Marcel Winatschek

Meghan Reads the Hate

You make a video, post it, and the comments roll in. Most of them are people telling you to die.

That’s what happened to Meghan. She made short videos on Vine, had a distinctive voice, and attracted the kind of strangers who seemed to have an endless reserve of cruelty but nothing else to offer. The comments piled up: never speak again, you should be dead, kill yourself.

Instead of disappearing, she started reading them back. Just grabbed the harshest ones, said them out loud on camera, and laughed. Turned the cruelty into comedy. Made the abuse hers.

I respect that. The plain cool of someone who took cruelty and decided she owned the punchline.