How I view others in social media
How I view others in social media
video posted Jan. 1st 2025
8000000 likes
I miss back like a decade ago when people would say “hello from (home country)”
…
Who else is saying hello from their country in 2025?
“no one:
absolutely no one:
not a single soul:
character: punchline”
going back to 2018-era youtube comment sections is painful
maybe it’s just that I hang around good parts of the internet now, but i saw that “no one:” format so much more back then
i still see it sometimes now, but around 2018 it was everywhere
On YouTube I’m seeing
Steve ✓ (2 hrs ago): Can’t believe that happened. Has anyone tried Elons bullshit? (20k likes.)
(Then a bunch of replies praising Elons AI.)
Bob (5 hrs ago): Can’t believe that happened. (10 likes.)
(Reply pointing out a bot copied this comment.)
Punchline Situation is Diabolical
@SomeDude 8 hours ago
2.8M Views
It’s not “bad” but it can make you feel sad inside. All those commenter are trying to essentially say “I found this funny”, but they’re never saying anything genuine. Its always a repetitive joke or a meme that you see a thousand times.
Instead of seeing a bunch of different people and diverse reasons people “find a joke funny” they all start to melt into the same person and it expands on this loneliness where all this human interaction is at the tip of our fingers, but only the surface level of ideas can be expressed.
That doesn’t bother me, and as someone who occasionally makes comics I always appreciate positive feedback like that.
So much worse is:
OP: “This [noun] is [adjective].”
Commenter 1: “This [noun] is [worse adjective]. FTFY.”
Commenter 2: “[Noun] isn’t [adjective]… BECAUSE IT’S AN INSULT TO [ADJECTIVE] THINGS EVERYWHERE! I am so clever! You thought I was defending [noun], but I pulled an Uno Reverse, which is also a clever thing to say!”
At dinner that night I imagine commenter 2 tells his mom all about how he’s so funny on reddit. She doesn’t really listen.