YouTube Comments: The Best Part about YouTube

I think we can all agree that no one goes to YouTube to watch the videos…well…I don’t…usually.  To me, the best part about YouTube videos is the comments section.  It’s the textual equivalent to the town of Springfield on The Simpsons. Anything is possible and, frankly, anything goes.  If you don’t make it a point to check out every single comment that accompanies a video, I highly suggest you start, because you’re missing out on some great comedy.

The beauty of the comments section on YouTube or any video site is that it’s totally anonymous and there are absolutely no repercussions to what you post.

Cue the idiots.

Here are some of my favorite types of hilarious YouTube comments:

The Orphan Argument

Go to ANY YouTube video with some good hits and you’ll find one of these gems.  You’ll scroll down and see a giant paragraph where some poor bastard is going absolutely CRAZY for some apparent reason–a reason that isn’t addressed whatsoever in their rant.  Fuck this and fuck you and you’re an asshole and you’re mom is a whore and if I ever find out who you are I’ll kill you and you don’t know shit and you probably have the education of a five year-old.

And you say to yourself, “Hmm…this guy is going pretty hardcore about something.  Hell, I have time to kill, I think I’ll scroll through the other comments and check this argument out.”

Unfortunately, you’ll NEVER find the start of this confrontation.  You flip through page after page after page after page of comments and you can’t find out who pissed this person off or why.  And along the way, you’ll find a dozen more entries like this!  There are only two logical explanations for this phenomenon.  One, this person has some sort of multiple-personality disorder that has spilled over onto YouTube and they are forever doomed to violently insult themself on the comment sections of websites.  Two, this person has acquired a mortal enemy online and they go through random videos and online articles that they THINK their enemy will see or watch and then proceed to blindly continue their argument in the hopes that their enemy will see the comment.

If either is true, I’ll sleep quite well.

Song Lyric Disagreements

My love for this stems from my days spent in literature classes discussing themes, metaphors and other English Major jargon.

Search for a music video or a song on YouTube and you’ll find heated “discussions” about the meaning and intent of song lyrics.  I’d say the best videos/songs for this are either the Emo rock/contemporary rock videos–because their loyal fans are short-tempered, uneducated high schoolers.

Much like poems, novels and short stories, there is DEFINITELY a correct interpretation and meaning to most song lyrics.  And watching people completely miss the mark on this is hilarious.  What can possibly be funnier than reading some moron’s paragraph about how they think The Verve Pipe’s The Freshman is about a pair of high school freshman that decide to try ecstasy at a party, have a bad trip and realize it was a mistake, but it’s okay because they’re young and allowed to screw up?  Very few things, my bored Friend.  Very few.

These also contain MANY Orphan Arguments.  In case you’ve skipped the first part of this post in favor of this section: See Above.

Random

These are a little tougher to find.  You just need to hope that you stumble upon one.  Here’s one of my favorites that I managed to save.

Kinda old, but still so random...

RickRoll’D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0

These comments are amazing because you have three different types of people commenting.  First, the people that get RickRoll’D comment about being duped into watching the video.  Second, you have people that are commenting about the prospect of being RickRoll’D.  And third, you have the random morons that enjoy that song and are trying in vain to argue in favor for it.