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xQc is a cockwomble and indeed, most videos really aren't improved by the addition of a face that's saying nothing at all. I will however give passes to Chef Reactions because his general surliness and one-liners make me laugh, and Limmy because of how often he'll pause the episode of something like 3-2-1 he's watching to go on a 30 minute tangent about how he used to really dislike The Farm's guitarist because he had his guitar on his chest or something equally obscure. Or...y'know, anyone who watches things and actually makes the effort to commentate on it. Otherwise...I mean, what's the point of showing something if you aren't actually going to bloody say anything about it to the audience? It's like that SoFlo guy who used to start a vid with "WOAH THIS IS TOTALLY ME" before just playing the clip he'd freebooted in its entirety without any credit.
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Sep 23, 2023 20:09
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This is probably the best reaction video I've seen recently (Mexican alien hoax): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbToUhwPcMI
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Sep 23, 2023 20:41
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ZenMasterBullshit posted:Personally I believe that's every quebecois. Don’t compare me to xqc please.
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Sep 23, 2023 21:34
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MonsieurChoc posted:Don’t compare me to xqc please. Okay, fine, but you're on thin ice.
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Sep 23, 2023 21:45
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MonsieurChoc posted:Oh I missed this before: I'm watching this right now and oh god the stream is descending into madness basically immediately. I'm at the second movie right now and half the screen is covered by images. 
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Sep 23, 2023 21:50
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Kim Justice posted:xQc is a cockwomble and indeed, most videos really aren't improved by the addition of a face that's saying nothing at all. I will however give passes to Chef Reactions because his general surliness and one-liners make me laugh, and Limmy because of how often he'll pause the episode of something like 3-2-1 he's watching to go on a 30 minute tangent about how he used to really dislike The Farm's guitarist because he had his guitar on his chest or something equally obscure. Or...y'know, anyone who watches things and actually makes the effort to commentate on it. I've found exactly one good reaction channel on Youtube. Dude called "Critical Reactions", getting barely a few hundred views. He listens through a song, and then goes on a long dissection of that song purely from memory. It's actually useful, because he'll often catch things in a song's composition that I didn't realise. It's more like a book club for typically pretty niche music.
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Sep 23, 2023 22:53
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There's a guy on tiktok who cooks stuff from viral recipe videos, then plays the keyboard singing how good or mediocre it tastes before placing it on a ranking list, that is some good reaction content
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Sep 24, 2023 01:20
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Ro Ramdin decided to roast and and rebut Jordan Peterson's youtube shorts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ObDp6QGN_w
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Sep 24, 2023 01:36
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That one doctor reacting to episodes of Cells at Work and almost exactly predicting what was about to happen was pretty good too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnvgQCavmkM
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Sep 24, 2023 02:24
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Is xQc the Winston main from early Overwatch League? I remember he seemed to rub people the wrong way over something and probably just wasn't up to it.
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Sep 24, 2023 02:48
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In general, I think "specialist reacts to media featuring specialty" tends to be a good bet. I may have seen second hand a ton of "nuclear engineer reacts to the Chernobyl mini-series"
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Sep 24, 2023 02:52
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Twincityhacker posted:In general, I think "specialist reacts to media featuring specialty" tends to be a good bet. I may have seen second hand a ton of "nuclear engineer reacts to the Chernobyl mini-series" Yeah this, by far the best react content I've seen is the coastguard guy who reacted to the Internet Historian Costa Concordia video and did a really good job contextualizing how it was even worse than IH made it out to be.
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Sep 24, 2023 03:11
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The only reaction content I watch with anything approaching regularity are Tie Tuesday and Doc and the like roasting terrible content farm poo poo on Twitch. With the occasional check-in on Joe Is Hungry, of course.
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Sep 24, 2023 03:21
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Sydin posted:Yeah this, by far the best react content I've seen is the coastguard guy who reacted to the Internet Historian Costa Concordia video and did a really good job contextualizing how it was even worse than IH made it out to be. That one sounds interesting, any link?
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Sep 24, 2023 03:45
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Nuns with Guns posted:Ro Ramdin decided to roast and and rebut Jordan Peterson's youtube shorts: sweet just what i needed!
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Sep 24, 2023 04:03
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BizarroAzrael posted:Is xQc the Winston main from early Overwatch League? I remember he seemed to rub people the wrong way over something and probably just wasn't up to it. That's him. Kicked out of his team because he posted racist stuff and would shout homophobic things at gay players, as I remember.
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Sep 24, 2023 04:21
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MonsieurChoc posted:That one sounds interesting, any link? This one I presume? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cajUJX46aI
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Sep 24, 2023 04:52
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Dawgstar posted:That's him. Kicked out of his team because he posted racist stuff and would shout homophobic things at gay players, as I remember. i thought that was trainwrecks?
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Sep 24, 2023 04:57
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Mr Interweb posted:i thought that was trainwrecks? It certainly sounds like one! 
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Sep 24, 2023 05:04
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Mr Interweb posted:i thought that was trainwrecks? no, trainwrecks wasn't a pro player, he just got banned from twitch for saying women who play DPS were throwing and should just play healer instead
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Sep 24, 2023 05:14
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Mr Interweb posted:i thought that was trainwrecks? Oh I’m sure there are more than a few e-sports streamers that got kicked out of teams for being too racist/homophobic
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Sep 24, 2023 05:34
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Mokinokaro posted:This one I presume? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cajUJX46aI Thanks!
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Sep 24, 2023 05:49
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Danny Gonzalez has successfully transformed into Daddy Gonzalez.
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Sep 24, 2023 05:50
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MonsieurChoc posted:Thanks! I just watched it after finding it for you. Both halves are worth it.
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Sep 24, 2023 06:05
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This one's given me some food for thought, though I haven't finished digesting it yet!   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Cu15KcPN4k
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Sep 24, 2023 06:35
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TheFlyingLlama posted:no, trainwrecks wasn't a pro player, he just got banned from twitch for saying women who play DPS were throwing and should just play healer instead ah gotcha RatHat posted:Oh I’m sure there are more than a few e-sports streamers that got kicked out of teams for being too racist/homophobic yeah it occurred to me that "former twitch streamer that got banned for being racist/homophobic/misogynist/etc. and now has a deal with Kick to promote gambling" is something that needs to be narrowed down a bit
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Sep 24, 2023 06:37
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Trainwrecks' ban for that wasn't permanent anyway, he still streams on Twitch occasionally despite being one of the driving forces behind Kick.
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Sep 24, 2023 07:51
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Pyrocinical is a very, very special case of a React Streamer because for weeks, you'll get the equivalent of British\Portuguese morning programming for zoomers that you feel like if your soul, life and intelligence is getting sucked out thru the screen like if he was shooting you with that Mandark beam from the Dexter Laboratory movie, and then once every few months you find out he tracked down the actual house for MyHouse.wad or went to visit the Cruelty Squad guy for a rather telling interview. I don't know who else has this kind of model. It's insane. It's like if Blowback had a daily side show where Brendan James riffed on the front page of Reddit AITA\TIFU entries.
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Sep 24, 2023 11:58
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Kinda sounds like a Buzzfeed News situation
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Sep 24, 2023 14:35
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A bit, but between "Here's 30 gifs of hecking puppers" and "Look at this person I found on tiktok. Why hasn't Sunak dispatched a bunch of policemen to turn that person into paste", I'll take the earlier.
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Sep 24, 2023 14:48
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tnj67vdvSw Saw ThorHighHeels share this video and quite enjoyed it. Pretty wild to have a PS1 magazine going in 2004!
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Sep 24, 2023 15:59
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MonsieurChoc posted:Oh I missed this before: I will never understand how all these people agreed to act in these things for free; that is something could have only happened during the Great Recession.
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Sep 24, 2023 18:39
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side_burned posted:I will never understand how all these people agreed to act in these things for free; that is something could have only happened during the Great Recession. It was a different time for sure. If you want to see the video game equivalent of that then go check out Mandalore's Anonymous Agony video sometime. Just an insane amount of talent all paid for by the vague promise of 'exposure' and basically nothing else.
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Sep 24, 2023 20:59
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"Oh poo poo I get to be in a movie with the Nostalgia Critic" was probably a factor.
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Sep 24, 2023 21:32
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side_burned posted:I will never understand how all these people agreed to act in these things for free; that is something could have only happened during the Great Recession. Crossovers were required by channel awesome if people wanted to have their videos linked there iirc.
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Sep 24, 2023 21:40
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I AM GRANDO posted:Crossovers were required by channel awesome if people wanted to have their videos linked there iirc. I know that but there is difference between remotely collaborating with people on video and being flown out the middle of the Nevada desert to film a movie. If my boss asked me to work an event. You drat well better belive I am getting paid to work it and for my travel time. Doug Walker paid for plane tickets and compensated the rest of Channel Awesome guys in exposer. edit: MechanicalTomPetty has a point about those years being "a different time." Both the Teamsters and UAW have taken aim at ending the pay tiers their industries adopted during the great recession; I see those tiers and the free labor used to make the Channel Awesome movies as the products of the same desperation for work of any kind people had during those years. side_burned fucked around with this message at 21:56 on Sep 24, 2023 |
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Sep 24, 2023 21:46
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Jeremy Blake put out a super heavy / excellent music video about his depression. Recommendation / trigger warning. https://youtu.be/x1nS1A1fRIc?si=8YSx1buVhNtTCf7s
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Sep 24, 2023 21:50
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Kaiser Mazoku posted:"Oh poo poo I get to be in a movie with the Nostalgia Critic" was probably a factor. “Oh poo poo, I have to be in a movie with the nostalgia critic.” I’m sure the relative naïveté of being a college student or recent graduate without other options was a factor, as was the domain of internet video-maker being a total unknown as a source of income. Nobody knew how lovely it was, both because they were the very first to attempt it and because they didn’t have the work experience to know what it is to be treated fairly in employment. Didn’t it used to be a thing that people aspired to make their hobby a career, or to “do what you love” before the huge backlash against that stuff? I’m glad that’s over.
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Sep 24, 2023 22:47
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Turning your hobby into a career can ruin the hobby forever, but I don't regret becoming a professional computer toucher. Being at a big crossover event was probably a good proposition during a time when collaborations were thought to be a major way of getting more views. In a views based economy that's worth money. But yes, things were still being figured out and absolutely nobody involved had a clue. It was a dumb time, but also an inevitable one.
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Sep 24, 2023 23:09
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Also it's been said time and time again at this point that while filming was never a cakewalk and the productions got progressively more awful, it was still an excuse to take a trip and hang out in person with friends from the site.
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Sep 25, 2023 00:11
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