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How's it goin', bros? My name is PewDiePie.
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What day is it?
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- (singing) Fridays with PewDiePie. - Are we reacting to PewDiePie?
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While I was in New Orleans for holiday,
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I wasn't checking Twitter as much.
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I wasn't checking Facebook,
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I couldn't read the comments.
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That's the opposite of me.
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This is about the comments, isn't it? Aah!
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So when I came back and I read the comments
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and I do all these things, I just felt like
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you bros weren't really there.
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Oh, how sad.
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I don't see the same type of support--
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Wait, what's happening?
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I make videos every day for you bros.
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That's my reason of wanting to do this.
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And I think the main problem here is the comments.
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The comments?
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I've been thinking about the comments a lot.
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I go to the comments and it's mainly spam.
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It's people self-advertising.
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Wait a minute.
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Are you telling me that somebody with 30 million subscribers
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is getting spam in their comments?
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Just all this stuff that, to me, it doesn't mean anything.
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I've been trying to find solutions to it.
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I've been hoping that--
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The struggle, the YouTube struggle.
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I was hoping YouTube would try to figure a way out,
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but it doesn't seem like it and I'm just sick of it
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so I'm gonna turn the comments off forever.
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Whoa!
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- They're not coming back. - I heard he did this.
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Is this for real?
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Wait, what? You can do that?
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..I'm doing that.
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I wouldn't say it as we lose something.
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I would say it as taking the next step in the right direction.
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Okay, "In Pewds We Trust."
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..comments being [bleep] and it just bothers me.
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That's a huge move.
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I'm gonna use Twitter. I'm gonna put up a Reddit.
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I'm gonna use it as frequently as I can.
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I just wanna connect with you bros.
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That's all I care about.
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- Does bros include women? - Sure.
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If I don't feel like you bros are with me,
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- I'm like-- - I'm with you.
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Thank you for understanding this decision.
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Wow.
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As always, we gotta end it with a brofist.
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- Don't take me out, bro. - I hope everything is okay.
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- Don't cry. - I'm crying on the inside.
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(groaning)
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But how am I gonna spam my channel now?
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(Finebros cracks up)
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That was a shot heard around the world.
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People freaked out!
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PewDiePie cancels comments. What's wrong with that?
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That's crazy!
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I think he's one of the few people that can actually pull that off.
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(Finebros) So, first off, what do you think of PewDiePie's decision
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and reason for turning the comments off?
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I definitely agree.
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That's definitely extreme. I'd probably wouldn't turn mine off,
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but he has a really good point.
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I think it's valid.
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I've thought of turning off the comments myself.
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It's hard for me to comment on that because I'm not at his level.
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There's about a 27 million subscriber difference there.
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If you're putting something out into the world,
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you're putting it out for criticism.
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If you're putting a video on YouTube, comments is part of it.
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I don't think I would ever disable comments
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I don't see spam, and if I do, or if I see people self-advertising
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I just mute them or block them from the channel
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and then that's it.
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A big part of YouTube is the fact that people get to interact.
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If you turn the comments off, then it's no different from TV.
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It was really brave of him and, I mean, he is the biggest YouTuber
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so this is a huge deal.
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I support it and it's working for him.
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The Twitter and all that stuff, he does try to engage.
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There is a lot of negativity that comes into YouTube comments
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and if this screws everything up for him,
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well, I'm glad he's the first one doing it.
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(Finebros) Do you agree with the issues PewDiePie brought up?
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Here's the thing.
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I think I'm the wrong person to be talking about this
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'cause I don't give a [bleep] about any of this.
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Watch the video. That's all I want.
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If you wanna leave some crazy comments, I really don't care.
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It's hard to actually get feedback on the actual video's content sometimes.
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The only thing I relate to or agree with is the negativity.
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Not so much negativity towards me.
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More towards each other within the comments section.
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I feel like the spam has gotten a lot better.
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The spam's gotten a lot better?
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The spam is ridiculous.
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I've seen some stuff in his comment feed that I've never seen on YouTube ever.
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(Finebos) Can you talk to us about your experience
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in your own comments, the good, the bad, and the ugly?
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Lots of lovely things and a lot of ugly things.
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I love the feedback, whether good or bad.
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I'll get hate every now and then-- everyone does.
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But it's never to the point where it's all over the comments
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and it gets to me.
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It's literally the most racist, hateful, disrespectful [bleep]
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anyone can think of to say to you.
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I used to never delete comments.
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But then when there's just this one annoying negative comment
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with all these likes, then I'm like, "Mmm. Remove."
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I delete comments.
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I will jump on record and say I delete comments.
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There's certain lines and if you cross it, actions have to be taken.
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(Finebros) What is your perspective on the YouTube comments
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after taking over for someone so iconic
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and not really having a background in new media?
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Honestly, I had no idea what to expect.
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Ray had prepped me a little bit, you know.
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He was scaring the crap out of me before I did my first episode.
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He was kinda like, you know, Game of Thrones.
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"Winter is coming."
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Like, I didn't know what winter was gonna be.
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That might have been the most difficult week
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I've had to live.
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And the response was way more positive than I anticipated.
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(Finebros) What are some of the biggest problems
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with the current way the YouTube comments work?
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I mean, listen, I think there's a lot of spam on YouTube.
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I think there's a lot of horrible comments that probably shouldn't be there.
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I like the comments system-- you'll never hear any YouTuber say that.
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I hate saying this, but I love the switch over from the old system,
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but it's obviously not perfect.
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But you know what?
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No comments system is perfect.
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The good comments, they get caught by the spam filter.
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I would almost rather just have my comment blacklist
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be the only thing that is referenced when deciding
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"Hey, is this comment good enough to go through?"
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I don't understand the point of top comments.
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The top comment is the first thing you see
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when you get to the video.
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It sets the tone for the rest of the comments.
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Then it starts this huge, annoying conversation
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when I'm just trying to read if people thought
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my [bleep] jokes were funny.
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When I come to your channel, I know there is a pool,
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a massive pool of people that love you
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so I know what I'm gonna get into when I say something negative
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and it becomes the top comment.
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Yes, mission accomplished!
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The troll underneath the bridge is like,
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"(devious chuckling) Yes!"
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For people who've been on the platform for a long time,
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they kinda know the deal, but people who are like,
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"What is that online video thing? What is that YouTube thing?"
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and they come over there, yeah, I do think feel
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like there's a legitimization problem.
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(Finebros) YouTube not too long ago made a lot of changes
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to the comments system, including features like a filter
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where you can put in words or phrases that will never show up.
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Do you utilize that feature?
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I actually have and I forgot that they did that.
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I have not used it. I should.
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Oh, heck yes!
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I've got a pretty hefty bit of text in there.
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You bet I have.
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Bob is nowhere to be seen on my channel,
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nor is his tank, nor is his army.
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Really? I did not know that.
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What? That's censorship.
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(feigns disbelief) What?
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Whoa.
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I mean, I'm not gonna do it, but-- (laughs)
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I didn't know that you could block certain key words
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from showing up in comments.
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- Like, Rhett. - (wry chuckle)
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(Finebros) Do you have any ideas of how YouTube can make
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- the comments system better? - Some magical fairy that could stop
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kids from being mean to each other.
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Make flagging more effective 'cause I think you can rely
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on the community to filter out for you.
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One thing I like to see in the comments is, as a creator,
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if I leave a comment, it would be highlighted.
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Facebook does that.
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Maybe a bigger team to just dedicate to the comments
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so spam is not a thing that you associate YouTube with
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because that can hurt your brand.
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Some sort of system where you could pin comments.
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Not necessarily to sway the conversation, but to be like,
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"This is the type of discussion that I want to see happening."
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What if there was a way where you could pick
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your favorite comments to go up to the top, right?
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So that way people would be trying to be that comment that you like
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so there would be more positivity than negativity.
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Every system can be taken advantage of.
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It's, I think, the key is for YouTube to continue to be reactive.
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(Finebros) Do you think the comments situation will ever get better?
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I don't think it'll get worse at this point.
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Hopefully it does get better. I think it will
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and the more people address it.
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Like I'm glad PewDiePie addressed it.
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When the internet first came out, I think comments was way worse.
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Now there's a lot more anti-cyber bullying stuff,
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so I think we are gonna get better.
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I think the comments situation is just gonna get worse.
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I don't think there's any way YouTube comments are ever going to
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become more along the lines of Reddit.
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As long as there's a way for people to anonymously talk [bleep],
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people will always talk [bleep].
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I think this is what it's going to be like forever.
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(laughing) I'm, like, the biggest pessimist.
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(Finebros) Last question:
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what would you want to say to PewDiePie for making this decision
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and getting people to talk more about this?
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I mean, I think it's a good thing to do.
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I've talked about the comments before.
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Pewd-- Pie. Can I call you Pie?
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I love you. You're beautiful.
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I think you should turn the comments back on.
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You've gotta turn those comments back on, man.
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You can't let the trolls win.
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You can't let the spammers win.
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You gotta let the community thrive, my brotha.
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Felix, I'm sorry you have to go through bull [bleep].
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I'll leave you good comments. Just let me comment.
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I think that it sends a loud message that, okay, where there's
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something fundamentally wrong if the number one guy
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on the platform is having a problem.
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He's such a hard worker.
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Like it's ridic-- I tell my parents about him.
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He's really inspiring to me and it's very hard
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for me to be inspired these days.
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Thanks so much for watching this episode of YouTubers react.
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In the comments below, make sure to leave lots of nice things.
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Let's talk about how great we all are.
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Let's just hold hands via comments.
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Just keep in mind that opinions are like butt holes--
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we all have them and they usually stink.
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