for a brief moment on the human timeline, youtube comments on obscure videos became artefacts of untold story, outwardly insignificant moments that people remember themselves by, little inward glimpses of movies lived and not recorded by the dying light of our burning condition, we raced to the lowest common denominator now we post with purpose and no meaning, and whether the comments are bots asking for a follow back or humans turned to slop, we lost something along the way