YouTube comments, like every other comments section on the internet, vary hugely depending on the population that's writing comments. Understanding why you have

YouTube comments, like every other comments section on the internet, vary hugely depending on the population that's writing comments. Understanding why you have different populations on different YT videos is harder than understanding why you have different populations on, say, different discussion boards (e.g. HN vs 4chan), but it is absolutely the case. The kind of person that upvotes a comment underneath a talk show from a major right-wing media empire is very, very different from the kind of person that upvotes a comment underneath a video from an amateur watchmaker who puts up hour-long videos of him repairing hundred-year-old wristwatches and pocketwatches. Especially if you're watching channels that are small enough or straightforward enough that there just aren't any memes to be memed, like the aforementioned watchmaker.