The Secret to Silencing Online Haters and Finding Freedom from Negativity!
My journey to light from the Internet's dark side.
Bob Olson’s writing comforts grief and nourishes the soul. He’s the host of Afterlife TV, author of Answers About The Afterlife, Insight from Hindsight, and The Magic Mala, and founder of BestPsychicDirectory.com.
I started Afterlife TV in 2011. At the time, the Internet was just getting to the point where the technology allowed me to present interviews in a side-by-side format, meaning you could see me on the left side of your screen and my guest on the right side. Today, this is commonplace, but in 2011, it was so rare that hundreds of people asked me how I was doing it after I started Afterlife TV.
I had been interviewing people as part of my investigation of life after death for fourteen years. Those interviews were conducted privately in person or over the phone. Now that the technology allowed it in 2011, I was excited to finally be able to record my interviews on video and share them with the public.
At the time, YouTube didn’t have the algorithms it has today, so they showed my videos to random viewers. In essence, YouTube had no idea who might be interested, so they put my videos in front of the general public. The problem with this approach is that many people weren’t happy to see videos about life after death, especially when the content challenged their religious or spiritual beliefs.
Consequently, I received some of the most nasty and vile comments in the first couple of years.