re: Let's talk about youtube "first time reaction" videos

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Every reaction channel has had multiple videos deleted or demonitized due to copyright strikes. It's a constant struggle for the reactors to edit videos in a way that can pass copyright.

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The smaller ones get whacked all the time. The bigger creators usually get a pass. There is no defense of YouTube's copyright policy. They regularly frick creators of all types, ignoring outright theft, and letting accounts continue outright stealing content. Reaction videos are just a part of that. YouTube laughs at copyright law. Much of it is done by large accounts that scour social media for content to steal and post. If they do get taken down (rarely happens these days), they just move onto another account. It is blatant theft.

Hell, the move now for bigger, shady accounts is to steal content, post it, then file a copyright claim against the original creator. YouTube, more often than you'd think, sides with the thief.

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I was floored seeing it live. David sounded as good live as he did in the studio version.

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That’s how it works when you’re lip synching.

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I've gone down drunken rabbit holes mainly watching black dudes react to metal music which is always funny.

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Same.

It's up to the copyright holder to ask YouTube to delete videos. It's not YouTube's job to do their work. If the copyright holder doesn't care, why should YouTube?

Reaction videos are the laziest content to create. It's usually "black people reacting to Led Zeppelin " for the first time.
Usually followed by stupid dancing or head bobbing "Uhh. Ok! Ok! This slaps! Uhh. Uhhh. Yeah!" It's the most fake cringe thing out there.
Now you have people reacting to other people's travel vlogs. You have these Youtubers traveling across the world. Making videos, spending hours editing, and traveling to get content then you have two lazy asses reacting to someone else's travel videos. It's so stupid and lazy.

Now there are some that are good as far as the listening to a certain song for the first time because they will break down the tempos, the instruments used, the verses, etc. etc.

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Let's talk about youtube "first time reaction" videos

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Let’s not

I used to know the guy who had a channel called Hip Hop Head, 3-4 years ago he’d get like a million views from his reactions. He grew up listening only to rap although he is white, so the popular rock songs he reacted to really were new to him. He didn’t make a pile of money from it even though he had a lot of viewers.

I don’t think these types of reaction videos are as popular now. There might still be a bunch of them but are any of them getting 500K views?

Andy & Alex are among the best reactors. They are college-age musicians who really break down the music from a technical point. I avoid the clown show reactors who smoke weed and act foolish. Rob Squad Reacts is also quite good.

I don't understand the appeal at all. Yes, get off my lawn.