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Amazing concept. This was an incredible thing to uncover during my few minutes on the site:

It's a video of a woman reciting a poem that she wrote for her eldest son that speaks of her love for her son and her wish that he would get "off the streets". Emotional, honest, real. YouTube like I've never experienced. Brilliant.

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This project is fantastic and has potential in bringing people closer together. I just watched a man propose to his girlfriend in another language. (I'm pretty sure she said yes!)

Then you get things like this: https://youtu.be/syiSYMPwFck

I couldn't even finish watching the video... once he said the letter "P" I switched off

But it got better at the end. Why did she say "do-da-didi-dam-di-doo"?

It wasn't for you. He said it was just for me.

He calls himself "The Bullshit Psychic". Looks legit!

Apparently this is some poor attempt at parody.

https://bruceworkman.com/about

What a discovery. I feel a bit intrusive getting to experience it. I hope her communication succeeds.

~1 kiloviews now with 152:3 thumbs ratio, why would someone dislike this!?

I don't think I've ever seen a video with over 100 upvotes that didn't have any downvotes. That's just YouTube.

Clearly the OP knows this and is making a joke by adding a quintessential YouTube comment.

"Three people who *didn't make it off the streets disliked!!"

I found some obscure music video that had like ~200 likes with no downvotes but it didn't lasted long... not idea if it's bots that downvote stuff or just weird people (hate the word "haters" but that's what I mean)

Perhaps YouTube applies vote fuzzing similar to Reddit.

What's vote fuzzing?

It's when you change upvotes and downvotes so that the ration stays similar, but now you can't consistently find if your downvoting bot had any effect.

Why on earth would that be something a platform does?

>> but now you can't consistently find if your downvoting bot had any effect.

I'd say that's why. To deter dislike bots

I think some bots randomly upvote/downvote in an attempt to appear human.

Have you never been on youtube before? If you don't get the down votes don't read the comments.

Currently all the comments on the video are wholesome

I was thinking youtube comments in general rather than this particular video.

Nice to see you completely ignored my advice though :P

Who of us has never clicked the wrong button? Touch UI interfaces make it even easier

Pohl's Law: "Nothing is so good that someone somewhere won’t hate it."

This is a great find and a very somber video. It brings me a smile to know that this lady will wake up to her video having thousands of views and hundreds of likes, as well as many lovely comments.

Wow, very touching. I wonder if her son has seen this already.

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