It's So Hard to Be Nice

"*If the internet truly is making people meaner, who better to study that than a teacher of etiquette?*"
―Erik
It's So Hard to Be Nice is the 128th lesson of Internet Comment Etiquette. It was released on April 8, 2021.

## Summary

Erik wants to teach his students how to be nice, but he can't because he's not nice. He takes some experimental pills from Doctor Frank that block the meanness chemicals in his brain. Frank warns him not to take too many at once, but Erik starts chugging them.

Erik decides to study meanness on the internet, so he looks for a video that he can't say anything nice about. He decides on mukbang, a Korean genre of videos where people loudly eat on camera. He watches some and leaves a nice comment. Since the pills work, he decides to leave a nice comment about the worst thing he can possibly think of: Ted Cruz. He apologizes to Ted Cruz on Twitter, but it's on April 2 and everything thinks he missed April Fool's Day. Then he steps out a moment to lose his shit because he said something nice to Ted Cruz and plays an ad segment for Raycon.

Erik plays Pavlov and wins the game for his team, but then Fuzzbud goes and teamkills him. Erik goes on a tangent about the nature of the internet and whether it's really worth trying to be nice, but the guy he's talking to on Omegle is too busy masturbating to answer him. Erik snorts some more pills and finds a dumb person in the comments of his Get a Vaccine video. He leaves a nice reply. Then he goes to r/childfree and finds a post where is a bad driver and blames some parents. He takes some pills and leaves a nice reply.

Erik decides to spread some positivity on Twitter next. He finds a bunch of people complaining about Coke, so he tries to give it a positive spin, but he accidentally sends Ann Coulter a picture of a naked old man's butt. To put his new positivity to the test, he watches a disturbing, nonsensical video featuring people dressed as popular characters and gibberish in the comments. He makes up a lie about being a single mother for his comment. He decides that all of our online personas are really lies anyway, but with his pills the lie becomes nice. Then Erik realizes that he's out of pills and panics.

Erik has Alexa call Dr. Frank, bur Dr. Frank reveals that they were just sugar pills. Erik is proud of himself for being nice all on his own, but then he realizes that means he was nice to Ted Cruz all on his own. He sends a mean tweet to balance it out. Then, realizing he no longer needs to be nice, he goes on a teamkilling rampage against Fuzzbud.

## Comments

*Fuck, you are getting so fat I started sweating just watching you sweat.*
- BB

*Hold me upside down like a beet bottle and chug turds out of my asshole*
- Erik

*Erik, you are so creative and funny. Thank you for sharing your unique sense of humor with us.*
- Adam Vaughn

*I'm going to beat the fucking shit out of you*
- Erik

*Hey I think I finally understand mukbang videos after watching this. I sat through the whole thing while I ate a cheesy gordita crunch from taco bell, and even though I was all alone in my apartment it still felt like I had someone hanging out with me. You know what I think I'll call up my buddy who I used to get lunch with all the time and see how he's doing. Thank you for reminding me how important human interaction is to our well being. Also next time I'm at the zoo I'm gonna show this video to the Tiger enclosure and see if any of them leap the fence and turn me into a human mukbang lol jk. But seriously though you might want to mukbang some probiotics after this because I got a Nephew who ate like that and now he can't bend his ankles. Subbed!*
- Erik

*I'm sorry @tedcruz for all of the mean things I've said about you over the years.*
- @commentiquette

*Used to enjoy when you were non political. And focused on hilarious subjects. Unsubbed. Seem like a virtue signal brainwashed fool now. Return to original funny content.*
- Alpha Omicron Games

*Hey sorry you don't dig the show anymore. It's always been kinda political in nature though, so I'm wondering if there was a time when you were just okay with that? No worries either way. Things change. People change. One quick thing, don't know if you actually understand the definition of "virtue signaling" but it does not stand for any time a white person acknowledges racism. For me to be virtue signaling, I'd have to be making a big deal of not being racist because it's important that people know I'm not racist. But for all I know I probably am racist, so if that's your thing stay subbed. Alright love ya bye*
- Erik

*I have a feeling that kid's not gonna be running out into the street anytime soon after that encounter! Good thing you were quick on the brakes. Ultimately a harmless lesson in why not all parental advice should be ignored. Unfortunately I wasn't so lucky as I ran over an entire boy scout troop with a hay baler while working on my pig farm. It was the middle of the day and these boys were keeping off the streets because a stranger tried talking to them. I was cleaning badge particles out of my hair for weeks. Just remember it could happen anywhere. Hope that makes you feel better and here's a picture of my hog**https://imgur.com/gallery/33XnGab*
- Erik

*Dr. Pepper is better than Coke, anyway.*
- @AnnCoulter

*I agree!*
- Erik

*As a single mother of three, I am eternally grateful for this genre of youtube videos. I work from home and my kids can be pretty rowdy so anytime I need some peace and quiet I just play one of these videos and boom it’s like I got the whole place to myself. The best part is unlike the actual spiderman or elsa movies, when one of these videos is over it'll just autoplay the next one so I can keep my kids in a vegetative state for days on end when I need to.**My youngest used to be loud and inquisitive, always tinkering with things around the house and making a mess but after a year of watching people from the Philippines dressing up as Disney intellectual property and getting each other pregnant with bouncy balls, he's now almost completely nonverbal. I'm thinking a couple more weeks and he won't even remember his own name, which is good because I hate that he's named after his cheating pig of a father and I always wanted a redo on that. I showed this channel to my PTA group last night and some of them were worried about the cognitive effects this could have on developing minds but whatever it's not like kids shows are supposed to be smart. I grew up with The Teletubbies, who didn't even speak a human language and I turned out fine if you ignore my various prescription pill dependencies. Just wanted to say thank you and bless you for saving my family because I was one stupid question away from dropping these kids off in front of a church and starting a new life as a 40 year old sugar baby. Love this channel almost as much as I hate my kids.*
- Erik

*@tedcruz play my dick like a clarinet you body-stacking piece of shit. The only people who like you are men who need to stay soft while nude modeling because your partial birth abortion of a face kills boners like you kill capitol police in that it's indirect but still your fault*
- @commentiquette

## Context

1. ↑ Coke had recently come out with an official statement that people should be allowed to vote in a republic. This made many conservatives very upset.
2. ↑ Ted Cruz was one of the primary individuals that fed lies about the 2020 election to the public, resulting in the 1/6 attack on the United States Capitol Building.

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