Why I Turned Off Comment Sections on My YouTube Videos

On 20 May 2026, I made the final decision to turn off comments on all my videos on YouTube. This was a decision I had been ruminating for a while, but the last straw that made me finally make it, was a comment on one of my Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic video, specifically about the companion character Juhani, that was held in my YouTube account's comment moderation dashboard. That comment…