A Canberra man has been surprised by a pleasant exchange on YouTube this evening.
While on a WatchMojo video binge during last year’s Christmas break, Peter left a comment on the ‘Top 10 Actors Who Killed Their Career With One Movie’ video, focusing on Topher Grace’s horribly miscast role as Venom in Spider-Man 3.
Six months later, he got an email notification saying that someone had replied to his comment. Used to YouTube being a cesspool of toxicity, scammers, and idiots trying to out-Alpha each other, Peter braced for a nasty reply.
But, to his surprise, the reply from bigbewbs69 was cordial: “I agree mate, Spider-Man 3 was a horrible movie and Topher Grace as Venom was the worst casting choice ever! He may have been an ok Spidey, but definitely not Venom. They were just piggybacking off his That 70s Show fame. Thank God Tom Hardy has made up for it.”
Peter then spent 30 minutes building a comment thread with bigbewbs69, talking about their mutual love of Spider-Man and how good Tom Holland is in the MCU.
After the conversation ended, Peter logged off with a surprisingly good feeling.
“It was nice. Usually YouTube comments are toxic as hell, but it was good having an intelligent conversation about everyone’s favourite Friendly Neighbourhood Spider-Man. With a username like that, I was expecting an immature 12-year-old to brag about sleeping with my mother, but old mate knew his stuff.”
Half an hour later, Peter got another notification, but from a different user – SexySexAllDay – which brought Peter down to earth.
“Hey u 2 guys r gay 4 spider-nerd! Go and get laid and stop talkin bout stoopid made up things! U r wasting u r lives!”
Peter shrugged as downvoted the comment and logged off again.
“Oh well, it was nice while it lasted.”
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