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Bill Nye 'The Science Guy' reads mean tweets about himself in viral video

By Karen Butler
Bill Nye faces down his Twitter critics by reading and mocking their mean tweets in a new YouTube video. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI
Bill Nye faces down his Twitter critics by reading and mocking their mean tweets in a new YouTube video. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI | License Photo

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 2 (UPI) -- Author and television personality Bill Nye "The Science Guy" can be seen reading mean tweets about himself in a new viral video.

The nearly 3-minute clip has gotten about 2.5 million views since Friday. Nye released it to raise awareness about his Kickstarter campaign for an upcoming film project.

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The video shows Nye reading numerous, insulting posts -- many of them riddled with expletives and factual, spelling or grammatical errors. Complaints covered his perspectives regarding evolution and global warming, as well as the educational programs that made him famous.

"I hate watching these bill nye videos I rather watch paint dry," he quoted one tweet as the post was shown on the screen.

"It doesn't say, 'I'd,' it just says 'I,'" Nye noted. "Let me ask you something: Does it dry from the top first and the bottom later? Or does it dry from the bottom first and the top later? You could find out. You could observe it for yourself."

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