A short motivational YouTube monologue by Omar Zenhom advising creators, entrepreneurs, and people building in public that negative comments are a sign of visibility and emotional impact. The speaker argues that receiving pushback means you are being seen and resonating with some audience; no comments (being invisible) is worse than criticism.
Every single creator, entrepreneur, or anyone building in public deals with a negative comment. The only people that don't get negative comments are the people no one sees. If you're getting pushback, it means you're out there. It means you're visible. That means you're loud enough to be heard. And that's a win. You're triggering some emotion. You're making someone pause. You're making someone take the time to write down a comment, even if it's a negative. And. And listen, a negative comment is not the worst thing. No comments is worse. You don't want to be vanilla. You want to actually strike some emotion inside of people. Because if somebody disagrees with you, or hates on you, or puts something negative out there, it probably means you're going to really resonate with the other people that are on the other side of the spectrum.
