I live in Maine, people usually give me praise but i hang out in big crowds, and being 6’2" with green hair and yo-yoing i stand out just a bit, but living in Maine we have hicks and lots of them more then we have average people, and these hicks are really judgmental, so being 1 of all 8 people in Maine that yoyo i get a lot of gibe from them.
So apparently I was yoyoing outside once, and a third grader saw me from a distance and said “if he’s trying to get a girlfriend, he’s doing it wrong”. One of my friends was student-teaching at the time and told me.
All in all I understand all the negative people give so I say forget the nay sayers it doesn’t bother me I’m 24 I was throwing in high school most recently picked it back up still can do most of the tricks I learned back then and still trying to come up with my own style. I work in a casino with thousands of people, i was throwing one day at work and my buddy was watching (who I gave an old pro-z to and can bind with with the one worn sticker in it) someone say wtf are you doing normal response yoyoing he says “dude that’s for kids” my buddy goes can you do any of that? Other guy goes no, buddy goes that’s a shame thought you were a kid. I shoot him a high five and thanks dude after that he brought his to work and when we have a break together we yoyo and make people say wow that’s impressing. Forget the negative everyone has an opinion and no one really needs to voice it. Yoyo on brothers!!
This wasn’t particularly annoying, but there’s a few kids at school who say stuff like “IS THAT IT?” or “WHAT ELSE CAN YOU DO?” No one really likes them though.
my personal favorite is when some little snowflakes parent tries to buy my yoyo for there 3 year old and the proceeds to tell me i’m lying when I tell them the price.