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Toxicity Scores & Embeddings

Search and explore comments with their Perspective API toxicity/prosocial scores alongside AI sentiment labels.

Communalytic | Toxicity & prosocial scores, embeddings, and clusters generated via Communalytic (Social Media Lab, Toronto Metropolitan University) using Google's Perspective API.
Toxicity Scored
55,769
9.3% of 596,542 total
Prosocial Scored
54,229
Embeddings
55,418
403 clusters
Avg Tox / Con
0.245 / 0.328

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All 13 Dimensions

Score Distribution

Scored: 55,769
Unscored: 596,542 remaining
9.3% complete
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Active: "They kept us quiet by …" 2 comments
Went camping. 2 Indian families set up next to us. Kept everyone awake for 2 nights. Talking partying laughing. Quiet time is 11 PM. The 2nd night. I lost it. Pointed my flashlight at them. …
Went camping. 2 Indian families set up next to us. Kept everyone awake for 2 nights. Talking partying laughing. Quiet time is 11 PM. The 2nd night. I lost it. Pointed my flashlight at them. Told them it was 2AM in the morning and people want to sleep. This is the second night. Your a bunch of ignorant bastards. Complete silence after that as they slinked to their tents. Still awake it’s too late. I felt like making all kinds of noise after that but I’m better then that
Why Canadians Are Turning Against Immigrants. · 1: Outliers
Close reading → Discourse → Video sentiment →
Identity Attack0.30103904
Insult0.5678696
Profanity0.45190978
Threat0.034422375
Severe Toxicity0.038593806
Moderate 0.52811706 Constructive 0.521 Insult Personal_Narrative
Aug 27, 2025 3 likes Why Canadians Are Turning Against …
They kept us quiet by threatening us with the label of "racist" but now white people are fed up and now I don't care if you call me a racist because to me that only …
They kept us quiet by threatening us with the label of "racist" but now white people are fed up and now I don't care if you call me a racist because to me that only means that I am standing up for MY RACE and MY RACE made this country and MY RACE developed this country and MY RACE made the values that once made this country great and now I am ashamed of what the politicians have done to my once great country. The reason the birth rate dropped to nothing is because people can't afford children anymore, the cost of living is way to high to afford children.
Why Canadians Are Turning Against Immigrants. · 7: Cluster #6
Close reading → Discourse → Video sentiment →
Identity Attack0.38176915
Insult0.24928534
Profanity0.0961592
Threat0.013528148
Severe Toxicity0.017029278
Moderate 0.3625127 Constructive 0.524 Identity_Assertion
Aug 25, 2025 1 likes Why Canadians Are Turning Against …

Perspective API Dimensions Reference

13 dimensions explained

Toxic (6)

Toxicity
— Rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable
Severe Toxicity
— Very hateful or aggressive
Identity Attack
— Targeting race, religion, gender, etc.
Insult
— Inflammatory or provocative language
Profanity
— Swear words or obscene language
Threat
— Intention to inflict pain or violence

Prosocial (7)

Affinity
— Agreement or shared understanding
Compassion
— Concern for others' wellbeing
Curiosity
— Desire to learn or understand more
Nuance
— Acknowledges complexity or multiple perspectives
Personal Story
— Shares personal experience
Reasoning
— Evidence-based or logical argumentation
Respect
— Politeness and consideration for others
Data sources: comment_perspective_scores, comment_embeddings, and view_comment_sentiment · Scores are probability values (0–1) from Google's Perspective API via Communalytic.