believe that posting a link to their favorite video essay lends credibility to their argument.
unfortunately that is definitely a trend. but then you also have the person who grabs one rhyme out of context and comments it aged like a milk, meaning they did open the video, listened to it and absolutely did not understood.
i am also not going to watch every 60 minutes long video someone posts me in a discussion, but if i am invested in the discussion so much i care about answering or voting on something, i at least try to understand the concept of the video and what it is trying to say.
the headline in this case did not help, but i rarely see such an example of crowd behaviour concentrated in such short time as was the case with this link.