Actual YouTube/Twitch drama thread II

[Zealot]

I can't imagine who would bring this, reaction videos are huge free advertising for everyone who gets them.

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[Athas]

Except for like, the content's creator.

[Zealot]

Sure, but I've watched stuff from content creators because I've seen reaction videos to it.

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[Anoat]

I always think it’s funny that the whole reaction video genre (despite what the Fine Bros want you to believe) was people filming their friends watching 2 Girls 1 Cup

[Salodin]

I hate genre-less reaction videos. If you're an f1 podcast giving your reaction to racing, that's cool. If you're a social media content creator giving your reaction to a movie I just can't give a fuck

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[synistar]

I hate genre-less reaction videos. If you're an f1 podcast giving your reaction to racing, that's cool. If you're a social media content creator giving your reaction to a movie a reaction to some other reaction video to a [insert subject here] I just can't give a fuck

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ftfy. Some reacts go like 3-5 layers deep.

[Zealot]

I watch Max react to video games and Elijah react to cartoons.

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[Karbuncle]

I can't imagine who would bring this, reaction videos are huge free advertising for everyone who gets them.

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Depends on whos doing them and if they even credit them. Theres thousands of slop farm reaction videos on Youtube, especially shorts now, where some "creator" just uses the same 10 second clip of his face 'reacting' to whatever top stolen Tiktok of the week. You can see dozens to hundreds of videos a week using the exact same clip of the 'reaction' channel just with a new stolen tiktok playing in the background. There was a famous person who did this, I think a Rapper, and his channel just recycled the same 2-3 short clips of him fake reacting over and over for hundreds of videos just to farm views on Youtube shorts using stolen content.

Even big name reactors or reaction channels more often than not never credit the original creators of the Tiktok/short videos they steal to "react" too, so anyone who might of enjoyed it will have to do all the leg work to find the original creator. Then theres the fact most of the people following React-Compilation channels do it to just watch 20~ funny short videos in a row, and will likely never even go to the original creators channels or Insta/Tiktok or wherever the original video came from.

To be perfectly honest, "Reaction content" is a pretty wide net to cast, and I dont trust our old ass government official to accurately define what they're attempting to 'outlaw'... but there are certainly some types of reaction channels that deserve to die, and I would not be sad to see them gone. Hell XQC makes millions sitting in complete silence stealing others peoples content, and sometimes hes not even watching, his empty chair probably has a fan reddit larger than most other Youtubers.

[Zealot]

Oh yeah ok I do hate the "make faces over a video" content, but surely the solution is to launch those people into the sun and not punish the reactors honestly engaging with the content.

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[Zealot]

Like no one is gonna tell me Epic Rap Battles of History aren't made better watching them once and then watching Scru Face Jean's breakdown of them.

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[Mrbeansman]

I hate XQC and his ilk as much as the next guy but I certainly don't want the matter to be ruled on by some out of touch boomer judge.

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[Karbuncle]

Yah I completely agree, which is why I said

To be perfectly honest, "Reaction content" is a pretty wide net to cast, and I dont trust our old ass government official to accurately define what they're attempting to 'outlaw'

Despite me thinking theres a lot of reaction content that could burn to the ground, like, theres so much stuff that could be considered "Reaction". Like, MoistCritical as an example does most of his videos covering a different subject, which means he references that topic a lot, sometimes including videos, would that be classified as "Reaction" content?

If they're super specific on the laws, it gives people a way to work around it, if they're vague, it pretty much kills a significant portion of online videos as we know it.

[Salodin]

https://x.com/i/status/2024348540902965728

Bernie fucking Sanders, what a guy. Hasan fucking sucks.

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[Zealot]

The little I know about this guy is against my will.

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[Karbuncle]

Probably for the best tbh.

[Meresgi]

I can't imagine who would bring this, reaction videos are huge free advertising for everyone who gets them.

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Exactly, like I have so many creators I follow because of seeing a reaction vid to them. Anything music related often times comes from Charismatic voice/MarcoMeatball reacting to music or someone singing and then finding their channel and subbing to it. Same for a lot of animations too.

Only reactions that are garbage are Asmon type of just watching something and going "Mmhm"...."yeah"..."oh totally" without any valid input.

[Karbuncle]

Exactly, like I have so many creators I follow because of seeing a reaction vid to them. Anything music related often times comes from Charismatic voice/MarcoMeatball reacting to music or someone singing and then finding their channel and subbing to it. Same for a lot of animations too.

Only reactions that are garbage are Asmon type of just watching something and going "Mmhm"...."yeah"..."oh totally" without any valid input.

Yah, the later are out there in droves especially in the shorts category, but there are still extremely popular lazy react streamers like Azmon who’s content is pretty much just letting someone else’s content play wholesale (or multiple people’s content in clip reels or “try not to laugh” stuff) while they sit back and stare blankly adding nothing.

Think it was Ethan Klein who recently “got” 3 or 4 streamers for ripping off his content and just letting it run on stream and was taking them to court over it. Think what you will of him but the leeches hopefully get what they deserve.

I think the only reason I know anything aboit this is because I follow jjjacksfilm and he often covers YouTuber creators, some with tens of millions of views, who do exclusively lazy react content, the kind where they cut or edit out the original video owners names and never credit (so how you even find them to follow them if you like the video?).

Is a huge industry go just rob content by yoinking 10 videos off the TikTok most popular section and “reacting to them, editing out any identifying information so you can’t go find the original creator.

Either way can’t stress enough I don’t think our government trying their hand at it is anything but an attempt to give corps more control on shutting down streamers and YouTubers, it for sure won’t be a ruling for the everyday man and there’s no way they’d get the nuance of the topic right when writing any new law or precedence on this.

[Meresgi]

Ethan I believe won a whole "fair use" thing awhile back so it's kind of bogus for him to turn around and sue others over fair use too but I haven't paid a ton of attention to it so not sure about the actual fair use allegations but yeah, having the government come in is just going to make things fucking stupid beyond reason lol. It's already bad enough that you can get DMCA'd over the most mundane of shit because you had a 2sec clip and a company flagged you, so Youtube's automation will just fuck you over without even looking into it and then it's on you to prove it all wrong.

I made a youtube vid like a decade ago or so, where it was a memorial to my dad and I used a clip of a Neil Young song in it and it got taken down over that, wasn't monetized and I credited the song and everything in the description too.

[arus2001]

You can't spell fun with DMCA. :/

[6souls]

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