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- The general awfulness of YouTube comments is well-established, forever exceeding our expectations of what "rock bottom" could mean in terms of reasonable discourse. But if you've felt that popular videos — particularly those boosted by Reddit's nearly 6 million strong r/Videos community — have reached a fresh hell of trollerly as of late, you're absolutely correct.
- Look at the above comment. It was posted on a video from January of a monster truck jam, but which only recently shot to the top of r/Videos. It's just one in a long series of comments that follow the same structure: a radical feminist interpretation of a popular video which decries the perceived sexism on Reddit while flying in the face of good close-textual analysis, punctuated with the same sign-off: "Berta Lovejoy, Feminist, Promoter Of Equality, Love, and Peace."
In recent weeks, an increasing amount of Redditors and YouTube users have taken notice of Berta and picked up on her strange style of commenting, questioning her identity in threads and comment sections. They were right to be suspicious.
am_Unition · 3860 days ago · link ·
Ah, yes, the perfect way to end an article focusing entirely on these people's efforts.In the meantime, all we can do is try not to feed the trolls.