Research Article

Sentiment Analysis of Youtube Video Comments Using Artificial Intelligence: The Case of Trump-Zelensky Meeting

Volume: 24 Number: 52 June 27, 2025
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Sentiment Analysis of Youtube Video Comments Using Artificial Intelligence: The Case of Trump-Zelensky Meeting

Abstract

The diplomatic meeting between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky on February 28, 2025 had important consequences for international relations and was widely covered both in other countries and in the international press. Especially on social networking sites, many posts were made on the subject, and people commented on the shared content and expressed their feelings and thoughts. From this point of view, the aim of this study is to understand people’s emotional orientations and to determine their perceptions of the meeting by analyzing the emotions of the comments made on YouTube videos of the meeting. In the study, text mining method was used to analyze the comments. 226.000 comments on 4 videos shared on the YouTube platform were collected with the YouTube API interface using Python programming language. Then, the process of cleaning the obtained data was carried out. The cleaned data was divided into tokens and lemmatization was applied and the words were converted into root forms. A sentiment dictionary was then developed to prepare the data for analysis. VADER, Gensim, Pandas, Requests and NLTK libraries were used for data extraction, processing and analysis. Sentiment analysis technique was used to analyze the data obtained. In this context, the ChatGPT-4.5 artificial intelligence model of OpenAI was preferred and sentiment classification was performed with an unsupervised machine learning approach. The data were obtained from 4 videos of the Trump-Zelensky meeting on the YouTube accounts of CNN and Fox News television channels between February 28, 2025 and March 1, 2025. According to the results obtained from the research, anger, neutral and anticipation emotions were the most common emotions in the comments. However, negative emotional orientation predominates in the comments. The most frequently used words in the comments on the posts were Trump, Zelensky-Zelenskyy, America-American, Ukraine and War.

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Communications and Media Policy

Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

June 27, 2025

Submission Date

April 10, 2025

Acceptance Date

June 19, 2025

Published in Issue

Year 2025 Volume: 24 Number: 52

APA
Kalaman, S. (2025). Sentiment Analysis of Youtube Video Comments Using Artificial Intelligence: The Case of Trump-Zelensky Meeting. İstanbul Ticaret Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 24(52), 356-379. https://doi.org/10.46928/iticusbe.1673727
AMA
1.Kalaman S. Sentiment Analysis of Youtube Video Comments Using Artificial Intelligence: The Case of Trump-Zelensky Meeting. İstanbul Ticaret Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi. 2025;24(52):356-379. doi:10.46928/iticusbe.1673727
Chicago
Kalaman, Sefer. 2025. “Sentiment Analysis of Youtube Video Comments Using Artificial Intelligence: The Case of Trump-Zelensky Meeting”. İstanbul Ticaret Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi 24 (52): 356-79. https://doi.org/10.46928/iticusbe.1673727.
EndNote
Kalaman S (June 1, 2025) Sentiment Analysis of Youtube Video Comments Using Artificial Intelligence: The Case of Trump-Zelensky Meeting. İstanbul Ticaret Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi 24 52 356–379.
IEEE
[1]S. Kalaman, “Sentiment Analysis of Youtube Video Comments Using Artificial Intelligence: The Case of Trump-Zelensky Meeting”, İstanbul Ticaret Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, vol. 24, no. 52, pp. 356–379, June 2025, doi: 10.46928/iticusbe.1673727.
ISNAD
Kalaman, Sefer. “Sentiment Analysis of Youtube Video Comments Using Artificial Intelligence: The Case of Trump-Zelensky Meeting”. İstanbul Ticaret Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi 24/52 (June 1, 2025): 356-379. https://doi.org/10.46928/iticusbe.1673727.
JAMA
1.Kalaman S. Sentiment Analysis of Youtube Video Comments Using Artificial Intelligence: The Case of Trump-Zelensky Meeting. İstanbul Ticaret Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi. 2025;24:356–379.
MLA
Kalaman, Sefer. “Sentiment Analysis of Youtube Video Comments Using Artificial Intelligence: The Case of Trump-Zelensky Meeting”. İstanbul Ticaret Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, vol. 24, no. 52, June 2025, pp. 356-79, doi:10.46928/iticusbe.1673727.
Vancouver
1.Sefer Kalaman. Sentiment Analysis of Youtube Video Comments Using Artificial Intelligence: The Case of Trump-Zelensky Meeting. İstanbul Ticaret Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi. 2025 Jun. 1;24(52):356-79. doi:10.46928/iticusbe.1673727