I don’t understand why this is a thing? Who wants to watch someone nod their head to someone else’s content?
Just show the original video! How did this get popular and what is wrong with those that helped it to happen?
I don’t understand why this is a thing? Who wants to watch someone nod their head to someone else’s content?
Just show the original video! How did this get popular and what is wrong with those that helped it to happen?
Yeah you know what’s even worse? Where people do the same thing but they *write" the reaction and post it to a website.
So. You’d be the one to ask… seriously, why do you make these videos?
Tbh its the same purpose as a laugh track and I hate laugh tracks. It says “this is where the joke is”. Imo this kind of stuff helps younger people identify and parse information, especially people who are more social/extroverted.
I actually prefer doing it with typing but its because I like have a breakdown if too much sound is happening so laugh tracks use to be too distracting to me.
Imo this is more likely an auditory thing for the viewer.
Source: I have a lot of siblings and the social butterflies and kids tend to love the reaction videos, especially those who can parse noisy environments (I cannot)
I’m pretty sure it’s to profit off of the efforts of other people. It’s made by hacks that aren’t interesting enough to create their own entertaining material, but want to feel like they are without the effort.
It’s everything wrong with YouTube. It’s destroying it.
I’d say that’s more the case with twitch since its more centered around live audiences. For youtube its mixed, those kind of videos frequently get claimed so outside of, say, drama-baiting I’d argue its a thing audiences seek out
Awhh brehh he was like brehhh