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?

  • Rhoeri@piefed.worldOP
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    4 days ago

    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.

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      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