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BoiWonda4u (2 minutes ago) Show Hide
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Shut cho soft ass up bitch u sound stupid u fucking idiot. emotional slut bag bitch ass hoe. the fuck up round here.
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aubrey716 (34 minutes ago) Show Hide
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this song breaks my heart. i feel like it plays the deepest emotions of my heart into words..i miss you rene..
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YouTube Comments...
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What purpose do they serve exactly? Why do we care whether someone did or didn't like a particular song or video clip? Are we that desperate for affection, that we seek it out from total strangers, in the form of the anonymous clicking on a "thumbs up" button? Why this innate need for others to agree with our point of view?
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Also, if you read enough YouTube comments, you start to notice the trends. Spamming and shameless self promotion of course, but also people craving human contact and people with underlying issues that sometimes make their way into their comments. I've seen many references to divorce, suicide, drug use, sex, even a mention of someone being abused as a child, and none of these were in relation to the content these people were supposed to be commenting on. I'm guilty of this strange phenomenon myself, I once wrote a deeply personal verse to the instrumental version of Paper Planes by M.I.A. and posted it as a comment. You see a lot of would-be rappers posting verses in place of comments.
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Then there are the ones who appear to sign in to YouTube soley to attempt to pick "comment fights", saying anything to get a rise out of someone else so they can flame that person again. I've seen some of these get really nasty and offensive, two people who don't know each other getting very personal.
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Occassionally, you will see the YouTube equivalent of an online chat that has just sort of spontaneously erupted, and more often than not it has nothing to do with the content of the related YouTube file. Are we really that pathetic? The answer is YES.
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