In general KD is right.
People who harass athletes and entertainers on social media if they saw them in person would act like giggling high school girls meeting Bieber.
What trolls are looking for no matter if you are famous or not is a reaction, so they have to say mean things in the hope that you react.
Because if you don’t react their lives are more or less invisible. Here is what KD had to say to ESPN about dealing with his social media haters.
Directly under his message were tweets from some of his 15 million followers, many unrelated to the topic at hand. His Twitter mentions read, “Snake,” “traitor,” “you backstabbed an entire city,” “please don’t exist,” “Benedict Arnold” and “I hate you,” to reference a few.
“It is what it is, but I tell you one thing, all that stuff stays [online]. Nobody’s ever coming to me in my face and saying none of that,” Durant said to ESPN.
“It’s jokes. Everybody is just waiting for it. If you really didn’t care [what I say], you wouldn’t even follow my tweets. So obviously you care about something. But what, I’m going to get mad at that? Hell nah.”
“That’s what kind of makes their day,” Durant said to ESPN. “Just being like, ‘Oh, I talked to one of my favorite basketball players [on social media]. Even though I hate him, but he’s still one of my favorites. I talked to a celebrity I really like but everybody else hates him, so I’m going to join in on the party.’
“Everybody’s jumping on the waves. That’s just how it is.”
“So if you want to heckle or if you want to cheer, as long as you’re getting a release from whatever is going on in your normal life, that’s cool. That’s what life is about. You have to take the good with the bad.”
It probably bugs him more than he is letting on because he is human, but his outlook on it is the correct one.
You can’t stop anyone from feeling a certain way, so why bother?