Cap off an incredibly stupid week of people getting mad at a kid with the Greta Thunberg Helpline

Modern cultural and political discourse, especially as it takes place on the internet, is awful. And yet, despite years and years of witnessing dumbasses yelling at each other online, the angry responses to Greta Thunberg—a 16-year-old environmental activist—are difficult to even believe exist. From the American president through to far-right dipshits and armies of Twitter wastoids, Thunberg has been on the receiving end of a torrent of attacks inspired by her appearing at the United Nations last Monday and giving a rousing, outraged speech about the failures of world leaders to address climate change.
Comedian Mark Humphries and a production team, capturing the specific surrealism of this moment in time, have created a commercial that imagines a fictional (but somehow necessary) Greta Thunberg Helpline where “adults angry at a child” can vent through the phone.
The sketch is a pretty straightforward exploration of that premise: An inspirational piano soundtracks a guy giving his testimonial from the viewpoint of a “a middle-aged man with an embarrassing problem” that involves getting “irrationally angry at a Swedish girl who wants to save the planet.” We’re shown a call center where employees field the concerns of a man upset that Thunberg makes “the end of the world sound like the end of the world” or another who thinks she’s lying about caring about renewable energy because “she doesn’t wear one of those baseball caps with the solar panels and the fan on the front.”