I am so OVER all the hostile/holier than thou comments on silly little Reels. I don’t post any video of myself or my daughter riding, but I do love all the little pony gals, etc. Why are people so mean? Is there a safe place for this stuff?
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Why are people so mean? --my thought would be the mean people are envious --who didn’t want to be the little girl with the pony? There is no outlet for the envy --so the mean people post mean things --perhaps it makes them feel better now that they have possibly hurt someone whom they envied.
As to your second question “Is there a safe place for this stuff?” --on the internet, probably no place is safe.
Before I retired from teaching HS (40 years), I was one of the first teachers at my school to create and implement on-line opportunities for my students to do at home if he or she missed class. It would have been very rudimentary on-line learning, that by the time I left teaching, had become a full-blown on-line classroom that a student could log into and participate from home. At one point I was asked if I would agree to have my lectures video-taped so that what I said in class to present a lesson (10-15 min of introduction on why we were reading Dante, author, historical context or similar). The videos would then be put on my classroom website for students to view or review.
I said absolutely not.
I had seen “dubbed” videos where the speaker’s words were replaced . . .so no.
My kiddos and grandkid are all grown up. They left home before posting on the internet became a thing. Today, I don’t think I would post anything of them or about them on the WWW. I do post pix and videos of my horses on FB --and sometimes of me if it is a really good picture --but not my kids.
FYI here is one of my favorite “dubbed” videos --I can only imagine what one of my very clever HS seniors would have done with a video of me discussing Dante!
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This is the best one!
“I was a natural at pony club”
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I don’t usually read comments on reels, but occasionally the algorithm shows me a video of someone doing something stupid, dangerous, abusive, or all 3. If I decide to take a look at the comments, there are usually multiple people pointing out that this is a bad idea. Some of those comments can come across as mean, but frankly I’d rather someone have to read a mean comment on their video than to keep making poor choices with their horses (if in fact the person was actually educated by the comment, which isn’t always the case).
As another option, people just like to get away with being jerks on the internet because they can’t do it in person without getting called out.
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Because even if it has your name attached to it, the internet allows people to feel more powerful because they are more anonymous. Also, people are A holes.
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There is a large contingent of animal rights people out there who will scream abuse on any video of a horse doing anything that resembles work or living in other than what they consider to be the perfect way.
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I also think there are horse people who are quick to scream abuse, too. I have a little insta for my pony, and I’m very, very careful what I post in case someone screams abuse. 
Her little insta is a nice place to meet fellow equestrians and see cute horses and animals, but there is always that fear that someone will come after me. So far, I thankfully haven’t encountered it, but I have read comments on other people’s instagrams, namely big rider’s posts.
That said, I don’t think most people would behave like this in real life, although who knows, to be honest.
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Because the Know-it-all Keyboard Warriors can spew their hysterical ignorance freely.
No repercussions, free to ignore input from someone who might have actual IRL experience.
Pearl-clutching is rampant 
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Oh my thank you for the video, it is hilarious!
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Thank you for the link. This is my new favorite movie
Also, regarding “the internet” it goes both ways when people post publicly. People who don’t know better proudly post extremely bad horsemanship (ex. little kids hanging on a horse’s face where their only stability is a harsh bit), then feel offended when mistreatment (ex. a horse bucking and skipping about on their first jump session after a break) is pointed out. Other people post entirely non-controversial material that people freak out about. If a post is public, the public will respond.
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