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destructive-delight · 4 months ago

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of all the things youtube has picked up on its way down the cliff into the advertiser friendly algorithm hellscape that it is now, giving creators the option to heart comments is probably the only feature i truly consider an unambiguous improvement that i appreciate from both a commenter and creator perspective. wish more sites would offer that.

#as a creator you can show that you’ve seen and enjoyed the comment without having to commit to a whole ass reply #and as a commenter you get confirmation that you haven’t personally offended the creator and all they stand for #maybe this is just a me thing #but i don’t expect or sometimes even want creators to reply to every errant brain worm i decide to release into their comment section #but if they don’t reply i get stuck in an unending anxious spiral of oh-shit-did-i-say-something-wrong for weeks on end #on tumlr at least the no-reply-expected is baked into the system by virtue of most commenting happening in the tags #which as a commenter i’m grateful for #but as a creator… with how abysmal the reblog to like ratio has been in recent years #and how rare comments are in general #i want to have the option to go ‘thank you thank you thank you i owe you my life please never leave’ but without like actually saying that #and opening myself up to the mortifying ordeal of possibly starting a conversation #ya know?#i did that before through anon asks #it was awkward as shit #can’t even use the liking the reblogged post workaround if you post from a sideblog #the notification is too easy to miss anyway #i sure as shit don’t remember the urls of everyone whose post i ever commented on #that’s just another random like in my activity feed

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