 So I'm stopping by my office here today because I had to pick some stuff up to carry to my house And I wanted to make a quick phone vlog today because this is something I've been wanting to discuss with you guys for a while Obviously, I'm a youtuber. So as a youtuber. I try to take YouTube the platform seriously I try to take some responsibility for the stuff I post on YouTube when I'm not just talking about videos I'm talking about comments because I see way too many people posting bad comments on YouTube and I'm not talking about bad comments as far as their critical comments or negative comments I'm talking about bad in their almost pointless comments like that person wasted their time even typing that comment So today for those of you on YouTube and you're probably on YouTube if you're watching this you leave comments often I want to make sure you're not leaving the following kinds of bad comments So the one I want to start off with and you see this all the time is a comment that goes something like this Well, that's five minutes and 37 seconds of my life. I'll never get back What's the point of that comment right because if you're serious about your time is precious and every second counts That person that wasted five minutes and 37 seconds watching that video also wasted another 37 seconds Probably posting that comment writing that comment and posting it. Why did you do that? You if your time is truly precious just bypass posting that comment all together and move on Another similar type of comment is the comment that goes something like this Oh a 30-minute video just to talk about how to wash your dog. I'll pass okay, so if you're Coming to the video and you see a title that you don't like a thumbnail You don't like or the videos too long You don't have enough time to watch a video of that length for a topic that you think doesn't require that much time Invested so you're just going to move on. You're not gonna watch the video You don't have to tell anybody about it Nobody really cares that you're not going to watch the video and on the flip side of that coin Is the comment that goes something like this? What the f did I just watch right in the WTF? Did I just watch comment? Well, think about it. You just watched the video So if you watch the video you know exactly what you just watched So as a content creator some of the the negative comments that I get that you know Typically, I see these and I just move on because they're not even worth my time or these commenters that begin This novel that they're gonna write usually begin these very long critical post with I know you probably won't answer me Right if I see somebody that starts their comment as I know you probably won't answer me I know they if they're being honest, they're not expecting an answer So I'm not gonna answer them right so if I'm not gonna answer them guess what that novel you just wrote you wasted your time with that So never begin anything with I know you probably won't answer me and another thing I hate is the people that begin these very long posts and they started with I haven't watched the video yet But then they got a million things to say usually negative things to say they haven't even watched the video they Saw the title of the video. They saw the thumbnail, you know, they saw something in the thumbnail They imagine that this video is going to be about something but they haven't really watched the video yet But they want to comment because they got something they really want to get off their chest And if they watch the video and it has nothing to do with their comment Oh, well, it doesn't matter that to them. They're just glad that whatever they needed to say they got to express it That's usually a bad comment Nobody cares because most of the time when you leave these I haven't watched the video yet, but kind of comments They're typically going to be off topic and nobody cares one of the worst types of YouTube comments are these unoriginal repetitive copy-paste jobs, so you guys know this somebody will copy and paste the same retarded message over and over again the obvious example me being a Linux content creator is the Good new copypasta right is I'd like to interject right and you guys see that Yeah, you see the same person posting that thing over and over again on multiple videos And then other people join in and these copy pastas, you know, they become like the cool kids club, right? They're always posting the same boring repetitive messages that were maybe funny the first Couple thousand times that yeah, I posted but after a while nobody cares It's like kind of like adblock as soon as I see some of these common copy pastas I just mentally block them out as soon as I see the first couple of words and move on to the next comment So you got to realize for most people your comment It's already being immediately filtered out. They're never going to read a copy pasta another really bad type of comment Are these comments that exist strictly to get likes? I know YouTube is a social media platform They have the thumbs up and thumbs down button. You know on the comments There's a social media aspect to it But don't beg for likes and I'm there's a million different ways people do this But some of the common ways I see it is hey like this comment If you agree this video was awesome, and it's not the person that created the video, right? Just some commenter he found some popular creator Maybe this video is getting a lot more attention than some of their normal videos So they know a lot of people are watching it. This is a good way to get likes I'm gonna say hey like my comment if you think this video was awesome because I think it's awesome And then they get you know hundreds thousands of likes on the comments, but their comment really said nothing, right? It's just a pointless comment. It's just there to get likes some other common ones are hey If this comment doesn't get a hundred likes then you'll never get a girlfriend or Can I get a light today today's my birthday? That's one I see all the time and sometimes I'll see this person Repeat this comment later like on a later date like his birthday. He has multiple birthdays You know he has a birthday like 50 times a year, right? Can I get a like today's my birthday and another one? I see way too often as people that I'm assuming or pretending to be people. They're not for example I'm only eight years old, but I love Linux, you know people that post on my channel, and you know they know Wow, this this kid's only eight years old. He's already into Linux. Wow, this kid's awesome. Let me give him a like It's not an eight-year-old kid. It's some 57 year old man Living in his mom's basement pretending to be an eight-year-old so he can get your like and similarly You know the people that leave those comments like hey Who's watching this in the year 2035 right they go and watch an older video something that was made five ten years ago Hey, who's watching this in 2022 and they're hoping that the people that are still watching this video because it's still getting views It's coming up in the YouTube search algorithms. Hey these people they're gonna thumbs up because they're also watching it in this year, right? That's very similar to just posting to get likes So who's watching in this certain year bad YouTube comment? Don't leave that type of YouTube comment now It's interesting me having made videos now for a little over four years and have gone through you know countless Thousands hundreds of thousands of comments. I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person from their YouTube comments You can really Gain a lot of knowledge as far as you can profile a person practically from the kinds of YouTube comments lately For example, I can immediately spot when somebody is Young and you know like one of these angry kids, especially how do you know if it's a angry kid? Posting in your YouTube comments will typically they'll either have you know like like a Minecraft or a fortnight profile picture Right usually you can spot it that way. That's obvious Yeah, that's got to be a young person because no one over the age of 16 is gonna have a Minecraft Avatar right, but they also you can you can spot the angry kids because they love Trash-talking things that they know nothing about because the things they love to trash talk existed before their time, right? Things they never experience products. They never use so the angry kid He's gonna post things like hey Atari sucks or 80s hair metal is lame or oh that classic movie you love. It's boring. They've never watched that movie They don't know anything about 80s hair metal right they never played the Atari because it came out You know 30 years before they were born, but to them it all sucks That's how you spot the angry kid one of the biggest blocks of commenters if I'm profiling them It's what I call the way too serious commenter, right? He takes everything way too serious So this is the person for example that for some reason has taken great umbrage with something. I've said right You know, he's taken offense to something I've said, right? He's usually taken something I've said out of context, right? I'm gonna make this personal here because you know, I get these all the time where a person imagines I've said something in a video that I didn't even say or I said something But I said it meaning one thing and they take it in a totally different context Maybe on purpose right because this person again is one of these way too serious people He wants to argue. He wants to debate something even if it's something I didn't bring up man, you know I take it personally, right? These people the reason they take everything personally these way too serious commenters is because they imagine Everything is about them, right? They pretend that they're so important that everything in life is about them Everything that I say or anybody else says on YouTube if they're watching the video. They're talking to that person, right? It's all about them. So, right the video is all about them. These people are incredibly vain people Oftentimes the way too serious commenter you can spot him immediately because he's always trying to explain himself, right? He's always trying to explain his choices in life Like if somebody says hey, you should do a on this video. He's gonna explain why he does be Even though you didn't say and doing B was bad Hey, you were explaining one thing he wants to explain something else because he needs to explain his choices Whether it has anything to do with anything you said on video or not He has to explain his choices. He has to justify those choices as if it matters, right? Because honestly when you think about it when you really think about it Even if you're one of these types of people where you're constantly explaining constantly trying to justify the things you do in life Why? What does it matter? Can you give a reason? No, you can't, right? So you're wasting your time That's why the way too serious commenter is a bad type of comment One of the other things I can immediately spot is people that have identity issues Judging by their comments. So people that identify Themselves as their political party or their religious affiliation, right? They have no real identity They don't identify themselves as you know a good husband or good father Whatever it is that they are in life. They have no real essential self, right? They see themselves in this real crazy superficial way where their identity is I'm a Democrat I'm a Republican. I'm a Christian. I'm a Muslim. You know, whatever it is, whatever team they've joined, right? And you can always spot these kind of people Again that I am labeling as people with identity issues because they identify themselves in the wrong way You know, because they're the people that leave unrelated comments all the time, right? They can watch a video and then 99 times out of 100, they're going to post a completely Unrelated comment. It has nothing to do with the topic of the video or the topic of the channel, right? And usually these comments are religious and political in nature. These unrelated comments That's how you know that's how you can spot these people These are the comments where you see somebody attack somebody's Nationality or somebody's religion out of nowhere for example, you know I'm making a video about some technology law that was passed, you know Somewhere in Europe and then somebody says well as an American I'm glad this kind of law hasn't happened here and then immediately somebody posts Well, let me tell you why the USA is so evil and doing all this stuff in the world that I don't agree with Has nothing to do with the video, right? So when you see those kinds of comments, that's this person that again has some issues, some identity issues Now I don't want to rant forever here about bad comments because not all comments are bad comments Now I will say probably most comments on YouTube are bad comments, but there are good types of comments I'm only going to talk about one today because I think more people should strive to make this kind of comment I think the best kind of comment is first, right? The first comment, right? I know a lot of people will disagree with me, a lot of people think the first comment is stupid Yeah, when people post first, yeah, that's stupid, but you know what? It's fun It's fun and stupid and we can have that and unlike some of the other bad comments, you know The way too serious commenters or these commenters with identity issues with the first comment Nobody gets hurt, right? It's just fun. Yeah, it's a little stupid No one gets hurt though and there can only be one first on a video, right? So it's not like you're going to get bombarded with a thousand people calling first You'll get a couple of people that call first and are not really first, but you know, they get shamed, right? Because those are the bad comments, the false first, but the real first is a good post It's a real achievement. First is an achievement It's an actual tangible goal that has been achieved and should be celebrated So on this video, what I want you guys to do is go find the person who first did this video And tell them you are so awesome Peace guys