You have their attention
I see that some people tend to confuse hate and attention. Hate is pretty obvious, they do everything to try and bring you down, but a lot of the haters, are paying attention to you most of the time.
They say we're in an attention economy, id you grab attention, you can do a lot with that. You can influence decisions of the masses, hopefully for good and not evil and attention is one of the fastest way to make money.
When someone doesn't like you, you'd think they'd ignore you but actually the opposite happens a lot. Those who tend to comment on every single thing you do with all the negative remarks they can creatively come up with, you really do have their full attention. They're watching you closely while you're just minding your own business.
In a strange way, they're doing what fans do. Of course, sometimes it feels like trolling and stalking, it's not nice but if you can protect yourself from harm, then all you need to do is see it differently, you've got a fan..
They'll likely leave negative comments under your posts on social media, they'll speak bad about you every single time they get the chance, you make the slightest mistake as a human being and they'll blow that mistake way out of proportion just so you can look bad.
That's a hater but while that's happening, they're actually spending their life on you. Wow, how honourable for you to take your precious life and hand it over to me.
Hate hurts only if you think about it in a certain way, but if you are able to see haters as people that are interested in your life and what you're doing, well there's your one way ticket to not giving a fuck anymore
It's funny because I wonder why they even care that much. It could be jealousy, envy or you're way above them and that makes them feel less.
If they didn't care at all what you do, they wouldn't waste their time noticing and responding to your actions.
It doesn't look like admiration but technically it's a kind of admiration if you think about it, you're doing something that gets their attention but instead of applauding they're jealous and that's what's fueling the hate.
There are actual evil people and those people getting hated is actually right. Like if you're a world leader that is making policies that hurt people, you saying you don't give a fuck and using this logic only worsens the case for everyone. I'm not talking about those people.
I'm talking about you out there trying to make it and for some reason, someone hates your very guts.
Deep down, those who hate you want to measure themselves against you. They want to see what you are doing, how well you are doing it and maybe even try to copy it in their own way, it's failing and so envy brings the hate.
It's the nature of human beings, jealousy or envy can lead to criticism.
The big lesson I learn from this is really about self worth, not just about not caring about some opinions.
Chasing approvals all the time is one very tedious and exhausting endeavor and you never finish that journey because when they said haters gonna hate, they fucking meant it all the way to the end.
Just because someone feels threatened by your success and starts dishing out hate speech in your direction doesn't mean start changing so they can stop talking
Let's even say, you actually did such a ridiculous thing, what do you think happens next? They got what they wanted, you stopped doing what made you successful and now you're either as low as they are or even worse. What good came out of that?
Let the hate continue and like I said, protect yourself from their harm and just see them as fans, see their hate as a type of admiration of your work and keep going.