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YouTube comment sections are weirdly positive always. It could be a video of some horrible crime and the comments will be about how great the channel is and encouraging the channel to keep making more videos. When j visit actual fan pages anywhere else online there are always a mix of opinions. But youtube is constantly full of obsequious people

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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Weirdly enough, I see a very similar top comment on a lot of music videos for, it's always saying how that song was their mom/daughter/wife/loved one's favorite and how they played it on their funeral or how they would sing it when they were happy before they passed away due to cancer/incurable disease.

I get that it's a very likely and possible scenario and that people would like to share similar situations but I find it funny how often I see that type of comment.

[โ€“] Tuss 2 points 1 year ago

If I didn't know better I could be responsible for one of those.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

There is literally tens of millions of people dying every year, so it's not unlikely that over the years thousands of comments gather with stories where a song meant something to one of the millions of dead. It just feels a lot compared to YouTube videos.