YouTube is like an NPR Call-In Show for Idiots with Opinions About Kanye West

I measure the impact of controversial events on society by reading YouTube comments. I’m not interested in the opinion of the Ivy League-educated ivory tower-dwellers who bloviate on cable. They’re paid to have a position on everything whether they mean it or not; YouTube commenters are motivated by passion alone, and there’s a whole lot of it in the comments section of Beyonce’s “Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)” video.

Despite having heard “Single Ladies (Put A Ring on It)” 3.2 x 10^24 times, I had never actually seen the video, because MTV now only plays videos during the actual VMAs. His spirited proclamation that it was one of the best videos of all time piqued my curiousity enough to head to YouTube. I’m not the only one – the comments section is currently on fire with people debating the video’s merit. Let me save you the trip:

lol so this is the greatest video of all time? i can do this with a phone and windows movie maker

this song is aggrivating as hell, and I misspelled the crap out of that word

And in case you were wondering what I, Grant, thought, lemme tell you in the style of a YouTube commenter:

ummm…OK this song is GREAT but the video is just OK!! it’s just Beyonce dancing with two black chicks! EVEN I HAVE MORE BLACK FRIENDS THAN THAT! But for serious, I just watched the Taylor Swift video and it’s pretty good and I don’t want to be a hater but country music is garbage and I hate it. so I guess Kanye was sort of right but it’s a VIDEO MUSIC AWARD – they INVENTED this stupid award to get Wang Chung’s record label to fly them to Manhattan!! Calm down Kanye, it’s not something IMPORTANT like that award show DICK CLARK INVENTED or your LINE OF ABSURDLY EXPENSIVE SHOES. NE-wayz0rz, I don’t care enough about any of these acts to keep typing so let me say GUCCI MANE FTW!!!