I’m starting to think that I should fully stop reading YouTube comments. They frustrate me. Not because they are unique, but because it’s one of the few places I do read the comments.

It’s a shame, because there are truly fantastic comments. There’s also naive ones, which I can tolerate. Youth is wasted on the young. Though I fear most of us never change, we just grow older not wiser.

But the straight up dumbass and cocksure comments get to me. I don’t reply, I’m not the type that can convince people by writing a reply. It’s just anxiety at that point really.

One recent example was a very well known and well regarded individual who’ve recorded many great artists. He was talking about Prince, and his absolute control and mastery of music. A total pro was awestruck by another total pro.

Yet in the comments there’s this childish dismissal. “Oh that’s just being a musician” and similar. Let’s be frank, I’m an awful musician. But if you think you can grab a random musician and end up with a Prince, MJ, or Stevie Wonder, you are beyond naive.

And this is still on the lighter side of things, the dumbassery goes far further. To important things.

Mike Tyson might just have been right about social media.