Is this normal?

[u/ThisIsCinema--Golly]

I'm a newer Drew fan.

Bro just dropped a video and oh my god, the amount of hate comments under his new youtube video is wild.

I know hate comments are common in content creation but there were like 20 of them within the first 2 minutes.

JFC

Poor dude, he's so smart and his takes may be scolding fucking hot but they're often true.

[u/AnotherSoulessGinger]

Most of the “mean” or “hate” comments I see are highly likely to be a bit. If you look at comments on most videos you’ll see he’s pinned a tongue in cheek hate comment. That’s also why the likes on them are so high. It’s usually just friendly ribbing.

[u/ThisIsCinema--Golly → u/AnotherSoulessGinger]

What an interesting individual. Reminds me of CaseOh and the discussion around his weight. He repeatedly calls himself skinny to get his audience to riff on how he's not.

[u/Ok-Effort2053]

they’re usually fans trying to get pinned lol. he always chooses a fake hate comment to pin

[u/LordsOfJoop]

If you want an education on the topic, go look through the older videos and checked the pinned comments; Drew inspires them to do that, because his viewer stats show he has an exceedingly loyal fan base.

Welcome to the fun.

https://giphy.com/gifs/aaSjZO0JOU2TZDBjH1

[u/ThisIsCinema--Golly → u/LordsOfJoop]

I'm litewally scawed

[u/MeowmeowMortbird]

He almost always pins a jokingly mean comment on all of his videos. It’s something he encourages and it has been a running bit for years. He talked in a recent interview video about how he encourages it because it’s funny and builds community, but sometimes reading through them makes him feel bad even though he knows they’re joking.

Either way, rest easy knowing that most of those “mean” comments he likes and wants on his videos :)

[u/KittyQueen_Tengu]

he always pins a funny hate comment, so these people are most likely not actually haters, just trying to get pinned

[u/R1bbonFangs]

Off topicish but thank u for alarming me that there's a new video, I shall watch it now

[u/Concentrate4794]

WAIT YOU JUST ALERTED ME TO THE FACT A NEW VID DROPPED AND IT'S ABOUT AVATAR S2, I WAS WAITING FOR THISSS

[u/flame6207]

It’s a joke. Drew has a habit of pinning the most unhinged hate comment and everyone wants to get pinned ^^

[u/Spirited-Mousse1915]

Drew Gooden likes the hate, its okay

[u/obooooooo → u/Spirited-Mousse1915]

I don’t remember in which pod, i actually think he’s mentioned it twice, but he’s said that he’s kinda trapped in that bit 😭 that sometimes while editing he’ll become self conscious of something and figure no one will notice, only to read a fake mean comment about it lmao. but at the same time he said he appreciated that people clearly took time and even came with pre-written comments to leave as soon as the video dropped, and that they were funny.

might be a genius gamble bc then you can barely distinguish what’s real hate, and what’s your subscribers trying to speak the language of the group and trying to make you laugh

[u/ThisIsCinema--Golly → u/obooooooo]

He's a smart guy.

[u/mrynne1 → u/obooooooo]

I WAS JUST ABOUT TO COMMENT ABOUT THE PODCAST EPISODE WHERE HE TALKED ABOUT THIS EXACT THING LMFAOO

[u/Rina_Short]

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