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?

  • y0kai [he/him]@anarchist.nexus
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    8 days ago

    Idk if watching someone play a game counts as a “reaction” video. In my mind a reaction video is a video that shows someone watching a YouTube video that you probably don’t even get to see unless you go watch that video on your own.

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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      8 days ago

      They are generally reacting to games they have not previously played for fun so you get their genuine first impressions. Not always, but a very good chunk of the time. Especially the one-offs and not the long-plays.

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        8 days ago

        That’s a fair take, I’m just not sure that’s what op means. Perhaps I am wrong. My mind just files gaming videos separately from “reaction videos”, I think because the gamer is actively taking part in the game, rather than reacting to what someone else has already recorded and posted.

        If the gamer is just watching someone else play a game and reacting to that, then it would fall into my idea of a reaction video.

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          7 days ago

          I should start twitch streaming myself watching other twitch streamers stream. I’ll be the biggest streamer streamer I’ll be rich.