How am I stopping anyone from expressing themselves by posting about this on lemmy?
That seems to be your job.
In my opinion the problem is the absolute clout chase that is these comments cluttering the comments section. You need to click the video to see the comments, so everyone that sees that comment is clearly listening on or beyond February 2024. It’s just useless.
If it was a small artist this would make sense. Imagine an artist with less then 1000 views on YouTube. It might be interesting to see if they have any superfans still listening
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5V2VfWYgN18
My favorite example at the moment, 10y/o Youtube gold with less than 3000 views. One of those comments from 2021
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“[Insert name of insanely popular YouTuber or YT channel] brought me here!”
HEY, THAT’S ME!! I’M LISTENING TO THIS IN 2024!!! How did they know??? Holy shit!! Like like like!!
I have commented one single time on YouTube (years ago) and it was to thank someone for uploading something that was historic and was not something I had seen before or had been uploaded to YouTube before. And I made sure to make it was more than a “thank you!” I also didn’t expect a response.
I don’t even respond to people who comment on my own videos.
This inane shit makes no sense to me.
