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Marvel's Tim Dillon and Getting a Thick Skin From Trolls
from #298 - Puerto Rican Papi | The Tim Dillon Show · #298
3 min
Tim discusses developing thick skin from years of Opie and Anthony subreddit trolling, and the funny mix-up where a Marvel employee also named Tim Dillon gets hate meant for the comedian, plus a same-name mix-up with a non-fighter Jon Jones.
- Tim explains how trolling from the Opie and Anthony subreddit years ago gave him thick skin.
- There's another Tim Dillon at Marvel whose Twitter handle says 'not the comedian' because he gets bombarded with tweets meant for the comedian.
- Similar situation with Jon Jones the fighter, who gets harassed with messages when the actual Jon Jones gets in trouble.
- Tim cites the South Park episode where a dad becomes an internet troll and explains his motivation as simply 'because it's funny.'
- People working boring jobs go online and troll because it's entertaining, and Tim admits he does it on flights when bored.
- The problem with trolling occurs when the criticism is actually valid and someone pulls on a thread that genuinely hurts.