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Why are YouTube comments so much different than any other comments made online (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Touching_Grass@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] Commiunism@lemmy.wtf 10 points 1 year ago

I think this only applies to popular channels, I've noticed this on critikal's videos, maybe someordinarygamers, but when it comes to smaller channel sizes (around 100k), I see people having discussions about the video's content more often.

It's definitely bots that plague more popular creators, but I don't doubt there's also people who see these bots getting popular by posting the most generic bot-like messages just to get likes.