Why are youtube comments such a bizarre hell

[Antarctic Termite]

Like, most of them are fine or neutral, a whole lot of them are contagious cancer, but the majority of them either way seem just kind of pointless? But still thousands of people spend a lot of time on proliferating them? And yet I don't see people poking fun at them all that much? It's such a weirdly uncomfortable medium, and yet it's on one of the most visited sites of all. I don't know what to compare it to.

[Unfortunately]

At least most of 4chan is more civilized.

[Vilageidiotx]

I remember a while back my father was showing me a video of how a specific machine works, because he is a machinist and is into these things. It was just a normal, completely harmless "How it Works" kind of video. As the video came to an end, I said "I wonder how the comments will manage to be racial on this one." So he scrolled down, thinking I was being goofy, and sure enough the third or fourth comment was something like 'White people stole machinery from the Africans'.

Like seriously, you can't avoid it. If Charlie Manson wants proof of Helter Skelter, he doesn't need to look any further than youtube comments.

[Raxacoricofallapatorius]

[Dinh AaronMk]

Funny, the comments of the vide (or rather, just audio with an image slapped over top) aren't bad. Of course, a few are also in foreign; so they could be talking about blow jobs and I wouldn't know.

"Dulce e calmante! Las cançones medievales sunt eternales."

"Beautiful, passionate performance. Thank you."

"Am now extremely happy."

"Splendid."

"ASTI, ITALIA"

":D ;)"

"very nice song. Do you know if there is a program which splits the whole CD into the tracks automatically?"

"Genial y, agradecidísimo de poder encontrar estas Joyas de la Música Medieval, que, dicho sea de paso, es totalmente difícil de conseguir..."

"Thibaut de Champagne - Le chansonnier du roi
Amour courtois et chevalerie au XIIIe siecle.
from Eduardo Mallo Huergo channel
Listing ? Open the bar below the video on Eduardo Mallo Huergo channe"

[Vilageidiotx]

Well, let us translate some.

Sweet and soothing ! Medieval sunt cançones eternal Persons

I assume sunt cancones is a racial term because this is youtube, so I guess this person is annoyed that medieval members of a certain race live forever?

"ASTI, ITALIA"

I didn't even have to run this one through a translator, because I know these words. 'Italia' is self-explanatory, and 'Asti' is an alcoholic beverage. This person is accusing Italians of being drunks.

Great and very grateful to be able to find these gems of medieval music , which, by the way , is totally hard to get ...

This one checks out...

Thibaut de Champagne - The Song of the King
Courtly love and chivalry in the thirteenth century .
Eduardo Mallo Huergo from channel
Listing ? Open the bar below the video on Eduardo Mallo Huergo Channe

And that is an ad.

Still, two out of four racists checks out. Youtube is racism.

[Nilesapa]

It's pretty much a given that any video on anthropology or history is going to have a comment section that is extremely racial in nature.

[Z2010Deadmeat]

I break the Comment Section down into this.

People getting deep over the video.

People wanting MOAR!!!

People hating

People hating on the people that were hating.

Quotes from Abridged Series (I am very guilty over this one)