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 8 months ago
glimse@lemmy.world 8 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 8 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 😬
slaacaa@lemmy.world 8 months 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 8 months 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 8 months ago
blud literally posted on 4chan 💀
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
Bro greentexted 💀
BakedGoods@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
This is nothing. Wait until you hear high schoolers addressing “chat” irl while not connected to any kind of chat.
Sotuanduso@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Chat is this real?
PatFussy@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Thanks chat
WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Mods cruah his skull
Paradachshund@lemmy.today 8 months ago
I saw people talking about that as being perhaps the first fourth-person pronoun. Pretty interesting idea.
PatMustard@feddit.uk 8 months ago
Still third-prison though really
odium@programming.dev 8 months ago
Nah, they were just talking to their friend, Chad. Right, chat?
user224@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
But “chatting” also refers to talking, no?
Unless I misunderstood your comment. I tend to do that.odium@programming.dev 8 months 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 8 months ago
Or they repeat the exact same soundbite in the comments.
robocall@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Bro actually posted that 💀
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 8 months 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 8 months ago
like it or not, those are the people who make text search against videos possible
Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Who bro opps 💀
odium@programming.dev 8 months ago
I think it’s a way to start a discussion thread on a specific section of a video.
Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Bro BTW
don@lemm.ee 8 months ago
A channer calling people in a video’s comments section NPCs. Peak irony, right there.
dropout@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Bro calling people NPCs 💀
PatMustard@feddit.uk 8 months ago
I guess “normies” was becoming too mainstream