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This quoted comment I italicized is 1489 characters long based on wordcounter.net/character-count:

"The "Humans of CIA" video with the "Mija" girl was promoting minorities join the CIA. Not inherently bad, but it seems obsessive in media these days to repeat in every ad or campaign how minorities and sexes should join everything. You'd think if this shit works then spamming it all over the TV and Internet would've had an effect! But again, this is not necessarily the problem here.

The problem the hard-headed political slant, from a tax-payer-funded CIA. THE LITERAL CIA, the place that is supposed to be politically neutral.

She over-emphasizes a charcuterie board of minority aspects/niche demographics you mainly hear people obsess about on Tumblr. Every 'counter-point' she gives as if to defend herself from non-existent arguments plucked from a Blockhead's Guide to Strawmanning Right-Wing Arguments. She's presumptuous in her words, treating America as definitively sexist and racist, and then her complimenting herself near the end while insisting on being unapologetically herself only makes her come off as even more presumptuous.

What did the CIA want to accomplish here? Was this an attempt to bait people for some greater CIA social experiment? Was this part of a grander Cicada 3301-style puzzle?

What I think is the case, is that the social media people wanted to do a video on this person, and she turned it into a college video essay project that would work great in a college room, and not in the general public where people expect balance and moderacy from CIA members."

You can prove this issue exists by copying the above text, pasting it in my entry's comment section, and trying to post it as-is (you can always delete if it somehow magically posts). The character count will be verified by the linked site as below 1500 if you paste it there.

KnowYourMeme gives me the reason of "Comment must be between 2 and 1500 characters in order to be posted." when I try to comment it on my "Humans of CIA" entry.

Please either increase the actual character limit to 1500, or alter the warning to reflect the true character limit.

Wordcounter is counting the "characters" – that is, every letter, number, and symbol. KYM is counting characters, as in each 1-4 bytes that form a symbol. The comment you're posting comes out to around 1490 characters, but KYM also sees your line breaks as a "character". You could delete a single word and be able to comment.

TL;DR: New lines are characters on KYM.

Oh okay thanks for explaining, though that's a little confusing and a cleaner-coded alternative might be better since other sites seem to count characters accurately just fine.

This is pretty much how every web service will count characters. The "word counter" you're using is actually the exception to this rule for its intended use in academia: students and publishers care about the number of "real" words/characters; computers do not. Twitter, Reddit, and every other major web service counts characters the way we do, simply by manner of text encoding needing to be consistent across the internet.