Overview
- Caro and Andreas Robens, best known from Vox’s Goodbye Deutschland, described the online abuse in a podcast they recorded and that German outlets reported on Wednesday.
- They said a first wave of hostile comments hit after their earliest TV appearances and that Facebook was an early platform for the insults that shocked them.
- Caro Robens recounted years of attacks focused on her body after she embraced strength training and bodybuilding, including being called both “too thin” and “too muscular.”
- The couple told the podcast they now try to let criticism ‘bounce off’ them and sometimes treat negative comments as useful traffic for their pages.
- Andreas Robens suggested haters are driven by frustration rather than envy of successful people, a view that highlights how reality-TV visibility and social platforms can amplify personal attacks over long periods.