The Most Annoying Comments on YouTube Music Videos

The Most Annoying YouTube Music Videos Comments

Ok, I guess I reached my boiling point today šŸ˜†. After many years of watching YouTube, and enjoying all kinds of content I finally couldnā€™t ignore one particular thing that plagues pretty much every video there. Iā€™m talking about the most useless, uncreative, uninspired and annoying comments that pop up under every clip, video, or YT shorts.

YouTube comments section was not always like that though. Believe it or not ā€“ but back in the day people took some time to think about what they posted. Donā€™t get me wrong ā€“ there have always been silly and weird comments, but not on a scale we see it now.

I usually just try to ignore these ā€œbotā€ comments, but after seeing them a million times, they finally got to me. Itā€™s time to vent and list the worst of those irritating wasters of space šŸ˜ˆ

YouTube Comments Section History

YouTube comments date back to mid-2005, when the website started to become a true video platform. It did not look like what we have today. Things changed a lot since Google integrated YouTube into their own service.

One of the major changes happened on November 6, 2013 when the new system was introduced. It grouped replies under the main comments, and users were required to have a Google+ account to post comments on videos. Having a Google+ account was a smart move from the company, but many people were not happy about it at the time.

Here are some other significant changes that have happened to YouTubeā€™s comment section over the years:

  1. ā€œThumbs upā€ (like) feature (2010): Users got an option to like comments from others.
  2. Comment Ranking (2013): YouTube started sorting comments by relevance. It meant that popular or liked comments were more visible as they appeared on top of the page.
  3. Pinning Comments (2016): Creators gained the ability to pin a comment at the top of their comment section.
  4. Hearting Comments (2017): Creators could now ā€œheartā€ comments.

How Comments Changed Over The Years

If you look at this evolution, you can kinda see the writing on the wall. Adding features like ā€œratingā€ to the comments inadvertently helped to create the monster Iā€™m discussing today. It was not the only cause, but it played a major role fore sure. It gave a way to exploit the rating system.

I mean weird or simply silly comments have always existed. For example, the very first YouTube comment is believed to be ā€œLOL!!!!!!ā€ posted by Marco CassĆ© on June 14, 2005. Quite a symbolic comment if you ask me šŸ˜„

However posting a simple and lighthearted comment is one thing. But spamming senseless stuff like ā€œwhoā€™s here in 20XX?ā€, ā€œfor every like Iā€™llā€¦ā€, ā€œFirstā€, ā€œwho else is watching inā€¦ā€, ā€œNobodyā€¦.Not a single soulā€¦.ā€, ā€œIf you are reading this ā€¦.ā€, ā€œas an ā€¦ Iā€¦ā€ etc., is a completely different case.

Here are a few examples that took me just a minute to pull from actual YT videos:

Examples of the Most Annoying YouTube Comments

Not only comments like these have zero value. They also clutter the entire page, distract from the contents and the meaning of the video itself. And they often push down real comments. YouTube is a social platform, where people share their opinions and socialize. And such a hollow ā€œbot-likeā€ environment created by those mindless comments doesnā€™t encourage socializing whatsoever.

TOP 3 Most Annoying YouTube Comments

As you can see from the screenshots, those comments are rampant. They appear under all videos, not only music or entertainment ones. Open any sort of video, from a tutorial on cooking to a documentary on spacecrafts, and youā€™ll see them.

In my experience these are the most tiresome comments of them all. Ranked:

  1. ā€œWho is watching this in (input Date hereā€¦.) ?ā€. Itā€™s probably the most common one. The only thing that changes is the wording and the date. It looks like the comments are made by bots, but sometimes the accounts of users actually seem real. By far the most annoying sort of comment.
  2. ā€œIf you are reading this ā€¦.ā€. This is they typical start of the comment that is followed by a copy-paste of fake appraisal and encouragement words. These comments also usually come in a bunch, like you see 20 of them in a row. Because of them itā€™s hard to see the real replies.
  3. ā€œThis was so helpful. Thank you so much!ā€. This type is all over the place. Can be under the educational videos, or just under a random unrelated product review. Clearly posed by bots accounts.

Of course, there are many other garbage comments. They come and go, like fashion trends. But they are never fun, and never bring any value.

Who Makes Those Comments

Iā€™m sure most of them are done by bot scripts. Shady individuals create face accounts and try to give them a history of YouTube activity. So they use the scripts that mimic normal usersā€™ behavior. By commenting on the videos, auto-replying and leaving ā€œlikesā€ these accounts eventually accumulate some activity.

But it canā€™t be bots only. At least some these comments must come from real humans. Itā€™s either people who ask for ā€œlikesā€, because this way they get some recognition from it. Or these people just donā€™t know better. Instead of being creative themselves, they just repeat what they see is getting more likes and thumb-ups.

Unfortunately, internet is an easy place to get fast gratification. Anonymous people leave anonymous thoughts online and get antonymous reactions. Vicious circle IMHO.

In the End

I get it, the more popular something becomes, the more trolls and bots it attracts. YouTube is no different. Itā€™s the biggest video platform in the world. So obviously most people will go there and do whatever they want. And itā€™s not easy to manage and filter real comments from fake ones. Iā€™m not even sure itā€™s possible. As soon a fix is introduced, people tend to find a way around it.

I just hope YouTube can come up with a solution to either discourage such comments. Maybe detect bot accounts better. Or give creators easy tools to deal with those comments worthless empty place holders. Maybe YT should not count them as user interactions, therefore creators would have no reason to leave them hanging under their videos.

In any case, I didnā€™t want to end this on a sad note, so hereā€™s a nice piece of music for you. Hope you enjoy it with me ā€“ ā€œnow in 20xxā€¦ā€ šŸ˜…

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