"Reaction" videos

[George K]

I fell into a YouTube rabbit hole this morning. I don't remember how I got there, but that's not important.

I guess posting a "reaction" video is a thing now. Some unknown guy watches something, or listens to something, and as it's playing, he "reacts" to what he sees.

I watched a couple today. The videos were of people who had never seen performances of AC/DC's "Thunderstruck" and ZZ Top's "LaGrange."

Kinda funny to see these people in their 20s, who'd never heard of these bands be impressed AF by what they saw and heard.

A couple of college kids and "LaGrange."

Link to video

[Klaus]

Yes, these videos are ubiquituous.

I think the business model of these videos is that the "reactee" is always excited and impressed by what he or she sees. People watch reaction videos to things they already like, hence they want to see how others also "discover" what they already knew to be good.

[Horace]

Lots of purveyors of those videos are young urban gentleman catering to a white audience who sit agape watching young urban gentlemen react positively to their favorite songs.

[George K]

@horace said in "Reaction" videos:

Lots of purveyors of those videos are young urban gentleman catering to a white audience who sit agape watching young urban gentlemen react positively to their favorite songs.

You politely said what I was thinking, but didn't post, LOL.

Watching some guy who claims to be a "rapper" react to "Thunderstruck" is full of LOLZ.

[Horace]

@george-k said in "Reaction" videos:

@horace said in "Reaction" videos:

Lots of purveyors of those videos are young urban gentleman catering to a white audience who sit agape watching young urban gentlemen react positively to their favorite songs.

You politely said what I was thinking, but didn't post, LOL.

Watching some guy who claims to be a "rapper" react to "Thunderstruck" is full of LOLZ.

The dynamic gives me the racism queezies. The white audience being catered to finds it fascinating that the Other is so human after all.

[Aqua Letifer]

@klaus said in "Reaction" videos:

Yes, these videos are ubiquituous.

I think the business model of these videos is that the "reactee" is always excited and impressed by what he or she sees. People watch reaction videos to things they already like, hence they want to see how others also "discover" what they already knew to be good.

Yep. It's the online equivalent of watching a movie you like with someone who's never seen it before so you can watch it with them.

[89th]

Big time rabbit hole… I’ve gone down it a few times in the past. I also enjoy reaction videos from sports moments or even public disasters. I’m fascinated with how people respond in such situations!