Deep down, many people feel like they could actually make it as a comedian. While this is a widely misguided concept for the majority of the population, a simple scroll through the comments section on a random post will show that there is a lot of untapped talent out there.
The “Murdered By Words” Instagram page gathers the hilarious and sometimes savage comments people have left under other people’s posts. So get comfortable as you read through, upvote your favorites and maybe try your own hand in the comments section below.
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While we do think of comment sections as an innovation of the Internet age, in one form or another, they have existed since at least the 1500s. In what now we would call Germany, it was common practice (at least among the literate) to “post” one’s ideas in public places, often to literal posts.
The most famous example of this is probably Martin Luther's Ninety-five Theses, nailed to the door of the All Saints' Church in Wittenberg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany in 1517. Of course, this would only be the practice of people who could read and write and had the time and resources to buy parchment and ink. The internet is ultimately the tool that brought mass commenting to the majority of the population.
Good thing he has a bottle of water sitting right there on the table, he'll need it for that burn
While internet forums are generally older, the first “comments section,” as we might call it these days was created in 1998, for the digital edition of The Rocky Mountain News. This publication was a real trailblazer, as it also featured one of the first “advice” columns, where readers could ask questions.
This, perhaps, is what inspired them to open up the publication to reader comments, as a means of creating engagement and loyalty. This practice would soon become the norm, as newspapers, magazines, fan pages, and the first attempts at social media all began allowing people to share their thoughts on a post, article, or page.
It's not the first time something like that happened, and often the victim thinks the undamaged bible is proof of god.
She might wanna jump in the ocean to get some water on that burn (sorry I promise I'll stop now)
Now, comment sections are so common that there are entire genres of content based on asking for interactions. From posts that are just questions, to people “selecting” things from “what house you prefer” to favorite brunch items, people do love to share their two cents. This has spawned an entire cottage industry, like the list here, of finding and sharing the best comments.
Knew it had to happen eventually. Gun control? No f*****g way! More taxes? Hell yeah!
In all fairness to anti gun control folks, they aren't really all that pro tax... generally it's the people who believe in collecting money to help the common good that also tend to want to limit monstrous individuals from the slaughter of their peers.
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you know, I have to make a confession, since I played pokemon, I want to throw pokeballs on everything I come across and that moves. please, send help, video games ruined me
Since Animal Crossing, I want to commit tax fraud
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They should make gun owners pay tax on each gun owned and take a mandatory annual gun safety test and an annual Psyche evaluation
I have a firm grasp on the difference between reality and video games. I've played Call of Duty, never shot anyone in real life. I've played Skyrim but I've never yelled FUS RO DAH in a crowded shopping mall. And the irony as it pertains to school shootings - is that most video games do not allow you to harm children. That is a line that even some pretty gory video games do not cross.
I've yelled FUS RO DAH in public. I was quite disappointed.
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This is only in PA not the federal government. Makes sense considering our government cant get out of its own f*****g way let alone actually pass some gun laws to help prevent mass shootings
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Just a bunch of rich people getting rich off of tragedy. again.
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Duck hunt. Mike Tyson's Punch Out!! was the reason kids got into fights, and Frogger was the reason kids played in traffic.
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Yes. School shooting are problem around the globe! For example: here, in Poland we had around three in last few decades! It's all fault if violent games!
Yes! In my country we too have video games and there's been...omg....zero school shootings! It's almost as if its guns that kill people not video games! But I'm sure Danny Beem will say something to the contrary...
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If we put a 10,000% tax on guns and ammo, that might slow down the slaughter.
That would effectively ban guns. Covered by 2nd Amendment!
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There are two types of mental sickness in the US when it comes to guns. The phobia that the media seems to encourage and the delusional. Those who are delusional seem to think that the extreme fear that the phobics have of guns will transfer to themselves if they are carrying one and become increasingly frustrated when that doesn't happen. The frustration leads to them deciding that the only way for it to work is to use the gun in a way that will get them in the news.
Violent video games may be related to violence, however, some studys have shown that they don't lead to violence, let alone school shootings, and may even be an outlet. https://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletter_article/violent-video-games-and-young-people.
That would effectively ban guns. Covered by 2nd Amendment!
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Your ignorance alone is proof that abortion should always be legal. Get off the internet and skydive into an active volcano you literal piece of garbage.
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I play "violent" games, but I'm not violent... that's what the games are for!
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The science is clear on this one. You have been proved wrong on every possible metric. Your beliefs do not constitute truth.
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Except violent video games don't cause violence
Load More Replies...Indeed, if something has the option to add comments explicitly turned off, most people immediately wonder what exactly happened here. From trolling, and cyberbullying to intensely heated discussions, the anonymity of the internet often doesn’t exactly make for the most civil posts on controversial topics.
And how does that work for the rest of wildlife on God's created earth??!
Memo to US restaurants: Apologies for not being clearer when I said you need to “fücking communicate”. If you’re not willing to say what that commenter said, at least say “in the USA we pay our servers $2.something per hour and the tip is to cover the rest of their pay.” If tourists call you barbaric for that, remember that locals also call you barbaric for it. :)
A number of media outlets have actually closed down their comment sections over the last few years for these reasons. Vice Media closed theirs in 2016, as did NPR. IMDB closed their discussion boards (but not user reviews) a year later. In all of these cases, difficulty with moderation was the number one issue.
Plan A is to save the bees. However, Plan A isn't going very well. Plan B (or Bee) is what you come up with as a crappy alternative in case the main one completely fails. Someone has to make the survival nutrition bars in case a hurricane shows up before a hurricane shows up. Someone needs to figure out a work around in case all the bees die before all the bees die.
Moderation is a tricky subject because the entire point of a comments section is to share a diverse set of opinions. After all, if literally everyone believed the same thing, there would be no need for anything but the initial post. However, as it so often happens, a small group of people can ruin things for the rest of us.
9th century Saxons have pathetic heat endurance skills compared to 7th century Bedouins
Research suggests that people who feel that their opinion is already widely supported tend to stay silent and often don’t even look at comments. This is perhaps why comment sections on any debatable topic can look so extreme, it’s only the folks with marginal views that take the time to write out what they think.
As is quite easy to imagine, once you get a forum full of folks with the most extreme opinions, conflict is almost inevitable without strict moderation. Since that requires hiring dedicated staff and developing a constantly evolving policy around what is and isn’t allowed, it’s not surprising that so many pages have slowly decided to forgo comments entirely.
Thank goodness that time is over Edit: I meant the quarantine
Google has been working on AI tools to help moderate, as it would appear there is a (sadly) growing market. However, a more human-centric approach has existed for a while, that is, the user-flagged comment option that you can even find here. In other words, comments that break the rules are simply reported and/or downvoted by other readers.
I thought sunglasses were part of the uniform? Did I get my information wrong?
This coming from the same morons who tried to cut my farms’ electric predator fence and set my livestock free into the middle of the damn desert in July.
to be honest, he is right, the kind of look parents give when they talk about their perfect child
Note: this post originally had 75 images. It’s been shortened to the top 50 images based on user votes.
@nbfresh why did you go through and downvote literally every comment I have made in like a month? And reply saying that I am ‘just as bad’ as some mf saying the n word for liking dodgeball? I just want to talk?
just ignore it. It doesn't matter. People are stupid sometimes and its easier to just acknowledge that and move on with your day. As soon as you engage them, it just encourages s**t behavior. Trust me. I am an awful person.
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I think these are all great and funny except for the one where a white person makes fun of another persons name. It's stupid and racist-not a "burn" at all... 🙄
These posts can teach a valuable lesson. Always keep your big mouth shut until you think through the implications of the statement you are about to make.
"It's better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubts."
Load More Replies... @nbfresh why did you go through and downvote literally every comment I have made in like a month? And reply saying that I am ‘just as bad’ as some mf saying the n word for liking dodgeball? I just want to talk?
just ignore it. It doesn't matter. People are stupid sometimes and its easier to just acknowledge that and move on with your day. As soon as you engage them, it just encourages s**t behavior. Trust me. I am an awful person.
Load More Replies... I think these are all great and funny except for the one where a white person makes fun of another persons name. It's stupid and racist-not a "burn" at all... 🙄
These posts can teach a valuable lesson. Always keep your big mouth shut until you think through the implications of the statement you are about to make.
"It's better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubts."
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