Black Mirror: Bandersnatch's Will Poulter Quits Social Media to Focus on Mental Health

Choose a different path, trolls. Black Mirror: Bandersnatch star Will Poulter has taken a step back from Twitter due to unkind comments made about his appearance on the social media platform.

Poulter, who plays video game developer Colin Ritman on Netflix's choose-your-own-adventure special, tweeted Wednesday that "In light of my recent experiences I am choosing to take a step back, of sorts, from Twitter."

He thanked people for watching and commenting on the "material," but implied that criticisms of him personally were getting to him. "As we all know there is balance to be struck in our engagements with social media. There are positives to enjoy and inevitable negatives that are best avoided," he wrote. "It's a balance I have struggled with for a while now and in the interest of my mental health I feel the time has come to change my relationship with social media."

Instead of using the platform for "personal expression," he'll be using it to promote organizations he is involved with, like the Anti-Bullying Programme.

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The actor's relationship with social media has evolved over the years. In 2014, he got into a Twitter fight with a critic who wrote a negative review of the movie The Maze Runner, in which he starred.

Fans shared their support for Poulter, including Star Wars star John Boyega -- an actor with a lot of experience dealing with online harassment -- who replied "Best thing you can do mate" with a thumbs-up emoji to Poulter's step-back announcement.

Black Mirror: Bandersnatch is now streaming on Netflix.