Vaper Bullies! Help me, please

I don't know what to do about the vaper cyber-bullying attack I've been under these past few weeks. I really don't. It was just happening in private messages, mainly on my youtube channel but the newest cartomizer review video I did has pulled them out of the woodwork and into open comments on my youtube channel.

There's been at least one other vaper I know this has happened to, another woman vaping videographer. She's dealt with it pretty much by going away. I didn't know how to help her either, other than going to her channel, giving her thumbs-ups, and leaving encouraging notes. But the vaping cyber-bullies won and drove her away, or at least off of youtube and I rarely see her popping up anyplace else. I'll leave it to her if she wants to let you know who she is, if she's gotten some peace, I don't want to stir things up again for her.

Here's my plea for help from you, the vaping community. Please go to my youtube channel, subscribe, and give me a thumbs up on my videos, not to say you agree with my old-lady ramblings, but just as a way of saying, "I'm with ya." Heck, ya don't even have to watch my videos if you don't want to. Maybe I've just gotten to old and feeble to be doing videos any longer. If so, I need to hear that too. Any of us who is not welcome or wanted in this community needs to at least be told to leave respectfully, yeah?

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I love your video reviews SteelJan the vaping world wont be the same without you
 
SJ don't let the Cyber Bullies get you down. I haven't watched one of your videos yet, I am new here. If you leave you will let them win. Please don't do that. You have a tremendous following and strength on here.

There are a lot of unkind people in this world. It sounds to me like you were a lot of Sunshine to people on here. Please come back and continue to spread it around.

:)
 
I'm pretty sure I haven't missed any of your videos, and some of them I've watched several times. I even showed them to other people: "This is how a vaping video should be done!" Your shows, because that's what they are, put a smile on their faces. Don't let the bullies get you down! How's that saying again? "Sticks and stones..." Oh, and there's nothing old or fragile about you!
 
Steeljan, Please don't go away. You are a wonderful lady that makes videos that teaches me things that I don't know since I'm very new to vaping. Your videos are very enjoyable and you make me smile. It's the nasty, heartless bullies that have no lives that need to go away; certainly not you.

Much Love.
 
I'm coming a bit late to this as my weekend was just non-stop crazy, but I feel bad I didn't notice it and do something to help. What I could have done, I have no idea. I have a deep and difficult to control intolerance to bullies in all their forms.

I'm not going to ask you to stay. You do what you feel is right. I do want to say that I enjoyed your videos and your posts. If you stay away, I will miss your clear technical insight and sunny outlook.
 
The vaping community took a huge hit and a major loss with your exit Jan. I hope you will reconsider. The majority of us are behind you and I personally give you mad respect for the wonderful work you have done for the community. I miss you already !
 
Sorry to see that you feel the need to withdraw, SteelJan, but I can understand it. Idiots do manage to drag us all down in many ways in this world. Please take it to heart that we reasonable people will miss your endeavors to help the vaping community.

I've found your videos to be entertaining and informative, and I will miss them.

I wish you well in whatever you do in the future.
 
I tried to go thumbs-up your videos, but they've all been marked private.

For what it's worth, we're not all .......s. You're already missed.
 
PLEASE don't go SteelJan! Don't let a .....$$ or two ruin it for the rest of us. I don't have a YouTube account but I love watching your videos!
 
Jan, you are so very much loved - everyone I know wants you back. Please reconsider leaving - we've got your back.
 
I am so lost by all of this. I seen PBusardo talking about this in his latest video. I really like watching all of yalls videos and wish there was not dumb people messing it up.
 
Jan, Your engineering perspective toward PVs has led me numerous times in the creation of my own. You have taught me more about the practical function of atomizers than any single source on the internet.

You are a celebrity in this community, and there will always be someone unhappy enough with themselves to take it out on you.

Haters are gonna hate, baby. that's just what they do.

stay strong, and vape long.

WE LOVE YOU,

CG
 
Jan,

You are stronger than you know and need to realize that. You are a good person with a kind heart and high ideals. You are intelligent, articulate, engaging, witty, and able to convey information to others in a way that is a joy to watch.... and it is obvious, to me, that you love to do this. Don't let anyone take that away from you - ever. Don't ever give anyone that kind of power over you. To do so takes away an integral and special part of what makes you who you are.

So very many of us admire and appreciate you AND the time and thought that you put into your wonderfully educational videos. And, honey, there are far more of us than those who are your detractors. Perhaps you do need to take a break and regroup - get your thoughts together and give your wounded heart time to heal. But please, do not forget that you are valued and needed by a large community of vapers who care deeply for and about you and who are waiting, hopefully, for your return to us.

~Tiger
 
I'm so sorry that this is happening. My heart goes out to you......Your a wonderful woman with many many supporters!!!!!!! Please don't stay away too long.
 
Thank you for everything. I will miss your face (and your laugh) on my computer!!!!!!You taught me a lot!

p.s. You were the first to make it possible for me to understand.
 
SteelJan
I am new to ECF & new to vaping.
I did not know who you were until April 1st & I started reading all these posts. Unfortunately i never got to see your videos. But i am very impressed with your following You have so many fans & so much love from this community. WOW.
My old boss had a plaque hanging in his office that read:
"Illegitimi non carborundum"
I will pass it on to you.
Cheers,
Bullette the Cowdog
 
I've always enjoyed your videos, I'm sorry to lose a great resource when researching something new. Hope we see you again soon.... I guess small minded people will take part in small minded actions. Sad to see them cause us to lose your input, it was surely appreciated by all but a very few.
 
This is a crying shame! I feel that the vaping community has lost a very knowledgeable and powerfully informative ally. While I regret your decision to bow out I also understand it. However, I would think your contributions to the community and the positive outpourings would outweigh the negative influences you've come in contact with. I hope you reconsider because if other positive leaders in the vaping community follow this precedent, in the end, all we will have left is a very vocal group of bullying naysayers. They "win" and overall the vaping community absorbs a very big loss. Anyway, I guess all I can say is this is a crying shame! I'm sorry SteelJan!! Much love to you now and always!!!
 
This is so sad!!! I just discovered SteelJan thus evening when searching for Volt reviews on YouTube. After sharing on FB about 30 min ago or so that she was my new favorite YouTube reviewer (her and that chainsaw lol), I start noticing she hasn't been around for the last few years and wonder why...and then find out she was bullied out of the scene??? Dammit. People suck.
 
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