Life's too short for me to concern myself with people who don't like me for any reason. There's plenty more people who like and respect me for who I am, what I've done and what I'll do in the future.
Unfortunately, that isn't what Kat is referring to in her piece.
To use a real-life example: When TPIR taped on my birthday in 2007, Drew surprised me by bringing me out on stage right before Plinko. By sheer coincidence, that also happened to be the day in which the new daytime Plinko winnings record was set. Because of that, the clip was posted to
, complete with my little cameo.
A while back, out of curiosity (and knowing what I was getting myself into ahead of time), I scrolled through the comments on the video. As is always the case on YouTube, the comments were filled with an unsettlingly high number of poorly-thought-out remarks. As I perused them, one of my primary reactions was a sincere hope that Kristy the contestant never looked at them.
Most of the comments were about one of three topics:
1) HDTVs were comically expensive in 2007 compared to today
2) That P.A. sure is a geeky dweeb loser
3) Inappropriately sexual comments about Kristy's appearance
The comments about me, I didn't mind -- I'm used to reading idiotic, offensive comments on the internet; I was doing a silly voice anyway; and in many ways, I do resemble (and am) a socially awkward nerd. (However, I should clarify that I'm not defending or excusing those types of comments in general.) But put yourself in the contestant's shoes and read some of the things that these anonymous creeps said about her. She visited
The Price Is Right to have some fun and win some stuff, not to have strangers make suggestive comments about watching her jump up and down.
Kat isn't talking about the commenters who criticize her for being on the show. She's talking about the commenters who criticize her physical appearance, often in highly inappropriate ways.
