--- title: Kevin Smith Bashes Troll Who Attacked Daughter Harley Quinn description: "Randomly attacking others merely communicates how creatively and emotionally bankrupt you are," Kevin Smith wrote canonical: https://time.com/4456269/kevin-smith-harley-quinn-troll/ author: Sarah Begley article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-17T17:45:49.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:03:10.895Z og:title: Kevin Smith Bashes Troll Who Attacked His Daughter Online og:description: "Randomly attacking others merely communicates how creatively and emotionally bankrupt you are" og:url: https://time.com/4456269/kevin-smith-harley-quinn-troll/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6addb2a2fa993b48/6988a2b097cdffd4aa6ad798/harley-quinn-smith.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: "Suicide Squad" World Premiere - Outside Arrivals og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Kevin Smith Bashes Troll Who Attacked His Daughter Online twitter:description: "Randomly attacking others merely communicates how creatively and emotionally bankrupt you are" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6addb2a2fa993b48/6988a2b097cdffd4aa6ad798/harley-quinn-smith.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Kevin Smith Bashes Troll Who Attacked His Daughter Online > Sponsored content. 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Mireya Acierto—FilmMagic/Getty Images by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Aug 17, 2016 5:45 PM UTC [Kevin Smith](https://www.facebook.com/YesThatKevinSmith/photos/a.77596326929.88348.6985046929/10153628460531930/?type=3&theater) took a hater to task for trolling his daughter on Instagram, telling the user, “randomly attacking others merely communicates how creatively and emotionally bankrupt you are.” The troll, user name @kingpsysyphus, called Smith’s daughter Harley Quinn Smith ugly and insulted the upcoming movie she worked on with her father using vulgar language. “You’re cancer and I sincerely hope you end up like Lindsay lohan \[sic\] and dead,” he wrote. ([Lindsay Lohan](http://time.com/4391391/lindsay-lohan-kettering-tweet-brexit/) is of course very much alive.) Smith struck back at the troll on Facebook, writing, “wow – way to unload on a teen girl because YOU have nothing to do in life … here’s a nickel’s worth of free advice for folks like this Troll: if you hate me (or my kid) this much, the better use of your time is to make YOUR dreams come true, instead of slamming others for doing the same.” The father/daughter duo’s movie _Yoga Hosers_ hits theaters Sept. 2. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4456269/kevin-smith-harley-quinn-troll/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4456269/kevin-smith-harley-quinn-troll/"},"headline":"Kevin Smith Bashes Troll Who Attacked His Daughter Online","datePublished":"2016-08-17T17:45:49.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:03:10.895Z","description":"\"Randomly attacking others merely communicates how creatively and emotionally bankrupt you are\"","url":"https://time.com/4456269/kevin-smith-harley-quinn-troll/","keywords":["motto","celebrities"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6addb2a2fa993b48/6988a2b097cdffd4aa6ad798/harley-quinn-smith.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarah Begley","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6addb2a2fa993b48/6988a2b097cdffd4aa6ad798/harley-quinn-smith.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"\"Suicide Squad\" World Premiere - Outside Arrivals","caption":"\"Suicide Squad\" World Premiere - Outside Arrivals","creditText":"Mireya Acierto—FilmMagic/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/motto/","name":"motto"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4456269/kevin-smith-harley-quinn-troll/","name":"Kevin Smith Bashes Troll Who Attacked His Daughter Online"}}]}] ```