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.
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Jilanico@lemmy.world 1 year ago
glimse@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year 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 😬
slaacaa@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Accurate explanation, though it highlights the NPC / monkey brain level of these comments:
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Monke see comment
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Monke think same
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Dopamine released
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click like
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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.
ModsAreCopsACAB@lemm.ee 1 year ago
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.
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blackouttripleseven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
blud literally posted on 4chan 💀
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Bro greentexted 💀
BakedGoods@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
This is nothing. Wait until you hear high schoolers addressing “chat” irl while not connected to any kind of chat.
Sotuanduso@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Chat is this real?
PatFussy@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Thanks chat
WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Mods cruah his skull
Paradachshund@lemmy.today 1 year ago
I saw people talking about that as being perhaps the first fourth-person pronoun. Pretty interesting idea.
PatMustard@feddit.uk 11 months ago
Still third-prison though really
odium@programming.dev 1 year ago
Nah, they were just talking to their friend, Chad. Right, chat?
user224@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
But “chatting” also refers to talking, no?
Unless I misunderstood your comment. I tend to do that.odium@programming.dev 1 year ago
Twitch streamers usually address their live chat as “chat”. The person you are replying to heard high schoolers addressing chat, talking like they were streaming, even when they clearly weren’t.
The_Tired_Horizon@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Or they repeat the exact same soundbite in the comments.
robocall@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Bro actually posted that 💀
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Go and look at the comments on a video of any pilot doing anything remotely interesting, and see how many comments mention the pilot’s balls.
They’re not an original bunch.
arvere@lemmy.world 1 year ago
like it or not, those are the people who make text search against videos possible
Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Who bro opps 💀
odium@programming.dev 1 year ago
I think it’s a way to start a discussion thread on a specific section of a video.
Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Bro BTW
don@lemm.ee 11 months ago
A channer calling people in a video’s comments section NPCs. Peak irony, right there.
dropout@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Bro calling people NPCs 💀
PatMustard@feddit.uk 11 months ago
I guess “normies” was becoming too mainstream