Literally wrote a script that deletes all my comments yesterday. Ran for an hour and a half and deleted over 8000 comments. Reading my old comments while the script ran was definitely up there in the top cringe worthy moments so far in my life.
he used the upscaler on those older screenshots at the start of the vid. check the faces at 0:24 for a laugh, it actually looks like one of the pics sticks his tongue out only to go back to normal on the next picture, like a ghost in a painting mocking you, making you wonder if you're going mad
@@bollesaus1527 Yea looking back does feel cringey, but this quote does seem to be true. Plenty of people - especially a lot of Americans, but it's not limited to them... - seem to be injected with this pride for their precious "free speech" and yet...? You are expected to only say and post things that are not in any way offensive and even then, some folks will manage to find you offensive. Isn't that ironic? The point of free speech is that you should be able to speak your mind and think freely. But you aren't entirely free to do so because everything is taken out of proportion, context and culture and everything is poisoned with this fear of getting exposed by some overly sensitive or misjudging people. We live the era where it's culturally appropriate to get offended over anything and people take great pride in it. I don't understand why people enjoy being weak, pathetic, angry little victims...
I feel like the phrase "If you see yourself cringing at something you said back then, you've grown as a person" is a bit one-sided. What if the person I was talking to back then still thinks I'm like that? I've said, and done a lot of cringeworthy things back then, and I'm always paranoid that they still think "Hey, isn't this the weirdo that drew weird pictures of me when we were in 2nd grade?" It's irrational, I know, but damn..
irrational gang rise up. o-or dont, what if someone sees you just randomly standing up. Then some years down the line you hear some laughing behind you at a café, what if they were some who saw you stand up, you couldn't really confront them about it since they are probably just chatting normally and if you're wrong then you just look like an even weirder person.
I always think about that, but then the more I think about it the more I realize there is a large chance that they have forgotten. Then I realize I can't recall a single embarrassing thing one of my classmates has done. And even if I do, I realize it wasn't actually that bad and I don't care anymore.
Whatever the case is, you should never let yourself down by your embarrassing story. Of course, don’t act as if it never happened but rather take a lesson from it and try to move on. If you can’t, go and share whatever is bothering you with someone in person and you’ll feel better.
best thing to break out of that thought is to try and think of someone else that's done a cringey thing, and then you realize how hard it is to think of someone elses mistake. then you can realize that its equally as hard for other people and chances are you are actually the only one to still remember, or at least think about, your own cringe.
@@goaty7766 Usually the way that they type, although they usually tend to be a little more short-sighted than others, if you get what I'm saying. Edit: I know this because I'm bloody half - American
I get the exact same feeling. I realize every comment I make was made in a mindset I had “in that moment” regardless or how positive/mild/negative it was. Since I’m no longer in the mindset I was, they look unwarranted or weird. Like I’ve lost the context of the comment and I’m reading something out of the blue. I guess a dramatic way to put it is, it feels like I’ve connected with a past life of mine. I can understand the sentiment, I even recognize it in an uncanny way, but I can’t grasp why “they” made it since I’m no longer in that time period. Even this one will look funny in the future, which is weird to think about _now_ .
Some times we say or do things that change our life forever even irl. It’s not so suprising that if you say insensible stuff on the internet you will be shamed forever
I'm pretty sure it's nearly impossible to look at something you wrote some time ago and not feel uncomfortable. Maybe it's the "Uncanny Valley" effect of something that feels like you *could* have written it back then but you're not 100% sure, so it feels like it came from some kind of inaccurate copy of yourself. Everyone changes a little bit day by day so it's no miracle that old comments feel slightly "off" even if we can't exactly pinpoint how we've changed since then. Heck, I've once had that uncomfortable feeling from comments I wrote like just two weeks(!) ago. I guess that's why I never felt motivated to write in a diary when I was young lol
I once commented to you that i had a dream where you did something mean to me and you literally apologized. I feel bad for that comment but cant find it anymore. It will always be there hidden in the masses of my brain fart manifests.
Wow that's actually a great example of why I think Philip is such an awesome, amazing and kind person. He cares. He probably actually cares more than he should. But that's why we love him right? :D
Philip, I absolutely agree with the message of this video. Holding people accountable for malicious comments or behavior is one thing, but witchunting and cancelling people for not knowing better years ago is stupid. I'm almost certain that we all made some stupid joke at some point of our life that we regret, and getting "cancelled" for it ages later, when it's apparent that we grew and learned, is actually counter productive. We need to pick our fights, and not fight everyone, because it makes us feel better about ourselves. Kevin Hart is the finest example for this.
@@johndowson1852 except there is nothing wrong with saying offensive things on the internet. Yeah, I said it. Being polite is a matter of personal choice. You can't force anyone to be polite without being an authoritarian bigot. You like to pretend that racist speech instantly makes people incapable of anything good. Racism doesn't define a person, there are a lot of racist people whose positive actions far outweighed their racism. You may screech and try to dox me as much as you wish, I don't live in an anglophone country anyways. I just wish you condescending, patronising, self-righteous pieces of garbage would fuck off forever and leave people alone.
“Censorship” of older show like the infamous “Advanced D&D” of community (which features a black face [it was a dark elf but whatever]) aren’t done as a sign of a new sensibility to an old issue or because the content in question is considered politically incorrect. It’s removed because big corporation want to avoid ANY scandal regarding ANYTHING they said or aired or done even 20 years ago. Let’s not think of corporate greed as political correctness or some kind of woke sensibility, it’s just what they do to protect their money
And what exactly is the motivation behind it? Exactly, an impending PR disaster orchestrated by a fiendish mob ready to demolish the career of anyone they disagreed with, over the most inconsequential stuff they said or did but is incriminating enough by the insane modern standards of cancel-culture. At the end of the day, its a socio-cultural war, seeping into every single aspect of our lives and liberties.
@@labadaba5088 Yes, the imaginary man in the sky will tell us all that freedom+equality+fairness+sustainability+quality of life=bad and racism+unfairness+borderline slavery+sexism+profit driven destruction of the environment=good for some stupid fucking reason.
Hi Phillip, I've been watching your videos for about 4 years now, which because I'm 16 yrs old is quite a long time, and I just wanted to say that your videos have been a big part of my life. I enjoy watching every single video from you, no matter the topic. So, many thanks and keep up the good work!
i watched an old video i like. wanted to comment, scrolled down, and there it was: an 11 year old comment by me. and it already said exactly what i wanted to type. crazy i guess i just didnt change at all or grow up yet ._.'
They show how you grow as a person, My favorite example is that a few years ago, one of the servers I was in had a no self advertising rule, as a joke I advertised a youtube channel I watched, I look at it and cringe, but nowadays I wouldn't even come close to doing something like that. Your comment history can show how much you've grown.
In my opinion you're one of the most polite TH-camrs out there. I love watching your content and I don't even play counter strike. Keep doing what you do king.
@@vlc-cosplayer It just seems to me like the saying "Whatever you get to the Internet - stays there" will still hold true no matter what. Tbf, the whole situation of "I might get judged for what I said in the past" can't hold true today, 'cause those things were done/said in the *past*, so only the consequences of them may apply, not them itself. It's like saying that you should go to jail because you said/done something as a child. And I understand that it's a little bit extreme, as you're probably were not wholly in control of your own doing(you're a child duh), but still, I think this example applies. That's why I find it paranoid. And even if someone wanted to do something against you - they would've done it immediately, without trying to compile whole lot of data to smack you hard, 'cause you can just get to deleting this stuff in that time. As Philip does atm. And this raises the question of: "How do you prove that this is actually what was there?". You take the screenshot? Save the HTML? You can edit both. If they post that evidence, saying "Look how bad he is! Look what he said a while ago!" while spicing it up with screenshots - what's stopping you from just going and deleting this stuff? It's not like they can prove that it was there, so you can just brush it off. It's another thing, if a lot of people see it in person, but even those opinions can be fabricated. Hell, while coming back to the topic of fabricating evidence - I could it right now with the easy HTML edit. So what, we should believe it right now, if anybody does that? Then what value does that articles about "Look how bad he is! Look what he said a while ago!" holds? Practically none. That's another why it is paranoid. Finishing up, - people change, as do their opinions, so the sane *normal*, person would totally understand why it was as it was, and how it probably would not apply to nowadays. Sorry for the rant
"In a world of free speech" Given how more and more countries are relying heavily on laws that punish people for speech, I think that quote unfortunately becomes less and less true by the day.
in ten years i will hang myself because i was racist and now im getting death threats daily on twitter even tho i brough up valid points i want to hang myself because i cant handle this bnullshit world please kill me
Finally, someone said it! I'm constantly coming across comments that I made years ago that just make me cringe now. And I'm worried that someone will dig up one of them and use it to say I'm something that I'm not.
Great insight, from what its like from a decently sized creator. Interesting how TH-cam may buff up comments based on your own stats? I know for one, seeing a reply to a comment from 7 years ago on my main account, calling me out for pronouncing "Logitech" incorrectly is jarring. The worst are the petty arguments that made sense to get into then, but pop up a decade later. Weird.
It's funny in the right context. If you go on TH-cam on some random (or serious) post and type out a dark "joke" it isn't funny in that context. The only people offended about cancel culture are people reflecting
Nice video, made me think of a weird anecdote. There's an obscure song that, for reasons I won't get into, I used to hear every single morning when I was younger. It's on TH-cam but has like less than 5 000 views. Anyway, it suddenly popped in my mind the other day and I spent hours finding it (very generic lyrics, I'd forgotten 80% of them). When I finally found the TH-cam upload, I went to check the comments and guess what; there was a comment of my own talking about that very song, posted a few years back. I was talking about this song and how I used to listen to it every morning and how I'd spent that entire day trying to find it. I feel like I'm doomed. Like, until I die, every 5 years or so I'll remember that song, try to find it on TH-cam and end up in the comments reading what I can only describe as checkpoints of my own existence. Uncanny...
I feel that comments and things said or written many years ago should not be able to have any impact on the person who wrote or said them in current times. Only if they are extreme. All too often you see a bad joke made 8 years ago being a big controversy and even contributing to somebody leaving whatever platform they were on (e.g. TH-cam). I respect that you don't want some of your old comments to be publicly visible anymore, and I understand why too. Some of them I do find nice though. I especially noticed the one on the DMM video you showed. I remember watching that video quite a while ago, and it puts a smile on my face to know that you watched and appreciated the same video. Anyway, love your videos! kthxbai.
My most down voted comment was, "you don't want all cars to be telsas that's just going to hurt you fanboy." Yes it was the Tesla subreddit. No I stand by it.
This is why I dont use my personal account to comment anything. Not that I have shame of what Im writing or dont represents me. But ive acknowledged in my early internet days that your name is easy to find. Within a few google searches people can find anything you shared online. Im slight paranoid and I even change users from time to time. Never thought about changing youtube user because you dont have a comment history so is really hard to find but I might nuke my old comments just in case. As always great vid. Every time you post something in kliksphilip I think we are more alike, then you post something in 2kliksphilip and I feel you are too cool to hang out with me.
Philip, you're allowed to grow. I think the important thing is to not get hung up on whether or not the past represents you and focus on how you can learn from it going forwards. Your past is only a spotlight on how you got to who you are now.
I already don't comment on most platforms, and I've been doing so pretty much since I started doing anything online. I've now reached my one comment per month quota.
I love ur vids man , there is nothing like it in youtube , it feels like that kind of ideia that would make an interesting conversation, but no one's ever thought about posting it as a video
It's actually disappointing how a mere, seemingly innocent comment you post might be extremely offensive to someone a few years down the line. I can't imagine how scary it is to be an influencer right now, seeing though as people are getting cancelled left and right for things they've done almost a decade ago.
Left and right? I only know of jenna marbles (I think,) which isn't enough to state 'left and right being cancelled' Besides we've all seen before, bad people get a negative effect after they did something but give it a couple of years and it's like nothing ever happend. Can't remember, but multiple youtubers do this.
When you decide to be a TH-camr I think you have to take in account things like those. Being publically shamed for a racist comment you wrote ten years ago is still better than working retail for the your entire life
@@cate01a i can name 2 more off the top of my head, Launders and HenryG, casters for the csgo scene who had overly exaggerated 'sexual assault' stories come about them. I put it in quotes because they refuted much of the evidence. But honestly, go to twitter and there's someone new they're after every day.
I thought I was the only one having my old comments suddenly get many new replies. I thought it odd at first. It's definitely given me the opportunity to reflect on my past self. Most of them are just dumb jokes relating to the video in question though. I agree with the points you make. It feels as though the internet is becoming an increasingly unfriendly place, where everything you say has the chance of being judged harshly, twisted or taken out of context to sometimes frivolous lengths in some way or another. It's a bummer.
You've made me self conscious enough to check my earliest comments, and as expected for a 10 year old account a lot of them were cringy and could be used out of context against me. The future of the internet looks increasingly bleak as people can't afford to be too casual with what they say, even when they were way younger.
I often come back to this video, it's nice knowing I'm not the only one who looks back at old things said long ago and wonder why I'm still allowed to speak if I say things like that. Even this comment I'll read in the future and wonder why
Nobody is perfect and people should be allowed to make mistakes. I believe we should give everyone the chance to acknowledge that their past actions were wrong and forgive them when they apologize. In a lot of cases I feel that the witch hunts say more about those who want the person to burn, rather than the one being hunted.
"The contradiction that I have finally come up against in my own life is that free speech is one of those rights you have until you try to use it. The only way to avoid the secret police is to have no opinion. If you only do and say those things that cannot possibly offend anyone, then you will be left alone. But you must also recognize that the number of actions, beliefs, images, sentences, and words that offend no one is constantly diminishing. What a normal person could do in the 70’s is not what a normal person can get away with now. Since 911 the constriction has been accelerating, and millions of normal people are feeling choked. The question is, how little air can you survive on? How much of this can be overlooked before you do something? How Orwellian does it have to get before you decide to rebel? No foreign army is going to come in and defeat your Nazis. You are going to have to do it yourself." Let that knee dig into your neck harder till you can't breathe or rise and take a stand.
@@jacintofernandes2907 Nice job assuming a construction of what you wish to be the audience to this comment. You're wrong, and it just comes off as sad.
People who use comments and events that are over a year old and try to twist it against you feels extremely toxic. PewDiePie, for example, is still getting flak for his stream mishap, which after 3 years or so he has donated in the millions to causes that any actual racist would try to destroy. It's stupid, people learn and mature from being young, stupid and uninformed mistakes and actions.
@@doommaker4000 Yeah the entire outrage was just manufactured by the bitter nerds who don't like him. I wonder if the turds calling him racist even believed it themselves
@@doommaker4000 unfortunately that word has connotations. I still think we give that word too much power, which is why people go out of their way to use it.
all the last few videos you've released on this channel have really resonated with me on a personal level the internet, and hell, the world overall, is a scary place. people will attack you for anything and everything you do, even if that thing is years in the past. oftentimes no matter what stance you take (even a neutral one) you will still be hated. cancel culture and similar things really need to be worked on by the human race, it shouldn't be scary just to go about your daily life
@@heythatsprettynoice65 This is the arrogance I was talking about. Schools wont teach WW2 forever. Also you can change while still understanding the mindset of people from the past. So no, not stagnation.
The change in the youtube comment algorithm is simply changing from 'newest first' to it's 'top comments' algorithm. If you change it to newest first when looking at the comment section of older videos it will restore the original order.
I remember one of my first comments ever on TH-cam. It was a video about Mario vs Sonic (of course), which shows Mario killing Sonic. Because I was such a Sonic-Fanboy back then, and since English isn't my native language I said: "You a ass"
Cancel culture: calling for someones head about something they said 10 years ago that is ultimately pointless and doesnt reflect their actual views today Welcome to 2020
Great video, old content shouldn't be held to modern day standards if a person's opinion has changed. I periodically wipe social media of most of my old content, however I'm still always scared of past content resurfacing in this day and age
“People are in full force to bring an end to racism” this ideal is impossible and the cost of attempting to do so is higher than the reward. Similar to how some want to remove peer to peer encryption in order to catch illegal online activity easier. It doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try but I agree with klik that some efforts go too far or seem to have ulterior motives
Dagless the problem with their methods is to highlight differences and divide people. Yet force them to comply. So far from the efforts of MLK’s dream of equality. Their arguments are demeaning to people of color because many argue that they are unable to control themselves and that the riots were inevitable. I don’t think any TH-cam’s deserves the hate they’ve gotten recently. Definitely not Jenna marbles. She’s grown a lot over the years and makes pretty wholesome content these days
Man cannot wait for the time in the future where my apllication gets rejected by the employer before I even submit just because I used the word "gay" instead of "lame" in a YT comment section in 2012!
FREE SPEECH MUST PREVAIL! Freedom has always had a price to it and the moment people forget that, the opposition moves in for the kill at lightning speed. We must always be prepared to pay the price.
What price, would you be willing to pay? There are very few who can selflessly sacrifice anything significant enough to them, for a cause that's just. How many of your comrades, or ex-colleagues, would be willing to say something politically incorrect and incur the possibility of having their lives jeopardized? What is easier, at the end of the day? To keep to yourself and minimize the possibility of inciting the animosity of a blood-crazed mob with a delusional sense of Justice, or to risk your career and social peace for the sake of saying something in disagreement with those who wield institutional power in our cultural establishments? How many, at the end of the day, would be not only far-sighted enough to make sacrifices for protecting the operating principle of the fundament of our societal liberties, but also resilient enough to tough it out all the way through? Its a mind numbing toil, to preserve your ideological integrity in public.
What do you guys thing about timer based comments? Maybe something along the lines of snapchat, you would be able to set a custom timer for each comment, allowing you to have conversation with others that you don't want to keep in the public forever I doubt something like this would be useful enough for TH-cam to put the resources into it in order to implement it, but it would be a nice feature nevertheless
We live in the times which prove that censorship can come not only from goverment or church. Sadly, as was mentioned, this censorship often does not "protect" people who it "intends" to protect but sows anger and, consequentially, fear.
It's sad how cancel culture is so scary that even randomly, one of the guys I've been watching for years could be pinned for something that was said years before out of context.
We are expected more and more to look unrealistically far into our past and unrealistically far into our future. For this reason the only social network I really use is Instagram, and more specifically the stories. Anyway, see myself in 10 years cringing at this very comment!
Nothing to be ashamed about being a Pet Shop Boys fan. I've been obsessed with them in the past and went to a concert with a friend of mine. (Both of us straight males btw)
you can hire someone on fiverr or something to create a script for you that uses youtube's API to delete all your old comments at once from a certain period of time :) just be careful and review the script so you don't get hacked
@@kliksphilip I believe its disingenuous to characterise such cases as because of things people "said and did". Invariably, the things they said and did were objectionable, or offensive, or in some other way illustrative of the type of behaviour or ideals people in certain careers shouldn't perform or hold. Nobody is being jumped on because they were merely a bit rude.
I decided to check my comment history after this video, and oh god it hurts Peak 2012/2013: Commented on 5 Ways to kill Justin Bieber-Minecraft HATE JUSTIN!! 7 years ago
Yeah I've always wondered that. I make a couple slightly hurtful comments on some slightly small TH-camr's video and not expect them to see them ever. Low and behold, an hour later they respond. Feelsbadman
Hi Philip, If you go to history on youtube, then click comments, you might be able to set up a script to automate 'manually' deleting old comments. TH-cam used to have a feature to sort them old-new but it doesnt seem to be there so maybe another script to scroll down overnight could help too.
past Phillip was an absolute savage lol
Bet you can't make 4d game stupid
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Literally wrote a script that deletes all my comments yesterday. Ran for an hour and a half and deleted over 8000 comments. Reading my old comments while the script ran was definitely up there in the top cringe worthy moments so far in my life.
Would you like to post it?
Yeah that would be a good tool to be available for others to use
You ever consider making the script public?
Welcome to the future
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he used the upscaler on those older screenshots at the start of the vid. check the faces at 0:24 for a laugh, it actually looks like one of the pics sticks his tongue out only to go back to normal on the next picture, like a ghost in a painting mocking you, making you wonder if you're going mad
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Hey, aren't you the guy that likes 'The End' by Neil Cicierega?
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"In a world of free-speech the price of commenting has never been greater"
- Philip
Now thats a great quote if I do say so myself.
In 7 years both you and Philip will find it cringey.
Our means that free speech is over
@@bollesaus1527 Yea looking back does feel cringey, but this quote does seem to be true. Plenty of people - especially a lot of Americans, but it's not limited to them... - seem to be injected with this pride for their precious "free speech" and yet...? You are expected to only say and post things that are not in any way offensive and even then, some folks will manage to find you offensive. Isn't that ironic? The point of free speech is that you should be able to speak your mind and think freely. But you aren't entirely free to do so because everything is taken out of proportion, context and culture and everything is poisoned with this fear of getting exposed by some overly sensitive or misjudging people. We live the era where it's culturally appropriate to get offended over anything and people take great pride in it. I don't understand why people enjoy being weak, pathetic, angry little victims...
-Ah vilable- it means now you can’t get away with being hateful
@@bollesaus1527 I hope so but something tells me it's going to be the opposite
I feel like the phrase "If you see yourself cringing at something you said back then, you've grown as a person" is a bit one-sided.
What if the person I was talking to back then still thinks I'm like that? I've said, and done a lot of cringeworthy things back then, and I'm always paranoid that they still think "Hey, isn't this the weirdo that drew weird pictures of me when we were in 2nd grade?"
It's irrational, I know, but damn..
irrational gang rise up.
o-or dont, what if someone sees you just randomly standing up.
Then some years down the line you hear some laughing behind you at a café, what if they were some who saw you stand up, you couldn't really confront them about it since they are probably just chatting normally and if you're wrong then you just look like an even weirder person.
I always think about that, but then the more I think about it the more I realize there is a large chance that they have forgotten. Then I realize I can't recall a single embarrassing thing one of my classmates has done. And even if I do, I realize it wasn't actually that bad and I don't care anymore.
Whatever the case is, you should never let yourself down by your embarrassing story. Of course, don’t act as if it never happened but rather take a lesson from it and try to move on. If you can’t, go and share whatever is bothering you with someone in person and you’ll feel better.
best thing to break out of that thought is to try and think of someone else that's done a cringey thing, and then you realize how hard it is to think of someone elses mistake. then you can realize that its equally as hard for other people and chances are you are actually the only one to still remember, or at least think about, your own cringe.
You know what they say, if you're cringing on your old behaviour, you've grown as a person
@@kliksphilip well
@@kliksphilip then you sinked as a person
@@kliksphilip true
@@kliksphilip there you got your defence on record in case something you say this year becomes controversial.
@@kliksphilip young kliks
I even regret what I've said months ago, let alone years ago
that's because you comment on everything bruh
of course one of the comment gods would comment on this video
@@Joshulties he disappeared for a while but I saw him just yesterday on multiple recent videos, so the legend seems to be back
same, that's why i basically stopped commenting, well except this time i guess
That’s good! It means you’re maturing and growing as a person.
It's actually hilarious that you can so easily tell when someone is American.
Excited for Diabotical “and bringing where I’m from into the equation by definition makes you racist” ah yes the American Race
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How?
@@goaty7766 Usually the way that they type, although they usually tend to be a little more short-sighted than others, if you get what I'm saying.
Edit: I know this because I'm bloody half - American
I get the exact same feeling. I realize every comment I make was made in a mindset I had “in that moment” regardless or how positive/mild/negative it was.
Since I’m no longer in the mindset I was, they look unwarranted or weird. Like I’ve lost the context of the comment and I’m reading something out of the blue.
I guess a dramatic way to put it is, it feels like I’ve connected with a past life of mine. I can understand the sentiment, I even recognize it in an uncanny way, but I can’t grasp why “they” made it since I’m no longer in that time period.
Even this one will look funny in the future, which is weird to think about _now_ .
Some times we say or do things that change our life forever even irl. It’s not so suprising that if you say insensible stuff on the internet you will be shamed forever
I'm pretty sure it's nearly impossible to look at something you wrote some time ago and not feel uncomfortable. Maybe it's the "Uncanny Valley" effect of something that feels like you *could* have written it back then but you're not 100% sure, so it feels like it came from some kind of inaccurate copy of yourself. Everyone changes a little bit day by day so it's no miracle that old comments feel slightly "off" even if we can't exactly pinpoint how we've changed since then.
Heck, I've once had that uncomfortable feeling from comments I wrote like just two weeks(!) ago. I guess that's why I never felt motivated to write in a diary when I was young lol
This, but by 'in the future' I mean only a few hours from now.
Ad Jesus man, how temperamental are you XD
Hi. How do you feel about your comment now?
Yeah petshop boys' songs are really good.
HOW DARE YOU SAY THAT!?! I NOW HATE YOU MORE THAN ANYBODY IN THE WORLD!!!
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So you have chosen death
You have no rights to opinion, Mr. Anime profile
I once commented to you that i had a dream where you did something mean to me and you literally apologized. I feel bad for that comment but cant find it anymore. It will always be there hidden in the masses of my brain fart manifests.
Wow that's actually a great example of why I think Philip is such an awesome, amazing and kind person.
He cares.
He probably actually cares more than he should. But that's why we love him right? :D
That comment was the real dream. You're actually dead.
@@Spookyhoobster Doc, I think he's gonna wake up soon.
@@aarontheperson6867 "Hey you, you're finally awake."
Philip, I absolutely agree with the message of this video. Holding people accountable for malicious comments or behavior is one thing, but witchunting and cancelling people for not knowing better years ago is stupid. I'm almost certain that we all made some stupid joke at some point of our life that we regret, and getting "cancelled" for it ages later, when it's apparent that we grew and learned, is actually counter productive. We need to pick our fights, and not fight everyone, because it makes us feel better about ourselves. Kevin Hart is the finest example for this.
Idk fam, I don't think you can defend racist shit with "it happened ten years ago, it was OK then"
Racism and bigotry isn't invalidated by time. Either own up to it and show improvement since then, or throw thyself upon a pyre
@@collerz Or that they liked racist joke 11 years ago
@@NoahWolfWiseKingWolf if you weren't a teen at the time, you probably still a piece of shit, you just hide it better.
@@johndowson1852 except there is nothing wrong with saying offensive things on the internet. Yeah, I said it. Being polite is a matter of personal choice. You can't force anyone to be polite without being an authoritarian bigot. You like to pretend that racist speech instantly makes people incapable of anything good. Racism doesn't define a person, there are a lot of racist people whose positive actions far outweighed their racism. You may screech and try to dox me as much as you wish, I don't live in an anglophone country anyways. I just wish you condescending, patronising, self-righteous pieces of garbage would fuck off forever and leave people alone.
“Censorship” of older show like the infamous “Advanced D&D” of community (which features a black face [it was a dark elf but whatever]) aren’t done as a sign of a new sensibility to an old issue or because the content in question is considered politically incorrect. It’s removed because big corporation want to avoid ANY scandal regarding ANYTHING they said or aired or done even 20 years ago.
Let’s not think of corporate greed as political correctness or some kind of woke sensibility, it’s just what they do to protect their money
The risk of scandals is political correctness
I still can't believe they actually removed that episode, was the best one
And what exactly is the motivation behind it? Exactly, an impending PR disaster orchestrated by a fiendish mob ready to demolish the career of anyone they disagreed with, over the most inconsequential stuff they said or did but is incriminating enough by the insane modern standards of cancel-culture.
At the end of the day, its a socio-cultural war, seeping into every single aspect of our lives and liberties.
@@reignmyster and what's wrong with that?
@@labadaba5088 Yes, the imaginary man in the sky will tell us all that freedom+equality+fairness+sustainability+quality of life=bad and racism+unfairness+borderline slavery+sexism+profit driven destruction of the environment=good for some stupid fucking reason.
Hi Phillip, I've been watching your videos for about 4 years now, which because I'm 16 yrs old is quite a long time, and I just wanted to say that your videos have been a big part of my life. I enjoy watching every single video from you, no matter the topic. So, many thanks and keep up the good work!
i watched an old video i like. wanted to comment, scrolled down, and there it was: an 11 year old comment by me. and it already said exactly what i wanted to type. crazy
i guess i just didnt change at all or grow up yet ._.'
@antidote-_ did you?
Hahah that's great. What was the video/context out of curiosity? :D
Been there :'D edit: well, not quite 11 years, but many years anyway
Had a similar moment with either a 1 a 2 or a 6 month comment, dont remember which
@@anduro7448 me too
They show how you grow as a person, My favorite example is that a few years ago, one of the servers I was in had a no self advertising rule, as a joke I advertised a youtube channel I watched, I look at it and cringe, but nowadays I wouldn't even come close to doing something like that. Your comment history can show how much you've grown.
In my opinion you're one of the most polite TH-camrs out there. I love watching your content and I don't even play counter strike. Keep doing what you do king.
This seems logical, but also kinda paranoid as well. Don't know why
@@vlc-cosplayer It just seems to me like the saying "Whatever you get to the Internet - stays there" will still hold true no matter what.
Tbf, the whole situation of "I might get judged for what I said in the past" can't hold true today, 'cause those things were done/said in the *past*, so only the consequences of them may apply, not them itself. It's like saying that you should go to jail because you said/done something as a child. And I understand that it's a little bit extreme, as you're probably were not wholly in control of your own doing(you're a child duh), but still, I think this example applies.
That's why I find it paranoid. And even if someone wanted to do something against you - they would've done it immediately, without trying to compile whole lot of data to smack you hard, 'cause you can just get to deleting this stuff in that time. As Philip does atm. And this raises the question of: "How do you prove that this is actually what was there?". You take the screenshot? Save the HTML? You can edit both. If they post that evidence, saying "Look how bad he is! Look what he said a while ago!" while spicing it up with screenshots - what's stopping you from just going and deleting this stuff? It's not like they can prove that it was there, so you can just brush it off. It's another thing, if a lot of people see it in person, but even those opinions can be fabricated. Hell, while coming back to the topic of fabricating evidence - I could it right now with the easy HTML edit. So what, we should believe it right now, if anybody does that? Then what value does that articles about "Look how bad he is! Look what he said a while ago!" holds? Practically none. That's another why it is paranoid.
Finishing up, - people change, as do their opinions, so the sane *normal*, person would totally understand why it was as it was, and how it probably would not apply to nowadays.
Sorry for the rant
@@vlc-cosplayer As for the cringe, lul can totally agree that it might as well be the only reason of why you should delete this shit
"In a world of free speech"
Given how more and more countries are relying heavily on laws that punish people for speech, I think that quote unfortunately becomes less and less true by the day.
@@kliksphilip there you go again... i guess old habits die the hardest.
@@erfaniom9576 shut fuck up
@@kliksphilip Rules for thee but not for me.
@REDROCKETRACER941 Until the powers that be decide that what you're saying is hate speech, that is.
@@kliksphilip Based And Redpilled.
A major reason why I usually lurk after watching TH-cam videos and rarely post on reddit
Everyone: "I want to be a kid again!"
Me: "I sure don't!"
Same
I can't believe that I'm not the only one that had problems with old comment. Good to know there are more people like that.
In ten years, this video will be seen as an act of terrorism lmao.
In ten years, this comment will be seen as an act of misjudgement and being unfunny lmao.
In ten years, life will suck even more.
in ten years i will hang myself because i was racist and now im getting death threats daily on twitter even tho i brough up valid points i want to hang myself because i cant handle this bnullshit world please kill me
or as an act of destroying criminal evidence lol
In a few decades this video will be considered as treason or act of war
Finally, someone said it! I'm constantly coming across comments that I made years ago that just make me cringe now. And I'm worried that someone will dig up one of them and use it to say I'm something that I'm not.
Great insight, from what its like from a decently sized creator. Interesting how TH-cam may buff up comments based on your own stats? I know for one, seeing a reply to a comment from 7 years ago on my main account, calling me out for pronouncing "Logitech" incorrectly is jarring. The worst are the petty arguments that made sense to get into then, but pop up a decade later. Weird.
You fucked up my anxiety, but i still love you
Ngl I don’t understand why people don’t like dark humor imo I think it’s pretty funny
@Mr. Obunga I find it funny but why is that?... who knows?... maybe it's written into our genes...
It's funny in the right context. If you go on TH-cam on some random (or serious) post and type out a dark "joke" it isn't funny in that context. The only people offended about cancel culture are people reflecting
Nice video, made me think of a weird anecdote.
There's an obscure song that, for reasons I won't get into, I used to hear every single morning when I was younger. It's on TH-cam but has like less than 5 000 views. Anyway, it suddenly popped in my mind the other day and I spent hours finding it (very generic lyrics, I'd forgotten 80% of them). When I finally found the TH-cam upload, I went to check the comments and guess what; there was a comment of my own talking about that very song, posted a few years back. I was talking about this song and how I used to listen to it every morning and how I'd spent that entire day trying to find it.
I feel like I'm doomed. Like, until I die, every 5 years or so I'll remember that song, try to find it on TH-cam and end up in the comments reading what I can only describe as checkpoints of my own existence. Uncanny...
Philip upscaling a screenshot of messenger... That's awesome
I feel that comments and things said or written many years ago should not be able to have any impact on the person who wrote or said them in current times. Only if they are extreme. All too often you see a bad joke made 8 years ago being a big controversy and even contributing to somebody leaving whatever platform they were on (e.g. TH-cam). I respect that you don't want some of your old comments to be publicly visible anymore, and I understand why too. Some of them I do find nice though. I especially noticed the one on the DMM video you showed. I remember watching that video quite a while ago, and it puts a smile on my face to know that you watched and appreciated the same video. Anyway, love your videos! kthxbai.
I love reading my reddit comment history, sorted by "Controversial". A teaching experience.
Actually on Reddit the more downvoted your comment is the more true it is usually.
My most down voted comment was, "you don't want all cars to be telsas that's just going to hurt you fanboy."
Yes it was the Tesla subreddit. No I stand by it.
This is why I dont use my personal account to comment anything. Not that I have shame of what Im writing or dont represents me. But ive acknowledged in my early internet days that your name is easy to find. Within a few google searches people can find anything you shared online. Im slight paranoid and I even change users from time to time. Never thought about changing youtube user because you dont have a comment history so is really hard to find but I might nuke my old comments just in case. As always great vid. Every time you post something in kliksphilip I think we are more alike, then you post something in 2kliksphilip and I feel you are too cool to hang out with me.
Philip, you're allowed to grow. I think the important thing is to not get hung up on whether or not the past represents you and focus on how you can learn from it going forwards. Your past is only a spotlight on how you got to who you are now.
This video reminded me that there was once a website where people used to Brodcast Themselves
I already don't comment on most platforms, and I've been doing so pretty much since I started doing anything online. I've now reached my one comment per month quota.
Just you wait until you have to pay £39.99 extra for 100 comments per month allowance.
Lurker gang where u at?
ngl seeing your old comments on your music vids are really humorous and entertaining :)
Philip, can you upload a video of you reading us a book or maybe something else?
Oh yes 😝
Get sponsored by audible
I love ur vids man , there is nothing like it in youtube , it feels like that kind of ideia that would make an interesting conversation, but no one's ever thought about posting it as a video
It's actually disappointing how a mere, seemingly innocent comment you post might be extremely offensive to someone a few years down the line. I can't imagine how scary it is to be an influencer right now, seeing though as people are getting cancelled left and right for things they've done almost a decade ago.
Don't worry. You can be kicked out of your school or job just as easily.
Left and right? I only know of jenna marbles (I think,) which isn't enough to state 'left and right being cancelled'
Besides we've all seen before, bad people get a negative effect after they did something but give it a couple of years and it's like nothing ever happend. Can't remember, but multiple youtubers do this.
Yeee exactly. i happy that im not famous.
When you decide to be a TH-camr I think you have to take in account things like those.
Being publically shamed for a racist comment you wrote ten years ago is still better than working retail for the your entire life
@@cate01a i can name 2 more off the top of my head, Launders and HenryG, casters for the csgo scene who had overly exaggerated 'sexual assault' stories come about them. I put it in quotes because they refuted much of the evidence. But honestly, go to twitter and there's someone new they're after every day.
I thought I was the only one having my old comments suddenly get many new replies. I thought it odd at first. It's definitely given me the opportunity to reflect on my past self. Most of them are just dumb jokes relating to the video in question though. I agree with the points you make. It feels as though the internet is becoming an increasingly unfriendly place, where everything you say has the chance of being judged harshly, twisted or taken out of context to sometimes frivolous lengths in some way or another. It's a bummer.
whenever i reread comments i wrote when i was like 9 the amount of cringe is unreal.
one of my regrets in my old days.
thank God for saving me from internet in that age
or saving internet from me.....
same xD
Honestly I cringe a lot at messages I sent just 6 months ago.
Comments by verified youtubers appear near the top now
You've made me self conscious enough to check my earliest comments, and as expected for a 10 year old account a lot of them were cringy and could be used out of context against me.
The future of the internet looks increasingly bleak as people can't afford to be too casual with what they say, even when they were way younger.
I often come back to this video, it's nice knowing I'm not the only one who looks back at old things said long ago and wonder why I'm still allowed to speak if I say things like that. Even this comment I'll read in the future and wonder why
1:58 covers up Infa's profile picture and name but not on the reply :0
le epic fail
I dunno why but I feel happy seeing a really old comment
Nobody is perfect and people should be allowed to make mistakes. I believe we should give everyone the chance to acknowledge that their past actions were wrong and forgive them when they apologize. In a lot of cases I feel that the witch hunts say more about those who want the person to burn, rather than the one being hunted.
Don’t be scared! Love your content dawg!
"The contradiction that I have finally come up against in my own life is that free speech is one of those rights you have until you try to use it. The only way to avoid the secret police is to have no opinion. If you only do and say those things that cannot possibly offend anyone, then you will be left alone. But you must also recognize that the number of actions, beliefs, images, sentences, and words that offend no one is constantly diminishing. What a normal person could do in the 70’s is not what a normal person can get away with now. Since 911 the constriction has been accelerating, and millions of normal people are feeling choked. The question is, how little air can you survive on? How much of this can be overlooked before you do something? How Orwellian does it have to get before you decide to rebel? No foreign army is going to come in and defeat your Nazis. You are going to have to do it yourself."
Let that knee dig into your neck harder till you can't breathe or rise and take a stand.
@Gomam0n here comes the incel community mega thread!
Hello fellow incels!
@@jacintofernandes2907 Nice job assuming a construction of what you wish to be the audience to this comment. You're wrong, and it just comes off as sad.
My mother works for Kaspersky. You pronounced it right, Phillip
People who use comments and events that are over a year old and try to twist it against you feels extremely toxic. PewDiePie, for example, is still getting flak for his stream mishap, which after 3 years or so he has donated in the millions to causes that any actual racist would try to destroy. It's stupid, people learn and mature from being young, stupid and uninformed mistakes and actions.
And I still can't believe people got outraged by a single word
@@doommaker4000 Yeah the entire outrage was just manufactured by the bitter nerds who don't like him. I wonder if the turds calling him racist even believed it themselves
@@doommaker4000 unfortunately that word has connotations. I still think we give that word too much power, which is why people go out of their way to use it.
all the last few videos you've released on this channel have really resonated with me on a personal level
the internet, and hell, the world overall, is a scary place. people will attack you for anything and everything you do, even if that thing is years in the past. oftentimes no matter what stance you take (even a neutral one) you will still be hated. cancel culture and similar things really need to be worked on by the human race, it shouldn't be scary just to go about your daily life
Viewing history by using today's values as the standard is apathetic and arrogant.
This is how statues get torn down and history repeats itself.
who cares if a statue gets torn down
@@yulin84 Alot of people do actually
There aren't any statues of hitler but we still remember what he did. We evolve and change as a society. You're describing stagnation
@@heythatsprettynoice65 This is the arrogance I was talking about. Schools wont teach WW2 forever. Also you can change while still understanding the mindset of people from the past. So no, not stagnation.
"thanks"
"thanks for what?"
"for not talking any more"
holy shit you fucking killed him philip
The change in the youtube comment algorithm is simply changing from 'newest first' to it's 'top comments' algorithm. If you change it to newest first when looking at the comment section of older videos it will restore the original order.
I remember one of my first comments ever on TH-cam. It was a video about Mario vs Sonic (of course), which shows Mario killing Sonic.
Because I was such a Sonic-Fanboy back then, and since English isn't my native language I said:
"You a ass"
Cancel culture: calling for someones head about something they said 10 years ago that is ultimately pointless and doesnt reflect their actual views today
Welcome to 2020
i made a steam guide when i was 15 and you commented on it and that gave me more joy than you can imagine
my first comment on my account is "i have wii sporst" in finnish and yes, incorrectly
@METhOdhowtoKilLnoObS plot twist; it was yesterday
@METhOdhowtoKilLnoObS you can see your comment history on your youtube history page
@METhOdhowtoKilLnoObS when i rediscovered it about a year ago i was laughing for a solid minute and it kinda stuck with me
Great video, old content shouldn't be held to modern day standards if a person's opinion has changed. I periodically wipe social media of most of my old content, however I'm still always scared of past content resurfacing in this day and age
Oh my god I never would of realised you would respond to that, HI WOOORLD
HIIIIII AAAA
hi lexchxn
hi rory
Well, looks like the Internet is entering its own medieval age
I like the guy who asked how you know where The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim takes place.... It's almost like... no, that would be *too* obvious!
too oblivious to know
Prepare for unforseen consequences
I sometimes think that my parents' house is the only place left I can be safe.
Hi Philip! I like your personality even more in this channel
“People are in full force to bring an end to racism” this ideal is impossible and the cost of attempting to do so is higher than the reward. Similar to how some want to remove peer to peer encryption in order to catch illegal online activity easier. It doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try but I agree with klik that some efforts go too far or seem to have ulterior motives
worst thing is the people who are in full force to "bring an end to racism" are aggravating racial tensions more than anyone else has in decades.
Dagless the problem with their methods is to highlight differences and divide people. Yet force them to comply. So far from the efforts of MLK’s dream of equality. Their arguments are demeaning to people of color because many argue that they are unable to control themselves and that the riots were inevitable.
I don’t think any TH-cam’s deserves the hate they’ve gotten recently. Definitely not Jenna marbles. She’s grown a lot over the years and makes pretty wholesome content these days
I'm glad that I've started using alternative accounts for commenting pretty early on.
Man cannot wait for the time in the future where my apllication gets rejected by the employer before I even submit just because I used the word "gay" instead of "lame" in a YT comment section in 2012!
@@snazzystardust608 I hope you know that Cancel culture wont even let you speak up.
Now I got attacked by an old video
Recently got my old fb back, used it from grade school to high school. Used the word "meep" on the end of every sentence. I want to die
Uwu
meep meep
me too meep
What you just explained made soooo much sense my friend.
"In a world of free speech"
I just don't believe Philip lives in the UK anymore.
I dunno, that "Inside the mind of a Baguette" one was pretty good.
Now im just imagining the deserts of geonosis but with youtube comments instead of clones.
What's the droids going to be?
FREE SPEECH MUST PREVAIL! Freedom has always had a price to it and the moment people forget that, the opposition moves in for the kill at lightning speed. We must always be prepared to pay the price.
What price, would you be willing to pay?
There are very few who can selflessly sacrifice anything significant enough to them, for a cause that's just. How many of your comrades, or ex-colleagues, would be willing to say something politically incorrect and incur the possibility of having their lives jeopardized?
What is easier, at the end of the day? To keep to yourself and minimize the possibility of inciting the animosity of a blood-crazed mob with a delusional sense of Justice, or to risk your career and social peace for the sake of saying something in disagreement with those who wield institutional power in our cultural establishments?
How many, at the end of the day, would be not only far-sighted enough to make sacrifices for protecting the operating principle of the fundament of our societal liberties, but also resilient enough to tough it out all the way through? Its a mind numbing toil, to preserve your ideological integrity in public.
Wait
Did the past even exist?
Past is racist. So no, it isn't
@@ambatubelo should be "Moon Men" which was actually played when Michael said it in his "Did The Past Really Happen?" video
I'm just old enough to remember the Internet before it was moderated and just young enough to not have a job to loose ;)
'thanks'
"thanks for what? i didn't help you."
*'for not talking anymore'*
that burn was so sick philip, you are cruel
timestamp?
@@cate01a 0:30
It's stupid but im glad of seeing one of my answers to one of your comments. Im sorry for adding to the noise
What do you guys thing about timer based comments? Maybe something along the lines of snapchat, you would be able to set a custom timer for each comment, allowing you to have conversation with others that you don't want to keep in the public forever
I doubt something like this would be useful enough for TH-cam to put the resources into it in order to implement it, but it would be a nice feature nevertheless
So 4Chan but with videos?
I am always surprised by how different every video Phillip makes on this channel. It is not that I mind
Also am terrified of comments and actions I or others have done in the past coming back to haunt them. Seen it ruin too many people.
yep ... these time when commenting on the internet had no repercussion at all ...
What is even better is that this video is in fact a commentary on comments, so may even itself become outdated to the point warranting deletion
FREE SPEECH NEVER GIVE IN.
We live in the times which prove that censorship can come not only from goverment or church. Sadly, as was mentioned, this censorship often does not "protect" people who it "intends" to protect but sows anger and, consequentially, fear.
0:23 he upscaled an old conversation screenshot.
He's addicted. Should we be concerned?
I can't believe I used to think Applejack was the best pony.
It's sad how cancel culture is so scary that even randomly, one of the guys I've been watching for years could be pinned for something that was said years before out of context.
We are expected more and more to look unrealistically far into our past and unrealistically far into our future. For this reason the only social network I really use is Instagram, and more specifically the stories. Anyway, see myself in 10 years cringing at this very comment!
Nothing to be ashamed about being a Pet Shop Boys fan. I've been obsessed with them in the past and went to a concert with a friend of mine. (Both of us straight males btw)
If it's nothing to be ashamed of then why do you have to specify your orientation?
@@MrMiddleWick Because he might be cancelled for it by anti cancel culture nerds
You know what will age well ? the songs dadkliksphilip made. So awesome.
You should disable comments on this video just to tilt some people
@@kliksphilip I'll respond to this in 7 years
ur doing gods work son
@@kliksphilip you truly are a beautiful man
@@johannvonderbecke3873 what if you promised you would respond someone in 7 years but 7 years ago
@@johannvonderbecke3873 I'll respond to you in 7 years
Oh boy I feel everything becoming hopeless and there is no where I can go where no one is full of hate or stupidity, I want to go to Mars
you can hire someone on fiverr or something to create a script for you that uses youtube's API to delete all your old comments at once from a certain period of time :) just be careful and review the script so you don't get hacked
github.com/RubenPonce/Delete-Your-TH-cam-Comments
Phillip, if this is your biggest fear in the world at this point in time, count yourself lucky my dude
@@kliksphilip I believe its disingenuous to characterise such cases as because of things people "said and did". Invariably, the things they said and did were objectionable, or offensive, or in some other way illustrative of the type of behaviour or ideals people in certain careers shouldn't perform or hold. Nobody is being jumped on because they were merely a bit rude.
@@AdvancePlays Until you get popular
I decided to check my comment history after this video, and oh god it hurts
Peak 2012/2013:
Commented on 5 Ways to kill Justin Bieber-Minecraft
HATE JUSTIN!!
7 years ago
Yeah I've always wondered that. I make a couple slightly hurtful comments on some slightly small TH-camr's video and not expect them to see them ever. Low and behold, an hour later they respond. Feelsbadman
Please don't stop commenting, that will be a sad day, :(
Hi Philip,
If you go to history on youtube, then click comments, you might be able to set up a script to automate 'manually' deleting old comments. TH-cam used to have a feature to sort them old-new but it doesnt seem to be there so maybe another script to scroll down overnight could help too.