In the first tweet, Gunn responded to an interview quote that he gave, reading: "This morning on [Instagram]: 'This is a threat. If you kill (character name redacted) I will hatecrime you.' Every. Single. Day."
Gunn also replied to a thread on Twitter and shared how he tries to cope with the negativity, he wrote: "If you read the comments below this thread, [there's something] around the average of 75 or 50 positive to 1 negative – too many artists get bogged down in the negative ones and grow numb to the positive ones. I try not to get bogged down in either and stay focused on what I love to do."