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You see:
* videos with nonsense -> great comments
* videos with meaningful content -> shitty comments
* videos with meaningful content -> shitty comments"
Pure confirmation bias. Unless you think reposting stuff heard in the video is the epitome of wit.
On YTP videos:
* most comments are inane repetitions of lines from the video. These comments are short, non-argumentative, and noncontroversial. I am indifferent toward these comments.
* some comments are witty comments about the video. These usually get thumbs-upped. They are also rather amusing or satisfying.
On political videos:
* most comments are either (or sometimes both)
** argumentative diatribes attacking the politician or political position or political ideology that the commenter opposes, frequently using logical fallacies, neglecting real-world implementation problems, and at best arguing ineptly and at worst evidence that humanity despite all cultural developments is still a miserable little pile of secrets
** nearly substanceless dissing of the political figures or ideology featured in the video, usually with name-calling, purposeful insulting misspellings (e.g. "lieberal" or "cuntservative"), and/or expletives
* a few comments are comments telling people to shut up and stop arguing.
Which one's worse?
"political videos"
"meaningful content"
Well, I guess that depends on the video. Though still, "meaningful content" is a pretty broad term.
Obama: "Stop...stop the political circus."
Congress: ":("
fixed
"Ayn Rand was a cult leader and charlatan, not a serious thinker. Anything she said, Friedrich Nietzsche, Max Stirner, and Ernst Junger said it better."
A response:
"agree with ____, ____ has no formal background on objectivism and is trying to connect it to altruistic idealists."
From what I have seen, what you said about YTPs occasionally having pretty interesting comments is true, especially when the one who made the video asks for names for it through the comments (as Combuskenisawesome has done from time to time).
On the subject at hand, while I unfortunately did not save it at the time, I did once see a comment on a martial arts video that pretty much said something to the effect of "you are doing it all wrong, I could beat you, your master, and your master's master" and other tough guy stuff like that. I guess that made me chuckle more than facepalm though so maybe it does not count.
favorite part is when he says the Sega CD "uses processing".
EDIT: Whoops, even after stripping a ton of formatting I forgot to remove the name
^ For what it's worth I remember having a school visit from a guy who was in the Territorial Army (the British Army's militia of "weekend soldiers") and he said black soldiers still had to wear the black face-paint stuff that soldiers use, because their naked skin would reflect light shone on it; it wasn't matt-black.
On-topic, anything from any of those "life sucks, why do we bother?" blogs that Myrmidon does threads on sometimes will make you facepalm until your skull collapses.
Dear lord the racism...
the perfectly example of peaceful protests, no, the movement was
subversive in nature and secretly backed by western powers, with the
explicit goal to incite violence as evident by the fact that most
leaders of that protest are now living in the comfort of political
asylum abroad, and the fact that many protestors were armed with knifes,
metal pipes, molotov cocktails and a variety of other improvised
weapons, many of which were used in the killings of over two dozen
policemen and soldiers."
...White-knighting the Tiananmen Square Incident? Yeesh...