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Thank You Hater!

Rebecca Watson June 8, 2012
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Thank You Hater!

Isabel Fay and Clever Pie have created the greatest YouTube video of all time. Yes, better than that sneezing panda. Audio is occasionally NSFW, but fuck it, it’s Friday!

Noted freethinkers Isy Suttie, Richard Herring, and Josie Long all appear to read off some of their favorite troll comments. Full lyrics over on the YouTube page. It’s tough to pick a favorite line, but I really, really enjoy the refrain:

“Some might say you’re a sexually aggressive, racist, homophobe, misogynistic, cowardly, illiterate, waste of human skin, but I say, ‘Thank you, beautiful stranger.’”

Thanks to Scott Sigler for sending this one along!

By Rebecca Watson
Rebecca leads a team of skeptical female activists at Skepchick.org and appears on the weekly Skeptics' Guide to the Universe podcast. She travels around the world delivering entertaining talks on science, atheism, feminism, and skepticism. There is currently an asteroid orbiting the sun with her name on it. You can follow her every fascinating move on Twitter: @rebeccawatson.

19 Comments

  1. Amy  /  June 8, 2012, 1:30 pm

    That video made me so happy I can hardly stand it.

  2. Anne S  /  June 8, 2012, 1:35 pm

    “You wished me cancer, and misspelled “cancer”
    But I know that it’s a metaphor: you hope that I will grow
    Just like the tumor you hoped would kill me
    Inside the tits on which you said you’d also like a go”

  3. pascale68  /  June 8, 2012, 1:42 pm

    Awesome! And was that Mickey from Doctor Who?

    • Narvi  /  June 8, 2012, 2:20 pm

      That was Noel Clarke, yes.

  4. tosufai  /  June 8, 2012, 1:46 pm

    That was wonderful. I pretty much lost it at the “leave Justin Bieber” alone comment.

    But better than sneezing panda? Now, now, let’s be reasonable.

  5. yarro  /  June 8, 2012, 2:26 pm

    What a delightful video. So funny.
    I could really use a pick me a up after the disappointing 1-1 of Poland against Greece.

    @pascale68 Yep, that was Mickey from Doctor Who. And some of the best of British alternative comedy.

  6. benjaminsa  /  June 8, 2012, 2:55 pm

    Roflol, I think in future instead of replying to hateful comments they just get linked to this video. I lost it at the point misery bear showed up : D

    • Amy  /  June 8, 2012, 3:31 pm

      Yep, I have it bookmarked. It’s the new Rick Roll for trolls.

  7. PMgep  /  June 8, 2012, 3:13 pm

    How wonderful! I need that in my play list.

  8. skepchickmagnet  /  June 8, 2012, 4:17 pm

    There are quite a lot of jerks on youtube.

  9. Improbable Joe  /  June 8, 2012, 5:19 pm

    … fucking Sigler. Great video though!

  10. martian_bob  /  June 8, 2012, 6:01 pm

    “You’re right about that laughing kid, he is a total cnut.” Brilliant.

  11. Grand Lunar  /  June 8, 2012, 9:45 pm

    Absolutely brillant!
    And a great message too.

  12. vexorian  /  June 9, 2012, 5:48 pm

    The cursed ear worm that is the “sexually aggressive, racist, homophobe, misogynistic, cowardly, illiterate, waste of human skin”.

    Can’t remove from my head!

  13. Chris_H  /  June 10, 2012, 12:35 am

    I am so happy that I got to introduce this to my eighteen year old daughter. Finally an internet meme I got to first! Yes!

    Of course, to be fair it is just the week before finals and she has actually been doing stuff for school. She being one of weird teenagers who wants to get good grades and all.

  14. Madfishmonger  /  June 11, 2012, 11:15 am

    Brilliant.

  15. slxpluvs  /  June 12, 2012, 1:05 am

    Whoever posted this vdeio is a maron.

  16. skepmaam  /  June 12, 2012, 1:12 am

    Cheered me right up.

  17. aiabx  /  June 12, 2012, 10:59 am

    Maybe cacner is something good, like an ice-cream whisky float.

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