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Well, have you seen my mascot on Twitter? A lot of you are not famous, but when you get famous you can get a mascot. Now excuse me, he doesn't think he's a mascot, but I don't think that's up to him. He thinks he's my critic who spends all of his days researching old tweets I've made to put them into the comments section of anything I tweet to criticize me. Now of course everything's out of context and his criticisms are nonsensical. But rather than blocking him, which would be too easy, because he seems to have dedicated a good part of his day every day to just trying to say bad things about me on my Twitter feed, I decided to reframe him as my mascot. Because mascots are silly and you don't really care what they do. They just draw attention to you. So here's my mascot from now on. And I referred to him as my mascot and he tried to respond to that with a clever rejoinder.

Now here is a problem. I'm a professional humorist. He's a guy who spends most of his day criticizing a stranger. He can't really compete in this reframing stuff. But he tried and he's a very entertaining mascot.

Now I've used this reframe before and it's one that you can use. I've told you this before. Back when I owned a restaurant one of the employees decided to do a protest. So he staged his own protest every day with a little sign just by himself in front of the restaurant. And day after day he'd be there and my manager at the time said, you know, what do we do about this? And I said, do about it? Why would you want to fix anything? Not everybody gets a mascot. And so we redefined the protester as a mascot and as soon as we did it just wa