Why are YouTube comments so much different than any other comments made online

Touching_Grass@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 85 points –

YouTube comment sections are weirdly positive always. It could be a video of some horrible crime and the comments will be about how great the channel is and encouraging the channel to keep making more videos. When j visit actual fan pages anywhere else online there are always a mix of opinions. But youtube is constantly full of obsequious people

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Google accounts are hard to bot.

Not to google itself. They might use those bots to create fake engagement, like on reddit. We can never prove if google is doing it or not, but they would certainly benefit from doing so.

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