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Fitness influencer Ashy Bines has responded to trolls in a lengthy video after discovering her name on a 'hate' forum.
On Monday, the 32-year-old took to Instagram to question those who had commented on the page, saying she was 'genuinely struggling to understand' why someone would follow her while disliking her so much.
Ashy, who has one million Instagram followers, later said she wondered why 'everyone is so much harder on people with a platform', saying she believes 'everyone is equal whether we have '5,000, 500,000 or five million followers'.
Questioning the trolls: On Monday, Ashy Bines took to Instagram to question those who had commented about her in a hate forum, saying she was 'genuinely struggling to understand the mindset' of why anyone would follow her should they dislike her that much
Discussing the forum, she began: 'There's hundreds of comments by these women, making comments about who they hate, why they hate them, etcetera etcetera.
'Of course my name popped up, which it does not bother me at all. I'm so past the point of trying to please everyone.
'The comments about me were things from my past, even things I was doing on the weekend - what me and my friends were wearing, what we were doing, just saying how annoying I am.'
She then left a question box on a following slide, saying she wanted to 'genuinely understand' why people