I gave my self a brain aneurism reading the comment section of a COD video on YouTube. I came very close to replying to a bunch of people, but it just felt futile. You would have to unpack so much propaganda, cover so much history, explain dialectical materialism etc. to even get them to consider that maybe communism or the USSR weren't pure evil.
Maybe it would set one or two people down the road to questioning things, but it's just not worth that kind of effort. Starting to feel like the only way to convince people in a way that matters and is effective is to have socialist organizations in their lives that are positive and then the receptiveness of explaining those types of things to them will be much greater than just one comment on an internet thread.
Yeah for a long time I'd like going on YouTube with my ps3. The best thing about it was there was no way for my poor virgin eyes to accidentally see those horrible comments.
In popular vids the over flow of comments meant everyone was competing for attention so they would say the most bombastic things possible for the likes or whatever. Any good you can do commenting there would probably get sweeped in the tide of attention seeking comments.
I think your right about having a socialist organization in peeps lives. Off topic a bit but Richard Wolff talked the idea of everyone having at least one family member working in a workers co-operative, that way they can tell the rest of their family about how great working in one is.