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YouTube, like so many of humanity's works, is a land of contrasts. Yes, there's a ton of incredibly noxious assholes flooding the comments with absolute garbage. But every so often I'll be playing a video (read: listening to a song; that's what I use YouTube for), looking through the recommendations along the right side, and I'll glance over and see someone's comment talking beautifully about how this song kept them from committing suicide, or helps them to stay sober despite deep mental anguish, or how it brings back memories of a lost loved one who used to enjoy it (these range from laments about a lost parent who loved the song to brutally sad stories like the one about someone's brother who pointed them to a song about fighting addiction, and later died of an overdose), and I will just break down and weep right there at my computer.
An example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNBiH-H5kTw
"What a Lovely song makes me cry cause it makes me think of the son I lost he was 25 . If I could save time in a bottle I would save it being with him. ❤"
(The song is tragic on its own besides; Croce died in a plane crash at age 30, not two years after the song was recorded, and before it was even released as a single.)
Edit: This song's been stuck in my head today, so I listened to it again. Here's another comment, from the same video:
"I have autism. It was finally diagnosed in late 2018, 45 years after this song came out, 52 years after I was born. In all those blank years, being called "removed" by neighbors, classmates and school faculty alike, music was my refuge (among other things). And it still is. This is one of my top five favorites. It's for thinking, caring people. I'm highly-asocial but I do think a lot...and try to care in a way 'normal' people do...or can at least understand and appreciate. If there is anything in me that is considered "human" by this world's hypocritical standards, then I'd like to think songs like this one pushed my tastes beyond that criteria. So I will take this song as a lesson and abide by this quote: "I will not waste my years trying to prolong them. I will use my time"."
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