Among the many things I don’t understand of social media there is the need of people to comment on anything. Why engaging in virtual written fights with strangers that will surely misunderstand you? Which pleasure does it give you to insult the author of a post? And, most importantly, where do you find the time to do all that?

I recently published a reel featuring the not-so-sweet encounter between the Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and France’s President Emmanuel Macron. This video was played more than 7M times, reaching more than 3M accounts, for a total view time of 11K hours (500 days). It received 98K likes and more than 3K comments.

Now, you would think this is great news, right? Wrong, my phone was constantly buzzing with notifications and I had to read all the idiotic comments, trying to remove the most racist ones. Here a summary of what people have said, just to show how disappointing mankind can be:

The police filmed a violent settling of accounts between two rival gangs in the small town of Röszke. The conflict arose to determine who had precedence in using anti-migrants feelings to distract public opinion from… Reservoir Jackals (2019)