Sadly, the vast majority of reaction channels on YouTube fall into categories #1 or #3. Which explains why I hardly ever watch reaction-type content. I have to sift through the garbage of 50+ crappy reaction channels—which the YouTube algorithm tries to shove down my throat first because they’re shoutier and edgier— to find that one golden egg that will probably disappear after 6 months because they lack the views and subscribers to sustain their channel. I just don’t have that kind of time.
For me, there are mainly 3 types of YouTube reaction channels (this applies to all of them, regardless of what kind of videos they’re reacting to):
Giving good takes. Perhaps it’s because good takes tend to be less edgy and controversial, channels that give good takes are typically less popular than the ones that give bad takes. Channels that give good takes often go far more in-depth than any of the other two types of reaction channels, so they are also more likely to lose their audience. People just don’t have the attention span and/or the intellectual acuity to keep up with these deeply analytical takes.
Hi everybody! I have been looking at posts on narcs and narc abuse on here and if has really helped me out a lot. I am currently struggling with my situation and need some advice/support.
I met a narc last year, everything seemed to good to be true. Love bombing, always texting calling and taking me on dates. Everything changed when someone warned me about him out in public in front of him and who he is. This caused a conflict with us and the love bombing seized.
he would tell me that everything is okay and i can come and talk. He would set a time limit on me and kick me out after that.
he would then text me like everything was fine and we hung out again and after that he completely ghosted me for one week. He came back and texted me a week later laughing about the ghosting and acting like nothing had happened.
he continued to text me ( not like in the beginning) make plans with me, then on the day of the plans he would just ghost me. One day he would act interested the next silence.
i contacted him a month later and he acted like nothing happened. He was on a vacation and sent me a picture of another woman ( someone he allegedly met on the trip) to strike a reaction but i never gave him one. After the trip he came to my place and was extremely rude, accusing me of going on dates with a bunch of men. The next day he accused me of being an alcoholic and that he wanted nothing to do with me but said well maybe we can be "friends" then ghosted me
i assumed at this point it was over and i would never hear from him again. He contacted me on the holiday a month later acting like everything was great. We ended up hanging out a month or so later and when we hung out it went well, i thought things were going in the right direction.
after we hung out.. silence. I would try to text him and if he replied it would be very short then he just stopped replying. He ghosted me for almost three months. I thought he was done this time and of course he popped up again like nothing happened. At this point i was getting sick of if so i questioned him as to why he dissapeared and always does this. Of course he had some sob story about a injury and family member dying of cancer. I felt pity for him and he gave me an apology.. so i took him back stupidly.
things seemed to be going smooth for a couple months, of course until his family member died and his injury got better he never contacted me and was distant. Menawhile, i was there for him during the difficult time for him. He lied to me about the funeral and never wanted to chat. I was chasing him and he would always claim nothing was wrong but when i said i thought he used me when he was down he could not handle it and would always tell me he didnt care and to go away. I would get so upset i would try texting him to work it out he would barelt respond and if he did he would not be nice about it.
we did hang out a couple times after that, he would ignore me after. One day i was like hey i think you are seeing someone else, and i was like well ixam seeing someone so no problem if you are he said " buy bye good luck with your new guy stop contacting me" i was devastated and tried to get into contact with him for weeks then i just gave up and accepted it was over. He ended up contacting me a month later acting like everything was fine. He wanted to go out and have drinks i told him i would. He and i both seemed to have a great time. He ends up ignoring me again. I kept texting him trying to figure out what was wrong. He kept saying everything was fine and i said ok can we hang out again? He said maybe i was like why? He just kept saying maybe …
our last conversation we had… i said what is wrong ? He said nothing is wrong everything is fine. I asked him why he keeps saying maybe. He said " maybe but i dont want to see you right now" i said why? He saix " im just not feeling it, if i wanted to date i would" i said why did you contact me less then a week ago wanting to go out? He said i didnt.. even though he did. So i said should i just move on or what? He said whatever you want to do. So i said that he was really confusing me and asked him if he had anything more to say before i move on? My messages were turning green so i panicked he blocked me and reacted irrationally. I said " omg did you block me? My messages are not going through. Even texted him on my work phone asking what was up. And called him twice ( please dont judge me i know it is pathetic i never was this type of girl before him) so he replied and said " Ok I'll block you now" then immedietly blocked me. He has never blocked me before since I have met him he will just ghost. Is this ths final discard aka " grand finale? Did i just push him too far?
this has upset me so much its hard to even function.
Because of how unpopular these channels tend to be, they also have a high turnover rate. If they don’t disappear after a few short months, then they turn into either type #1 or #3 channels in order to gain popularity. Or they start producing other types of content.
Enter: Sssniperwolf and xQc. Sssniperwolf’s reactions are so shallow, they do not really transform the copyrighted material in any way. Her reactions basically consist of the occasional gasp and “OMG!”, and that’s about it. She doesn’t analyze, nor does she give any takes at all. Her ‘reactions’ are so predictably shallow, people have even invented games that show off just how non-transformative her reaction channel is.
My view is that reaction channels on YouTube are mostly a waste of time.
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Giving bad takes. These are channels that watch the videos, analyze them, and then produce horribly fallacious conclusions. They are your Ben Shapiros, his sis— I mean, Brett Cooper, etc. They are usually the far-right reaction channels, but I’ve seen a few left-wing reaction channels that give equally terrible takes. H3 Productions is one such example. H3 is actually bad on multiple levels, since their reactions are typically done as a group of friends, so the echo chamber of bad takes amplifies a hundredfold.
xQc is even worse— he doesn’t even react, he seldom even watches the videos. There are streams where he leaves the room completely while the copyrighted video plays in the background. But I guess he’s such a large channel that nobody dares to challenge the fact that he literally steals views from creators.
Channels like these tend to be even more popular than the channels that give bad takes, because if there’s one thing the people of the internet love more than edgy controversy, it’s shallow clickbait.
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Stealing content. The reason why reaction channels are legally permitted at all is because of something called “Fair Use”. Under Fair Use, YouTube channels are allowed to use other people’s copyrighted content without their permission as long as the channel significantly transforms that content in a meaningful way. Otherwise, it’s just stealing content.
