
which is good.
We're going to show you how to deal with the really meany ones,
yeah, and why sometimes it's not a good idea just to ignore them,
which is what we often tell you to do.
Yeah we do.
Now our channel's been watched tens of millions of times of the last four years
and even though 99.999% of our viewers comments are really nice,
Yeah.
0.001% are really mean
Yeah.
and that doesn't sound a lot, but when you've got millions of views
that's like over a thousand comments that are really mean
and you need to learn how to deal with them,
because they can affect your mental health, it's not good.
Now one of the most common types of comment we get,
is about
you being gay.
I'm not gay, just because I sleep with a man?
That's what you keep saying.
It is obvious, I mean you can see it from space with him can't you really?
When he's talking, sometimes it sounds like somebody's letting a tire down doesn't it?
[Laughing]
Don't you think? [Laughing]
[Laughing]
You swine!
[Music playing]
Oh dear.
Oooh!
It's funny though isn't it how, shove down my throat rhymes with Foxes Afloat.
Did we do that on purpose?
I don't know if we did that on purpose, but it is it is a coincidence
and as for us for misery, put out of our misery,
I think the clue is in the word gay isn't it?
It's like, Gaaay!
[Laughs] It's what?
Gaaay!
[Laughing]
Put out of our misery?
My vet won't let me [Laughs]
We are quite happy people, most of the time anyway.
Yes.
Well I don't,
the old coming out thing, how did your parents take it?
Errr,
Very well actually.
I had just one question asked.
Which, do we want to know?
Did you choose it, or did it choose you?
Oh right. OK, that a weird one.
Yeah.
Because you know, most people don't understand
and when I said, it chose me
Eenie meenie miney, Shaun. You're gay.
There you go.
When I said it chose me, my Mam just went, that's fine.
I shouldn't really tell the story of when I told my parents i was coming out.
[Laughs]
[Car tyres screeching]
[Sound of tree falling over]
[Music playing]
I hope it's warmer in hell [Laughs]
You can't say that.
Well!
That's normally you that say that.
Well they're sending me there.
Who says homosexual anymore anyway?
No idea.
Homersex. . . if you say homosexual in a really posh voice and slowly, it sounds like Homer Simpson.
[Laughs]
Yeah, excuse me but I'm a Homer Simpson.
I think what we're gonna do,
I think what we're gonna do for this guy,
is we're going to put a little bit of homosexual in an envelope
and send it to him
and then hopefully, he might open it and catch it.
[Laughs] Catch it?
Didn't we have sodomy for tea with haggis?
[Laughing]
You can't say that.
You have got to be really careful on the internet,
sometimes.
Shaun bought a book the other day off,
I can't remember which auction site it was,
that rhymes with gay as well
and it was a book about how to avoid online scams.
Never turned up did it?
[Laughing]
You weren't expecting that one was you?
No I wasn't, I was thinking, what book did I buy?
There are some good things you can do to avoid trolls though.
So if you're on YouTube one of the good things you can do is
you can actually stop certain people from commenting on your channel.
If you get a comment that you don't like,
you just click the little options box at the side
and it opens up a list of options, believe it or not
and one of them is called, hide from channel.
The reason this is a great feature
is this will remove the comment from your channel
and the only person who will ever see that comment
and any subsequent comments that they put on your channel,
is them
and they don't know that you've blocked them,
[Laughs]
so they're tapping away, wasting their energy every time,
thinking that they're trolling you
and nobody can see it
except them.
[Laughs] It's brilliant.
[Music playing]
Well I'll tell you what happened,
I ended up setting up an only fans page and it's doing quite well thank you very much.
Okay.
I've always been my ideal weight.
What's your ideal weight?
My ideal weight is Justin Bieber laying on top of me.
[Laughing]
They call me a DILF you know.
DILF?
Do you mean Wilf?
It probably might me Wilf, I am going a little bit grey aren't I on the back and sides.
[Laughs]
We did get a volunteer moderator,
who started to look at the comments on our YouTube and Twitter and Facebook and Instagram
and filter out all the really bad ones,
because it does affect your mentalhealth if you let it get to you
Yeah.
and the moderator was kind of skimming the bad ones away
and leaving the cream of the comments for us to enjoy and answer
and we do always recommend that you block ignore and move on
if you see any bad comments.
But sometimes that's not such a great idea,
if you get one that's really bad,
maybe threatening or lying,
then it's always best to report it.
To YouTube and the police.
And tell a friend, talk to a friend about it,
don't just kind of let it
whirr around in your head.
You have a lot of whirring lately don't you?
Oh there's so much whirring.
Hear it in bed sometimes.
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That comment didn't appear on YouTube or on social media,
it appeared on a canal forum online, on a website
and
the really sick thing about it, is that it appeared on the day
of Shaun's Dad's funeral,
which hurt even more, it wasn't true by the way.
In fact it was so untrue and we had so much evidence to prove it was untrue,
that the guy refused to take the comment down
and we actually ended up taking legal action against him
involving the police
and in the end he was forced to remove the comment,
he was forced to apologise to us
and he had to pay all the costs involved in getting that resolution.
Result!
and that kind of was a point for us where we decided zero tolerance
on people that were going to be lying and really nasty about us
because there's no need for it
and some people will cry, oh it's free speech
and we're totally for free speech
but there's a difference between free speech
And insults.
and lying.
Insults can be free speech,
Well!
but when you're actually lying about somebody
online and telling other people,
that's not on
and that's what I was talking about earlier, don't ignore that type of trolling.
Report it to the police, report it to the platform that it's been posted on
and if you need to, take legal action, because you shouldn't have to put up with that.
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To be fair, we are an embarrassment most of the time
and we had a couple of washed up gay boys, so,
I mean half of it was correct.
As for the suicidal thing and no great loss,
well,
I do like to talk about mental health and some people don't get that
No.
and and that's fine
I think the thing that shocked us about that particular comment was who it came from.
Yeah.
Normally it's uh kind of faceless, anonymous, keyboard warriors.
This one actually came from a couple of quite well-known
vloggers on YouTube
errrr and that that really shocked us
and I think that shocked the other people that saw that comment as well.
I think so.
Sad that some people have to resort to that,
although we are an embarrassment sometimes, there you go.
Well!
Do you remember Nick Ross on Crimewatch?
Oh yes.
Do you remember what he used to say at the end of every Crimewatch?
Don't have nightmares.
Don't have nightmares, that's right
and i say that
because you think the comments that we've shown you so far are pretty bad,
wait till you see this one.
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First of all and I don't like to pull people up on this, but,
look at your spelling.
[Laughs]
It's hard to be frightened when I have to try and work out the grammar and spelling in a death threat
I know.
isn't it, that's just a bit weird is that one
and the other thing for this guy is,
he really shouldn't have posted it from his facebook account
that had his real name,
his real address,
his workplace,
A photo of his passport.
a photograph of his passport and driving license
on his Facebook.
Again,
we reported that one to the police
and we we've got told that action had been taken against him.
It doesn't stop there though,
not just threats against us,
it threats against our pets too.
Yeah.
About two months after Dillon died,
when we were in London,
well he didn't die in London, but it's two months after we were in London
Yeah.
and we got this one.
[Music playing]
Quire boys?
Aren't they a rock band?
Or is he thinking of choirboy, a bit like him from,
🎶 Walking in the air 🎶
Do you know what I mean, Alex Jones.
Didn't she do, The One Show?
One Show?
Yeah, that's the Welsh girl isn't it, who am I thinking of then?
The One Show, have you heard him singing The One Show, no don't, don't, don't!
You know the theme to The One Show, don't you?
🎶 One!!! 🎶
No, Aled Jones, that's who I was thinking of.
Sorry, tickled your nipple then,
Aled Jones.
Oh yeah, he used to be a choirboy.
He might have meant queer boy.
Probably.
Anyway.
[Sighs]
Dillon didn't die from being poisoned,
Dillon had a tumor on his liver and that's that's why he died
and the other thing is, again,
not the same guy, different guy but still from Facebook,
who had a photograph of his car registration on there,
so again report to the police.
Bazaar!
At the end of the day a troll's only power is your attention,
if you take that away,
the troll is powerless
Yes.
and you just have to sit in his dark room, twirling his Dick Dastardly mustache.
[Laughing loudly]
I thought you was going to say. . . [Laughing loudly]
[Laughing loudly]
Oh god! [Laughing loudly]
Are you alright?
I thought that was going to be a 'you can't say that' moment then.
[Laughing]
It's like, Points of View this isn't it?
It is.
Do you want to be Barry Took or Anne Robinson?
Oh, I'll be Anne Robinson
Oh good, because I always fancied myself as a bit of Barry Took .
Google it if you don't know what we're talking about.
And finally,
As you all know,
we moved off our boats last October
and some people weren't very happy about that.
No!
[Music playing]
Well I don't think we'll be getting a Christmas card off him this year do you?
[Laughing]
Oh dear!
[Music playing]
When he said losing all our subscribers, I had a bit of a panic,
so I had a look at the analytics on YouTube.
Now on the weekend that we released the vlog that said
we were no longer living on the boat, we were staying in Scotland,
we had 139,000 subscribers
Yes.
and a few stragglers.
Yes.
As of recording this video, we've got 139,000 subscribers
And a few stragglers.
So I don't know where losing them all comes from
No neither do I.
to be honest.
But anyway regardless of that, we
fully expected to lose, in fact we we expected to lose
about half of our subscribers
Yeah.
when we came off the boat, so
we are losing people who only watched us for boating content,
but then again we're picking people up who love the Scotland content.
Yeah.
It's a little bit like swings and roundabouts isn't it?
I like swings and roundabouts.
Some will fall off, some are pushed
[Laughs]
and then others kind of jump on, don't they?
Yeah.
I like pushing them off, don't you?
Ohhhh!
One thing I've learned over the last four years is,
and that's quite a long time in Youtube years
It is actually.
Is not to let the pressure of the channel get to.
I used to be absolutely fascinated with the analytics
and obsessed with numbers, obsessed with subscriber numbers,
obsessed with viewing figures
and especially obsessed with answering every single comment
Yeah.
and that's not good for your health and I found that out from my own experience
and I think when a channel grows to a certain size,
there comes a point where you've got to either get help with it,
or you've got to come back a little bit
and understand that you can't control this on your own
Yeah.
and it can have a detrimental effect on your mental health,
not just mine i see it with a lot of other channels that grow,
especially ones that grow quite quickly and you're not used to it.
So there's always things you can do,
you've got hide from channel,
which is especially useful.
You could find yourself a volunteer moderator,
you can turn off comments.
Yes you can.
What you can also do, is in YouTube settings,
you can add words, keywords
and if any of these words are in comments, it will automatically hide them
from the comments, from public comments on your wall.
So nobody else sees them and that comes in very handy .
Yeah.
It's just quite fun writing all the words down, because some of them are very very naughty
but you can do that.
Don't let it get to you,
talk to people if it starts getting to you
and just stand back and think, is this really what i want to be doing?
Yeah
Because, don't let it affect your mental health, it's not worth it.
We hope you found this vlog useful,
I have
it's a little bit different from what we normally do, but I wanted to pass on
a little bit of wisdom that I've got, I don't have a lot of wisdom,
mainly in my teeth.
But we just thought you might like this one.
Mainly glue!
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We're off adventuring again next week.
JEEEEEEEP!
I think there's gold in them there hills.
Ohhhhh!
Don't miss that one, we'll see you next time take care of yourself, bye-bye.
Ta-ra!
In this vlog, we're going to show you how to get rid of trolls.
No!
[Laughs]
You're doing the introduction.
I thought you was going to say hello first.
No.
In this vlog we're going to show you how to get rid of trolls.
Yeah
[Laughs] I've fogotten.
Right,
we're also going to show you how to deal with the really mean people
and I've forgotten the last one.
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Are you ready?
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We're gonna show you some tips on, on how to well basically, I don't know.
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