My father loved this meme. My favorite memory is of reading this meme with him sitting on the couch with the family puppy. He died tragically ten years ago, hit by a runaway dildo delivery truck while taking our puppy to the vet to have puppy aids treatment. I cry every time I see this meme.
I saw a top comment on a music video on YouTube with "Anyone watching on specifically today's date". Tons of engagement because of course everyone is watching today.
Dude just had a script setup to edit the comment every day, so for years it always asked about today's date.
That's funny asf, but to what end? What does the commenter get out of engagement? Are they a sock puppet of the creator trying to drive interactions in the comments?
The amount of comments I half write and then scrap is probably nearly the amount I actually post.
Does this add value or is it just taking up bytes? Am I relatively sure what I am stating is correct? Will this impact the person I am replying to, or the other readers more than not commenting at all?
And those are just first order questions before I even start to get frustrated with language structures or phrasing my thoughts in a way that is accurate.
I am the same way, if I write something, I try to make it a complete, and informative statement.
IMO this trend started with Twitter 10+ years ago, where short messages were equivalent of shouting into the crowd, and more frequent shouts got more retweets. Then there was the trend of "first" comments, glad that is mostly gone.
That doesn't bother me, and as someone who occasionally makes comics I always appreciate positive feedback like that.
So much worse is:
OP: "This [noun] is [adjective]."
Commenter 1: "This [noun] is [worse adjective]. FTFY."
Commenter 2: "[Noun] isn't [adjective]... BECAUSE IT'S AN INSULT TO [ADJECTIVE] THINGS EVERYWHERE! I am so clever! You thought I was defending [noun], but I pulled an Uno Reverse, which is also a clever thing to say!"
At dinner that night I imagine commenter 2 tells his mom all about how he's so funny on reddit. She doesn't really listen.
I think the issue stemmed from Stream Comments whose fast paced nature causes a situation where you're more likely to feel ignored for a thoughtful contribution but feel like part of the monkey pack if you howl the same stuff everybody else is howling.
It's not "bad" but it can make you feel sad inside. All those commenter are trying to essentially say "I found this funny", but they're never saying anything genuine. Its always a repetitive joke or a meme that you see a thousand times.
Instead of seeing a bunch of different people and diverse reasons people "find a joke funny" they all start to melt into the same person and it expands on this loneliness where all this human interaction is at the tip of our fingers, but only the surface level of ideas can be expressed.
107 Comments
saltnotsugar@lemm.ee · 172 pts · 1y
Who else is watching this in 2025!?!?
SARGE@startrek.website · 52 pts · 1y
danc4498@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
Engagement is crazy
stebo02@sopuli.xyz · 11 pts · 1y
who else is reading this comment in 2027? 🤣🤣
lugal@sopuli.xyz · 9 pts · 1y
Most are in 2019. Let's not spoil anything to them
JackbyDev@programming.dev · 7 pts · 1y
I miss back like a decade ago when people would say "hello from (home country)"
...
Who else is saying hello from their country in 2025?
ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com · 83 pts · 1y
My father loved this meme. My favorite memory is of reading this meme with him sitting on the couch with the family puppy. He died tragically ten years ago, hit by a runaway dildo delivery truck while taking our puppy to the vet to have puppy aids treatment. I cry every time I see this meme.
TheImpressiveX@lemm.ee · 43 pts · 1y
This is so sad, can we hit 50K likes?
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 1y
1 re-lemmy = 1 ❤️
FeatherConstrictor@sh.itjust.works · 27 pts · 1y
Hit by a runaway dildo delivery truck is crazy 💀💀💀
JackbyDev@programming.dev · 11 pts · 1y
Bro really said he got hit by the whole damn dildo delivery truck 🥀🥀🥀
rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee · 10 pts · 1y
Bruh really said puppy 💀
2ugly2live@lemmy.world · 68 pts · 1y
You're missing the pinned "Omg, this is crazy, but I just got a $750 gift card from the code in the description! 💕💕"
finitebanjo@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 1y
I've figured out a solution for those, actually. My channels' word blacklists includes every single emoji.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 1y
👆🙈 🤣🤣🤣
bigkahuna1986@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 1y
If I hit 10k followers my parents will buy me a professional camera! Please guys!
YourMomsTrashman@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Anyone CRANKING their HOG in 2032? 🦍👽🦔
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world · 56 pts · 1y
Tiktok is really bad about this. I'd say it's worse than YouTube comments.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de · 85 pts · 1y
NAHHHHH "worse than YouTube comments" IS CRAZYYYYY
blinfabian@feddit.nl · 71 pts · 1y
bro think its worse than youtube comments💀💀💀😭🙏😭🙏😭😭
misterdoctor@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 1y
“Worse than youtube comments” got me crying 😭
Sorse@discuss.tchncs.de · 18 pts · 1y
Bro literally thought 😂😂😂😂🤪🤪🤪😏🥸😂😂😂1️⃣ 1 👍 like 🟰 equals 1️⃣ 1 🙏 prayer
sunglocto@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 1y
ts pmo fr 🥀🥀😭💀
Godric@lemmy.world · 49 pts · 1y
"Anyone watching in current year?"
dev_null@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 1y
I saw a top comment on a music video on YouTube with "Anyone watching on specifically today's date". Tons of engagement because of course everyone is watching today.
Dude just had a script setup to edit the comment every day, so for years it always asked about today's date.
Godric@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
That's funny asf, but to what end? What does the commenter get out of engagement? Are they a sock puppet of the creator trying to drive interactions in the comments?
dev_null@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y
I have no idea. Guess people like getting thumbs ups and comments.
JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone · 7 pts · 1y
I hope that as of 05/14/2025 that you live a happy life 😍
If you're reading this comment in 2023, I hope you have a lovely day ❤😍😘❤
kamen@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
The years so far have only had 12 months each...
/s
kamen@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
In case the paper calendar on the wall has stopped working, you can always go to a 13 year old YouTube upload and look for this comment.
owl@infosec.pub · 2 pts · 1y
To me better than "current year anyone?"
FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 1y
"Punchline" 💀💀
ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 42 pts · 1y
Punchline Situation is Diabolical
@SomeDude • 8 hours ago
2.8M Views
carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 39 pts · 1y
"no one:
absolutely no one:
not a single soul:
character: punchline"
going back to 2018-era youtube comment sections is painful
qarbone@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1y
2018-era? That still happens today
carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 11 pts · 1y
maybe it’s just that I hang around good parts of the internet now, but i saw that "no one:" format so much more back then
i still see it sometimes now, but around 2018 it was everywhere
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
"Tell me blah blah blah without telling me blah blah blah."
spankmonkey@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 1y
"I don't get punchline"
cRazi_man@lemm.ee · 24 pts · 1y
Punchline isn't even funny. Anyone who laughs is an idiot and the creator deserves to die.
lugal@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 1y
Thanks for clarification!
SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip · 36 pts · 1y
I can never tell if it’s bots or if people are just so unoriginal. I mean I’m not that original myself, but at least I’m self aware.
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org · 8 pts · 1y
If you don't have anything to add you can always just say nothing.
SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 1y
Yea, that’s what I was trying to imply by being “self aware”. Since I realize I have nothing original to add, I just won’t say it.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 1y
The amount of comments I half write and then scrap is probably nearly the amount I actually post.
Does this add value or is it just taking up bytes? Am I relatively sure what I am stating is correct? Will this impact the person I am replying to, or the other readers more than not commenting at all?
And those are just first order questions before I even start to get frustrated with language structures or phrasing my thoughts in a way that is accurate.
SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 1y
number* 😸
Yaky@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 1y
I am the same way, if I write something, I try to make it a complete, and informative statement.
IMO this trend started with Twitter 10+ years ago, where short messages were equivalent of shouting into the crowd, and more frequent shouts got more retweets. Then there was the trend of "first" comments, glad that is mostly gone.
RymrgandsDaughter@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 29 pts · 1y
Ayo not "punchline " ffs I'm dead
Zentron@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 1y
Yooooo , "punchline" indeed
moakley@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 1y
That doesn't bother me, and as someone who occasionally makes comics I always appreciate positive feedback like that.
So much worse is:
At dinner that night I imagine commenter 2 tells his mom all about how he's so funny on reddit. She doesn't really listen.
petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 1y
I listen to him~ but only through the little speaker I've hidden in his wallet
finitebanjo@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 1y
I think the issue stemmed from Stream Comments whose fast paced nature causes a situation where you're more likely to feel ignored for a thoughtful contribution but feel like part of the monkey pack if you howl the same stuff everybody else is howling.
blarth@thelemmy.club · 23 pts · 1y
Me responding “yes” when two options are presented
couch1potato@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 1y
yes
Hupf@feddit.org · 2 pts · 1y
Who? The Narn or the Centauri?
Zentron@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y
Yes
kylua@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
yes or yes
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 1y
Missing the bot comments that don't reference anything specific in the original post. Sometimes they reference the title, but not the content.
Ethalis@jlai.lu · 17 pts · 1y
Very true in YouTube's comment section
Vespair@lemm.ee · 16 pts · 1y
For extra accuracy you should have made it a repost with tons of engagements of an original post by a different users with barely any engagements
Ironfacebuster@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Reverse shout-out to Barstool sports on tiktok
Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub · 16 pts · 1y
something blatantly sexist or racist that is entirely off topic, just to grab hate reactions
oldest person on earth: "amen"
JackbyDev@programming.dev · 4 pts · 1y
I've seen a lot of ones that are just shit like "(country) dislike button 👇"
HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 15 pts · 1y
How is this bad? I feel happy knowing other people also found a joke funny.
samus12345@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 1y
It's not bad. Not every comment has to be a well-researched dissertation on the finer points of the content.
Honytawk@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 1y
Why do you need validation from others to know if can find something funny or not?
callyral@pawb.social · 13 pts · 1y
What? They said "I feel happy knowing other people also found a joke funny", not "I need others to also think it is funny for me to find it funny"
kameecoding@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
How dare you be social, this is lemmy
WhatsTheHoldup@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y
It's not "bad" but it can make you feel sad inside. All those commenter are trying to essentially say "I found this funny", but they're never saying anything genuine. Its always a repetitive joke or a meme that you see a thousand times.
Instead of seeing a bunch of different people and diverse reasons people "find a joke funny" they all start to melt into the same person and it expands on this loneliness where all this human interaction is at the tip of our fingers, but only the surface level of ideas can be expressed.
owl@infosec.pub · 12 pts · 1y
It's like those video where the narrator simply exactly explains what happens on screen as you see it.
DoubleSpace@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 1y
It's weird, some people make six figures saying "dude" a lot.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 1y
It's a laugh track for people who think they don't respond to the exact same social que in another setting 😂
grrgyle@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 1y
Oh wait I thought this was supposed to be a tumblr or microblog snip, but it's avid. Yeah that's a constant
independantiste@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 1y
I swear I feel like I'm getting brain damage every time I look at YouTube shorts comments
Siegfried@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y
Tree(3)
EvanescentWave@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 1y
💀☠️
itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 1y
Tree(3) is craaazyyy
HollowNaught@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y
10% of comments are legitimately funny or well thought out and add something to your experience
Unfortunately, you have to wade through the other 90% to get to them
Almacca@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 1y
Sturgeon's Law, bro.
wieson@feddit.org · 4 pts · 1y
Störfaktor
untakenusername@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 1y
who's seeing this in 2025???
henfredemars@infosec.pub · 9 pts · 1y
Back in my day we said it was better than twilight.
untakenusername@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 1y
WEVE GOT PUNCHLINE BEFORE GTA6 😭😭 💀 💀 💀🤯 🤯 🤯
rotkehle@feddit.org · 8 pts · 1y
first
Guns0rWeD13@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
kids are fucking stupid.
JackbyDev@programming.dev · 10 pts · 1y
Bro said kids are stupid 🤣💀🥀
bigkahuna1986@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 1y
got me crying rn
arche7ype@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 1y
"bruh it's not that serious"
Luvs2Spuj@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
I am [age] and enjoy this content that is targeted at [other generation or demographic]
grrgyle@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 1y
Brave
slippyferret@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 1y
“TREE(3)” likes got me.
Klear@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
“TREE(3)” 💀💀
limelight79@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 1y
"Biden's economy"
Alteon@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
This post saved my life. 💕💕💕
Exusia@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
Both [setup] and [punchline] are cringe, this is obviously faked for views.
TheImpressiveX@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 1y
!coaxedintoasnafu@lemmy.dbzer0.com
mhague@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
On YouTube I'm seeing
Steve ✓ (2 hrs ago): Can't believe that happened. Has anyone tried Elons bullshit? (20k likes.)
(Then a bunch of replies praising Elons AI.)
Bob (5 hrs ago): Can't believe that happened. (10 likes.)
(Reply pointing out a Bob had his comment copied by a bot)
comfy@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 1y
The video title is probably "Punchline"
explodicle@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1y
Imagine believing punchline.
teije9@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 1y
and ofcourse pinned in the comments 'my dad got mad at me because is started a free OnlyFans for my 18th birthday'
thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
“”Punch line”💀💀”💀💀
cortex7979@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
ahhh punchline
programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 1y
And all of the top comments are sex bots
JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 1y
Michelle-ax46b • 14 minutes ago
Your content keeps me inspired, please keep going!
Luvs2Spuj@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
This.
Schlemmy@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y
Sops for LinkedIn bit different
EvilFonzy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Punchline in Brazil!!
yagurlreese@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
LMAO
burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 1y
Punchline, yes and
kaeurennetwo@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1y