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YouTube comment sections are weirdly positive always. It could be a video of some horrible crime and the comments will be about how great the channel is and encouraging the channel to keep making more videos. When j visit actual fan pages anywhere else online there are always a mix of opinions. But youtube is constantly full of obsequious people

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[โ€“] candle_lighter@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

the amount of coments I've seen that simply go something like "isnt it amazing that x creator is out here entertaining/educating us for free" is huge. once i saw one video where nearly every comment was like that.

[โ€“] DrQuint@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Same, which is why I don't look at comments. It was funny looking at them a couple years back when it easily turned into fights over mundane shit. But somewhere around the time when people stopped commenting and just started commenting vacuous support was also when the whole thing stopped having aggressive interactions.

[โ€“] dingus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It's so utterly bizarre. I don't generally see comments like this, but there is this one channel that I had been watching recently where every single comment of every video on their channel is like that. Feels like I'm in some sort of weird bizarro world.