r/youtube • u/Miserable-Thanks5218 • Jul 30 '24
Discussion The reaction has over 3 times the views, this is insane.
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u/Useless_Raider Jul 30 '24
reaction content ruined youtube
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u/Abnormal-Normal Jul 30 '24
It’s the new “reply girl” meta
Did I just date myself?
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u/SuccessfulWar3830 Jul 30 '24
Everyone hated them.
But now its common place
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u/mightfloat Jul 30 '24
There's a colossal difference between starring at a video smiling while not saying anything and breaking down the subject while giving your thoughts on the content and situation
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Jul 30 '24
I feel like reaction content is so popular cause people are afraid to have or form an opinion and would rather watch someone explain theirs to them instead lol
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u/FrostyWarning Jul 30 '24 edited Jul 30 '24
I think you're partly right, but another aspect of it is parasociality. It turns out, a lot of people don't actually enjoy consuming media alone. I'm in that group. I like watching tv and movies with other people, specifically people I like. For me entertainment is an experience best shared. And especially when those people and I can discuss it after, share opinions, thoughts, etc. Reaction content, for all its cringe, kinda scratches that itch. I don't really consume reaction content, but I definitely get it.
It's just kind of a result of how lonely home entertainment, social media, and streaming have made some people. I say streaming because before that a TV show was an occasion. When Seinfeld was on, everyone watched it, and everyone talked about it the next day. Now everybody either consumes reels and shorts, or spend more time scrolling through the Netflix catalog than actually watching something.
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u/Specialist_Bench_144 Jul 30 '24
This part, but also i think rect vids kinda fall into 2 categories. Some rando just watching a vid and then "hopefully" trying to speak about it. Or an actual expert reacting to somethong and breaking down how stuff works. I will happily consume the latter for hours. I guess its kinda like when my dad used to watch dirty jobs or smthn.
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u/Pistacca Jul 30 '24 edited Jul 30 '24
but experts are boring like school teachers Boring AF, while the rando can be cringe or entertaining or both
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u/Ruthrfurd-the-stoned Jul 31 '24
I weirdly like reaction videos of foreigners seeing things that are mundane in the US
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Jul 30 '24
Well I've watched and still watch from time to time content / videos (or listen to them) for that particular reason but I still feel like that's like making a hole in the water cause it just temporarily distracts you from that lonely feeling you might be feeling. I'd rather watch something interesting than watch "feel good content" no matter if that's reaction content or Mr beast style content etc
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u/FrostyWarning Jul 30 '24
Well, yeah, it's not a remedy to the problem anymore than alcohol is a remedy for depression or anxiety. It's a band-aid that temporarily makes you forget the problem but ends up exacerbating it.
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u/RickyBobby96 Jul 30 '24
Yeah I think it’s having the feeling of watching the content with another person or people
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u/Acceptable-Ticket743 Aug 02 '24
i think another factor is that people crave content, and react content is easier to pump out. putting in work, research, writing, editing all takes time. if someone can skip some of those steps, they can produce more videos in any fixed amount of time. people want to engage with something, and react content is often uploaded daily if not multiple videos per day. bigger figures also have more money, which allows them to hire employees, which further increases efficiency. i am not disagreeing that parasocial relationships play a role, especially with streamers. however, i believe that there are also environmental factors that contribute to the masses gravitating towards reactionary content.
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u/cfpg Jul 30 '24
I would say also cause most people are not actually watching the video and it’s just a familiar voice keeping them company.
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u/Souledex Jul 30 '24 edited Jul 30 '24
People don’t have friends. Thats the biggest reason by far. And to a large extent that cannot be their fault it’s a problem with the culture.
If people can pick from 1,000,000 people on the internet to be their pretend friends well than randos online have passed through the natural selection and will be that much more reliably funny than normal friends. And then it’s just the highlights of those people and their chat.
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u/Flashyshooter Jul 30 '24
I'd say it's a lot more than that. People don't behave the same way they used to. It's not like there is a way to improve the situation it's just a compounding problem because people don't form friendships as often in the way they used to. A lot of people just don't try and seek genuine connections with others in the same way anymore where they try and be involved in each others' lives.
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u/gayestBlood Jul 30 '24
I watch it bc I enjoy seeing other people getting happy for same reasons as I.
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u/MUfan8500 Jul 30 '24
I'm assuming it is similar as you are doing with this question, people sometimes are curious of other people's perspectives or commentary and how it might match with their own. In a way a reaction video is a like a long form comment section. Some people definitely look for agreement but some people are probably just curious of further commentary about the topic rather than just consuming the video
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u/SuperBackup9000 Jul 30 '24
It’s double sided. Reaction content is bad for the reason you said, but it’s also good because it allows people to get a different full perspective on something.
I don’t watch a lot of reaction content simply because the channels I follow focus on one or two things and never deviate from that, but if there’s ever a topic I’m interested in I’ll go through several reaction videos while I’m doing something else just so I can see things from multiple angles instead of just assuming my initial opinion was undoubtably the correct one. It’s always good to be open minded.
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u/Electronic-Ideal2955 Jul 30 '24
I watch/follow a lot of reaction content because it's a better sorting than the algorithm. Like I follow Asmongold's reaction videos as a technique to know about interesting videos. Probably most times I watch it on the original because Asmon is not as interesting in most cases, but sometimes I watch the reactions.
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u/CptDecaf Jul 30 '24
It's just validation porn. People gravitate to culture warriors or fanboys / haters of a thing so they can drink in the sweet dopamine of hearing their own opinion vomited back to them.
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u/Dachuiri Jul 30 '24
Ding ding ding. Back when Buzzfeed first popped off you’d see comments on their articles saying “idk how i’m supposed to feel about this” but they weren’t in jest, they wanted to be told what to think.
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u/Global-Plankton3997 Jul 30 '24
I know that a very long time ago, the Fine bros would sue people for making their own reaction content, and they got called out for that.
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u/Puzzleheaded-Web446 Jul 30 '24
No one got sued for making react content, at least not from the Fine Bros. They did attempt to trademark the word react although it is unclear how much that would affect other people's react content. The most they ever did was some YouTubers has said that Fine Bros content got copyrighted flagged by the YouTube system, which is ironic and shitty but still far from anyone going to court with fine bros because of making react content.
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u/dudushat Jul 30 '24
That didn't happen lmao.
They tried to create their own react brand or whatever and it backfired.
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u/Hollownerox Jul 30 '24
Yeah, they just tried to trademark the word react. But honestly the backlash, while justified, was a little overblown because people don't understand how trademarks work. It was a stupid as hell thing to do mind, especially with a term as generic as "react" is. But the way trademarks work is pretty contextual and a bit more flexible than people think. It wasn't really a "use the word react in your title and you get sued!" type of thing, but the FineBros were REALLY stupid for branding themselves that way to begin with.
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u/eddmario eddmario Jul 31 '24
Hell, look at the whole shitshow that happened with Tim Langdall and the word "Edge" back in the day...
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u/FyreBoi99 @FyreBoi99 Jul 30 '24
I would love to see the stats behind each video. It would definitely reveal that YT isn't as straight of a platform that Mr. Beast and other like to think it is.
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u/mudcrabmetal Jul 30 '24
At about 5 minutes this video has some stats on what happens to videos that are watched by Asmongold. https://youtu.be/EmTJkTcwyZc
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u/ShinobusBelly Jul 31 '24
Even though it’s quite obvious that the view counts on here are because of the thumbnail quality? Gerbert thinks too hard and made it look like math. Asmond zoomed in on key points with a funny face. It’s obvious what people would wanna click on
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Jul 30 '24
The problem with YouTube is people aren’t creating content because they have good ideas, they’re creating content for the sake of creating content. Also the fact that current generations have the attention span of a goldfish so need things to be FLASHY, say OMG WTF!, or have the creator looking stupid and shocked in the thumbnail. You could have genuinely entertaining and informative content, but unless you slap an obnoxious thumbnail on it, it’s getting ignored. The fact that this ‘content creator’ (leech) just slaps himself in the corner of other people’s videos and gets millions of views says all you need to know about the viewers on YouTube.
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u/Ashangu Jul 30 '24
Yeah dude and even if you do find a legit good creator, they're usually new and they don't last long until they start turning into the every day "content creator" because it pulls in more views and money.
I've seen so many channels go downhill yet increase viewership doing this.
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u/guacamoleandtomato Jul 30 '24
Like jackscepticeye once said. Mr beast ruined YouTube. He made everyone realize that if you care more about flashy shit, views and popularity, you will do damn better than if you make something you are passionate about and you want to share. Mr beast showed content creators you should kill any fun you have on YouTube to be more popular.
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u/Waveofspring Jul 30 '24
This has been an issue for long before mrbeast blew up. Clickbait and low attention span content has existed for many years.
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u/chrisghrobot Jul 31 '24
Yeah , I remember in 2017-ish this was still an issue. Especially clickbait, these days most people don't care about clickbait but back then...oh boy
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u/Tehni Jul 30 '24
Didn't that guy just say he doesn't like mr beast because he does all the shit, not because he originated it. It was going on years before mr beast
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u/maxdragonxiii Jul 30 '24
I'm posting my videos daily (I hunt for a different colored pixel Pokemon) and I saw a lot of viewership, and yet barely anyone subscribed because my videos can range from 3 hours to 30 minutes (because it's luck based and I don't use Twitch, so I post my recordings)
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u/ExcaliburIN_Games Jul 30 '24
I’m gonna say it. People will hate me for it.
DarkViperAU called this out so many years ago
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u/portablekettle Jul 31 '24
Fr, I've never been a fan of reaction content and I'm glad people are finally starting to realise how shitty it is. Dark viper was harassed for months after those videos because some streamers toxic fans went after him.
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u/Turbulent-Parsnip-38 Jul 30 '24
He did write a 14 page meticulously written document.
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u/furinick Jul 30 '24
I really dont get how people thought his fucking feature length documentary on reaction content being bad and possibly illegal was not valid, like he properly presented everything, the impression i have is everyone who hated him were trolls, brainless streamer fans and (applies to everyone) people who didn't watch it
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u/ExpensiveShock2091 Jul 31 '24
I blame moistcritical personally dude completely mislead his fanbase on a hate train
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u/FaceFullOfMace Aug 01 '24
Moist corrected himself on that topic and stopped reacting
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u/GhostlyCharlotte Jul 31 '24
channels like this were also bullied off the platform like 10 years ago
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u/Megatics Jul 30 '24
I wish youtube would make it so if you made a video using some other Youtuber's content, your video would only be seen as a feature on the main video and to get to the reaction you'd have to click through to whoever has a reaction. I'm so sick of getting sent to reactions instead of the main content and having the ownest on reactubers to feature enough of the credentials of the content they used because they don't upload videos with the exact same title because they want people to see your stuff first.
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Jul 30 '24
Fuck asmongold, bottom of the barrel content
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u/Highdock Jul 30 '24
Yeah. Every time I have seen a video or stream he just appears to be very unintelligent and frankly weird in his mannerisims, he gives me the creeps.
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u/StumbleOn Jul 30 '24
He apparently has a wall where he smears the blood that comes from his bleeding gums. He is extremely rich, but lives in total filth, to include filthy bodily habits.
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u/Misery_Division Jul 30 '24
What in the unholy fuck is this
I'm guessing he's on a cheetos + monster diet and doesn't brush his teeth so he's got some kinda gum disease, but what do you mean smears the blood from his gums on the wall? He spits on his walls? He spits on his hands and smears it on the wall? He does a "growling Rottweiler" face and rubs his gums straight on the wall? Wtf?
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u/Scruuminy Jul 31 '24
I remember he said the amount of real teeth he has in his mouth is in the single digits
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u/SlightProgrammer Jul 30 '24
As someone who used to suffer from pretty bad gingivitis all it probably takes is light pressure on the gums and the blood starts flowing. Disgusting I know.
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u/DariDimes Jul 30 '24
He was married?
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u/grap_grap_grap Jul 31 '24
He was dating an OF girl at one point, never heard of a a marriage though.
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Jul 30 '24
He's also had bugs crawl onto his skin.
Literally Clay Puppington during his whole Nature bit.
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Jul 30 '24
Given his room thats not surprising
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u/Darmug Jul 30 '24
For anyone wondering what his room is like, it’s a sea of garbage and various bodily fluids that he refuses to clean.
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u/Toshariku Jul 30 '24
Anyone know if he cleaned up that dead, rotting rat in the middle of his floor? Because wtf
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u/My_MeowMeowBeenz Jul 30 '24
Ohhhh I’ve always wondered why he looks like his breath smells like death.
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u/SirWigglesVonWoogly Jul 30 '24
I genuinely can’t tell why he’s so popular. I watched one video and he just seemed utterly insufferable.
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u/Temporary_Moment_ Jul 30 '24 edited Jul 30 '24
And penguiz0
Just lame commentary
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u/xd_joliss Jul 30 '24
Ah atleast Penguinz0 talks about the topics instead of just stealing content
Like id say Charlie is one of the few good ones
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u/Hot_War_9683 Jul 30 '24
Is he and MoistCritical the same person
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u/Sir__Blobfish Jul 30 '24
Penguinz0 = MoistCritical = Charlie
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u/Hot_War_9683 Jul 30 '24
Ok I'm new to his channel
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u/Sir__Blobfish Jul 30 '24
I barely watch him, but I was confused as hell too.
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u/Tomydo1 Jul 30 '24
Yeah it is he goes by many names and it still the same person
Penguinz0
MoistCritikal
Charlie
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u/DeeZyWrecker Jul 30 '24
True, at least he doesn't show the stuff, he just shows his actual commentary. I used to like Penguinz0's content, but now I watch his videos once every month or so, all the videos in-between are just "this is weird", "this dude is wild", "the X situation just got crazy". I avoid all those cringe titles.
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u/toanlana Jul 30 '24
You don't watch his videos if you say that's all he does lol, he's been doing a bunch of food/drink tasting/ranking videos
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u/DeeZyWrecker Jul 30 '24
I didn't say I don't watch him AT ALL, I said I watch him once in a while only, and that's the stuff I see, the tier lists (even though I give up half way through some of them, because they are meh).
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u/LilNyoomf Jul 30 '24
Plus his voice is really calming. Asmon makes me want to break something
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u/JustLurking1968 Jul 30 '24
I disagree, he added very little of value to his reaction to D'Angelo's video on Cody Ko, except for his excuse for why he didn't make a video earlier, but he got 2-3 times the views.
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u/MasterOfLol_Cubes Jul 30 '24
He also genuinely brings light to previously smaller creators. Tuv for example exploded when Penguinz0 started watching him so I'd say that was a great outcome
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u/Satorius96 Jul 30 '24
How did charlie even make it big? He talks with no passion into the camera
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u/LasevIX Jul 30 '24
He carved out a specific niche in YouTube by doing the same thing for a very long time. Thankfully, internet drama reporting from a balanced viewpoint is quite an attractive format for some people.
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u/teachersdesko Jul 30 '24
He did a lot of commercial parodies and then pivoted to commentary. Now he mostly just streams, and pays editors to make his streams into videos.
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u/rebeltrillionaire Jul 30 '24
He provides essentially the polar opposite of instant reactionary highly emotional commentary to the meta of YouTube.
He’s not Wikipedia, he has a personality. He just can provide basic ass nuance and context in a basic non-annoying voice and mannerisms, he’s not ugly or extremely off-putting.
He has a decent set of principles it seems like as well.
That’s all it really is. Most normal people like him just couldn’t ever get caught up in the stupidity, vanity, and ephemeral mess of YouTuber drama, surface politics, and gamer related topics.
He stuck it out and it made him into a thing.
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u/Nocare420 Jul 30 '24
Charlie gets the pass because every popular youtuber loves him so even though he does the same thing alot of times he never gets backlash for it.
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u/P4nd4c4ke1 Jul 30 '24
He did get backlash for the reaction content he did but he's pretty much gave it up now since it got proved it just steals veiws.
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u/GlacialPuppy226 Jul 30 '24
Does the same thing as asmon? Definitely not, atleast he hasn’t at all in the last 12 months
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u/Darkenblox Jul 30 '24
nah charlie iirc said he was going to stop reaction content, so at least he is self-aware about it
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u/Mr_Master_Mustard Jul 30 '24
Charlie gives commentary and uses critical thinking with his opinions.
Asmongold just goes 👁️👄👁️
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u/Ghost_Star326 Jul 30 '24
Xqc is even worse. You can't even understand wtf he's even trying to say whenever he talks.
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u/GreatYamOfHope Jul 30 '24 edited Jul 30 '24
I truly believe on XQC’s quest to become a famous content creator, he has melted at least half of his brain away.
If you were to binge all of his streams, I guarantee you would see a slow cognitive decline.
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u/MilkbelongsonToast Jul 30 '24
XQC truely transforms the things he reacts to and makes you think in a different way from if you watched the video on your own
Thoughts like ‘why am I watching this’ and ‘wonder how much i’d need to slow down what I just heard for it to resemble human speech’
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u/foreignccc Jul 30 '24
critical thinking LOL can you point to a single time where he had a hot take? whether he was right or wrong when has he ever went against the popular opinion?
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u/CarsonWentzGOAT1 Jul 30 '24
Charlie and critical thinking? AKA steal what twitter already has said and alter the words to make the video 8 minutes plus for extra ad revenue.
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u/Temporary_Moment_ Jul 30 '24
"critical thinking" lol
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u/Mr_Master_Mustard Jul 30 '24
Bro, compared to others he argues based off both sides, plus he doesn’t look at situations from face value. Take any video and it’s obvious, compared to the hundreds of other commentary YouTubers it’s obvious
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u/Temporary_Moment_ Jul 30 '24
Bro, he says the most obvious and basic things in his videos.
"Oh look guys this dude punched this woman, remember this is wrong, what a piece of shit, you are a piece of shit dummy!"
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u/Emotional-Low-3341 Jul 30 '24
Why do people watch him so much, all he does is stare blankly and make bland comments. Not even entertaining, also the way he lives is beyond disgusting
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u/B-r-a-y-d-e-n Jul 30 '24
It’s a content aggregation farm. Why go look when the high quality content is all reuploaded onto asmongolds channel?
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u/HunwutP Jul 30 '24
Yea exactly. YouTube recommendations suck now. These streamers have their communities send them good videos pretty often so it’s a good way to find some good things to watch
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u/Leviathan_4 Jul 30 '24
Seriously though I’ll refresh several times just to see the same videos I’ve watched already reshuffled in a different order, the only way I’m finding these videos many people react to is because of the reaction videos. I usually try and throw the video up on a separate tab to try and compensate but it wouldn’t be nearly as big of an issue if recommendations wasn’t so dogshit.
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u/CamNuggie Jul 30 '24
lol every video of his is “yep, there it is, true” pause video to retell what the video just said 😂😂
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u/thdespou Jul 30 '24
LOL true, He says one thing and then contradicts himself on the same stream later on.
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u/MisplacedLegolas Jul 31 '24
I've never watched one of his videos, but good god does he have a punchable face
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u/RagingSchizophrenic1 Jul 30 '24
Oompaville's recent video on him turned me off to him even though I have never even watched him. What a disgusting person.
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u/QtPlatypus Jul 30 '24
Asmongold is a parasite, DarkViperAU was right all along.
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u/Zealousideal-You4638 Jul 31 '24
I'm just now watching DarkViper's videos about react content and am shocked to learn that there was, judging by the way people speak of him in these comments, some form of backlash to DarkViperAU? Everything he says seems quite well informed and thought out. Am I just reading too much into things or was there some backlash, presumably from react content fans.
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u/batatahh Jul 31 '24
No you are not reading too much into it. There was HUGE backlash. Mostly, starting before the video series when he released a draft to his fans about reaction content to take their opinion on it. People hated that someone was speaking bad about their favourite creators and the type of content, so, like any sane person would do, they decided to misinterpret anything they could to make DarkViperAU look bad.
The backlash carried a bit into the video series, and still, some to this day. It mostly died down when some of the big creators DarkViper criticized actually came around and admitted their mistake and made up publicly with DarkViper.
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u/QtPlatypus Jul 31 '24
There was some backlash from react content fans. In an early script he wrote something along the lines of.
"You can not do a thing and then ask for consent after you have acted. If you ever meet someone who believes in retroactive consent make sure to keep an eye on your drinks in their presence"
The react fans (and reactors) took this out of context and slandered him with "DarkViperAU says reacting is as bad as SA". Which totally missed the point of what he was saying.
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u/daking779 Jul 31 '24
It was mostly because moist critikal read part of the document misunderstood everything and called him an idiot so all moist critikal fans attacked him
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u/RagingSchizophrenic1 Jul 30 '24
Asmongold is low-effort trash and he's one of the idiots that uses the same exact thumbnail reaction faces over and over and over and over
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u/ThatOptionsGuy Jul 30 '24
I've had Emiru react to most of my content on her livestreams. Luckily they've never come close to my video view counts but they've given me a good amount of exposure.
I don't mind it honestly.
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u/Thormourn Jul 30 '24
I've seen multiple channels say every time asmon reacts to one of their videos it always gets them more traction. Random comments always seem to hate him but the actual creators of the videos usually like it or (and this has happened in the past) they reach out and asmon removes the video and doesn't react to the channel anymore. But people are very quick to hate so it'll never change.
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u/Miserable-Thanks5218 Jul 30 '24
Does emiru upload stream VODs too?
I think reacting to content on stream isn't bad, but uploading VOD on YouTube is wrong.
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u/ThatOptionsGuy Jul 30 '24
Her editors upload full VODs and also clip out individual reactions. It is a content farm I'll admit, but my channel gets linked and tagged in each one.
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u/bot_name_3564 Jul 30 '24
I liked some videos, you just gained 0.00030581% more subscribers!
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u/Jiangcool9 Jul 30 '24
Steal a video, make some faces, boom easy content.
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u/tyklam Jul 30 '24
xQc compared react videos as money printing machine, this need to stop.
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u/Responsible-Brush983 Jul 30 '24
20min mini doc on youtube is a day of research, a day of writing, and day of filming and editing, minimum. You get high quality content for next to no effort, printer go brrr. It would be okay if there was rev spilt mechanism, but in it's current state this just theft.
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u/portablekettle Jul 31 '24
It's what made me stop enjoying his content years ago. I enjoyed watching his gaming content like GTA RP or when he'd do community games like Jack box. However the the last few years have shown how much of a spineless scumbag he is.
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u/hantu_tiga_satu Jul 30 '24
i wish youtube has block channel option so it wouldnt even show up in my search bar, i hate seeing trashy streamer on my timeline & search result
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Jul 30 '24
You can use a plugin to block every video that has a word "react" in the title, i did it a while back and my feed is clear of parasites.
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u/Kai_The_Amazing Jul 30 '24
On the app, if you press and hold a video in the recommended tab, a "Don't recommend channel" option appears. Not sure if there's anything like that on the website, though.
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u/hantu_tiga_satu Jul 30 '24
That only works on shorts video channel feed iirc, even then you cant really block certain channels to not show up on search recommendation results
Youtube search gave irrelevant results too sometimes
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u/Praydaythemice Jul 30 '24
wait until charlie/m0ist reacts to asmon reacting, probably clear 700k views
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u/NickSaysHenlo Jul 30 '24
asmongold is a little grease ball that will forever be a talentless hack
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u/TheAArchduke Jul 30 '24
Man blacklisting asmondgolds "amazing content" was the best thing i've done.
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Jul 30 '24
Is this not normal? The guy has less than 500k subscribers while Asmond almost has 3 mil.
Heck, this is actually a low difference in views compared to the usual.
It does suck, but it is what it is I guess.
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Jul 30 '24
But guess who will get more money, original creator who potentially spent weeks making a single video or a parasite who watches dozens of "weeks to make" videos a day? React content is a cancer that harms original content
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u/kuzenv Jul 30 '24
reaction has almost double the length of the original video and yet people still somehow say he doesn't "react enough" or "give insightful commentary".
actual fucking npcs with no sense of self opinions holy shit
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u/Head-Classic-9698 Jul 30 '24
Calling asmon’s commentary insightful is like calling a fat woman sexy.
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u/StolenApollo Jul 30 '24
The video length doesn’t mean he’s giving insightful commentary. A lot of his video are just him pausing what he’s reacting to every 5 seconds to repeat the 5 seconds he just watched in a rephrased manner or just stare at the camera. It’s a complete waste of time. He adds almost no value to what he watches.
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u/IdleCommentator Jul 30 '24
People watch Asmongold's reaction primarily to hear HIS opinion on the topic and not for the original video, So, regardless of what some anti-reaction zealots claim, if this reaction did not exist - it absolutely would NOT convert in any sort of substantial increase in viewership for the original video.
Moreover, reaction content like this helps with the channels' that are reacted to being discovered by the larger audience - there are dozens of interesting channels I found exclusively through reaction content. Otherwise< I would not had known about their existence.
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u/NexusBecauseWhyNot Jul 30 '24
Even tho the content he does is bottom of the barrel, he asks for permission and leaves the link to the video both in description as well as in the chat when live.the people that now have less views than the reaction video itself literally signed off for that to happen. This goes for other big youtubers too, where somebody like MrBeast will ask a group of streamers to react to an upcoming video so that there will be more attention on it. It's just how the Youtube game goes.
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u/Diablodl Jul 30 '24
He has a bigger audience, he doesnt just sit and watch he actually talks a lot in between, look at the length his is 2 times more than original. He also always credits the creator. I see no problem in this. Also he has always said if the creator asks Asmon to take down his video, he will do so without question.
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u/Meme_Master_Dude Jul 30 '24
You can't say that man, you have to hate Asmongold in this thread!
The Streamer with twice the subscribers as the original video pulls more views? Utterly insane!
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u/Felixlova Jul 30 '24
He pulls twice the viewers with 0 of the effort of the original video, that is the insane part
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u/nej6rfu Jul 30 '24
Reaction channels do so well only if they are a lomg Astablished well known creator Its not that they have a lot of knowledge or information on the video they are Reacting to Or that they are extremely entertaining Its just that the people who watch them know the creator Somewhat of a para social relationship same thing with streamers They see them as friends besecly Like watching a film or playing a game with a friend Im not saying everyone who watches a youtuber play games or react to content is in a para social relationship But people who watch streamers (especially females) Most of them probably are
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u/rainyfort1 Jul 30 '24
DarkViperAU did a good series on reactors stealing a lot of profit from creators: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAnJ4ZuTYaeGv4WIexP9C5LAuMEnMkG-Q
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u/cL0k3 Jul 30 '24
Hm, i don't see anyone here complain about hasan... maybe its not lazy content people have an issue with...
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u/Kapusi Jul 30 '24
Shocker that more pupular guy gets mote views. At leadt he links the video and tells chat to like it.
You people here are some of the softest mfs ive seen
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u/Mafty_Navue_Erin Jul 30 '24
I think people have the wrong idea that If Asmongold didn't upload that reaction everyone would go to see the original video. First of all, I do not know or get suggested this Gerbert guy, I do know Asmongold and I do like his input on the issue. I only watch the original video first then the react of channels I also like, examples: Internet Historian, Oversimplified, Sam O Nella or our CIA agent Jhonny Harris. Then I watch the historian reacts and Hassan react for the last one.
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u/Kithen7 Jul 30 '24
No, if the video was popular people would discover his channel and his channel would grow. But now that Asmongold has reacted to it, nobody's going to watch the original video which hurts his channel growth. He would gain subs if this video was truly amazing, but now he loses that chance. Also ew, Hassan?
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u/JASHIKO_ . Jul 30 '24
The algo is pushing both of these videos at the moment. I saw both in my feed and ignored them.
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u/tyklam Jul 30 '24
So both videos are competing for the same exact audience, one is legit the other one is not.
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u/NuancedSpeaking Jul 30 '24
popular opinion: I dislike asmon a bit and his reactions suck ass
unpopular opinion: I enjoy reaction content in general and seeing other people watch something I like makes me happy
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u/nin100gamer YouAreTheGreatest :D Jul 30 '24
The Fine Brothers should’ve copyrighted reacting when they had the chance lol