The Most Annoying YouTube Music Videos Comments

Ok, I guess I reached my boiling point today 😆. After many years of watching YouTube, and enjoying all kinds of content I finally couldn’t ignore one particular thing that plagues pretty much every video there. I’m talking about the most useless, uncreative, uninspired and annoying comments that pop up under every clip, video, or YT shorts.

If you watch YouTube often, you have definitely seen these types of comments. Comments that have absolutely “0” informational value. That have no emotional and social value either. They are just the same words copy-pasted everywhere on the platform.

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

I usually just try to ignore these “bot” comments, but after seeing them a million times, they finally got to me. It’s time to vent and list the worst of those irritating wasters of space 😈

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 YouTube’s comment section over the years:

1. “Thumbs up” (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 “heart” 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 “rating” to the comments inadvertently helped to create the monster I’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 “LOL!!!!!!” posted by Marco Cassé on June 14, 2005. Quite a symbolic comment if you ask me 😄

However posting a simple and lighthearted comment is one thing. But spamming senseless stuff like “who’s here in 20XX?”, “for every like I’ll…”, “First”, “who else is watching in…”, “Nobody….Not a single soul….”, “If you are reading this ….”, “as an … I…” etc., is a completely different case.

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

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 “bot-like” environment created by those mindless comments doesn’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 you’ll see them.

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

1. “Who is watching this in (input Date here….) ?”. It’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. “If you are reading this ….”. 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 it’s hard to see the real replies.
3. “This was so helpful. Thank you so much!”. 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

I’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 users’ behavior. By commenting on the videos, auto-replying and leaving “likes” these accounts eventually accumulate some activity.

But it can’t be bots only. At least some these comments must come from real humans. It’s either people who ask for “likes”, because this way they get some recognition from it. Or these people just don’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. It’s the biggest video platform in the world. So obviously most people will go there and do whatever they want. And it’s not easy to manage and filter real comments from fake ones. I’m not even sure it’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 didn’t want to end this on a sad note, so here’s a nice piece of music for you. Hope you enjoy it with me – “now in 20xx…” 😅