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The living room is now a comment section
YouTube's creator posts and remote comments are built for the TV. Your sofa is a forum now.
The single weirdest thing about this is how small the change is and how complete. A person used to sit on a couch and watch something. Now they sit on a couch and are in a room where the person can see them. Nothing was added except a comment box, and everything changed, because the comment box is the whole architecture of a parasocial relationship and we finally put it on the big screen where it belongs.
Notice, name, choose. That's the whole method.
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YouTube Brings Creator Posts, Remote Comments to TVs ↗
Parasocial Magazine · 26 SEP 2026
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