I used to occasionally enjoy watching random videos online. But this trend of people attaching their annoying and obviously FAKE reactions on top of the video is happening a lot lately. Aren’t people bothered by this ? How is that even supposed to help with the content of the video ? I understand if they own the content of the video, but lately I see a lot of people doing it on completely random content.
I actively avoid videos with those awful thumbnails, but I figure it must result in a net gain in clicks.
I will sometimes watch them on YouTube as it’s a compilation of a certain kind of goofy video. Otherwise I’m getting random clips from all kinds of genres.
Let me guess, this dude with yellow helmet showing the same expression at both fails and wins of various construction and transport jobs? The content is often good but he’s ruining it.
I know the one you’re talking about and to me that’s the least egregious of them all. It’s contextual and thematic, even if it is just shit.
I’ve been looking over my daughters shoulder as she watches YouTube shorts, and a regular clip of brain rot will announc its using the greenscreen effect. Hidden behind all the username/soundtrack/description will be a teeny tiny brown man’s head muttering punjab almost imperceptibly quietly.
Not sure if they’re better or worse than the dickheads splitting the screen in two and passively pointing up towards the video that is also showing.
Not sure why that people do it, and yes it is annoying.
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I think he means how more and more YouTubers have face can on while they play. It seems to have picked up steam over the last few years. I find it annoying as hell. Sometimes it’s a cut-down Livestream, which I don’t know why anyone does face cam there either, though I hate watching unedited content, it’s boring AF.
Face cams on let’s play videos have been a thing for years. Even more so with livestreams. It’s rare for a live streamer to not have video when playing a game, and its detrimental to their growth and viewership to not have a face cam or vtuber.
I personally like no commentary let’s plays with no face cam. I’m here to check out a game I’m interested in, not to suck some influencers dick or join a community that is way to big to effectively communicate in.
Some people like wwf wrestling, some people like fake reaction videos.
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I dislike reaction content.
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It’s absolutely awful and if I get clickbaited into one such videos I let it play for a few seconds before clicking it away. I hope this makes their bounce rate drop.
They steal content and provide nothing of value besides their fragile and fake personalities that a few people might like because they’re lonely.
Small correction: Bounce rate going UP is what you’re trying to achieve
Oh yeah right. My bad.
You should make one of those video with your reaction to the fake reaction videos
It’s been a trend for quite a while now, “reaction” videos. There was even a YouTube gremlin who wholesale stole content from everyone and did nothing on camera
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I like reaction videos. If you don’t like them, don’t watch them, this isn’t complicated. I think football is stupid, but lots of people love it. It’s a big ol world, and it’s full of people with nervous systems all firing in different ways. Stop yucking other people’s yums.
Some of us are homebound with various disabilities. Some of us are too ill or too medicated to deal with actual social interaction. Reactions offer a parasocial experience that helps stave off loneliness. Lots of things that seem “stupid” turn out to be helpful for disabled people.
What is added by having a small face in the corner of the screen that partially blocks the actual content of the video? Like with straws it’s to help people with grip strength or with unsteady hands to be able to drink water so what do you actually gain from the persons face? I am not trying to be attacking but just trying to understand
What if someone’s yum is yuking on someone else’s yum?
ah yes, Karl Popper’s paradox of yumyucking.
You may have missed the point of this post. It’s not about enjoying reaction videos. There are lots of creators putting effort into their videos. OP is focused on grifters intentionally forcing a strong reaction to boost engagement on their videos. its annoying that bad videos get pushed by some unknown algorithm.
I like all the extra information. What I’d really like is for the subtitles to be in sync with the audio. Comedy is spoiled when the whole build up AND punch-line show up together 15 seconds early.
easy way to steal content, and enough people don’t care it’s happening, so they get away with it
In order to use someone elses content under fair use you have to make “meaningful commentary” so they do the bare minimum in order to use other people’s videos.
Fair use commentary generally requires as little of the actual original work to be used as possible. Summary may be ok, clips/recordings are ok, but they must be minimal. That commentary must also be substantive.
Reproducing a work in full (thus obviously limiting the commercial viability of the original work - another factor considered) with light commentary over the top probably wouldn’t hold up in court. The commentary just avoids automatic systems in the increasingly poorly moderated internet.
The technicality is, it’s not a replay of somebodies content with changes, it’s “Hey look at me reacting to another’s content”
I had very recently come across a reactionary content left-wing YouTube channel, reacting to Rachel Maddow of MSNBC reacting to Elon Musk’s interview… I thought that was pretty bizarre. (link).
It was a 30 second intro segment, then a 8 minute clip of the Maddow show, followed by a 1 minute outro commentary segment.
This is the correct answer here! People copyright strike reposted videos all the time, but turning it into commentary makes it a new artwork so it won’t get removed. They also often insert the commentary over the sections of video that include copyrighted music.
“Look at this old lady. She wake up everyday to do old lady things. Like if you think that the old lady is doing great”
