26 January, 2014

Sad YouTube: The Lost Treasures Of The Internet's Greatest Cesspool

Sad YouTube: The Lost Treasures Of The Internet's Greatest Cesspool:

I didn’t know who Harris or “breackinme” were,
where they lived, how they met, how old either of them were — but in
three lines, I felt like I knew something profound about their lives.
The comment was just so honest and raw (I loved how the author
un-self-consciously wrote “you were the sickest guy I’ve met in a
while”) that I knew it deserved to be held onto, somehow.

The more
I looked, the more I found. And I discovered that, secretly, the
YouTube comment box had become the strangest and most wonderful place on
the internet. A place that was fascinating, endlessly moving, and
heartbreakingly human.