YouTube comments like this

perishthethought@lemm.ee to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world – 419 points –
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FIRST!

Not even first. Lol

But this was the other comment I was looking for that's absolutely a waste of space.

Most yt comments are mildly infuriating and bring nothing to the table.

I almost wrote this post that way but decided that was too general, but you're right of course.

I love scrolling through the nuthouse that is YouTube comments, it's always so unhinged.

It's the year 1.7×10^106^. The heat death of the universe is imminent. Still listening to this banger. Modern music sucks - I was born in the wrong generation. Like if you agree.

The "born at the wrong time" is such a lame comment and I see it a lot on good old music posts. Do they not understand they live in a time where they can listen to the old music AND the new stuff? Good chance if they lived in that last generation they would have been complaining about how all the Smashing Pumpkins or Pink Floyd stuff is awful and wish they'd been jamming out with Gershwin.

Also, the music from the past we listen to now is only the best of the best of what the 90s or whatever had to offer. There was just as much bad music then, but that is long forgotten. What remains are just the absolute bangers. As a kid I wanted to find some more music similar to the Beatles, and decided the easiest way was to look at the charts from the mid to late 60s and listen to that. Most of it was atrocious.

best of what the 90s or whatever had to offer.

Yo, you best stop talking about my 90s music like it's old. Save that for the 70s and earlier music. You know the stuff that happened before I was born.

For more on the above phenomenon, watch the movie Midnight In Paris.

When I was a kid I loved listening to Jimi Hendrix. a lot. I listened to everything I could. For a while I wondered what it must have been like to see Jimi play Monterey. Then I discovered Prince. It turns out I loved Prince even more than I ever loved Jimi Hendrix. It also turns out comparing the two isn't really fair.

And the weird thing is this was a comment on a Lawrence Welk song.

Who's reading this in 2024?!

I’m reading this in 2025 /s

Checking in from 2026!

Stephen Hawking is going to be devastated when he finds out you dicks didn't want to go to his party.

Now someone will really comment on it in 10 years and I will receive notification

Who's reading this post in 1895? Because I accidentally dropped my phone while time traveling.

My AI girlfriend just dictated your post me to in 2049

All the best food is penis shaped. Hot dogs, popsicles, dicktaters.

Even worse are the comments on old songs, any culture, any language. You'll always have comments like "I am 13 and I love this music! Modern music bad!". It really sucks the joy out of listening to those songs.

I solve this by never looking at comments.

There was a browser extension they replaced all the words in yt comments with "bla". Pretty great stuff.

The good news is, you don't need your eyes for listening

Now you tell me. I've been putting my headphones on my eyes for years and wondering why I couldn't hear anything.

It really sucks the joy out of listening to those songs.

Does it tho?

Really?

Why are you so mentally invested in that song and other people's opinions of it?

Some people are irrationally angry at everything that anyone young does or likes, because deep down it reminds them of their own mortality and the short span of time we are actually allocated to live life.

Plenty of opposites too.

"I am 47 and discovered this thanks to my kids. Not all old people reject modern music"

The chorus of: "I'm and "

I find more obnoxious than the "who's watching/listening in " comments.

Broadly speaking I don't bother looking at comments on youtube, the signal to noise ratio is on the floor.

I hate those comments... I can't say they're the most useless garbage out there, but they're damned close.

"first"

This.

👌

Lol

Laughing out loud!

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Who's still utilizing YouTube comments in 2024???????

utilizing

This is an added bonus. When people use the big words for no reason (or rhyme, dawg), I can only hear it in a Mike Tyson lithp.

"utilithing"

Utili-tizing (i've heard this word spoken more than once and I'm still recovering)

I just assume these are all from twelve year olds.

0:07 “Who's listening in 2024" lol

0:09 "who's still listening in 2024????????" killed me LMAOOOO

Haha, what about March 6 at 10:05am CET? Any changes in the listeners i should be aware of?

Solution (for a lot of the Internet): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/shut-up-comment-blocker/

I used to use an addon that would replace YouTube comments with the Reddit comments if the video had been posted there at some point. It was better, but not by much.

HEY, THAT'S ME!! I'M LISTENING TO THIS IN 2024!!! How did they know????? Holy shit!! Like like like!!

Prolly bots right? I really don't think there are so many actual people in the world who think about commenting that.

I bet 50 these comments will disappear when LLMs become cheap af to run en masse so bots can be more realistic and varied.

50

why not 5000? I think we may be in for a spot of trouble.

If it was a small artist this would make sense. Imagine an artist with less then 1000 views on YouTube. It might be interesting to see if they have any superfans still listening

I always assumed the majority of these were bots for MarTech companies testing for engagement.

Mind you, I assume 90% of YouTube comments are these days.

“[Insert name of insanely popular YouTuber or YT channel] brought me here!”

Shit YouTube comments are usually:

On a video from PragerU

"Former President Barak Obama brought me here!"

Ew. Who reads YouTube comments anyway?

I occasionally will on low traffic how-to or informational videos, because sometimes someone else will post additional useful details or corrections.

I don't think anyone is commenting "Who else is listening in February 2024?!" on Practical Engineering videos about how fish swim through turbines.

I have commented one single time on YouTube (years ago) and it was to thank someone for uploading something that was historic and was not something I had seen before or had been uploaded to YouTube before. And I made sure to make it was more than a "thank you!" I also didn't expect a response.

I don't even respond to people who comment on my own videos.

This inane shit makes no sense to me.