What percent of Youtubers read the comments?

[THEREALFLUFF]

I always read comments, but I don't always reply. A lot of the times there's just nothing really to say.

 

[Kleineganz]

I get very few comments, so I get excited whenever I get any ...

 

[Brad Moore]

I always read the top comments. Always. The way people respond to the video is often more entertaining than the video itself

I agree. Most times you get just as much of a laugh from comments than the video if not more.

 

[RadioJH]

I always read at least a few comments. I bet the percent is more like 90%.

 

[unknown_user00005]

I'm guessing less than 1% of YouTube views see the comments, but I imagine 10-50% of YouTubers (creators) view comments on videos.
I always check the top comments when I click on a video, it's a habit

 

[JeriKane]

Ever since I got scared to death by the screamer videos, the first thing I do is check for likes/dislikes, and read the top comments.

Other than that though, I enjoy going through the comments. Especially on wrestling videos. Talk about war of words. >_>

 

[Soldierbot]

I watch video, stop 2 minutes in, read comments, watch till halfway point, stop, look at like bar, decide how it could have gotten so upvoted (or why it was not upvoted enough) depending on whether it was boring/awesome, finish the video, comment something cool, leave.

 

[Olizandri]

I read all the comments on my video's through my email, every voice gets heard but every voice can't be answered, just far too many so have to pick and choose my moments!

The underlying reason for reading them all is two fold, firstly because every person's comments should be equally important to a content creator and sometimes can make you smile but more importantly I find it helps me weed out those I DONT WANT watching my videos, those who are disruptive to my community who I am trying to provide safe interaction, its weird that while socially interacting I feel I have to somewhat police my channel but it is how it is.

I have had messages from Orphanges and Mothers about how my channel is safe for their children to watch with my vocabulary avoiding the major curse words, so I feel its an important thing to make sure no one else within the comments is going overboard in that sense as well

 

[markkaz]

I bet that only 2% of viewers read the comments if there are a significant amount of comments. It also depends on the video. Sometimes, you can listen to the presentation and scroll through the comments. But if the video has important visual information, that reduces the reading of the comments.

 

[PwnageHD]

My channel is just getting started, so i read and reply to all the comments i get. But i guess it's a lot harder to read them all if your getting hundreds of comments per video.