I’ve left comments, forgot about them, rewatched the video years later and noticed that I got a ton of likes for saying the dumbest shit imaginable. YouTube commenters are an interesting crowd.
I’ve also seen someone get the most likes under a video for a comment they later changed to “Luigi Mangione is a hero”. Now those types of edits I can get behind.
Why does gratitude fill you with rage?
Not rage, more disapproval or disgust. And I had to think why it’s so unsettling first, but I think I got it:
Because of the vanity of making it about themselves.
Doesn’t help that most of the time they get so many upvotes exactly because so many people think the same thing. Simplified, someone posts “what is your favorite color”, and they get thousands of upvotes on a comment that says “red”. That’s not about cumguzzler69’s comment writing career.
But no, this is their peaking in highschool moment, gotta make thousands more read some useless fluff text showing they are under the impression everybody thinks they are so great that it warrants an award speech.
That’s why it’s not the same if it’s a long comment where somebody put some real effort into explaining something from their area of expertise, and things like that.
Ah I see thank you for explaining. I’m autistic and I don’t get some stuff easily. I never thought of it from this angle.
Honestly, why I clicked on this thread. I didn’t understand either, lol. Makes a lot of sense though.
It’s cringey but maybe because I never really took imaginary points and likes seriously.
Reminds me of “thanks for the gold kind stranger!” Ughh.
But at the same time I don’t get pissed or would hate them for it necessarily, I’d just think it’s a little cringe and move on.
I’ve done that, but only because I thought I was supposed to lol. Since I saw a lot of people doing it at the time, and inferred it was being polite under the logic that you should usually thank someone for a “gift”.
Edit: check out my SoundCloud!
So I had a significant event happen to me recently that made international news. I also run an email service that I’m trying to get off the ground. A few of my friends asked why I didn’t promote my business since I was all over the news. I don’t have a better explanation than I would be disgusted seeing someone do that, so I wouldn’t do it myself.
Replying to yourself is also super tacky. 🤢
Lmao I had to correct my initial down vote here because I was like “What a jerk! Why are there so many upvotes for th— ohhh…”
It took this comment for me to notice
“Thanks for the reward kind stranger!”
Reddit gold was the beginning of the end. I’ve seen the cycle before on older forums
It was pretty annoying seeing posts with very little actual activity pushed to the top. I had an app that ignored the reward prioritization though.
Reddit gold was introduced in 2010, only two years after they started letting users create sebreddits.
