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.
The woman that tweeted that was being sarcastic. She was responding to a conservative who said that NZ was a hellhole.
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I feel for you. Hope you recover from the traumas :) Also...are you interested in adopting a 34 year old? I cook and clean
From a NZ'er, it's not always great. It's a beautiful country with lovely people, but some of the things being done by government are terrible. Did you know that our current prime minister enter politics as the head of the international socialist youth union? Frustration aside, it's a lovely country to visit, and we always welcome any tourists who come.
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So disgusted and enraged, I think I have to personally fly over and punch it in its face for a decade or three.
And the Leader of your Country was on TV talking about they had not had any new Covid cases in 2 weeks.....Trump went on tv and said "She only said that to get at Me".....That's the kind of leader WE had.
I would love to emigrate there, but I am too old now, 'cuz "rules". Ha.
This was in response to Trump calling NZ a hellhole at the start of the pandemic.
Don't rub it in! NZ has made it plain they're not letting anyone in. And I don't blame them at all, I just wish I could not blame them from where you're sitting.
Middle Earth--uh, I mean New Zealand is gorgeous. And everything I hear about Auntie Jacinda says she's a total badass.
I don't know much about New Zealand, but I think the complaint some people have is not that the scenery isn't nice enough but that the government is taking away their freedom. If when people in Minneapolis rioted over the killing of George Floyd, someone had said, "How can you complain about the killing of George Floyd? Minnesota has so many beautiful lakes!", that would have made just about as much sense as this post.
Thank yoouuuuuu. I've been looking for a comment like this. Also our 'prime minister who believes in democracy' entered politics as the head of the international socialist youth union. Fun fact for anyone?
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I concure! No snow, no mountains, no coniferous forests, just a stinky ocean! ;)
They're joking right?? The sheer terror of seeing this sight everyday must be inducing the need for therapy. :/
The view I have to see daily from the balcony on top of a hill from our home in Nelson, NZ. what a hell hole Balcony-61...cf3bda.jpg 
Poor New Zealand! So far from the rest of the world, and so close to Australia.
And they've cured Down Syndrome. Amazing nation. Of course, the cure is tremendous governmental and societal pressure to terminate those pregnancies.
As the proud mother to a 31 yr old with Downs, this is awful. I'm so grateful my son was born with a simple chromosome abnormality and not something devastating. These folks are missing out on some truly good times.
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well, lets start by getting Charlotte Bellis back in the country and we'll talk again https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/charlotte-bellis-nz-herald-taliban-afghanistan-b2003895.html
I would love to live there. I'll swap you that for my council house in Britain
I want to be disgusted there, too and wake up to that view! I promise to complain!
And so pretentious—the head of their transportation department just rode her bike to the hospital to give birth.
The hell is your point? You must be SO insecure to post something this ridiculously better-than-you...
Most of NZ does not look like this. Apartment anyone? Private beaches? PM who said 90% vaccine rate and still has lockdowns?
But I still can't visit, despite being triple jabbed and flu vaccinated.
I miss New Zealand so much and my friends always think I am absolutely insane for liking it there but like EQUALITY, and pretty things do not exist in America.
Why would your friends think you're insane for liking NZ?
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Says the insecure man. I guess insecure man are international. Lmaooooo
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Oh my God I'm reading your profile hahahahaha "be better than the day before." Ok Karen.
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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...
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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
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