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Many of us have been there. One minute you're watching an informative how-to video. Next thing, it's 2am and you're engrossed in a documentary about the world's largest tomato.
If you're prone to going down the YouTube rabbit hole, you might have noticed that sometimes, the real entertainment lies in the comments section. And not the actual video. It's a digital playground, or circus, where wannabe-comedians, philosophers and trolls gather to roast, reminisce or turn a serious topic into an unintentional comedy show.
From perfectly timed one-liners, to witty observations, Bored Panda has put together a compilation of the best comments spotted on the platform. So if you need a laugh that feels totally unscripted, keep scrolling. Below, lies proof that sometimes, the audience really does steal the show.
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YouTube changed the game when it burst onto the scenes in 2005. The platform was registered on Valentines Day that year and officially launched a few months later, in December. The founders were three former employees of the American e-commerce company PayPal.
Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim suspected that ordinary people might enjoy sharing their “home videos” with the public. But they probably could never have anticipated just how successful and lucrative YouTube would go on to become.
According to SEMrush statistics, the video sharing platform experienced a 4.9% growth rate in 2021. By 2022, the number of YouTube viewers had reached 210 million - in the U.S. alone. And it's just continued to grow. Globally, YouTube’s users are expected to reach 2.85 billion in 2025.
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Ordinary people have become overnight celebrities thanks to YouTube's success. People like MrBeast who, as of October 2025, had a cool 446 million subscribers. His real name is James Stephen "Jimmy" Donaldson. And his net worth is approximately $2.6 billion, according to Celebrity Net Worth. Not bad at all for a 27-year-old.
Not only is he laughing all the way to the bank. But he's reportedly even planning to open his own bank. Donaldson applied to register the trademark "MrBeast Financial" on 13 October 2025. The trademark application lists plans for a “mobile app and online services for a range of banking, financial advisory, crypto exchange, and other services.”
If you've ever wondered what the very first YouTube video was, here you go... Titled "Me at the zoo," grainy 19-second-long clip shows YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo. And he really didn't have much to say except, "Alright, so here we are in front of the, uh, elephants. And the cool thing about these guys is that, is that they have really, really, really long, um, trunks, and that's, that's cool. And that's pretty much all there is to say."
The video marked its 20th anniversary earlier this year, along with the platform, and it shows just how far the YouTube has come.
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Chicken Nugget 1 month ago
Thanks for drawing the big red circle, I wouldn't have seen the comment without it
That first grainy YouTube video is a far cry from a lot of the stuff we see on the platform today. Take MrBeast's productions for example. He revealed earlier this year that his his next video cost $4 million and took over a year to make. Many of his other videos come in with a similar, hefty production price tag.
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Michael Largey 1 month ago
No harmonica and test tomorrow? Man, you're already playing the blues!
Beast Industries has reportedly "had three years of losses, including more than $110 million in 2024," according to Bloomberg. The outlet noted that Donaldson spends $3 million - $4 million on each YouTube video. So it would seem that being the most popular YouTuber in the world doesn’t come cheap.
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Tobias Reaper 1 month ago
looks like Harry Potter if he went to art school instead of Hogwarts
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Sea Squirrel 1 month ago
This is Ray Jessel, I wish I'd had a granddad like him! His audition for AGT was hilarious. If you don't know him yet, it's on YouTube.
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Riley Quinn 1 month ago
Oddly, the blonde Prince Valiant wig matches the robin's egg blue suit.
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UKGrandad 1 month ago
I think it was the trailer for this that got the best review I've ever seen. It was something like 'My dad was in a coma and I was sat in his room watching TV. This trailer came on and it hadn't been showing for more than a few seconds when my dad suddenly opened his eyes, sat up, got out of bed, walked over to the TV and turned it off.'
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Robert Millar 1 month ago
The only thing Tucker Carlson does perpetually is to spell his first name wrong.
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Stardust she/her 1 month ago
Feels a bit meanspirited but it’s probably because I don’t know the context
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Belladonna Wexhome 1 month ago
I am very full of the devil's lettuce right now and this is the best THREAD EVER. I can not stop laughing.
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Börje Strömming 1 month ago
Can’t stand the guy, fake laughs at everything on his show, breaks character and actually laughs in every sketch he has ever been in. Just makes it so much more obvious what a fake person he is and when the laugh is real.
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Brandi VanSteenwyk 1 month ago
That's actually the submissive and hen-pecked husband of a domineering Karen wife in an episode of Wife Swap or Super Nanny (I can't recall which).
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Doug Moyer 1 month ago
That IS the comment. That it starts at 00:00. It's here because, while, in fact, accurate, it is meaningless.
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Jesha 1 month ago
Everyone go watch ElectroBOOM on youtube. He absolutely was making fun of his own eyebrows first. It's a fantastic comedy series about safety hazards.
Mike F 1 month ago
Right before he burns them off? That guy is comedy gold. 😂
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BrunoVI 1 month ago
Yeah, they went from funny, to making fun of celebrities, to bullying. Definitely a case for when BP buries the low-ranking ones.
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Jesha 1 month ago
Everyone go watch ElectroBOOM on youtube. He absolutely was making fun of his own eyebrows first. It's a fantastic comedy series about safety hazards.
Mike F 1 month ago
Right before he burns them off? That guy is comedy gold. 😂
Load More Replies... BrunoVI 1 month ago
Yeah, they went from funny, to making fun of celebrities, to bullying. Definitely a case for when BP buries the low-ranking ones.
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