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Yet while YouTube comments sections offer a refuge that feels increasingly rare on the internet these days, these communities are at risk of extinction.

. But it’s not the sort of video you’d imagine, 13 years later, would be hosting anything other than a partially animated graveyard of ‘Who’s here in 2023?’ comments populating other memes that only exist now as monuments to nostalgia for a lost era.

“Day 767: Today makes one year since my best friend, and brother, Mojo passed away,” one user, Duckable, has posted. “He wasn’t just a dog to me, he was my family. It has been incredibly hard without him, and I feel like my confidence has lowered and my anxiety has increased since his passing.” For Duckable and the thousands of others in this video’s comments section—many of them teenagers—this long-dead meme has become an anonymous safe space for processing difficult experiences, and an unlikely carrier of coming of age stories.

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