Haters Back Off Episode 1.01 Uploding My Fist Video

Miranda kicks off her quest for fame by uploading a video to the internet. But the first spiteful comment sends her into a tailspin.

Miranda and her adoring uncle Jim upload her first video, her tone-deaf cover of "Defying Gravity". This is the first phase in Jim's 5-phase plan for fame! Miranda embarrasses her sister Emily at Emily's school to meet her "fans"; Miranda is home-schooled by their single mom, Bethany, a hypochondriac who works as a grocery store cashier. Emily asks Bethany to reason with Miranda, but Bethany babies Miranda and cannot stand up to her.

In their cluttered little Tacoma, Washington, house, Miranda is alarmed to receive her first YouTube death threat. But Jim wants to move to phase 2 by getting Miranda on TV in an ad for his employer, a fish store. Miranda's best friend, Patrick, is smitten with her. He sells ice cream and gives her a popsicle every day from his bicycle cooler. He goes to the fish store as security against the potential internet killer, armed with swords. The fish at the store die under the hot lights set up for the ad. When the store's owner arrives, Miranda screams and Patrick almost kills the owner before Emily confesses to anonymously posting the death threat.

Miranda is devastated by the betrayal but vows to follow the advice in another YouTube comment: "Keep trying". Emily and Miranda agree to pretend in public that they are not sisters. Jim, fired from the fish store, is pleased to be free to become Miranda's full-time manager. Miranda's video has accumulated dozens of views, but more hateful comments have arrived.