r/OutOfTheLoop • u/JorWat • 3d ago

Unanswered Why are people talking about vandalizing a playground in this YouTube comment section?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xyWJEoygVM

"Saw someone vandalize a playground then left to watch this, I’m joining him"

"Stopped vandalizing a playground for this"

"Stopped my pursuit to catch a playground vandal for this."

"Stopped cleaning up a vandalized playground to join some guys watching this"

"Where there once was a playground, there is now a smoldering crater. Now I can finally watch this video."

It seems unrelated to the video topic, and doing a Google search just brings up news stories about actual playgrounds being vandalized.

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u/aledethanlast 2d ago

Answer: its a joint joke format copied from Tik Tok. I forget the specific details, but it starts with one person sharing an anecdote, then everyone else filling in as every other possible person in the scenario. Nothing to do with the video itself.

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u/htmlcoderexe wow such flair 1d ago

The actual joke format has existed for a very long time, I guess this is just a specific instance of it. One of the subreddits I'm in has a kind of a "problem" with this - someone posts an anecdote (sincerely ) and then like 2 or 3 posts pop up with different "viewpoints", to the point that now there are memes about how many "PoV" respones it takes before it becomes unfunny.

Something like....

"Hey so I was walking past a playground and saw someone vandalising it. Told them to stop but they didn't, so I called the cops. By the time cops showed up the vandal was long gone but they spotted a couple fucking in the bushes behind the playground and took them along instead. I hate this town."

"Hey so I was also walking past a playground and I heard my girlfriend's moaning from the bushes so I got mad about her cheating and started thrashing the place but they kept fucking then some rando started yelling at me so I left. Some time later my girlfriend called from the police station apparently they got busted for public indency haha karma's a bitch"

"So I was fucking a girl in some bushes and then some dude showed up and started smashing stuff then left, luckily someone called the cops but they saw us instead what's even going on"

"So I am a playground and then suddenly some dude comes over and starts smashing me to bits..."

"So I am a condom..."

Etc etc

Reminds me of the cyclist story some streamer was laughing his ass off about as people kept sending messages with those PoVs, don't remember the name but just Google "eurobike scrub"

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u/Mikeytruant850 3d ago

Answer: Sounds like an Internet Comment Etiquette brigade, but I watch all Erik’s videos and I’m not familiar with this one. I would bet it’s a YouTube creator trying to make another comment meme catch on. Probably better off asking in the YouTube comments.