NOTIFICATION SQUUUAAAADDD!!! Insight On Winning Cookies

Geez what an awfully painful experience.  Did you know that there’s actually a “game” out there where you proudly post the first comment on a new video simply for the sake of posting the first comment?   And that’s the entire point of the comment.  Absolutely no insight on the content of the video.  In fact, you wouldn’t win the game if you did, since if you take too long somebody might beat you to the punch.  Often you get multiple people claiming to be the first and even getting into arguments over who was actually first.  Or maybe even grudgingly calling it a tie.

Combining my own observations with an Internet search I found the evolution of this game.  There is definitely a bandwagon effect cognitive bias involvement.  The earliest comments get more 👍s due to fatigue.  After hundreds of comments get posted nobody has the time to go through them all, and sine YouTube sorts by the most liked being at the top of the list that’s front and center.  Everybody thinks this is a good comment, so therefore I must add my like to it.  Even if the comment is something totally meaningless like, “She’s hot AF”.

At one time the first comment was just “First” which meets the speed requirement of getting as many viewers as possible.  Then, this evolved into something more directly begging for a like, since people actually caring about content stopped paying attention to the two year olds.  Eventually, realizing that the likes were only coming from fellow two year olds it became cool to say, “Notification squad!”  Then that wasn’t quite cool enough, so expanded to a variant of, “NOTIFICATION SQUAAAAAADDDD!!!”  Interesting that the extra letters are always in the squad and not in the notification.  But never, ever forget the CAPS LOOCCKKKKK!!! and extra exclamation points.  I imagine some of the more clever players have found the joys of copying and pasting and keystroke multipliers.

You don’t even have to watch the video, and if you are the NOTIFICATION SQUAAAAADDDD!!!! leader you can pick up a little positive reinforcement for being lucky enough to check your email or being logged into YouTube at the right time.

Congratulations.  You win a cookie.

This game is not played so much on a more thought provoking channel like Numberphile.  But over all it’s tolerated since it’s harmless although annoying AF.  The rest of the comments get to the business of pointing out some serious things that others might not have noticed.  Actual value, even if it’s just a laugh.

Now I understand more about the gematria comments.  First of all, I have seen the proud to be first commenter more times than I’d like to be annoyed by.  But now you don’t even have to be first anymore.  Nobody mentioned Pi, yet!  Spend some time messing around and force a 227 and you look like a king.  The number of the day in the video is 33.  I’m the the 33rd commenter!   COMMENTATION SQUAAAAAADDDDD!!!!! for 33.  There’s no end to what number commenter you can be to be significant.

If I had this magical system that was supposed to expose these evil cabal members I wouldn’t want my message in my video, I spent an hour to record and upload, being diluted by juveniles wasting everyone’s time trying to gain a couple of likes for being the xxx number commenter.  I’d delete them and even go so far as to warning subscribers with a message at the start of the video.  Kids, this is important.  We’re trying to save the world.  Don’t play the NOTIFICATIONS game.

However, I find this unlikely to happen since there’s not that many members of the club, so insipidness is encouraged.  Good luck trying to convince the rest of the world you’re serious when it looks like your video caters to two year olds.

Only 7 likes.  Forgot the exclamation points!!!!!!