[blauditore]

At least for music videos, comments are still pretty shitty. It feels like more than half of them are one of the following patterns:

- "Like if you're watching in June 2018?" [2k upvotes]

- "Most underrated artist of our time" [5k upvotes]

- "Wow, mad respect for <artist>" (written by verified account by other artist trying to promote their own content)

[onion2k]

Why are those bad comments? The first one is a bit ridiculous, but the others are fine. They're comments. They're not discussion points. YouTube isn't a forum or a social network. There's nothing compelling people to leave intelligent or even constructive points. The comment section is for people to note what they think. That's it.

When people say these sorts of things are bad I think it's because their expectations and understanding of a comments section are wrong.

[blauditore]

It's just super repetitive, and actually good and original comments get buried because they don't match the hivemind.

Of course, it's a question of taste what comments should be more visible. If the community actually prefers reading the same stuff over and over again, then the current state is probably justified, and it's just a moronic community.

[golergka]

I wonder, what comments are you expecting under pop music videos? Deep discussion about chord progressions or lyrics themes?

[trophycase]

Depends what music you listen to. If you listen to smaller artists on videos that have under 1 million or 100k views you will see many more high effort comments talking about the band/band members or about their experience with the music.

e.g. "I got a chance to see these guys live in October, and [insert band member here] is actually a really cool guy. Talked to him afterwards and shared [so and so interaction]"

e.g. "This song was actually inspired by [such and such random factoid]"

e.g. "This song reminds me of my mom"

[rekshaw]

28 people hate don't appreciate art!!1 [video has 28 dislikes]

[jjoonathan]

    [video has 28 dislikes]
    7 people are morons!!!
    9 people are sad they have no taste in music111
    What is wrong with the 13 downvotes?
    WHHHHHHHHYYYYYY don't 16 people have any taste?
    Well it's obvious that 18 people don't have any taste.
    21 downvotes can suck it!
    22 people are morons!!!
    WTF, 24 downvotes? There should be negative downvotes!
    25 people are morons!!!
    Well I see Hitler and his 26 closest friends have seen this video!
    27 people are morons!!!
    28 people hate don't appreciate art!!1