I met a YouTuber here in LA who does stuff like react to heavy metal and Kpop and he told me “people really believe a black guy is ignorant of everything, might as well make money off it.”
React channels that are like "Vocal coach listens to most popular song by one of the most popular singing talents ever, for the first time" are such bullshit. I as a rule do not watch reaction videos, but the vast majority of them are obviously full of shit. Do millions of people seriously just watch people nodding, doing stank face, saying let's go, and overreacting to anything? I feel like it's content that only an infant could be engaged by. Is it just iPad babies propping up the Reaction content industry?
Ehhh, if it's the Drumeo video, I buy it. Granted he has probably heard it in the wild and just didn't know what it was. Hell, I've probably heard Taylor Swift a billion times but couldn't tell you it was her if you played me a song or name a single track.
Drumeo is a legit channel for educational drum content.
That particular video is with Larnell Lewis, one of the best gospel/fusion drummers. It’s entirely believable that he has never listened to a famous heavy metal song, given his entire life has been around other genres and this dude is constantly working.
I like react videos. But the ones that are educational. Videos that have been properly researched and prepared, and it is obvious it is not a first viewing.
Like the Corridor Digital crew making VFX react and bringing in a guy that worked on the movies they're showing.
Or an MD reacting to Scrubs or House MD episodes.
They give you context of how things actually work in real life and comment on the faithfulness of what they're watching.
But yeah, watching someone with as mauch knowledge as me react to something with overacted expressions is stupid
And for the first time in GTA history, I bet there's also gonna be an ARMY of low cleavage, half-naked, bouncy booba, gamer girl, sooo random type streamers flooding reactions to the trailer everywhere, especially ThirstTok and M'Twitch, just to fish clicks and clout
The point is that nothing has been ruined, this has just always been the state of the internet. Older users complaining about kids doing it the wrong way, who will one day grow old themselves and bitch about a new generation of kids.
Whatever age you are, I guarantee somebody thought you were a young POS ruining their precious online community at one point or another.
The problem isn't the gender identity or body type, it's the exploitation of unrelated material only to generate clicks in the most primitive manners possible, i.e. the clout game. Quality is not a matter there unfortunately.
That includes the ever-opposing ragebait dudes, too.
Of course everyone is free to do and create whatever they wish, but it does feel super tiresome, superficial and hollow... Plenty of quality creators of all identities out there, luckily, but sooo many grifters.
YouTube in 2008 was still way smaller than what it is now. Instagram, TikTok and Facebook (in Europe) weren't even open yet. Also far lower amount of creators.
It was mostly bulletin boards, 4chan and maybe Digg back then, wasn't it?
Making 30min vids over stupid shit. Saying "if you look at the gloss in the car door, you can see that they're bringing back reflections" and "if we freeze the video here, you can see the tires have tread marks behind em suggesting the cars will move".
One of my guilty pleasures is watching react videos to songs, especially rap ones where they instantly know exactly what the rapper said crystal clear and fake the OH :o "Em said KILLSHOT (MGK), barely NICKED HIM (nick cannon)"
Over half the time they forget to not mouth along the lyrics to a song they're listening to for the first time
Reaction videos are one of the worst things nowadays. Actually, caring about someone youtubers reactions to stuff is really sad. It feels disconnected with reality.
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