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I’m hesitant to even make a comment about this, but I know for a fact that Janey Godley is not a very nice person. I personally know some people who were/are involved in the comedy scene and they can all attest that she’s not exactly known for her kindness. I also know that a relatively well known figure on Scottish Twitter was blocked by her when they stated that they found some jokes she apparently made relating to the Alex Salmond trial to be in poor taste. I personally didn’t really pay much mind to her until I casually posted something on Twitter about how I didn’t find her all that funny and about how I’d heard through the grapevine that she wasn’t a very nice person. Her fans found my tweet, threw abuse my way and called me a liar. Janey Godley herself replied and also called me a liar. That made the issue 100x worse. I was a 21 year old student with under 200 followers at the time. She drew unnecessary attention to my account and it honestly made me feel really anxious for a while. I didn’t expect her to find the tweet. I’ve tweeted worse things about lots of other comedians, actors, musicians etc.. and their content before and I’ve never once had that kind of a reaction. A quick search of her name on Twitter shows that she seems to just block anyone who dares criticise her. Sure, she gets a fair amount of criticism. Sure, some of it goes too far (no one deserves to get death threats after all). However, genuine critique just part and parcel of any kind of creative work. Not everyone will like you, your opinions or your creative endeavours in life. It’s important to come to terms with that.

Anyway, rant over. I’m off to scour my account for any identifying details, just in case Janey Godley or her fan base find this comment and I wake up to find I’m public enemy #1 again.