One of the most well-knownYouTubestars, MrBeast, has recently revealed that he despises the way the comment section is structured on the platform. He then proceeded to compare theYouTubecomment system with that of another website, which he believes is much better structured.
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In a recent podcast published on YouTube,MrBeast gave his honest thoughtsafter he was asked what he would do if he were to take over YouTube for a year. While he was overall satisfied with the way the platform works, he disapproved of the way YouTube’s comment section works, saying it requires significant change. MrBeast then began talking about how the top comments in every YouTube video are either meaningless spam or bots trying to scam users. The YouTuber next mentioned that Reddit does a much better job with that feature, as it actually allows users to leave behind constructive comments.
YouTube’s environment has gotten so awful for MrBeast that he frequently skips reading the comments on his videos, preferring to check out feedback from other places, such as Reddit and Twitter.MrBeast credits Twitter’s blue checkmark feature by saying that people who are willing to spend their hard-earned money on being verified on the platform, are much more likely to be sensible people: “I’ve noticed that any tweets I get from verified users now, they’re usually not just garbage, troll takes. Like these are people paying 8 dollars per month, they’re usually relatively sensible. So, it’s been pretty nice, after I upload a video, I just go on the verified tab on Twitter and just see what people have to say, and yeah, anyways, I live for the day that YouTube’s like that.”
AlthoughYouTube remains the world’s top platformfor video sharing, it’s hard to disagree with MrBeasts’ claims, as the video platform clearly suffers from its lack of a strong enough moderation system for its comment section. One thing that could improve YouTube could be the implementation of a “karma” or points-based system similar to that of Reddit, which would track the number of upvotes users have on their comments, and also hide comments if users have a high number of downvotes.
