• GnastyGnuts [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I say reddit barely edges out youtube. Youtube comments suck, but the class character of youtube seems to vary more than reddit (literally, "it seems like there are more poor and non-white people on youtube than reddit"). Also people generally don't respect youtube comments or treat them as worthwhile, whereas reddit comments are "discourse."

    • bigboopballs [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      it seems like there are more poor and non-white people on youtube than reddit

      I have really been noticing that there is absolutely nothing from poor people on reddit, lately. Can't find a perspective on anything that isn't from some "middle-class" shit head.

      • Orcocracy [comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        Yeah Reddit has always been for entitled rich American kids. The biggest news-making popular forums on the platform over the past decade have been forums dedicated to stock trading and to Republican presidential candidates.

      • WashedAnus [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        KitchenConfidential is the only sub outside of niche hobbies and I still look at, as it's 95% working class and like 5% petit bourgeois.

  • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Youtube. Reddit can get pretty bad but Youtube comments often feature full names spouting the most vile bigotry. It's like reading writing on the bathroom walls.

  • WhatAnOddUsername [any]
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    2 years ago

    The average individual YouTube comment is worse, but everybody knows YouTube comments are terrible. The problem with Reddit comments is that the people who write and read them think of them as legitimate discourse.

  • UnicodeHamSic [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Reddit. It is a wretched hive of smug liberalism .

    YouTube comments are terrible but they are clearly beneath scorn. It feels bad to be mean to them because they so clearly out of their league.

  • Sator_is_Tense [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    youtube comments are more chaotic, childish and annoying

    reddit comments are far more insufferable and smug

  • WeedReference420 [he/him, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    Depends quite a bit on the subreddit/video but I'd say there's more completely mask off stuff in Youtube comments (everything on Reddit is obscured slightly by faux-intellectualism and smugness, which I guess is it's own kind of hell in a different way...)

  • WIIHAPPYFEW [he/him, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    Youtube comments are like Maury/Geraldo type show reruns, but Reddit comments are like if the reruns were from an alternate universe where everyone on those shows took themselves completely seriously.

  • buh [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    reddit, youtube comments can be vile but at least some are genuinely funny, reddit humor feels like it's stuck in 2012-2016