u/EpicGamerer07

At this point, I genuinely believe originality has become one of the rarest things on the internet, and nowhere is that more obvious than in comment sections. Every single time I open the comments under a video, a post, or a community update, I already know exactly what I'm going to find before I even scroll. It's no longer people reacting to what they watched. It's no longer people sharing their own thoughts. It's no longer discussions, observations, or actual conversations. It's just an endless wall of recycled phrases copied from thousands of other comment sections.
It doesn't matter what the video is about.
A documentary? Same comments.
A gaming update? Same comments.
A science experiment? Same comments.
A music video? Same comments.
A serious announcement? Same comments.
A comedy sketch? Same comments.
The comments somehow end up looking exactly the same every single time.
"The fact that..."
"Who's watching in..."
"Only real fans..."
"Can we appreciate..."
"I'm leaving this here so people can like it years later."
"I'm early."
"I'm late."
"I'm neither early nor late."
"First."
"Second."
"Pin please."
"Please pin."
"Can I get pinned?"
"Like so the creator can see."
"Edit: OMG thanks for the likes."
"Edit 2: Mom I'm famous."
At some point it stops being a joke and starts feeling like every comment section is being generated from the same script.
What happened to actually reacting to the content? What happened to noticing interesting details? What happened to making jokes that actually fit the video instead of copying one that already appeared under ten thousand other videos? It feels like people are more interested in chasing likes than having even a single original thought.
And don't even get me started on the "First" comments.
Congratulations. You clicked on the video before someone else. That's not an achievement. Nobody is handing out trophies for arriving in a comment section five seconds earlier than everyone else. The video isn't going anywhere, and being first contributes absolutely nothing to the discussion.
Then there are the endless "Pin please" comments.
Why? What exactly are we pinning? A comment that says absolutely nothing except asking to be pinned? If you want your comment pinned, at least write something worth pinning. Make a funny joke. Point out something interesting. Start a discussion.
Give people a reason to remember your comment besides the fact that you asked for attention.
The worst part is that this creates a cycle.
One person posts an unoriginal comment. It gets thousands of likes. Hundreds of other people see that it worked, so they post the same thing somewhere else. Then those comments get thousands of likes too.
Eventually every comment section becomes identical because everyone is trying to repeat whatever already succeeded instead of saying what they actually think.
You could literally swap the comments between completely different videos and nobody would notice because they're so generic they could apply to almost anything.
That's the frustrating part.
Comment sections are supposed to reflect the community around a piece of content.
They're supposed to be filled with different personalities, different perspectives, different senses of humor, different ideas.
Instead, they feel like an echo chamber where everyone keeps repeating the same handful of internet catchphrases because they know they'll get attention.
And then when someone finally writes something original, people either ignore it completely or bury it under another wave of copy-and-paste comments.
It's honestly backwards.
The internet has given billions of people the ability to share their own thoughts with the world, yet so many choose to recycle someone else's instead. We have more opportunities than ever to be creative, but somehow we've become more repetitive than ever before.
I'm not asking people to write essays.
I'm not asking people to become philosophers.
I'm not asking for every comment to be a masterpiece.
I'm asking for people to think for themselves for just a few seconds before hitting "Post."
If a joke genuinely makes you laugh, make your own version of it.
If a video gives you an opinion, share that opinion.
If you notice something interesting, point it out.
If you disagree with something, explain why.
If you learned something, tell people.
Anything is more interesting than reading the exact same recycled sentence for the millionth time.
The saddest part is that many people don't even notice anymore. Repetition has become so common that it's treated as normal. Entire comment sections are flooded with comments that could have been copied and pasted from years ago, and nobody questions it because that's simply what the internet has become.
Comment sections become interesting when people stop trying to sound like everyone else. They become memorable when people contribute something unique instead of repeating whatever is currently popular. They become entertaining when they're filled with genuine reactions rather than algorithms for collecting likes.
So if you're about to type another recycled catchphrase you've already seen hundreds of times, ask yourself one simple question:
"Am I actually adding something to this conversation, or am I just making this comment section look even more like every other one?"
Sometimes the best comment isn't the one that gets the most likes. Sometimes it's simply the one that was actually your own.

Discounting the context in which the song is played, which is your favourite as a song?

I would do this as a poll but Reddit only lets you put 6 items in a poll and there’s 9 songs (8 if you don’t count The Skald Awakens)

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My theory about the Pattern for the longest time has been that it doesn’t really have any specific intentions beyond reordering reality according to its own rules.

Imagine you have an apartment. Everything in it is ordered and laid out according to a logic that you dictate and understand. Books are stacked on a bookshelf in alphabetical order; cutlery is in the drawer in the kitchen; the couch faces the TV

Imagine then that someone else moves in with you and reorganizes everything in the apartment according to their own logic that makes no sense to you. The couch is in the bath; the books are all over the floor; the cutlery is hung on the walls. To them, it makes sense. To you, the situation is untenable and you need to get rid of them.

This is how I view the Pattern intruding on New York. We are the original occupants, and the Pattern is the strange housemate. Our reality is ordered in a certain way according to certain rules and the Pattern is changing them for its own purposes (maybe that’s just what it does automatically) because it adheres to completely different rules. The key thing here is that it isn’t necessarily malicious. It doesn’t think “Wow I hate NYC I need to mess it all up”, it simply exists according to different laws and modifies reality to suit them. We need to get rid of the Pattern because it existing in our reality ruins our whole existence. This puts us in opposition with the Pattern. It’s a bit like The Kraken Wakes, if anyone here has read that.

Of course I could be wrong, but this is how I see it so far.

Seeing as we already have Dum Dummies, Neuralink is on the way at some point (meaning Common People is 2-for-2), the Dogs in Metalhead are kind of here but not exactly, some people on this very subreddit created the AI clone from Be Right Back and the rating app from Nosedive.

So the question is, which Black Mirror episode is going to come true next?

I watched Common People last night and it made me sad and angry, which caused me to come up with this question

Do you think it would be better (not in terms of the viewer’s enjoyment of the show, but for the world of the episode as a consequence) if:

1. Guy gets hit by pizza car - events of episode happen as normal

2. Guy doesn’t get hit by pizza car - Mia’s crimes are never discovered

On the one hand, she wouldn’t face justice but on the other, more people would be alive

I don’t know why but I struggled with wording this, but I’m sure everyone will understand. Sorry if you don’t.