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Is that why all YouTube comments are exactly the same now? It’s like the top of every major subreddit post’s comment section. It’s almost as if you’re witnessin
by coolso 5y ago
Is that why all YouTube comments are exactly the same now? It’s like the top of every major subreddit post’s comment section. It’s almost as if you’re witnessing 14 year olds discover the internet and humor, but over and over again on a daily basis.
The homogeneity of the internet is becoming so tiresome.
- Spivak 5y agoYou could utter this exact statement every day since 1995. You’re also trapped in your own eternal September, doomed to remember your own personal “early” internet as being so much better because it was all new to you despite the fact that it was someone else’s “oh my god it’s all the same now.”
- guerrilla 5y agoThis makes a mistake of forgetting the part where none of this was new to us yet this homogenization and sterilization hadn't happened yet.
- coolso 5y ago> You could utter this exact statement every day since 1995. No you couldn't. Because back then, even 10-15 years after 1995, not everyone went to the same 3 websites, and there were more than 3 companies on the web that owned everything. Furthermore, there was no concept of upvotes and downvotes to literally encourage crafting your comments to appeal to the widest audience / lowest common denominator. (This concept is no longer specific to Reddit by the way; nearly every comment section on every website utilizes the same type of deal.) Back then if you wanted to speak your mind or say something, you could just type it out and everyone would see it. Today, if you want to say something, you need to craft your comment in such a way to make it worth it: sure, you could say exactly what you want. But that might only get one upvote. Or, God forbid, it might get downvoted! Then nobody sees it; furthermore, the rating your receive could potentially work against you and make the hivemind turn further against your argument. Because lots of people downvoted it. Or not many people upvoted it. Which means it's bad / not good. It's a perverse incentive. The result is... usually, milquetoast homogeneous repetition.
- pwdisswordfish9 5y ago1995 people: what’s a subreddit?
- GaylordTuring 5y agoNobody: Absolutely nobody: OP: I'm TiReD oF THe SamE joKEs!1! (On a serious note, I totally agree with you.)
- 3np 5y agoI lever understood how this meme-format is even supposed to be read/interpreted. Nobody: X: Y What are you trying to convey here?
- Doxin 5y agoThe first line is nobody saying anything. The second line is the subject of the joke spouting something unprovoked.
- 3np 5y agoThanks, now I understand the intention. Does not compute for me though as "nobody saying nothing" would mean that literally everyone would say at least something, making it anything but unprovoked. But at least I can stop trying to make sense of it now.