In the United States, a late-night television program created a regular feature that has celebrities read the comments made about them on Twitter.
The comments are - to borrow the words of Constable Joe Smyth - "rude, inappropriate, [and] hateful". He was speaking about comments aimed at politicians but his description of many Twitter comments.
Americans laugh at them. Some of the celebrities offer a pithy comment in return or flip the bird. But most laugh.
On Jimmy Kimmel's show they call the segment "Mean Tweets".