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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

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

The presence of pancakes ALWAYS de-escalates things

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

Police should carry pancakes instead of tasers and guns. Can you imagine chucking pancakes at someone's head and yelling at them to freeze? They'd stop out of pure confusion. Problem. Solved.

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

People often say customer service is a no skill job. So untrue- it's a NERVES OF STEEL job. Takes a rare person to survive that line of work. Especially on Black Friday.

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

Someone tweeted(?) something similar to this. Another person replied, "Because we get fired if we don't."

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

And if they kill someone, Waffle House isn't just gonna be like, "It's OK, the first one's a freebie. Say he threatened you with a spoon."

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

Probably because a cop's favorite method of de-escalating is with their gun

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

Yup, plus, they have syrup bottles that double as nunchucks. Sticky nunchucks, but deadly ones.

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

When you're open all hours of every day and night, I would think you see and hear it all and so get a lot of practice. Although here in Georgia, all I can hear is the juke-box blasting at the same volume as the employees having perpetual social hour.

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

There's a joke... what's the difference between a Waffle House and a crack house? At a crack house, someone would have asked me what I wanted by now.

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

The Waffle House employees probably very much want to de-escalate any violence.

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

That’s because we don’t have Waffle Houses in Los Angeles.

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

Remind me - never go into a Waffle House, they're obviously very violent places...

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

The police should distribute freshly baked waffles Problem solved.

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

Really? How many fights have you seen break out at Waffle House that were de-escalated by the staff? This one doesn't even make sense.

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

That's because retail workers actually GET FIRED for screwing up. Cops.. not so much.

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

i ab- solutely LOVE waffle house! anytime we traveled south of illinois our breakfast stop was always,always...waffle house!

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

Is it really that? Or customers in Waffle House are so willing to calm down because they desperately want the food?

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

its a waffle house they get more fights then a bar or nightclub

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

Suggestion; When there are riots, don't call the cops. Just have waffles and Pancakes airdropped into the crowd.

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

Then I suggest you spend a few hours watching youtube videos of cops refusing to use their guns until they are literally at deaths door.

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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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