My new gerbil

[AwStitch626]

I actually googled that TIME article, wow some people can be real assholes, its just a cute gerbil? :) btw that looked like my gerbil midnight, with the little star on her head ^^

[friedchicken911]

haha everyone saw this in TIME...I just saw it too :)

[darkknightdje]

lol my friend is bwalhof for those of you who read the time article lol. its an old joke where were from

[Snoldowns]

Really poor quality. Why the would TIME use this.. better yet, which employee found it!?

[no1reallycaresabout]

I came to watch this video because it was mentioned in TIME magazine. A gerbil is a nice pet.

[gut197]

cute little gerbil

did you see it talked about in TIME?

[FerretOverlord]

Wow... Time got this video like... 260000 views.

Bastards

[HaloCovenant001]

i know. some times comments are just so obscene u know?

[Mrmorozov987]

I saw this in TIME. I totally agree with it. People comment too, uh, soon. They don't think about that a living, breathing person is reading their comments.

[ad964]

Haha, Lev Grossman is..

[planbskate99765]

yea i read the article today all i gotta say is fuck time mag and fuck the stipid ass gerbil

[MaddaCheeb101]

HEY ASSHOLE

Be Nice

[CaptainAmatsu]

lol its me eldergod0 i raised hell on this vid i made it popular so fuck everyine I PWN YOUTUBE

[CrayolaValentine762]

I love this video--who cares if it's pointless? I'll pay anyone who can show me a non-pointless youtube video twenty bucks. Not counting campeign videos. The gerbil's adorable, way21337. Sorry about all this crap you had to take about it.

I mean, come on, people, if you're dying to give people crap, then do it for something important. Like, I don't know, the war in Iraq.

Not a gerbil.

[CrayolaValentine762]

Isn't it sad that even after Time magazine told off a bunch of these silly people for posting hate-comments and flames, they're STILL AT IT? I mean, usually people shut up once they're slammed in a nationally-published magazine....

[bladebla111]

i love rodents. people who dont shouldnt watch this. gj lev grossman

[Smexyboy14]

is the Super Pet CritterTrail Two cage any good

[way21337]

INTERNET TUFF GUY ON OUR HANDS GUISE!

[cordsman]

@way21337 Lol. willsling is a FAEG

[eldergod0]

flag this video fuck this video and stop posting hatemail assholes fuck the internet fuckhis vid and fuck all of u

[belgurdo]

Maybe if I make my trolls elaborate enough, I can get hired on at Time...yeah, that just might work...

[tes4player1]

omg!this was mentioned in Time!

[hockeyis4every1]

Thank you TIME magazine, finally someone rips the appallingly idiotic commenters of the web

[darennio]

I love TIME! and my watch too.

[swander57]

i love it!

im glad time openly flamed youtube haters!

no reason to get mad at such a cute animal!

[ms42jk23]

You cant look up the video,watch it,then complain because "hes ruining the internet" then why the hell watch it?

[dankmusic]

Read about this in TIME

Your hero to all of us

5 funking starz biatch

[Darksythe321]

TIME is probably right..the internet's going to hell with all this BS commenting. congrats to all you civilized people posting nice comments however.

cute gerbil tho! although a bit dark

[AsshatTroll]

No, the reason the internet is going to hell is because newfags like you and the person that posted this video don't lurk enough and everyone hates you.

[aaaatokun]

LOl i read this on time magazine about the negative comments thing XD

[deadpeng]

Me too....i quite agree with TIME s insightful comment

[ITISACODE]

sweet

[AsshatTroll]

limmenwinks...is that you? You have to complete your journey out od the gay man's ass.

[harwoodhomies]

HEY WILLZLING you have no life. instead of spending so long about him and making threats that you wont go through with why dont u get a life and find something else to do. like get a job and move out from your moms house.

[harwoodhomies]

i read about this in TIME magazine and some of these people are really online tough guys but are probably whimps and weakling. they complain about you wasting your time with that but they waste their time writing about you wasting their time. They are loosers for writing about you wasting their time. If they don't have a life they shouldn't complain and what you do with your life.

[DaProlifik1reaLyrics]

suka byg phattt won u peece o dauggy doodee YYYYYYYYY wood u weighst mi tyme wit e stoopid azzzzzzz vyd lyke dis? Na, I'm just playin', had to see if this video was real or not, you in TIME magazine. Congratulations.?!?!!!!!!!!CCC­hhhhhhhheeeeeeecckkkkkMMMMyyyy­yyyyyyyyPPPPaaaaaggeeeefffffoo­oooorrrhhhhhiiiipppppppphhhhhh­hhoooooppppppnnnnooooooohhhhha­aaattterrrrrrrrsssspppppppllle­eeeeeeaaaaaaassssssee

[MadBanana39167]

you can either suck my dick, or the dildo thats in my vagina

[Champiness]

It must be bittersweet being in Time magazine for reasons like that. People now shower you in kindness, but you know that it's out of sympathy for the comments of others. Personally, I like the video, but still, posting nice comments for the purpose of outweighing mean comments is little more than charity work.

[deadpeng]

i think the focuse as reflected in TIME magazine isnt just about avoiding insults, but rather the provoker is being immature and are negative influences.

[woofbiscuitwoof3000]

Oh yeah, willzling4ever- fuck you.

[woofbiscuitwoof3000]

This is so cute!

[heywhatsup212]

if you think this is crap then why watch it

fuck you

[willzling4ever]

Well, I, like everyone else who saw this waste of space of a video, thought that this video was gonna be cool cuz of all da views.

[heywhatsup212]

thats because it was on time magazine in the last article :P

[deadpeng]

you are so childish that when TIME magazine criticised you you have to do this? continue this, you will grow up=)

[ad964]

"why don't u shove that stupid gerbil up yur ass and quit posting stupid videos." bwalhof writes, "kill yourself. fast."

END

The author, Lev Grossman, writer of the Nerd World column is trying to explain the "spit venom" (as another user put it) effect that many commenter's use. He goes on to write: "Commenters respond with surprise when people call them on being not nice. In their social universe, this kind of rhetorical slap fighting is just how you do business"

[ad964]

I'll copy the transcript:

A random example: On June 11th, a user called way21337 uploaded a video to YouTube. It's titled My new gerbil, and it shows, in fact, a black-and-white gerbil snuffling around cutely in somebody's hand. By press time, it had acquired 102 comments. Let's take a look! They begin with NewTyhuss who writes, "sweet!" things start going south at comment No.4: "i'd hit it" (Good one, ZRace67!). After a week, we're down to eldergod0: (CONTINUED)

[animalkingx]

Why...? Just why...? This is pretty sad... I have no idea why Time magazine would waste their time on this pointless video.

[Trynottoblink]

Time mentioned the video to provide an example of the rancor found in the Comments section of websites. The author of the article wasn't implying that the video was important; he was just showing that commenters will pointlessly spew venom even at a tame, innocuous video like this one.

[carchasingx]

LMAo everyone's hatin on this gerbil.

wtf

[eldergod0]

this was in time magazine thats bullshit i have a film about my pet poison dart frog that i throw at people hahaha they drop like flies

[dariidar]

saw this on TIME :D it's cute

[astroview120mm]

i saw this on time. it makes me hungry

[canadarox0rz]

I searched this cuz I saw it in Time.

[gnomefros]

same

[MadBanana39167]

Time magazine cunt suck gerbil dicks!

[MadBanana39167]

MadBanana, stfu please.

[deadpeng]

plz dont be a loser thx

[schaits]

did anyone notice that this was in TIME?

[MadBanana39167]

fuck you!

[senorglory]

This gerbil should be shoved up the bum of Time.

[awesome94]

that is a cute gerbil every one who posts mean comments should DIE

[chairman1mao]

hamster is fag

[illinifan267]

saw this in TIME magazine

[PhazonCBz]

/troll

amazing, saw this on Time Magazine

[grainyrice]

TIME magazines covered your video!!!!

gerbils ftw

[DarthKrattus]

Comment no. 103!

This video was actually covered in the Time Magazine.

That gerbil is cute, BTW.

[ITISACODE]

reply #???!

I'm glad someone else realized this!

[ImYouAndWhatISeeIsMe]

if yr the guy from time magazine...

nice writing. i like yr work.

but please stop covering music and being ever so white by crowning lil wayne greatest rapper alive? everyone involved is embarrased.

thanks

[DarthKrattus]

I'm not that guy lol XD

I just happen to be one of the few that read the news, let alone read.

[poopds]

dust dem boys off lololol

[msmartian118]

shove it up you ass!

[jrico1234]

oooooh what a curious cute little gerbil.

[tommasfoolery]

hmm. did you also purchase a new roll of paper towels?

[IdleGod]

mmm, felching...

[homeslice756]

you know some people stick gerbils up there asses and let them squirm around. thought you all should know

[Noyjeetut]

This guy has found the way to get a shitload of hits with very poor content... Good job. Whatever your doing it works.

[TheLob24isBack]

he has sex with it every night

[BuckeyePanda]

Wouldn't you? You gay or something?

[TheLob24isBack]

no i dont like fukin animals thats all

[sicNegro]

Really jumpy little guy.

[adimooani]

why was this featured? i mean sorry but u can barely even see anything.

[Whirlington]

this gerbil is great, sorry about the comment before i just wanted to know?

[iOVERDUE]

why does this have so many views

[sakurakiss12]

because TIME magazine featured it in an article about how comments are going beyond crude and mean, as you can see here

[giiblet]

Gasp! She's cool. I want one. If I had one I'd name it Giblet. Cause Giblet is cool. This is a slow moment for me. Maybe, probably should utterly disregard this comment. Gerbil is still awesome though.

[kntuckyfriedbrain]

that's a cool rat , it looks really dark in there though.

[Ballpythondude420]

and i though u were gay

[tennisbabe837]

wow..

[Centley]

aww i wish i had one :(

[samdon815]

Rodent , yecch

[Spider123Man]

Ok, I'm not dissing the gerbil. I mean, it's cute and all, but how on Earth did this video get almost 250k views? I mean, how is it that 250,000 people just randomly stumbled upon a video of someone's gerbil in just 7 days?

idk. Cool gerbil though :]

[ilovechris33]

ahaha ur funny lol

[GNR87Joker]

thats exactly what i was thinking. i kept seeing this on the "What people are watching" section, but i never bothered to check it out. i thought it might have done something funny. 252,350 views in 7 days?! i dont get it.

[Spider123Man]

That's exactly what I kept seeing, so I decided to check it out one day. I was amazed.

[xcolombianchickax]

oh em gee! i just noticed..y does this vid have soo many views?!!?!!?! 246,000?!? wow...thats problaly more than wat Fred gets which is kinda scary...

[luv2sing245]

my friend desiree has a gerbil and she says she loves it but it always pees on her hands. xP Yeah that's why I'm not getting a gerbil. Plus they aren't fun to play with. My dog might squish it

[mp3dog101]

cute! :)

my gerbil bites tho XD

[a1n4i1m4ation]

Cute gerbil.

I like when it sniffs the camera

By the way I'm view #216,495

Check out my channel...if you like comedy vids!!!

[RoadToDawn51]

Congratulations on such a successful vid. I bet you worked VERY hard on making it! I also love this vid! It's the most sexy/action-packed/musical/cut­e/shocking/dramatic/romantic/t­oe-tapping/heart-stopping vid EVER!!!

*accidentally rates 2 stars*

[megadethqc]

dude, not all vid on youtube have to be fucking awesome. He just wanted to show us his gerbil,you're not obligated to watch it.

[RoadToDawn51]

No.....no I wasn't. But I did anyway because I thought that there was going to be something that the gerbil might do. lol I should've lowered my expectations a little. xD

[mynameisethan182]

jelious much?

[RoadToDawn51]

.....yeah. :'(

[xcolombianchickax]

not all the videos have to be SOOO AWESSOME. the kid just wanted his friends or family to meet his new pet. dont make such a big deal of it. its only a freaking 11 second video so, chillax cuz u didnt waste so much time on this vid. OK? so shut uo RoadToDawn!!!

anyways...lucky! i wish i had a gerbil...mii mommy wont let me get one cuz she hates "rats" but they arent rats! she thinks they will escape from da cage nd go to her bed while shes sleeping nd bite her! goshh! well anyways.its rly cute!

[RoadToDawn51]

Wow man that sucks for you. I had two gerbils because I've heard somewhere that they love company from other gerbils, or whatever. But everytime I've tried to pick them up, one of the gerbils would try to bite me lol. It wast the same gerbil too. Oh, and I was being harsh in my previous comment because my expectations for a vid with soooo many views were a little high. Do you blame me?

[xcolombianchickax]

Oh. Of course i dont blame you. now i tottaly understand. lol but isnt it amazing how a little 11 second video about a gerbil, czn have SOOO many views?! I guess that ppl these days, are interested in the darndest things xD

--daniela--

[brettwolf55]

kind of a dumbass question dont ya think? god what is wrong with people these days?

[dumbmortiz]

can your gerbil talk? my birds say good morning, good afternoon, good night and how are you when i come home from work.

[0000ll]

HAHAHHA! woooooow. people these days continue to suprise me.

[Whirlington]

no offense but, why did this video get 205,628 views? why?

[jtdrye]

It was on CNN too..

Why is this blood-thirsty creature getting all this attention?!?!

I don't think the world is ready for this oh-so anticipated answer yet..

ONLY TIME WILL COME

that's all I can say at the moment.

be ready.

[bwalhof]

kill yourself.

fast.

[carchasingx]

whaaaa?

[Reign235]

gerbils are ugly as fuck

[elmoizmyhomie]

y did u put a 12 second video of u holding ur retarded gerbil?? seriously who cares about it??

[octabeck]

why did you comment on it?

[Miyu55]

why wont it stop mocing the girbil- oh wait that was a ginnie pig

[samdon815]

It looks like a rat to me.

[Revelations12]

LEMMIWINKS IS THAT YOU?!

[tylerjb85in]

Hes back from the brown tunnel of which he came.

[YoonDaeGeun]

That's so really cute lol. I wanna get gerbil..!!!

[eldergod0]

why dont u shove that gerbil up yur ass and quit posting stupid videos

[thewwwguy]

was that really necessary? cant you be nice? please?

[ITSBORIS]

why would you watch it if its stupid dont be a dick...btw tht gerbil is rlly cute but i have 3 cats so i cant get one....unless its one of my cats birthday or christmas

[killingtime15]

ahahahah just so you know i just read your post in time magazine. you're youtube account is officially famous for being run by a dick.

[tylerjb85in]

im responding to a real life celebrity!

[deadpeng]

so this is the eldergod0 sucker mentioned on utube.....hais

[bralen24]

Cute enough to eat. :)

[dy2095]

WOOOOOOOOOOOO

its not like every person in the world with a gerbil and a camera phone hasnt done this

dont be rediculous

[almendares3]

this video has more views than the other gerbils videos

Gerbils make really good pets they like to play alot =)

[Fivestar5000]

i get a those as pets for my snake

[pshyaa37]

Nobody cares about ur gerbil!

[Rocko0]

lol

[clickhurrr7]

i have no idea why i just watched that entire thang.

[HOLLATYME]

i luv it

[pinkfox253]

it moves so fast

[OneLastBreath777]

how is this on the now watching videos? lol

[Z0DI4C]

How is this on YOUTUBE???

[Itube4drama]

lol i just saw this on the now watching list also XD

[the5thof4]

that's awesome that this video was on the "most active" list :D

SWEET GERBIL X)

[Nexus333]

OMG

[sccrboy30]

my friends dad chucked 2 gerils down the garbage disposal(how do u spell dissposal?)...LOL

[xassassinguy]

jhow can this have 95,000 views wow thats crazy

[TheGnomelyTourist]

Whats he going to do with that gerbil??? Hope he has a cat in case it gets lost.

[eyesack9]

can i have one

[RespawnK29]

there must be an attrcaction to this video, all the others like these have barely any veiws

[UrbanFiasco]

cool gerbil but you could`ve made it a little longer

[heatherleejones]

this is so stupid i don't see how it has 71,596 views

[thatisstupid1212]

holy crap

the next dramatic chimpmunk??

[aerofilms]

61,000 views for a 11second video of a gerbil dang man ur good..

[TheCYBTeam]

This was on TIME magazine, that's why.

[AngelinDisguiseCB]

Lol I Like Gerbils They're Awesome!!

[number1ersanfan]

awesome

[saltyparty]

ge is sooo cute but a lotmof viewing!!!

[joe6panther6]

That's cool!

[NeedlesSTKane]

how cute

[kevincaz07]

Holy Shit!! 32,000 views??!?!?! how is that possible???? lol, should I post a video of my gerbil so it will get that many? xD

[ursniper10]

oh so cute!!!

[simonson1]

aww so cute

[toyboxbabay]

aww i love gerbils!

:)

[cheergirl115]

wtf that was a stupid vid. I mean the gerbil was cute and all but why waste time to put it on YouTube!?!?!?!?!?

[maulding911]

live bait.

[Phanact]

i agree

[skipperboots]

O that is cute make sure if you have two they are both female or male cause ares mulitplied and we had like 6 and it was awful

[Dakota838]

Snake food.

[itachi0706]

i had one mines died

[itachi0706]

but i love them and they are so cute

[RRollergod]

Awesome Gerbil, but 14,000 views?!