One thing that has always perplexed me is the abundant negativity on the Internet. I mean unfounded, unspecific, and irrelevant general negativity. YouTube is the medium I speak of mainly. I'm sure social networks are big contenders too.
And I can understand responses to political and religious statements or discussion videos in that realm. Though I see all of this random hatred on music videos and comedy videos and you know it'd almost be funny if I didn't have to realize that there are people that absurd out there.
Fred is not my favorite comedian but I have never felt compelled to take the time to sit there and type out a hateful comment that may have no legitimate criticisms or any relevant feedback at all to him. I don't understand why people put all of this effort into making the world a worse place-it's not like that person benefits from his bullying. Literally anything can become controversial on YouTube.
The music videos for slipknot songs are flooded with hatemail for Justin bieber. And why? Because he left the distortion button off on his guitar amp and off of his vocal chords.
I don't like Justin bieber or even any of the pop music that hits the top charts but my taste doesn't knight me with superiority. Everyone is entitled to what they like, and as long as it doesn't filter into moral dilemmas then who cares? Or the better phrased question, why do you care?
These are some regrettably common comments on any run of the mill video
"gay" "If anyone likes this guy they are retarded" "no one likes this video" "not funny, just give it up" "only fags listen to this music"
Of course it gets worse but I just had to talk about this. I hear people say even if they aren't negative: "I have good taste in music" what a condescending statement. As opposed to whose taste? Music is music. I myself have some beef with lyrical choices in rap and really some of many genres but there is a fine line between pointless hate and criticisms with a point.
if God is not the pinnacle of one's life, then there is an inevitable substitute to replace him. For teenagers sometimes it is music or sports or theater. And kids tend to think less of people with different talents and interests.
People are different but equal. We should celebrate our miscellaneous differences. And at the very least, respect and ignore them.
Are you one of these negative people whose only contributions to society are various messages that brought about hurt? If so why? Instead replace one mean comment a day with a genuine positive one on a video that you do like.try for thirty days and see if you can break the damaging mentality.
For those I am not addressing, congratulations for resisting what is apparently a strong temptation to showcase a lack of vocabulary and class, publicly, as a martyr for self-confidence building and preservation.
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