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Good comments on the internet are like excellent supporting actors. Sometimes they can make such a difference, they'll steal the show. You may have clicked on a YouTube video by theneedledrop, but you're giving a like to one of his subscribers joking about the guy's bald head.

So it comes as no surprise that there's an entire Instagram account dedicated to this art. Called Comment Awards, it shares the most creative and funniest observations people have made online. Continue scrolling to check out its top posts! And, of course, don't forget to comment on them.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Also sweet that saving someone's life and therefore missing a job interview (which was probably hard to get in the first place because of his background) and have that called SKIPPING. Eff you very much, CBS

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When folks at FiveThirtyEight asked 8,500 internet commenters why do they do what they do, the answers, people gave a wide range of answers.

"Our respondents' reasons for commenting mirror the results of a recent survey of 600 news commenters by Talia Jomini Stroud and her colleagues at the University of Texas at Austin's Engaging News Project," Christie Aschwanden wrote in FiveThirtyEight. "In their survey, the top three reasons that people gave for commenting were 'to express an emotion or opinion,' 'to add information' or 'to correct inaccuracies or misinformation.'"

Certain stories, however, generate a disproportionate number of comments, and after years of being on the receiving end of comments, Aschwanden has formed a theory: the subjects most likely to elicit impassioned responses are those that feel personal to the reader (a real-life experience with the subject has made them feel like an expert) and those that hit on identity in some way.

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"[My insight is] based on something a newspaper reporter in Boulder told me many years ago," Aschwanden explained. "Back then, readers were still mailing letters to the editor, and they had a seemingly endless appetite to debate two things: who was at fault in conflicts between cars and bikes and whether dogs should be allowed to run unleashed on city trails."

To test this theory, Aschwanden asked the people who took the survey about the circumstances that made them most likely to comment.

"The answers lent at least some support to the bikes-and-dogs theory. But respondents’ reasons were more complex than my one, unified theory; commenters were also driven by a desire to provide their own information or to argue against an idea they disagreed with."

At the end of the day, commenters want the same thing as us publishers — to be heard. So if they have something to say, we're glad they can do so on our platform.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've seen this one before and it made me smile again. Little English, Big heart!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Publisher's AGM: "Now let's not forget everybody, those academic texts all need minuscule revisions before the start of the university year, so that we can brand them as a new edition. We don't want to loose out on any sales at $300 per copy to other students selling the copies the no longer use!"

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh WOW, the last response is just great. It's sweet to try and raise awareness but this might not be the way.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And even without the fashion line worth $200 million, I'm sure Magic would rather have him as his son and not someone like the original poster.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Just keep it out of the Eyes and Ears and Mouth and Nose

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Applause to those gals, because I expect they had to put up with a lot. At least at first.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

... but your dad has a big extended family that's really adorable!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

OUCH! Scotty is right, that bloody racket is not what we want when at the beach.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Or in the park, or in a campground, or walking down the street, or living next door to you...

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I hate hate HATE that! Also in public transportation! If you do that you are a douchebag

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Loud music in public is more annoying to me than Loud conversation on the cell phone in public.

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Mike Loux
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And let's watch movies in restaurants and always have phone convos on speaker. And bonus points if you hold your phone like a piece of toast when doing so.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was recently in Yosemite and had to hike past a guy on a trail doing this. Irritating.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

simple solution: throw the f*****g speaker in the water and enjoy the show as the douche it belongs to tries to save it.

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Laura Mende (Human)
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Was sunbathing in the park the other day and somebody had speakers on. Playlist: Manowar, Guns n Roses and NICKELBACK!!!! I like the first two but the last was TORTURE!!! 🤢🤮

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Thank god they have banned speakers in public areas in Copenhagen.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I love the screaming conversations at the grocery store... obviously on speaker, because, of course, right? Woman holding the door to the freezer case open while listing every. single. thing. inside. while a line formed behind her. Maybe just spare the rest of us, and make the person accompany you to the store?

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The same goes for people, who play their car stereos at full force, rattling others' cars, and assaulting those of us, who choose either to not have music playing, or to listen to our own type of music. Sure, while insulating myself from most outside noise, the first thing that I want to do is to listen to your "music." Grrrrrrrr

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not saying this doesn't happen. But I've never been able to hear someone else's speaker unless I'm laying right next to the speaker. The wind and waves drown out everything. I have a hard time hearing anything on the beach except the wind and waves because it is so much louder and constantly blowing in my ears.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ngl, I'd probably run over, and "trip" thus punting the speaker into the sea. >.>

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buttonpusher
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah, get some bloody headphones and stop thinking everyone wants to listen to that crap.

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Konpat
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'd be thankful for a bluetooth speaker, the kids around here bring their soundboxes!

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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The beach is big, move away if you don't want to hear the music

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

FFS we had the ghetto blasters at the beach in the 70s and 80s but we couldn't hear them because of the sound of the waves and birds and wind.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No chips, I live on a river and there is a beach across the way. Nothing I like more on a Sunday afternoon than listening to commercial country radio blasting for hours. NOT. I finally put an end to it by running my irrigation pump. You don’t play your radio , I don’t run my irrigation pump. Now its just happy sounds of summer.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

People have always had tunes at the beach. Its not hard to predict the next gen of cranky bastard.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is literally every day at work for me! If I have to raise my voice to talk to the person next to me, you lose your Bluetooth privileges

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm sorry, I didn't know that this was your own private beach. I'll remember to ask everyone on a half mile of beach before I listen to some quiet tunes. Can I go to your church this Sunday?

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

QUIET tunes are fine. But you never notice the quiet tunes, if they even occur. We’re talking about those who pollute the air with their noise

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So go to him and politely ask him to turn it down or use headphones.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Bullies never remember the s**t they put their victims through, asking them is giving them too much credit just to start with

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There was a follow-up comment to this along the lines of "Yo mama so ugly your dad had to go get another husband" or something like that. It was in a post on this website

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sometimes I wondered if it was indeed improv and not scripted coz they did so well on the fly. Especially Ryan.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My aunt caught covid from the pastor at a small church meeting. Less than two months later, she, her husband and her youngest daughter were dead. And people don't understand why I don't go anywhere.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Kid (about 14yr old) said to me after first lock down 'in the future, there will be no snow days, only work from home days'. I had a little cry

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