This Twitter Account Rounds Up Wholesome, Oddly Moving YouTube Comments Left On Disco Videos
The 'baby shoes, never worn' of our times.
While YouTube can feel like cesspool of incels, desperate influencers and unnerving children videos, there still remain a few sweet, kind pockets, including, it turns out, Disco YouTube.
If you’ve ever trawled through YouTube for a certain ’70s song or a rare B-side, you’ve probably seen a few overtly earnest comments underneath as nostalgic adults feel the need to share their memories of the song. Things can get pretty intimate: some comments are misspelled tales of loves found and lost, arguably the ‘for sale: baby shoes never worn’ of our times.
Thankfully, one Twitter account is collating the best comments left on Disco videos: since 2014, the aptly titled Disco Comments has been doing God’s work.
Take one of today’s tweets, for example: “reminds me of dark gay bars generally in the toughest part of town. good times.” Evocative! The history hinted at in a single comment! The euphoria!
My friends and I partied off this tune
when I was n my 20,'s still listening at 69. Not to many of us left.
RIP to All those who have gone to HEAVEN??— Disco Comments (@DiscoComments) July 16, 2020
ONCE upon the time, where we were joung and beautifull, today we are only end?
— Disco Comments (@DiscoComments) July 27, 2020
Prepare to be free the first time in your life.
— Disco Comments (@DiscoComments) July 28, 2020
There’s plenty of philosophising, too. “LOVE is painful and about sufferring,” writes one, “but at the time it`s delight and sense of life, and eventually it`s worth living for!”
Some just remember taking lots of drugs.
still can smell the poppers! thanks. take care, ya'll!
— Disco Comments (@DiscoComments) July 20, 2020
Of course, they’re not all highly emotional. Don’t worry, there are plenty of boomers getting on their high-horses to complain about the music and club scene of today.
Todays music is pathetic compared to this.
— Disco Comments (@DiscoComments) August 2, 2020
The guys have a bit of an innocent look on their faces, very different from all the insecure posing of today.
— Disco Comments (@DiscoComments) July 27, 2020
Elsewhere, commenters adopt an absurdism that somehow says it all, such as just writing “Italo disco”. The world of agony and release contained in merely typing those two words is palpable, whether or not it was actually supposed to go into the search bar.
Italo disco
— Disco Comments (@DiscoComments) August 2, 2020
Scrolling through, the nostalgia is overwhelming, the tweets often tinged with sadness and regret. It is one of my favourite things on the internet, a collation of memories of past sweaty dancefloors and nights out, put together shine bright with pain and joy together.
There is no need to read Mark Fisher ever again — everything he’s written on hauntology in dance music is eclipsed by each individual tweet. Sorry Burial, but we have @Discocomments now.
memories of high school. beautiful music to dance to and to day dream of an awesome time in the past. class of 86 san gabriel high.
— Disco Comments (@DiscoComments) July 21, 2020
For those of us missing the dancefloor in COVID times, some tweets hit extra hard. Follow @Discocomments, and keep on grooving.
How many times did I dance to this back in the day???? Not enough times.
— Disco Comments (@DiscoComments) July 21, 2020