Comments on: "Thank You Hater!" by Clever Pie and Isabel Fay

By: Adolph Marx

Adolph Marx — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 02:33:00 +0000

I can’t believe no one’s pointed out that it should be “Thank You COMMA Hater”… damned illiterates..

By: euansmith

euansmith — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 12:18:00 +0000

Bad gibbon! Naught gibbon!

By: euansmith

euansmith — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 12:17:00 +0000

At this point it is time to wheel out the big guns and turn the scatological metaphor all the way to number two.

By: euansmith

euansmith — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 12:15:00 +0000

Gammas, the lot of them…

By: euansmith

euansmith — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 12:14:00 +0000

…and he had a Hitler moustache too… I’m just saying… no smoke without fire…

By: John Stevenson

John Stevenson — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 16:47:00 +0000

1) Install Adblock
2) Go to YouTube
3) Mouse over a comment
4) Right click and choose ‘Adblock > Block This ad’
5) Select a level of filtering that hides all comments - DIV[id="watch-discussion"] works for me
6) Never see a YouTube comment again
7) Be happy

By: Visceral Vixen

Visceral Vixen — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 13:31:00 +0000

Sigh. ‘Tis true. Except before the internet they had to go to all the humongous effort of yelling from the windows of moving vehicles.
I daresay the internet means they no longer have to leave their parents’ house in order to try to inflict their unpleasantness on the world, so in a sense it has made it easier.

By: cellocgw

cellocgw — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 12:58:00 +0000

Since nobody else is lowbrow enough to post it, here goes: Wow, I didn’t see that last shot coming!
(rim-shot (oops another double entendre))

By: snagglepuss

snagglepuss — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 12:35:00 +0000

Help yerself.

By: Warren_Terra

Warren_Terra — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 11:51:00 +0000

I suspect the people shown in webcam-style shots responding to hateful comments they’ve received are responding to actual hateful comments they actually received. Certainly the one Richard Herring reads out is of a piece with the sort of stuff he was bombarded with after he dared to criticize Ricky Gervais

By: Tetsubo Kanamono

Tetsubo Kanamono — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 09:53:00 +0000

I post daily videos on YouTube. Within the past two weeks I have received two daeth threats and a ‘LAZY PUSSY’ comment (I advocate the idea that people are more important than profits). I love this video.

By: Kramski

Kramski — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 06:48:00 +0000

How dare she expose and humiliate the trolls who were trying to have an intimate rape threat moment with her etc etc.

By: miasm

miasm — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 06:43:00 +0000

‘pissing in an ocean of piss’, is, I believe, the proper label.

By: ocker3

ocker3 — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 05:48:00 +0000

I would argue it comes close, but doesn’t Quite surpass it (perhaps influenced by a lack of recent dating in my life *sigh*)

By: Evil Paul

Evil Paul — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 04:07:00 +0000

Best thing since “Fuck Me, Ray Bradbury”

By: Palomino

Palomino — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 03:57:00 +0000

It’s hard for me to imagine that someone would purposefully be on the internet just to harass someone. But I can see them now, lining up their diet soda, pepperoni sticks and salty chips, and settling in for a long night of hateful insults. It happened to me on Reddit a couple times. The moment one of my photos posted, there was a nasty “I hope you die you dumb fuck” response. It was then that it dawned on me the term Troll didn’t mean a monster under a bridge, but a vile human who “trolls” for tear- filled responses. It takes a psychotic frame of mind, and I wonder what it’s a gateway from or to.

By: Jonathan Roberts

Jonathan Roberts — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 02:49:00 +0000

But what if that comment was sarcastic and jimh was really offended? (Head explodes)

By: humanresource

humanresource — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 02:24:00 +0000

[masturbates furiously]

By: Jim Saul

Jim Saul — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 01:27:00 +0000

They still are. But before the internet, they were not ubiquitous.

What was the name of the guy in the cell next to Hannibal Lector in the Silence of the Lambs? That’s what youtube comments sound like.

Then when you see what these people are in real life, they’re so fragile themselves they seem one harsh comment away from making a noose out of their power cord.

The constant rape threats are the worst. I can’t imagine what the effect of that unending bombardment is on someone who feels physically vulnerable.

By: Vincenzo Ravina

Vincenzo Ravina — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 00:53:00 +0000

Whatever gets views, I guess. Are you gonna do the hungry dogs thing as a video or can I do that?

By: HahTse

HahTse — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 00:51:00 +0000

This…

This is really good ^^

Thanks Mark!

I really hope this won’t become an earworm…

By: toyg

toyg — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 23:57:00 +0000

People like this have always existed. Before the internet, they’d just be called “assholes”.

By: RadioSilence

RadioSilence — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 23:20:00 +0000

Well if it keeps even just a few from commenting elsewhere on youtube it will have done a good job, in my eyes.

By: snagglepuss

snagglepuss — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 23:16:00 +0000

…I wonder if Isabel Fay also likes to throw a pound of raw hamburger into a pack of hungry dogs ?

Because this video would be pretty much the equivalent bait for trolls.

By: Gutierrez

Gutierrez — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 22:11:00 +0000

Looking at the comments on YouTube at what point is trolling so meta it’s performance art?

By: jimh

jimh — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 22:10:00 +0000

Yeah, that’s what I was trying to create.
An infinite WTF SARCASM? loop.

By: tw1515tw

tw1515tw — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 22:06:00 +0000

You mean some troll-like comments after a video that’s sarcastic towards trolls, on a site like BoingBoing? Now I’m unsure if your question was asked in a sarcastic way. This is some sort of knowing-sarcastic-space-time-continuum spiral.

By: Jim Saul

Jim Saul — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 21:54:00 +0000

Just to pick the scab, I had to check the comments on youtube:

Who cares, trolling is for the people, it’s not some bullshit school of thought. But please, to those watching, do me the favor and make it legit, make my dreams come true.
TheLifePerfect in reply to krossdude35 (Show the comment) 5 minutes ago

I will fuck off when I’m good and ready to fuck off, you bossy bitch.
TheLifePerfect in reply to NimmoPie (Show the comment) 8 minutes ago

why does everyone thing trolling is a bunch of incomprehensable homophobic/racial/sexist slurs? trolling is where you come back (using intelligence) at those idiots who do this and unsuspecting people
krossdude35 8 minutes ago”

Oh what a brave new world it is, that has such people in it.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 21:41:00 +0000

LEAVE JUSTIN BIEBER ALONE!

By: jimh

jimh — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 21:31:00 +0000

So this is sarcasm, right? Because some of those comments are really hurtful.