Honk If You Watch YouTube for the Comments

The very first piece of advice I received before dedicating my career to the internet was a threat:

DO NOT READ THE COMMENTS!!!!

Everyone I knew, from print friends who’d gone digital to celebrities in interviews, promised me that nothing would ruin my day faster than a mean comment or worse — a negative comment that was true. 

They were right. Comments can suck. But comments also routinely make my day. Yours are my favorite, obviously, but they tend to follow a certain train of thought; they’re typically related to the content. With the exception of spambots who talk about wizards and spell-casters (while earning money from home!!!), you guys make sense.

Not on YouTube. On YouTube, the commenters run wild and free. Sometimes they’re mean, and sometimes they’re spell-casters, too. But if you search and scroll and do a really great job avoiding all your work, amid the slew of trolls, you will find a few bellybutton gems.

Aw.

So, I figured I should stop picking at lint alone and share my favorites with my favorite crew. (You.) The process: scour trending YouTubes, barely watch said Tubes (just because they’re trending does not mean they’re good), find the best comments, then hope and pray that you guys leave yours below so that I don’t do anything productive until we can all go fishing on Mars.

1. Sting, is that you?

You can’t see him, but Jack Smith is watching you.

2. The Great Canadian Rodent Let-Down of 2015

You need to watch :38 for this comment to “make sense,” so I apologize. But I also think the illustrator of the below cartoon owes someone an apology, too.

3. The One Time in the History of Comments Ever that Everyone Agreed:

4. To Quote Justin Bieber, “What Do You Mean?”

Society has singled me out my whole life for being left-handed, yet no one thinks it’s weird these people write with their feet.

5. The Karen Smith of Appendage-Related Questions

No one introduce Jimmy Nguyen to the above 2 commenters. He will not know WHAT to do.

6. Elephant in the Room

So technically this wasn’t a trending video on YouTube but before I select the next post’s batch of comment winners, I felt I had to clear the air: Yes, Zions Sister. There is.

Feature photograph by Krista Anna Lewis

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