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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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
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.
"[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.
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!"
Sometimes I wondered if it was indeed improv and not scripted coz they did so well on the fly. Especially Ryan.
PoOr conservatives. They sure aren't wanting to comply these days!
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.
Yup. They closed almost everything here or only open for vaxxed people, but churches..well, at churches you can still share your belief, your love and your virus
Same in my country, spain. My grandmas were still going to church in the worst of the pandemic. The local bishop was even telling people to not get the vaccine.
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These comments are so distressing, and to everyone that has lost someone to covid, I'm so sorry for your loss. I just want to say not all churches are like this, and it's really upsetting knowing that there are churches that are doing this. The Bible says to respect the local authority and government, and to love everyone unconditionally. There are churches out there that follow the rules. My church shut down during the stay at home order, enforces the mask mandate and when a covid out break happened, shut down again and sanitized the whole building. I am really horrified that churches are acting otherwise, and I ask that anyone wanting to find a community that loves Jesus to keep looking, we are not all like this.
I could be off on this, but I think it may have been Ghandi who said something along the lines of "I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians."
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The could preach over Zoom but they'd have to do without the collection plate.
There isn't a major religion in this planet that isn't worth billions yet they expect poor people to pay for new roofs, the religions charity cases, or to send envoys to the third world to blackmail starving people into joining in exchange for food.
This is just unnecessary. Most churches aren’t like this. Correction: most legitimate churches.
Isn’t exempting them from taxes showing them a preference, in violation of the Constitution?
... said no church ever. The argument why churches should not pay taxes is generally, (a) They are providing valuable community services and so, like other charitable organizations, should not pay taxes. And (b) The members already pay taxes. Churches are not profit-making organizations and so should not pay taxes on income that is not "profit" by any reasonable definition of the word.
Believe in God but stay away from those that claim they believe in God.
Get over it. I'm American. We have a bunch of economic and social power. We also f**k up a lot. I have zero problems with that fact being pointed out. Awareness is important if we're ever going to improve. Ditto Christianity. Christian churches have a bunch of economic and social power -- for example, not paying taxes and still gathering in a pandemic. Christian churches also eff up a lot. It's okay for that to be pointed out.
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Nope. The IRS grants tax exempt status, which non-profits have to apply for. No organization gets it automatically simply by being a nonprofit.
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Me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, uhhhhhhhh...me.
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
Nah,glasses can be sexy AF...edited to fix stupid autocorrect...
Watching a lot of these politicians over the last four years, I want my money back.
elon musk is an asshole at his wedding he literarily said "im the alpha in this relationship" he's a twat
I am so glad that I quit American pop culture when I was 16, in 1985. I don't know or care what any of this means.
Anyone else reminded of Alfred E. Neuman from the Mad magazine covers?
I am 52yo. I have never sorted clothes in my life. I just shove 'em in the washer. It does not matter.
They make guitar/bass, keyboards and drums as well. Got the whole band and cool transportation to boot.
Cant really say thats funny. Usually adore Ryan, but be careful what you wish for, even jokingly. Ask all the parents with children that disappeared how fun it is.
And the sluttiest girls from high school are now the most devout evangelicals judging everyone's lives.
I always feel so sorry for cop's spouses. But I guess they made that choice.
Kansas. I drove across Kansas once. If I lived there, I would paint all my windows black and never stop drinking.
15 years later when the house is worth $1.5 million: "Hey, we need to talk about that loan we gave you.... "
The year is 1989, it's Sunday morning and you are sprawled on some cushions on the floor in front of the TV, watching cartoons, an open cereal pack next to you. Tonight, you will go to McD, get a Happy Meal with a Transformers toy and because tomorrow is no school, you get to pick a movie at Blockbuster. Life is perfect.
Ok, how is that I can't get through reading 2 term papers but I got through all 100 of these. /sarcasm
I have barely started working and it’s almost 10;00 lol. Oh well
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And you felt you had to contribute your hate to the pile? Well done, you!
Load More Replies... Ok, how is that I can't get through reading 2 term papers but I got through all 100 of these. /sarcasm
I have barely started working and it’s almost 10;00 lol. Oh well
Load More Replies... And you felt you had to contribute your hate to the pile? Well done, you!
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