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NeedAUserName

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I go on YouTube a lot, and it seems more and more people go on it just to annoy others, has anyone else noticed this?, or they spam comments and get commenting disabled on videos. Also after watching a video someone posted about cyberstalking I have become pretty skeptical of YouTube altogether. Just wondering what your thoughts were on the subject.

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T3chn0s1s

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yh?

Yeah uhm, I'm fairly certain that's all the majority of people on youtube are there for anyway, it's not a new development.
 

Zombie_King

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Tip: Don't read the posts under YouTube videos when you could be doing something more productive, like reading, or writing a poem, or stabbing yourself. Not only do these butcher the English language, why take the time out of your day to do this? You saw the video of the dog on the skateboard, or the panda farting, or whathaveyou (I haven't visited the YouTube front page in a looong time) why do you need to read other people's comments?

YouTube is still theoretically for the people, and anyone can become a member and join. Anyone can post anything they want (as long as it's appropriate, of course).

Holy crabs! Three people slipped in posts while I was typing!
 

Bling Cat

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Youtube is seen all over the Escapist as the place to find the horrors of humanity not yet horrifying enough to go to /b/. I myself just dont look at the comments section, especially when it comes to videos on controversial issues.
 

Amnestic

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I love you
Hey man, I love you too. Let's grab a beer together.

I watch youtube for the videos, I start looking at comments and my will to live starts to drain away.
 

Altorin

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Amnestic post=18.72346.756874 said:
I love you
Hey man, I love you too. Let's grab a beer together.

I watch youtube for the videos, I start looking at comments and my will to live starts to drain away.
that's because you don't see the humor in witnessing people legitimately descending into dickheadedness.
 

NeedAUserName

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Fair enough, but there should be a version of YouTube for people that aren't complete gits, and that don't want to ruin it for everyone

Zombie_King post=18.72346.756865 said:
why take the time out of your day to do this?
I like reading the comments, as sometimes (I mean like maybe 1 video on the whole site) a video hasn't yet decayed under the torrent of spam, hatred and general idiocy that while have arrived by the time you can reload the page. And you get a good conversation out of it, were you find out something interesting. Normally tour dates for me, as I only really watch music videos and Stand up comedy on it.
 

Amnestic

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Altorin post=18.72346.756883 said:
Amnestic post=18.72346.756874 said:
I love you
Hey man, I love you too. Let's grab a beer together.

I watch youtube for the videos, I start looking at comments and my will to live starts to drain away.
that's because you don't see the humor in witnessing people legitimately descending into dickheadedness.
I used to. I really did. It was pure hilarity to me. But these days the hilarity has worn off. I sigh, and I wonder how the human race lost it's ability to possess common sense (Can it really be called common sense if it's no longer common, I wonder?)
 

Altorin

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Youtube basically won People Magazine's Person of the Year last year.

I say basically because the real winner was "User Generated Content", and the front cover of the magazine was a computer scream with a little tinfoil mirror for a screen, so you see yourself in the monitor.

And those comments represent that winner.
 

Johnn Johnston

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Reading YouTube comments is like watching the monkeys at the zoo. Fun to watch them fling their poo at each other, but best avoided lest you spoil your Sunday clothes.
 

PersianLlama

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Don't know, I don't go on youtube unless someone links a video to me, even then, I usually pretend I watched it so I don't have to waste time.
 

T3chn0s1s

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Trolls trolling trolls? Yee gods! Blasphemy. Next we'll have Pigs Porking Swine, or grues grueing grues! What hath god wrought...


Quite so, and such.

Ahem!

Yeah, Youtube had it's place, and now it's gone. It's best observed at a distance. Preferably with a monocle whilst speaking in the royal 'we'.
 

rottenbutter

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Now a days, I only go on youtube for anime or the new spoonyone and nigahiga videos. Not much else I watch there.
 

ElephantGuts

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That's why I almost never go on Youtube, unless a friend or someone suggests I watch a particular video. And I try to shield my eyes from everything else on the site, but when I do accidentally see a comment or something, it reminds me why I was trying to avoid it.
 

Madrak the Red

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Amnestic post=18.72346.756874 said:
I love you
I watch youtube for the videos, I start looking at comments and my will to live starts to drain away.
God, how right you are. I made the mistake of glancing at the comments for the video where some dudes smash a PS3. And they are all PS3/360 suckz lolz. It fills me with dispair. I just do not understand the console war. Why are we advocating the propaganda stuffed down our eager gullets by evil multi-billion dollar conglomerates and forcing that same will on others, just because we own it and don't want to feel left out. I even catch myself doing it, then smack myself and force myself to see the rational world. The problem is letting those same evil conglomerates force their stinking advertisemets down our throats all the fething time. It is brainwashing, nothing more, and nothing less. We are conditioned by them into the 'perfect consumer' the hopeless gits who buy every new thing because the equally bribed and brain-washed media say it is better. Why? Oh God why? I hate capitalism so much. But it's still my favorite. And thats the truth. As Winston Churchill said: 'Democracy is the worst form of Government, except for all the others'. Just replace democracy with capitalism. And there ya go.
 

Xalmar

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I only ever use it to watch Whose Line Is It Anyway clips. I miss that show.