Reading Comments on the Internet Feels Like It's the End of the World
Watching an unbelievably beautiful video of Hubble probing the edge of space: unfathomable 17.000 comments, but half of them inane, gross, with atrocious spelling, insults from childish name-calling, immature outbursts, vicious moronic bullying to outright gibberish insanity. Reading YouTube comment threads can make you sense the end of the world as we knew it.
How sad, but I guess one doesn’t have to look?
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The Internet brings the promise of connecting it all.
But it could also connect it all… into one gigantic mess.
The sum-total of human lack of knowledge.
Kai Krause, Real Ethereal Ether: A Million Lemmings <em>Can</em> Be Wrong (January, 2010)
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A shared sentiment, the idea that reading youtube comments robs our faith in humanity.
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