I watched a few fake videos from "House Hold Hackers" about how to make things...?

Question

I saw one video about how to make an air horn obviously that was fake, they were made by young guys to fool people for fun. However I have a question about the comments about the video. I saw all these comments about poeple calling names to each other and fighting. I don't understand why there was so many comments where people were insulting each other and wasn't even related to the video. What is that about?

Answer 1

It's called 'Flaming' and it's been going on since the internet began.

I think some people just flame others to get a kick out of it. It can often be humorous to watch one person flame another about their spelling for instance and in the process misspell words themselves, or make a grammatical error. The next flamer catches that and then makes a similar mistake, sometimes I wonder wether the mistakes are really mistakes or on purpose to continue the flaming process.

Don't let the jabs bother you too much. Most of the time it's just people having a bit of... fun...

Flame wars often tend to wander off topic rather quickly which is what you observed...

Hope this helps...