# Why do people act like this on Youtube?

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [February 19, 2013, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-act-like-this-on-youtube/650839 "2013-02-19T22:53:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2013, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-act-like-this-on-youtube/650839/21 "2013-02-21T03:21:53Z")

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Not quite the same, but it rubbed me the wrong way…

A few weeks ago I saw a video of a red hot metal ball being dropped into a bucket of water, peculiar reaction ensued.  
Someone asked what the heck just happened and posted two comments, too long for a single one, explaining about the Leidenfrost effect and some hypothesis over what was going on.  
Here comes the thing, after my post other people start answering the same question pretty much verbatim to what I had just wrote; I felt like back in school with the class numskull peering over my shoulder during an exam.

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**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2013, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-act-like-this-on-youtube/650839/22 "2013-02-21T03:37:32Z")

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Terminology quibble:

> [@Sr\_Siete](#):
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> Doing reaaaaally dense comments in youtube videos is sort of a meme. Otherwise capable people go there to say stupid things, on purpose.

That’s not a meme, that’s a cultural practice. The transmissible _idea_ to do it is the meme.

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**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2013, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-act-like-this-on-youtube/650839/23 "2013-02-22T03:40:31Z")

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> [@Anaamika](#):
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> I turn - well, turned - off commenting for my videos when I had them up.
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> What always gets me is everytime there is a Bollywood song posted, the comments devolve into a Hindu Muslim flame war. What?!

I have some videos up featuring Bulgarian choral music, which I love. And I have to keep deleting idiotic comments about who killed who, and who over-ran what and why people should keep the same ancient battles going for _another_ few hundred years.

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