Just anecdotes, but I feel YouTube comments are the bottom of social media. Even Twitter and Reddit are better.
But if the 99% garbage is the price of the emerging of channels like 3B1B, I think it's still a pretty good deal.
Their algorithm has a toxic positivity problem where they weight positivity so much the most moronic, saccharine crap sits at the top and you'd be hard pressed to distinguish the comments from LLM slop.
I don’t agree at all. This was true a decade ago, but today YouTube comments are almost all positive, and you’ll often get some really insightful ones too.