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goo  ·  3191 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Please stop trying to get me to do something "because it's sexy."

Thank you. This was much more succinct than my angry rambling after seeing some of the comments on this video! I have no idea why people think it's ever okay to comment on others' choices, short of when they are damaging to themselves/someone else.





kleinbl00  ·  3191 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Ohhhh, shit - you were reading Youtube comments? Yeah. You never want to do that. Even the SEO guys will tell you that Step #1 with Youtube is disabling comments. They gain you exactly nothing.

You're welcome.

tacocat  ·  3191 days ago  ·  link  ·  

YouTube comments can make anyone angry about anything:

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Saiyanman1998: Fuck Anita Sarkeesian! Flaming shit nigger cunt! /b/

If I accidentally read some YouTube comments I usually try to find something else to do for a while, watch a movie or show that took effort, something along those lines.

empty  ·  3191 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I just disable youtube comments entirely.

kleinbl00  ·  3191 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I worked on a couple smosh series. Smosh doesn't disable its youtube comments, probably because they get a big chunk of change from Youtube. Even accounting for the fact that it's Smosh, the comments lowered your IQ just by looking at them.

user-inactivated  ·  3191 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Much like standing in line at a grocery store and your eyes being caught by magazines like Cosmopolitan or People. I can physically feel my brain cells dying the longer I stare, and try my hardest to look at anything but the colorful, designed to catch your eye magazines. I worry the day will come when I can't stop staring, and I'll turn into an inert, brain dead mass right there under the fluorescent lighting.

tacocat  ·  3191 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I deleted an IQ lowering joke and replaced it with the current last sentence. YouTube comments probably aren't even the worst on the internet. Ugh...

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