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A long time ago, every comment on YouTube was vitriol. It didn’t matter what the video was, every single comment was pure poison. Today you can safely read the comments on videos that don’t have political context. Of course anything political is going to be completely overrun with state level astroturfing, extremists, and mouth breathers. Occasionally I’ll accidentally read the comments on something political, forgetting that comments should be off-limits for that video.
Why do you still read them? (Edit: I’m not being snarky, I’m curious why)
Every few months I forget why I stopped reading comment sections and dip back into unmoderated comments on news sites. It’s awful.
I think I often hope occasionally reporting comments helps slowly make the platforms better. But it really doesn’t seem to 😞
Not enough mods.
The mods are bots too.
At this point, I’m pretty sure I’m a bot too.
It’s bots all the way down…
I joke but that reminds me of the Dead Internet Theory
A long time ago, every comment on YouTube was vitriol. It didn’t matter what the video was, every single comment was pure poison. Today you can safely read the comments on videos that don’t have political context. Of course anything political is going to be completely overrun with state level astroturfing, extremists, and mouth breathers. Occasionally I’ll accidentally read the comments on something political, forgetting that comments should be off-limits for that video.