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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Weirdly enough, I see a very similar top comment on a lot of music videos for, it's always saying how that song was their mom/daughter/wife/loved one's favorite and how they played it on their funeral or how they would sing it when they were happy before they passed away due to cancer/incurable disease.

I get that it's a very likely and possible scenario and that people would like to share similar situations but I find it funny how often I see that type of comment.

If I didn't know better I could be responsible for one of those.

There is literally tens of millions of people dying every year, so it's not unlikely that over the years thousands of comments gather with stories where a song meant something to one of the millions of dead. It just feels a lot compared to YouTube videos.