"A battle of Internet good and internet evil"

A laughing baby video--not the one I linked to, another one, viewed more than 45 million times--has received over 59,000 comments. An intrepid Slate writer reads them--so you don't have to--and summarizes them this way:

After reading a few thousand comments, they begin to fade into similar patterns: cute, cute, cute, evil, spam, I think the baby is ugly, How can you think that!, cute, cute, I want to have a baby, cute, baby is high, look at my videos, cute, just like my kid, cute, LOL, cute, cute, etc., etc. It's soon overly clear that the comments aren't a conversation or debate. Laughing Baby has become an Internet monument, and posting a remark is like tagging your name on the Statue of Liberty.