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Ask HN: Are non-English YouTube comment threads just as bad?
YouTube comments are notoriously bad/offensive. Unless the video is very targeted, I almost never look at the comments. The bloggers and podcasters I follow usually dismiss them completely as something to be ignored. But the context for this appraisal has always been English-dominated comment threads.
Are non-English comment threads just as bad? I was wondering if there were pockets of the YouTube ecosystem that behaved very differently than what I see in the predominantly English comments.
- patio11 12y agoI can read Japanese. Youtube makes me wish I couldn't.
- iaw 12y agoHow bad is it?
- mithras 12y agoDutchie here, can confirm just as shitty if not even more.
- coppolaemilio 12y agoSame in Spanish
- jaoued 12y agoYou dont want to read french comments either.
- BorisMelnik 12y agoPlease don't even ask about Russian.
- brickcap 12y agoComments in Hindi are not much better either. I suppose being shitty on the internet transcends any language barrier.
- kilon 12y agoAs a Greek I can only say that Greek Youtube comments is same story different package. Welcome to the human condition baby :D To be fair though loads of people with very good sense of humour in youtube. I love to read comments on funny videos because the comments are even funnier than the video itself. Also plenty of intelligent and well informed discussion if you have the patience to search for it. Usually its on technical videos, for example I never had a problem on the comments of my youtube videos (which tend to be technical and technology driven) and I think I deleted comments only once or twice . To give you an idea my most popular video has 400k views.Spam has been more of a problem for me.