Blog:Reaction Videos (ARCHIVED)



Reaction channels are film reactions of themselves watching a certain video. They originally started out as watching shock videos like 2 Girls 1 Cup where they watch the video and they film an actual shock reaction of how disgusting it is. It is supposed to be meant to provide comedy by watching people react. On paper, it's a pretty decent concept. But if you look at it realistically, Reaction channels are all nothing but unoriginal content and they really tread the line of fair use.

Why Most Of Them Suck

 * 1) The main issue is that the format  the same reaction all the time ("I've seen this" or "Oh I've heard of this").
 * 2) Some of them have really loud intros of trap music kinds of beats.
 * 3) They steal other people's videos just so they can "react" to it even though it is meant to be fair use.
 * 4) When they do react, it looks  and it also feels forced and unnatural.
 * 5) Many of the reactors' other content that is not reaction channels are generic comedy videos and generic vlogs.
 * 6) Sometimes, these videos  even use clickbait, with  the person in a over exaggerated shock with the video in the thumbnail.
 * 7) You can't find a video on YouTube well. Watch the reaction videos, ignore the reaction, and just watch the video on the bottom part of the screen.
 * 8) Some of them actually react to an entire episode or in rare cases full movies for people to watch (with voices), you'd think this is cool, but really it's actually one massive copyright violation as this is used without permission.
 * 9) Speaking of without permission, many of the reaction videos are used without permission from the original uploader.
 * 10) Personality-wise, it's always scripted over the top and they portray themselves to be quite wild in an unnecessary way.
 * 11) Another reason for this is easy money so they can just get views by watching the video.
 * 12)  Even after the video they are reacting to is finish, sometimes, they  say the phrase "I react good" is not a talent, it's an act of arrogance, and it is also Egotistical.
 * 13) Mentioned by GameCubeDude, they're one of the most hated types of videos in the YouTube Community because most of them are only made  for filler, and to make money.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) Some are hilarious to watch, like Thomas1Edward2Henry3's reaction video on TheRealXboxNerd's "Duncan and the Fourth Reich" YouTube Poop and also Abraham Foulkes' reaction to "Smile HD"
 * 2) Some are good reaction channels like GameCubeDude300 (Even though he stopped doing them because they took up most of his content), Dwayne N Jazz, Bmanlegoboy, BlastphamousHD, Driv3rjoe, Kushowa, mh:besttvshows:Chadtronic, PrinceCharming, Billy Bob Tanley, Charmx (even though he sadly quit YouTube and made all of his videos private) and AyChrsitine.

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