This is such a bummer. I hope that Bill has just hired some people to work within his social media team, and he doesn’t realize or understand that they seem to be gross Pepes.

I hope that someone convinced him that doing this shit is just a way of being “controversial” because there’s no such thing as bad press or attention, and they made him believe that there’s this vast audience of people who are shitty like them who will give him money and attention.

I hope that all of that is true, because then maybe someone can talk with him, and help him see that it’s toxic and cruel and hurting a lot of people who sincerely look up to him and have been positively affected by his work.

He was mean to me when I was a kid, but he apologized, and has been kind to me ever since. I want so badly for this to not be the guy I’ve known a little bit for over thirty years, because it breaks my heart, if this is who he is in his own heart.

I want – I need – to believe that this is the work of shitty little self-proclaimed social media gurus, and that he isn’t actually this awful person who was being shitty to marginalized people on Twitter, because the Internet already has one Adam Baldwin and we don’t need another one.