Comments by "LancesArmorStriking" (@LancesArmorStriking) on "Neil deGrasse Tyson Is A Horrible Person" video.

  1.  @nixonesport1998  Sure, but for someone who claims to be heavily into science, Neil should know that human psychology doesn't respond linearly to events, but extremely complexly and, in the case of death, somewhat logarithmically. The number of deaths aren't what characterize how we react to them— it's the brutality, the preventability, recency, unexpectdness, etc etc. To suggest that we should just change the way we think about death because math tells us otherwise is ridiculous.
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  2. I feel like the same goes for YouTube, it's not as fun as it was in 2007 it feels like a chore :/
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  3.  @AyleidCraft  Sorry for text block- A chore to watch, as in, it's an onslaught of information. YouTube's layout has, if you haven't noticed, changed over the years to be more and more like a slot machine. It's harder to find good content without the Featured Section, now you've really gotta look for it. The first few things I see are always Recommended and news videos. (Pre-roll ads I get, but) double unskippable ads, in-video sponsors, optimization (every video is stretched to ~10 minutes) and content that isn't super easy to reproduce every day, animations, video essays, just random videos, is becoming rarer and harder to reliably find. Everything starts to look the same so when I go on to watch people Broadcast Themselves, half my time is taken up looking for something good, instead of a vlog, gaming channel, or text-to-speech Reddit video. How is it like a slot machine, then? It gives out rewards randomly. Most of the time when you click, it's just average. But every so often a really good video comes up and keeps you coming back. And this is intentional. YouTube slowly changed its algorithm from virality (hence keyboard cat, Chocolate Rain, Evolution of Dance, Lazer Collection) to retention; ever since Google bought it.
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  4.  tqdq  Gay Confederate Communist Nazi, what's weird about that??
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  5.  @AyleidCraft  Neither do I, but the profit motive often can (and in this case is, slowly) diminishing the appeal of what made the product profitable to begin with. It's self-cannibalizing. I hope never to see the day YouTube just morphs into TV, but the way things are going atm, my hopes aren't high.
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