Comment on YouTube Shorts
Jilanico@lemmy.world 5 months ago
They are just commenting the same way they talk to their friends. People quote funny lines from movies right after watching or say stuff like, “Did you see that crazy stunt in the film?? He literally drove off a cliff!!” They get tons of upvotes too because people feel a connection by recounting and acknowledging what they collectively experienced. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
Accurate explanation, though it highlights the NPC / monkey brain level of these comments:
Monke see comment
Monke think same
Dopamine released
click like
Monke happi
Which of course happens similarly IRL, but it’s less cringe, as it’s just a passing verbal comment, not captured and displayed on the web for all eternity.
That’s just empathy though? Putting yourself in someone else’s shoes and relating to what they thought at the time. You can infer a lot more than surface level description from someone repeating a specific line mentioned in a video.
glimse@lemmy.world 5 months ago
So much of what’s wrong with online communication is that many people speak to a public audience like they’d speak to a friend in private
Jilanico@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You mean people getting offended because they misinterpret a friendly jab? Personally, I wish more people commented in a friendly manner. So many toxic comments out there 😬
glimse@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Friendly is great, I don’t mean people shouldn’t joke around.
radix@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Why is that wrong?
other_cat@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Not the commentor but the context clues of their comments leads me to think it’s because people talk without a filter, like they would their close friends in a private conversation.
radix@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Is it so bad to talk without a filter in a place where online community is encouraged?