My Thoughts on Comments

People were very angry about the Miss Universe beauty pageant this year, and not only did they take to Twitter to express their anger, but they also left some comments on the article that Us Weekly published shortly after the competition ended. (The article can be found by clicking here)

Us Weekly is a weekly magazine that focuses on celebrity news and entertainment. In the article, the winner of the competition, Miss Colombia Paulina Vega celebrates her win humbly while praising the other contestants. She focuses a lot of her praise on fourth runner-up and fan favorite, Miss Jamaica Kaci Fennell.

Even with Miss Colombia's congratulations, people still took to the comments to lash out not only at the article and the competition, but also each other.

Screenshot from my computer, 8/28/2015.

The first comment that I thought was credible was by a man named Daniel. He was very calm, did not seem very biased and was very articulate in his thoughts. Instead of lashing out at Miss Colombia like many of the other commenters, he pointed out that it was more likely the judges fault than hers. It didn't seem like it really mattered to him which contestant he wanted to win, thereby not expressing any fantasy/wishes or fear/anxiety and instead was just commenting from a non-partisan viewpoint.

Screenshot from my computer, 8/28/2015.

The second comment that drew my attention was by a user named Jello. I went to this person's twitter and saw that he/she was a very avid reality TV show watcher, as evidenced by the several retweets of news of the Kardashians. Even so, I thought this person's comment was credible. What I liked the most about this comment was that they pointed out that there will always be "winners and losers" and like Daniel, the winner must score high in a multitude of categories. Jello does make a comment in the opening saying how the short do will not look good on Miss Colombia but doesn't express any anger over her winning the competition.

Screenshot from my computer, 8/28/2015.

Then there were the non-credible comments... User jcal focused a lot on the looks of the contestants of his pageants and even went as far to bash the women that had long hair that the winner Miss Colombia had. He then went on to say how he preferred Miss Jamaica. At the end, he made some pretty racist remarks about South American countries and how they "train them from birth for pageants." Clearly, he really wished Miss Jamaica had won instead of Miss Colombia. So I would deem jcal's comment as non-credible. I would also deem user ThewholeTROOF as non-credible as well as he seems to just be adding fuel to the fire by mocking jcal.

Screenshot from my computer, 8/28/2015.

The last comment I saw that I thought was non-credible was by user ladynai. Clearly, she was very upset that Miss Colombia won by her rude and racist remarks about the country's exports. This was not a very well constructed argument at all, as all she does is insult Miss Colombia's country.

Reading these comments was kind of sad because of how angry people got, which in turn caused them to make some pretty nasty remarks about the contestants and their country of origin.

EDIT:
After reading Chelsea's and Jacob's blog there seems to be a very common trend among commenters. Either they're too angry enough to make a coherent sentence and usually just write whatever with terrible grammar and vulgar language, or they have actually done their research and can provide useful feedback. There seems to only ever be two opposites which is kind of add. While it is very entertaining to read the outraged comments, it would be better if people could actually contribute meaningful conversation so that change can actually be made.