Is This What YouTube Is Becoming?

[c172]

I used to watch the Facts. channel on YouTube, and a lot of those are reaction videos (taste tests, too). Facts. was shut down and most of that gang started a new channel like it called TRY. For me it depends on who is doing the trying/listening/etc. The Facts./TRY crowd are basically, IIUC, professional comedians in Ireland, so they have more charisma than, say, some schmuck in Rockford, IL who drives trucks for a living but reviews spirits and candy on his YT channel.

[The Grand Nudger]

LPs and reaction videos are baller.  Why do you hate everything that's good in the world Ham?

I like LPs.
Why don't I just video myself and watch myself?

Because then you don't see -other- peoples reactions to things.  You know...hands...touching hands, reaching out......touching me, touching you......





*besides, watching a video of yourself making an LP is creepy as fuck......are you some kind of deviant?

[Edwardo Piet]

I don't really notice other people's feelings even when I see their reactions lol.

[The Grand Nudger]

The Deviant Hypothesis gains support.  The rest of us normals like to see how other people react to stuff and we find it to be instructive and informative and entertaining on a great many levels.  

[Silver]

I don't really notice other people's feelings even when I see their reactions lol.

I do. I'm very big on recognizing others emotions. I think it's because I'm an empath. No, not the mythological kind. More like the philosophical kind.

[Edwardo Piet]

The Deviant Hypothesis gains support.  The rest of us normals like to see how other people react to stuff and we find it to be instructive and informative and entertaining on a great many levels.  

You're a normie?

No wonder you frustrate me lol.

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I don't really notice other people's feelings even when I see their reactions lol.

I do.  I'm very big on recognizing others emotions.  I think it's because I'm an empath.  No, not the mythological kind.  More like the philosophical kind.

I consider the needless suffering of people to be objectively bad, and I am always there to comfort my friends... although I'm usually a little too quick to do it. Because I have to guess what they're feeling based on what they say and their tone of voice and stuff.

I'm even worse at guessing my own feelings because I don't have my own face to look at and I'm too busy focusing on what I'm saying to analyse my own feelings.

But, to be honest, emotions are different to feelings. Emotions can be unconscious or repressed. But to actually feel emotions, for them to actually become feelings, you have to be aware of them. Hence why I am emotionless most of the time. Although I come across as this really emotive guy because that's what my personality is like. And it's easy to be expressive when you don't have other emotions holding you back. For example: If you're really sad it's hard to fake being happy right? But if you don't feel much of anything, it's easy to act happy, and it's not even fake if you don't even recognize the distinction between real and fake emotions.

The thing with empathy is... it's supposed to be that you use your own feelings to relate to other people's feelings right? So, if you were alexithymic, like I am, then how do you relate to others with your feelings if you don't even know what your own feelings are?

Alexithymia /ˌeɪlɛksəˈθaɪmiə/ is a personality construct characterized by the subclinical inability to identify and describe emotions in the self. The core characteristics of alexithymia are marked dysfunction in emotional awareness, social attachment, and interpersonal relating.

An inability to modulate emotions is a possibility in explaining why some people with alexithymia are prone to discharge tension arising from unpleasant emotional states through impulsive acts or compulsive behaviors such as binge eating, substance abuse, perverse sexual behavior, or anorexia nervosa.

My bold.

Well, that's got me covered lol.

Alexithymia frequently co-occurs with other disorders. Research indicates that alexithymia overlaps with autism spectrum disorders (ASD).[11][50][51] In a 2004 study using the TAS-20, 85% of the adults with ASD fell into the impaired category; almost half of the whole group fell into the severely impaired category. Among the adult control, only 17% was impaired; none of them severely

There's a strong likelihood that my alexithymia is explained by my autism.

[ignoramus]

Here's a thought.
Let's film 2 people screwing and show other people to see if they enjoy watching others having fun?
Nah, it'll never catch on ... carry on...

[Homeless Nutter]

We not only have Let's Plays... where people play video games and you watch people playing them. And some people enjoy it so much that they prefer watching people playing video games to playing video games themselves....

We not only have reaction videos where people react to shocking videos and stuff.......


We now have....... a guy who has songs recommended to them and he listens to them for the first time......... so the video is him with headphones enjoying the song for the first time.......!?!??!??!?!

Is this what YouTube is becoming? LOL
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Uhm, no. You're a couple of years late to the party, it seems. Reaction videos - of all kinds - were fairly prominent, popular and controversial for a while, but YouTube has mostly moved on since then. They will always be around, in one form or another, but that's YouTube - there's everything on there.

I think it's pretty obvious why some people watch these videos - haven't you noticed, that the songs the guy is listening to are being played in the background, together with video in a corner? It's the exact same thing, as videos of people reacting to popular YouTube videos, or whatever - instead of searching for stuff one might like among millions and millions of gigabytes of uploaded content, many people prefer to find an aggregating agent - a person with tastes similar to their own, who will regularly show them what's worth watching, listening to, or playing.

The reason reaction videos were controversial was because most reaction channels would essentially steal content they were reacting to, by showing it in a corner of their own videos. I think a lot of those channels were hit with copyright strikes and they had to adapt - which is difficult because pretty much NOBODY wants to watch a reaction, without seeing/hearing the material in question at the same time. So most of the biggest "reactors" moved onto other type of content, or disappeared.

I don't know how this guy gets away with it, especially that music is one of the easiest things for YouTube's copyright bots to detect. Perhaps his channel is too small for anyone to bother shutting him down. Or perhaps many musicians (especially those less widely known) accepted, that any publicity is good publicity. While most YouTube videos you only watch once, music you like you're likely to want to listen to again, so if you hear a song on a reaction video, you might then buy it, or find it on Spotify - and perhaps become a fan and long-time supporter of the artist. Most musicians nowadays can't afford to be overprotective of their copyright, because music is so easily available online, that it's pretty much worthless.

[Amarok]

We not only have Let's Plays... where people play video games and you watch people playing them. And some people enjoy it so much that they prefer watching people playing video games to playing video games themselves....

We not only have reaction videos where people react to shocking videos and stuff.......


We now have....... a guy who has songs recommended to them and he listens to them for the first time......... so the video is him with headphones enjoying the song for the first time.......!?!??!??!?!

Is this what YouTube is becoming? LOL

This guy is really weird:





It's like. I don't get it. You watch his face with headphones on while he listens to music? This is the new entetainment? Watching other people be entertained? LOL

For let's playing it's good way to see if a game is any good . Or it's really awesome if it's a scary game . 

For music or vids it's a good way for people to share experience with someone else . As most of these channels are viewer picks .  

I see no problem with this at all . i watch these video myself and have even requested a few reactions . I think it's fun .

[paulpablo]

I watched a few videos of a black American guy reacting to yngwie malmsteen, eddy van Halen, and Steve vai.

I think the reasons were seeing someone appreciate the same bits of a solo that I do.

Seeing someone of a different demographic than the stereotypical guitar virtuoso fan appreciate the music.

I stopped when I realised I was basically just sitting there watching someone say dam and oh my god repeatedly.

I like the videos of people reacting to things that were popular before their time or after their time too. Like young people playing old video games or old people listening to new music

Google woah vicky or liltay if you want to learn about crazy shit making stacks of money and being popular online.

One of my friends friends is a construction worker type of person who worked on a mansion belonging to one of these youtuber computer game guys.