Venturing into the most lawless, id-driven textual battlefield on the internet and expecting civility. The trauma is the sheer whiplash of human expression: one comment is a brilliant, sourced analysis, the next is a racist screed, below it is a bot selling counterfeit shoes. Engaging guarantees exposure to staggering ignorance, weaponized pedantry, and personal attacks over your opinion on a video about toasters. It shatters your faith in collective discourse and leaves you with a lingering, low-grade misanthropy, questioning how so many people can function while possessing such a profound lack of reading comprehension or basic empathy.
*Example: "He made the mistake of politely correcting a fact in a history video's comments. The ensuing 200-reply thread, featuring personal insults, whataboutism, and a guy linking to his cryptocurrency scam, gave him permanent trauma from YouTube comment sections. He now types replies and deletes them, screaming into a digital void."*
by Abzugal January 30, 2026
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