*Wapush*
Top of the morning to ya laddies! My name is Jacksepticeye and--
every time I hear that intro now, all I can think about is the "All The Way" song.
Like- *laughs*
It's so weird!
I've listened to the song so much 'cause I genuinely, absolutely love it and I think it's a really cool, catchy song.
And I'm really glad all of you liked it as well,
'cause I was sittin' on it for like, a week, I had heard it--
well I was sittin' on the idea for like, four months.
But I- I had heard the song for the first time like a week ago,
And I was so damn pumped to show it off.
And to like, put it out there for people to listen to and I was so giddy.
And I almost posted about it multiple times but I'm glad I didn't.
I'm glad everyone likes it because it's so cool, and I'm genuinely impressed and happy with what, the work that the Gregory Brothers put in.
That's not what this vlog is about!
Sorry! I'm getting sidetracked already.
Um, I- I- you can probably tell by the title of the video that I wanna talk about the YouTube comments.
And I know a lot of you are probably gonna roll your eyes by now because,
I've talked about the YouTube comments before, I talk about it all the time.
And its probably like a broken record by now and some of you are sick of listening to it, but believe me.
There's some decent stuff in this, pertaining to the comments that I think is worth listening to.
At least personally I think it does.
Because--
And I know, by the way, that Felix did a video on the comments a little while ago.
It was kinda the reason I waned to make another one myself, because a lot of these issues have been bothering me for quite a while.
As they always do, and I've wanted to make a video about the as well, and his one then, I was like,
"Okay, he talked about some good stuff, but he didn't hit upon the things I wanted to be hit upon."
Um, his video is still good, and he brings up some really good points, but again,
it doesn't bring up what I, what the ideas that I had,
so it didn't really resonate the same way, um.
Because if any of you have been on the channel for any length of time, you know that I interact with the comments a lot.
How many of you thought that I just stopped, by the way?
I just stopped interacting with the comments, or have never seen a reply from me?
'Cause I bet, it's probably a lot.
and that sucks because I like literally every single day, I answer hundreds of comments.
and, to have people, like, think that I'm not there at all, that they're just commenting into a void, into a wall
and, there's nothin- there's no feedback there, or there's no sort of, reciprocation,
sucks!
Because it shouldn't be like that, and it didn't use to be that way before, and I don't know if it's because the channel got bigger, and there's more comments around now...
I don't think so, I think the comments system just changed into, like, an interactive section, it used to be a thing where it was all top comments...
Like the most upvoted ones, now it seems to be the ones with the most replies.
'Cause the way it used to work, and the way I want to see it go back to, is that, when I uploaded a video, and I'd answer a comment, that comment that I answered would go straight to the top of the comment list.
Because it was one that the creator...
*stutters*
The creator deemed "good enough" to be able to reply to.
And I know this sounds arrogant, and pretentious like my reply should be hailed and prioritized above all else, but it's not the reason I want this.
They used to go up to the top because, that was like- If I answered a comment, it was usually because it pertained to the video.
It had good, honest, constructive feedback...
or it just had something really nice, or something that I thought other people should see.
And I used to reply to those types of comments, and they'd go to the top, and then other people saw my reply, 'cause the reply...
No matter where you replied in the comment chain, your reply, the original comment and the reply always showed together.
and that was a really big thing.
That was how- That was why it worked so well.
'Cause people go straight to the channel,
They see the comment, they see your reply, and then they are like,
"oh he actually interacts with the comments, he interacts with his community,
he answered this, so now any misinformation can stop."
And I used to, used to nip in the bud any sorta hate that would go around,
because, that would either drift to the bottom, because I didn't interact with it,
or people didn't post it because they were like
"Oh I'm- I'm not posting in here, he reads the comments, he-he replied to that person, I am not looking stupid"
People would go to the channel, they'd see, like, my
whatever amount of replies I had.
All on the front page, like you go to the video, all the comments would be there, that I replied to.
And then people would,
get like, a positive reaction out of that.
They'd see that, and they be... They think that was a really good thing that I actually interact with the community.
I answer questions.
I'm there, and it's not just the fact that I upload a video,
and then, that's it, I'm gone.
That you can never interact with me, ever, because...
I've always been a big promoter of interacting with your audience and interacting with your community.
It's one of the...
The pillars of the channel, I'd say.
I've always done it, and I always want to do it because I've always wanted to promote a better style of YouTubing.
Again, sounds arrogant, I know, believe me, that's not my intention.
I just want YouTube to be a nice place again for people- oh God...
For people to be able to come and comment, and interact with their favorite creators,
Not just me!
But other creators and that's what pisses me off about so many other vlogs talking about comments.
It's because people talk to the comments like "Oh don't interact with the comments, the comments are shit!"
It's like, they're not always shit, some of them are! They're probably shit because you don't interact with them
or people who are giving out these messages about what to change in the comments and they never
interact with the comments anyway so they're saying these big messages like "Oh, the comment should be this that or the other"
but then at the end of the day, it's like "Why do you care, you never go to your comments anyways"
You never reply to people.
So what's the p- like you're giving bad ideas for what you think the comments should be
because you were never in the comments to know what they should be.
And one of the reasons I made this video is because I feel like I have enough experience in the comments
to be able to talk about it.
So many people talk about it and, they're just like, people sayin that
"Oh, Youtube's the same as it's always been"
It's not, it's really really not. I-I'd wager that the current climate on YouTube right now is one of the worst
it's been! Um, just for communities in general because there's just so much shit going around
in the comments all the time and what I want to see happen is implement back a change where someone
comments, a creator replies to it and that comment goes to the top and the creator's reply is always visible
Regardless where it goes in the comment chain
top, middle, bottom, anywhere at all...
Make that comment visible again.
So that when people go- because a good example of this is one a while ago; Somebody posted somethin'
and it was complete misinformation about me.
I wish I could remember what is was...
But it was a complete lie about me.
And I replied to it-
like a bunch of people already replied to it sayin' "that's not true"
Some people were like "is it true? I don't know"
Then I replied to it and I-I like, stopped that immediately.
I stopped the misinformation immediately...
(Or what I thought.)
Because my comment was just buried in the middle of it, and then everyone commenting after that
still didn't see my reply, or some did
but the majority of people were still replying
to the top comment, so because they couldn't see
my reply then all this misinformation was still
going around, or people questioning it
So, just make any comment that a creator replies to
make that drift to the top.
I-I know, that sounds unfair
it sounds privileged
it sounds, it sounds arrogant.
Believe me, I am very self-aware about these things
I-I just want to see
a better atmosphere evolve out of the communities
again, out of the comments
So many people write off the comments as being just a
cesspool, these days and most are but....
This community right here, our community
I feel like is really, really strong.
And if we don't fight for it
if we don't hold on
it's gonna disappear!
And it sounds like a really big message like,
"We can change the world!" *laughs*
And what sucks is that a while ago, I used to be able to
be able to talk about these things.
Like, very very openly and very honestly
very frequently as well!
You might have noticed I don't make
as many vlogs anymore because
well, I don't want to talk about nothing either
I-I actually want to have something to talk about but-
I-I used to get worried that
the stuff I talked about would make me
appear a certain way or people would
take what I said and use it in a negative way against me
or how I was perceived by other people in the same space, like other YouTubers and stuff like that.
Because it went from a point where I was able to say stuff and then people were like,
"Yeah, right on!"
To a point where the channel got so big
that now whatever I say is scrutinized
and absolutely picked apart.
And so many people look at it and go,
"Yeah, who the fuck is that guy, that's the- that's the douchebag. That's a pretentious asshole."
kind of thing, and it sucks because I want to be able to
say these types of things, especially to all of you
who watch regularly, I want to be able to like
spill my thoughts out properly, and I know
I should just ignore people and do what I want as well,
but that's also kinda arrogant and egotistical to do so...
I don't know, it's a really weird balancing a-
balancing act of things, a really weird...
A really weird space to be in.
Where you have all these things that you want to be able to talk about but sometimes you just
don't feel like you can.
So YouTube, please, LISTEN!
Please implement changes!
And don't fucking do what I know you're going to do
I-I know that you're trying to
YouTube are trying t- or they've talked about-
implementing .GIF and video replies in the comments
That is a fucking moronic idea, don't do that.
Don't give people more
more leeway to spam.
Don't-don't do that.
I know, you- you want to make so much money
And you want to create so many opportunities for people to be able to spam in the comments
because you want interaction and you want people to stay on the site as long as possible
to generate that cash money, don't fucking do it!
Putting in .GIF and video replies into the comments would be a horrendous idea.
It would give people way too much ability to be able to meme, and spam, and promote just really bad po-
Er, really bad imagery all over the place
And just, it would be a wall of noise.
It's already a wall of noise, we don't need more of that.
Also, get rid of the ability to be able to create accounts
that- *stutters* that duplicate your name.
We've said this before, other YouTubers have said it, I've said it before, CHANGE IT!
For the love of fucking God, why is other people able to use Jacksepticeye as a name?
And why are they able to post links, that leads to other websites,
that have no, like, relevance to me, the community, to anything at all?
Ban links! Don't let people be able to use links again!
I know, you brought in your baby Google+ in a while ago,
And you thought that was a good idea, but looked how that turned out. It was fucking awful!
And then you had to get rid of it again.
So please, go get rid of the ability to post links, they serve absolutely no purpose.
I've blacklisted all of these things
I've blacklisted words, terms, phrases, links,
The ability- like, the different types of links that people can put in- it doesn't work!
We need the comments to come back to a great place again, where we can all come
feel appreciated, feel valued,
feel like we're getting feedback, feel like we're interacting with our favorite creator all the time.
Not the nonsense that it is now, where people just spam memes all over the place, and it's just a wall of nothing.
There's a whole host of other things I want to talk about
in regards to YouTube, changes, the shit that goes on YouTube now, the climate of YouTube in 2016
A lot of different things
Um, and again, I know how all of this sounds
there's probably YouTubers out there watching this right now, going, "What the fuck is this guy?
Who the fuck does he think he is, trying to tell people what to do?"
I know, I know how this stuff sounds but the only way
that message comes across is if you speak
like, openly about these things.
And, I-I did contemplate not making this video at all
just for that reason.
But I'm so damn adamant about how good the comments can be.
That I've experienced them at their best,
I've experienced them at their worst,
I know what works.
And I-I've interacted with comments
for the last 3 years, since I started YouTube
And I love them so much, and I love this community!
I love the- I love the ability to be able to interact with the audience that's on the channel
I love the ability to interact with the viewers who watch, all of you!
If you leave a comment I want to be able to interact with it properly and know that you've seen the reply
Or other people have seen the reply, or answer questions,
just...
It used to be such a great place.
It used to be such a great positive atmosphere.
And all of these changes are just makin'
creators... less enthused about it.
Because you're giving people too much ability to be able to spam,
and be able to create false accounts and all of this nonsense.
So it needs to be coming back because I love it so much.
I love YouTube with all my heart and soul,
I've never done anything that I loved more in my life.
And I'm so...
I'm so passionate about it, I want stuff to work properly and change all the time.
Um, for the better and not for the worse, so...
I'm sorry if any of this sounded preachy or if it sounded pompous or arrogant or pretentious.
Any of you who know me know that's not the case but again there's a lot of other people out there who don't know me,
and that think you're seeing this message *stutters* sounds preachy so... That's not my intent.
THANK YOU GUYS, so much for watching this video,
if you LIKED IT, PUNCH that like button IN THE FACE, LIKE A BOSS! AND, high fives all around!
*WAPUSH, WAPUSH*
but THANK YOU GUYS and I will see all you dudes, IN THE NEXT VIDEO!
Apparently, in New York, in Central Park
People are just all rushing and stamped-
People are gonna die playing this game.
Look at all the Pidgeys.
Quick!
Where are my Poké Balls?
Pidgeys, DON'T FLY AWAY, NOO!
This is Pokémon Go.
Oh, I was burping in the middle of the 'in the next video',
so it sounded all weird. *Laughs*