It’s a truism among people who spend a lot of time online that you should never, under any circumstances, read the comments—especially not YouTube comments.
But when writer Mark Slutsky broke that rule, he found unexpected flashes of genuine emotion hidden in the cesspool of racial slurs and semiliterate rantings—memories of a deceased friend under a James Blunt song, for example, or a tribute to a young cancer survivor under her favorite Taylor Swift tune.
Slutsky now has a blog called “Sad YouTube” collecting these comments. He wrote about it for Buzzfeed.
