I'm sure I approached this topic in the past, but I'm gonna do it again, simply because it's a good idea to talk about this once in a while, both for myself and for those who need to be reminded that how we feel is, most of the time, our responsibility.
When I'm on YouTube trying to find something interesting to watch, I often stumble upon videos about feminism, drama on Twitch, people criticizing others for their decisions, copygright abuses on the platform, and so on.
Those kind of topics attract me in a way, like they attract a lot of other people, and the reason is fairly simple - we enjoy drama. We enjoy negativity. We may not enjoy it when something bad happens to us, but when it does to other people, we kinda like seeing how things are going.
I'm not sure why, but it's just how it is.
However, that drama will sometimes lead to something you may not like, to something that may "offend" you, something that may upset you. It may be someone criticizing something you believe in, or someone using a word you hate, or someone criticizing something you really like.
And when that happens, we usually have two ways to react - either leave a comment or send a message to that person explaining how we're right and how they are wrong, or criticizing that person for criticizing something we like, or, the second option, we can simply leave.
The thing about "leaving" is that doing that often seems like a defeat. It feels like we didn't act the way we should have, and that we let the other person "get away" with their critiques without defending what we so much like.
But saying something to someone who talks trash about what we like often leads to absolutely nothing. We sometimes live under the impression that we can change the opinions of other people, but we rarely can. If someone thinks that what you like is bad, then it's gonna be hard to change their opinion no matter what you do.
And if that's the case, then you're stuck with a feeling that makes you feel powerless, like someone kicked something you love and you weren't capable of doing anything at all.
That's why it's a good idea to simply ignore criticism and things you don't like. Even if you get "hurt", even if you get "offended", there's simply nothing you can do about it. You have no influence over your feelings and how you feel about different situations, but you do have control over your reaction.
Simply getting away from the video/article/person who made you feel bad is the best thing you can do. It may not feel like it at that moment, but in the long run, you'll realize it's just the only way to enjoy your time on the Internet without being constantly angry.
That's why I don't watch videos about feminists any more. That's why I mute almost everyone in League of Legends nowadays, and I almost always play alone. That's why I'm not getting in conversations on Twitter and I just block people that I dislike.
It's just not worth spending time trying to convince someone that they're wrong, or that they are negative people, or hypocrites. You probably won't be able to change their mind, and that will only lead to more frustration.
How you feel about most things in life may not be under your control at the beginning. In time however, you're the one who decides how to feel based on what videos you watch, what articles you read, what games you play, and so on.
It's no one's responsibility to care for you and to make you happy. It's definitely no one's responsibility to censor themselves or the things they do because you don't like them or their actions. You're the one controlling whether to be around those people or not, or whether to be interested in what they do or to simply ignore them.
So, instead of complaining that life is ugly, unfair and that nothing is the way it should, maybe it's time for you to change the things you focus on and invest more energy and time into searching for the things you like.