Andrew Rooney

I've firmly put myself, um, as not a serious drummer because I don't get it.

You're a hobbyist consumer.

at best you just you do not get it so it's very hard to help those people or turn them around do you do you get into those comments and have a read and or do you have you taught yourself like it's just not not i used i've been through it you know i've used to so like the first guy that i don't know whatever the first person said that got me like oh you know oh you're bald you suck i've seen your videos you can't even play you know whatever it was

Originally, I would click on their profile.

Like, who is this guy?

You know?

Who is this?

Click on it.

Have a look.

Oh, it's a 10-year-old kid.

Or someone with no videos.

Or some guy who's filming very bizarre content in his mum's basement.

And it's like, okay.

Like, there's no win here.

And you're probably just helping the algorithm after a while because other people are coming and going, hey, shut up, who are you?

feel the pain a little bit but like learn to process it and just accept that you're gonna get it which is sort of your part too yeah you're not special it's not like it's not like it's a truth or anything it's just it's part it's the cost of it yeah you know um you can't avoid it no when i was gigging and teaching i never got hate you know i didn't get parents coming up and saying hey you're ugly you suck you're not even a real drum teacher blah blah blah

Because why would you, right?

Because you're literally teaching them.

So it's only an online world.

Yeah.