The hosts of The AM Show have swapped stories of the most offensive comments they've received over the internet.
The comments came after social media presenter Aziz Al-Saafin spoke about a new study which showed 57 percent of UK school pupils receive abusive messages on social media.
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Host Duncan Garner said it's not limited to school children, and opened up on how he'd been hurt by comments he'd read about himself online.
"I see [abusive comments] even on this programme and on our Facebook page as well. Some people are really nice, and then there are some people that are complete 'word-I-cannot-insert'," he said.
"I had someone this week tell me I had tree-trunk legs - harsh but true," co-host Ingrid Hipkiss, filling in for Amanda Gillies, said.
"The other one was that I look like a 'before' picture on a botox commercial."
"I got some really nasty ones - I get lots of nasty ones - but you know the one about you?" Garner said, pointing to Hipkiss.
"Did you see what I wrote? I've taken this guy to task, and invited him for a coffee on your behalf - I'm really pissed off about it."
Al-Saafin also shared his experience, and gave an ominous warning about the implications of internet trolling for children.
"I got one earlier this week that said I look like a hobbit walking around on set," he said.
"But here we are talking about the abusive comments we get as adults - and there are times when we take it to heart - so imagine these school children who haven't been through life, and haven't experienced the kind of things we have.
"They can't handle this kind of stuff."
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