The YouTube Comments Iceberg Explained 

"why is this recommended to me" is the most annoying comment.

You forgot the comments from verified channels that always gets a ton of likes no matter what is commented...

“That’s enough RU-vid for today” is probably the most common comment on strange or creepy videos

Sadly, instead of adding a feature to sort comment by oldest, they removed the feature to sort *videos* by oldest, so now you also have to either scroll down for the oldest video, search for them via filters or use outdated RU-vid clients.

4:11 Comment percentages are basically like this: Nudity: 0% Drugs: 0% Swears: 0% Funny: 100%

how about the “[insert celebrity] doesn’t know this, but they’re making everyone’s day better” or “the [person]: me:” comments

From what I've heard, people have turned the Undertale song into essentially a chatroom. This is why there are so many comments. People are just having full on conversations.

Another interesting thing to note about the Stickerbush Symphony video is that it was said to have been blessed by the algorithm and recommended to a ton of people out of nowhere. Many viewed it as sort of a supernatural occurrence that this random video with soothing music was presented to them at crucial times in their lives, thus people started referring to it as a "checkpoint" and leaving comments telling their stories. It's sad to hear that it was taken down (of course Nintendo would do that). It actually popped up in my recommendations at one point.

4:12 "comment percentage" may refer to comments that look like this: 0% vulgarity 0% hate 100% talent

I’ll be honest, nowadays i see “i will defeat justin Y” more often than the actual justin y

some of the creepiest comment bots was pretty recently, like late 2021, but doesn't happen anymore. when I'd comment on a new video by a popular creator like coryxkenshin, a comment sex bot would reply with a name saying sexual stuff with almost nude, sometimes nude too, women as the pfp. what made it super weird was that they were super relevant to the video and was extremely coherent, like they would mention a part in the video or mention my comment directly. if I put a timestamp of something in the video and made a joke about it, they would be in on the joke and directly reference the part I was talking about. from what I could tell it didn't happen to a lot of people but to the people it did happen to, like me, it was super frequent to where multiple bots would reply to my comment. it was figured out that they just copy and pasted other comments which makes sense for about half of the comments I saw, but not for the others that directly mentioned me and my reply.

I remember during the Google+ comment spam, Chuggaaconroy was just starting an Animal Crossing New Leaf series where viewers could comment suggestions for different aspects of the town. He incorporated a joke towards these comments into the reveal of the town’s name. Quote: “I also received some comments suggesting “this is bob, he wants to kill google+” or something and I just want to say… THAT DOESNT SOUND LIKE A NICE PLACE TO LIVE!”

The face that I know EVERY single entry on this iceberg, made me realize that I use RU-vid too much.

The "monkey hate" entry disgusts me

9:20 this can also happen because there`s an option to add title and description in a different language on a video and YT will change it according to your preferences, and people might think the video was originally made in their own language.

19:58 someone told me that if a comment is disliked enough it'll keep dropping below other comments.

4:11 Basically comments containing percentages (about the comment section or video), like this: 50% - Rickroll 35% - Good song 15% - Other

Another honorable mention; OwO OwO is a fairly popular commenter who you basically see everywhere, even on low viewed videos! The interesting thing about them is that they are actually an ARG channel hiding in plain sight-

19:30 RU-vidr "Yardfish" went into a deep analysis and bought on a psychologist to talk about the details of that whole side of youtube. If you're easily upset by animal abuse, don't watch it, but it's a very interesting deep dive.

4:19 “80% of comments: commenting 20% of comments: commenting”

One note; BFDI hasn't ended as a series, which makes the fact people are still voting on the first episode even better.

Comment Pecentages are the ones where they list the things that are in the video. For example: 50% - Iceberg 25% - Memes 25% - --------- 0% - Humanity It's not very common, but you'll see them around sometimes. (Edit: Crap, I did not think the comment through enough. Sorry sir.)

11:30 because they're always comparing the old animation to the newer one.

16:32 HOLY MOLY I DIDN’T EXPECT BFDI HERE!!! (Note: the whole series didn’t end, that’s just season one!)

A really interesting concept I wish someone made is the RU-vid *commenter* iceberg. There are so many notable RU-vid commenters, with some being more obscure than others, that it's a really interesting topic to cover on its own. Being a long time RU-vid user, some of the most common users I see in the comments are Some Guy without a Mustache, Justin Y., OwO, Evil, Dam, Ray Mak, Newby Ton, Mr. Friendship and many more. There are also a lot of foreign, verified or community-based commenters I haven't mentioned. It's a really deep topic to dive into.

16:39 Just to clarify, BFDI as a series is not over, however every voting right now is.

In case anyone's curious, the default orientation of the comment section or "Top Comments" is run through a YT filter that takes into account likes AND DISLIKES. So, if you go to the bottom of it (on incognito), that will be the most disliked comment.

4:19 I don’t know how to explain it but here’s two ways on comment percentages. 90%: Inanimate insanity 10%: Pepsi 0%: drugs 0%: nudity 100%: (insert here)

There's some stuff that missed on this Iceberg, so I'll put it in here: 1. Unhearted edited comments This comment is a comment where the hearted comments got edited. RU-vid will remove the heart from the comment. That's actually a great way to prevent "Edit: Thanks for the likes" stuff 2. Timestamp There are 2 kinds of timestamps that I know: Personal timestamp and Community timestamp. First is Personal timestamp. Personal timestamp is a comment that have the timestamp to highlight the moment on the video. You can find it in a lot of videos, even in this one. Then there is Community timestamp. This comment have a lot of timestamps to highlight every segments of the video so other people don't need to watch the entire video to find the moment that they want to see. It usually appears in the livestream archives or a video with a lot of segments. Here's the example of Community timestamp: 1:05 I'm the bald guy 1:31 Edit:Thanks for the like 1:50 Hate comments 2:04 Comment bot 2:43 Only Dream can comment on this video 3:06 Like beggars 3:25 First 3:38 Little kids comments 4:00 Quotes from the video 4:11 Comment percentages 4:22 Honorable mention 1: Maximilianmus taking over comments 5:02 ASCII Art 5:20 Who's here in (current year) 5:50 Who's watching here during quarantine 6:09 Justin Y 6:42 Lol this got recommended to me 6:57 Honorable mention 2: Google+ 7:38 "Read More" trick comments 7:55 Top 10 rappers eminem was afraid to diss 8:26 I bet (RU-vidr) won't heart this comment 8:49 I eduted the comment so the replies make no sense 9:10 Comments in different language 9:31 This wasn't recommended, you searched it up 9:48 Honorable mention 3: Angriest comment thread on RU-vid 10:24 LOL!!!!!!!!! (first youtube comment ever) 10:51 Actually good comments 10:59 Undertale the Musical comment section 11:42 Blank Comments 12:04 Sh***y Yo Mama jokes suggestions 12:51 RU-vid Checkpoints 13:59 Wanna be Friends? 15:25 Honorable Mentions 5: Video Responses 15:53 Oldest Comment on a video 16:31 BFDI voters after voting ended 16:49 People in "love" with Tara The Android 17:33 Comment Section Journals 18:29 Peopls askong Shyguymask to play PvZ 18:53 Honorable Mention 5: Monkey Hate 19:49 Most Disliked Comment Hope that helps

This Vid is actually pretty underrated and Nice skills on building!

Another thing that wasn't mentioned in the video, is that how the first video in RU-vid "Me at the zoo" always is showing the very most recent comments, it always show new comments that were posted like 3 to 5 minutes ago.

9:52 YAYAYYAYAYAYYA THANK U FOR INCLUDING THIS THSI THIS BEST EVER

14:23 "This was a really dangerous comment" Shows Kracc Bacc meme

[B] I just like this character they deserve to win the BFDI!!

There's this guy called Savetion who has a bot network where he posts very messed up comments and has videos where he makes fun of popular RU-vidrs' hardships and deaths. He also ran and possibly still runs a Discord server where he uploaded illegal stuff to it.

I feel like no one talks about RU-vid chain comments enough. Chain comments are mostly in reply’s, where someone will say something random like “cheese” and then someone else replies with “cheese” and the next person replies with “cheese” and it goes on and on. No one really talks about it because it’s like something you just know happens, it’s like a term and conditions when signing up for RU-vid, you see them and don’t question it.

you can call me a sociopath but "nostalgia" on old video and "rip" on video of person before they died is quite annoying rather than sad

ive been waiting for an iceberg like this!

I lost all of my pre-2014 comments during the Google+ debacle. Unforgivable.

I think Justin Y did say he’s retired from being around everywhere, but idk if he said this or not, but I think he said he’ll sometimes appear every once in a while, just not a lot like before.

As what I see on RU-vid, icebergs are becoming popular again, and I LOVE IT! I was enjoying all Icebergs and there are so much new now.

can we just appreciate the guy who made the pixel art at the beginning!

8:57 the only funny one of this i saw was someone say “i like kids” when it was edited, and ppl replied, yea, they taste so good

comment percentages are when people say stuff like "10% of the comments: here for the cool music 90% of the comments: here from some influencer" or whatever

Quick correction, BFDI as a series hasn’t ended. It’s still ongoing, up to its 5th season! The first season ended, not the series as a whole.

This is the one iceberg video no one expected!

I think my first exposure to a RU-vid comment "journal" was in the comment section for the full opening song to the anime Angel Beats. It was hard to find the original comments at that point, but you did see plenty of users relaying the story of having seen it, and a lot of people on that comment section keep up the legacy. As far as I am aware, this is the "oldest" instance of a daily "journal" being made in the RU-vid comment section.

4:48 I remember see people doing this and I very confused at that

“I’m the bald guy” got me dying

iceberg videos don’t get old they are a trend here to stay

this was a great watch man thanks for the good video

Oh this reminds me. In the Battle cats youtube community there was a problem where random spam bots would comment seemingly randomly generated usernames as comments. (e.g shadow dude 93, amazing horse 13 ) It happened for the longest time and would appear on anything Battle cats related but it seems that the spam bots have been taken down and the comments have been deleted as far as i am aware but it was a weird period in time and especially with how small and niche the community was.

It's always interesting to look at RU-vid comments sometimes I do it when I'm bored

the reason why the comments on undertale the musical are so short is actually because the people who write the comments are actually having a conversation. basically, they don't actually use the replies to talk to each other, they use the comments.

Not sure if the Read More section is referring to this but it seems more interesting than the explanation in the video Read More, around the time Google+ was forcing itself on RU-vid, was "Click to expand comment". Also around this time, both the click to expand comment text and youtube links were blue hyperlinks with the youtube links showing their titles instead of the whole url. This basically made it so that you could make comments where the Click to expand comment wasn't more text but something more malicious like a screamer

I feel like the story of PicsMics6 and his comments on that one video should’ve been on here (Journal commenter, only 15 years of comments, not 1)

i think by percentages they mean the ones that are like 90% are fans of (anime) 10% are fans of the band 0.001% got this reccomended in their feed

I’m genuinely surprised how much I learned from this and that I got an answer to the Checkpoint thing.

2:08 "You'll find these weird, auto-generated comments by bots that aren't commented by humans" Ah yes, thanks for clearing that up good sir, I would never have thought they weren't commented by humans!

Love the video! Never thought there would be a RU-vid Comments iceberg.

as a bfdi fan, i was surprised about the "bfdi voters voting after voting has ended" entry was on this iceberg

Comment precentages is when someone usually takes a percentage for each topic that is said in the comment section. The best example of this is in the video Moskau where majority of people used percentages to what each person was actually talking about.

5:43 People comment “Who’s watching in this year” comments for nostalgia.

In Poland we have interesting case of Koprolity. He’s polish Justin Y. This guy is very known on Polish YT, because his commenting on every video of quite popular channels (and always comment sticks to the video as two jigsaw puzzles). If you get Koprolity’s comment, you know you’re famous.

4:21 comment % are like: Comment section 50% english people 30% bots 20% kids

A form of ‘comment percentages’ could be this: If a video has a comment section filled with very similar comments, (usually talking about something crazy or funny that happened within the video) a commenter may comment something similar to this: 99% of comments : [thing that happened in video wowwww] 1% of comments : this. An example of this can be seen in Tomska’s ‘The Hole’ video, where people play along with the video’s recurring gag and comment : “Tom, where’s [item, person, or place]?” “Tom : In the hole”. And there are a few comments using the same format seen earlier here. Other comments mention other forms of “percentage”, but this is just another I thought of. … YT comments are weird.

On 1980s music videos you often read something like: "I´m currently building a time machine to go back to the 1980s Who´s coming with me?".

I like the Naruto pixel art in the background footage! It looks nice

I've actually seen people having conversations in the Undertale The Musical comment section. Like, not replying to each other comments, using individual comments to speak to other people. Edit: most disliked comment probably has like, 5 dislikes lol I don't think anyone uses it because it's useless

As someone who's done some of the stuff that you mentioned, let me just say that I feel great shame for what I have done. 😔

11:45 this can also happen by putting like an essays worth of words or more words or just long asss gibberish

I've commented on a lot of videos before, I don't keep count but I assume hundreds. I've gotten a fair share of "I see you everywhere" type comments. It makes me happy

"The longest argument lasting a whole year" No. On jan Misali's episode of Conlang Critic where he talks about Ido, an angry commentor named Anthony McCarthy commented something that started an argument 600 replies long. The last 100 comments are on the episode on Novial. This argument has lasted over 3 years. It has also made it into 2 songs.

I'm sad that Justin Y, Evil, OwO and Pixelcraftian arent here in the comment section :(

4:10 This refers to how people in the comments section post comments like: 90% funny stuff 10% Unfunny stuff

My least favourite comment is people that write "Twist: " and then proceed to write their own fanfic about the video.

4:57 ayo thats the best memer in the background

I know it’s cruel but just the phrase “monkey hate” is really funny out of context.

Been noticing for a while now under music videos people telling stories about someone dying and how they loved the song.

10:00 you obviously never saw globaloid comment section arguments 😭

16:34 As a BFDI super fan IM SO ANNOYED BY THIS! Also the series is ongoing still (after 12 years) but the original most famous one from 2010-2012 is done. It’s on hiatus right now but they are working on season 5 episode 2 right now. Sorry to be a nerd about it but that entry had to make me do it lol

3:58 that annoying orange laugh scared me when I was drinking water now my throat hurts cuz I choked on the water ;-;

6:37 yoo thats me on a bfdi video

I’m surprised I didn’t see kanon say “Your videos never claim to entertain 💚”

Nice creations, Shaii. Keep up the good work!

I remember when the Pokemon sword and shield controversy was in full swing me and another person were arguing for months looking back it's pretty funny.

“Can we just appreciate how ____ does _____ everyday?” is so annoying

I used to get those "wanna be friends" comments last year when I was at around 10-20 subs. I always replied to them but nothing happened. It kinda made my 11 year old self sad that they never reached out again, but I'm happy nothing more happened.

can't believe OWO and A random dude without a moustache (not sure) isn't in the honorable mentions

We should unironically create a new comment section to the iceberg here

1:40 i think its kind of just a natural urge when you get a lot of praise and attention for something you didnt expect, i know i have had to resist the urge to thank people, because not aknowledging all the likes and attention i got almost felt rude to me 😂but its good to aknowledge the fact that people will really not care, and prefer if a comment stays unedited

4:02 Never knew Amogus would make it in the BG footage

Man this video is crazy and insanly good keep up the good work bro!

correction 'being first is very special to them because they only exist through the attention people give them online'

4:40 now the same thing but with Jellybean and It's NoT a mIstAke It's a MasTeRpIecE

14:29 u used kracc bacc for the picture, epok!1!1! 💯😳👌

For the dislike button part, I believe that, whenever a comment gets a specific like/dislike ratio, RU-vid hides it for everyone, except for the commenter (similar to when you comment something using specific words and no one but youself can see your comment) and for the video uploader. But it still counts in the comments/replies counters. (Also, usually you can see filtered out comments when you order them by newest first instead of most relevant, including hidden comments replies)

And here i thought, why don't i understand these comments! Why are they getting so many likes? Thanks buddy for this detailed explanation about the weirdness going on in RU-vid!

there's this weird i think bug that when you sort the comments to most recent you can see blocked comments and replies, comments you will never see if it's sorted on the top section, usually these comments are just blocked for censoring of bad word usage and hate speech, but they are all visible if you sort to most recent and scroll to find them, including replies

shaiivelley: the bfdi series has ended IDFB's continuation and Tpot: AM I A JOKE TO YOU