Youtube Reaction Videos

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I don’t understand the draw of this shit. Watching someone who claims to have never watched a video of a certain music performer play and then critique it.

D’ya think you’re Simon Cowell or someone?
Nobody gives a fuck what you think about whoever is playing/singing/performing.

Either that or you get a guitar teacher, singer, etc. who starts talking about dynamics etc. and you feel like you’re 15 back in 1997 in a GCSE music lesson.

I’m not really sure what sort of service they think they are providing. For example, the guitarist Terry Allen Kath from Chicago (before they started doing 80s soft rock ballads). The people that will have heard of him are more than likely guitar nerds like me.

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Never heard of his band which looks like it consists of him and a drummer.

I don’t get what they are trying to achieve, unless it’s just a way to try and generate revenue from clicks/adds/subscribers or re-directing to patreon, but I believe that it’s become less and less lucrative for people to make money from youtube anyway and Google can now put adverts on channels and demonetise the content creator but still make money on the ads. That’s where this is all heading in the medium/long term.

While I’m on the subject, unboxing videos…..why??!!
Does anyone give a shit about what it looks like to unbox a pair of trainers/ipad/phone?

Nominated by: Harold

50 thoughts on “Youtube Reaction Videos”

  1. Good morning gents.
    They’re okay if the person actually knows a great deal about the subject of the video and can give hitherto unthought of information or insights.
    I do watch a professional opera singer reviewing heavy metal singers and off the wall stuff like Kate Bush. She explains loads of technical stuff about singing which is very interesting in my opinion.
    Here’s a good link if any fellow is interested:
    https://youtu.be/y6p9mwA3OCg?feature=shared

    • Fuck me Thomas, I had no idea that you were so cultured. Like every else on IsAC, I thought that your area of expertise was er, rather more base.

      • Thomas is full of surprises. Every Saturday evening he dons a cravat and a dinner jacket and retires to his box at the English National Opera.

      • Not to worry, Guzzi…I’ll get stuck into Dianne Abbott’s ichor-dripping fanny later on.

    • I clicked on the link, expecting to see something like a huge pig in a pink tutu, grunting, for example.

      Instead it was an attractive woman talking sense.

      Disappointed of Sheffield.

      • ‘something like a huge pig in a pink tutu, grunting, for example’

        Highlights of Fury’s last fight?

    • I try not to click on any links Thomas posts and clicked that one expecting it to be a trick leading to something weird but was pleasantly surprised by a lovely looking woman who was interesting to listen to.

      I appreciate classical music, Debussy, Satie, Bach and Grieg among others, but never really enjoyed opera.
      I don’t think I’m cultured enough to appreciate it.

      • I think you might change your tune Harold once you get to grips with Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen. It has everything your heart desires.

    • I believe you can be closedown if you fry fish in Abbott batter. Something to do with food poisoning laws.

    • “…I do watch a professional opera singer reviewing heavy metal singers …”

      …or a classical flautist trying to decipher Ian Anderson’s ‘unique’ deployment of the instrument..

  2. Sadly, for every one critic who knows what they are talking about there seems to be a dozen bellends and bellendesses (?) who are keen to share their cluelessness.
    Good morning chaps.

    • That seems to be Google’s policies on monetisation and censorship killing any creativity. The number of corporate media channels has rocketed to the point were over half of the channels on youtube are now run by corporations.

  5. I actually like wings of Pegasus and some yank guitar 🎸 teacher bloke reviewing guitarists.
    Then I watch probably more than many on the internet because I Do Not watch the telly.

    • I don’t watch videos of people opening boxes,
      Or watching music,
      Or opera cunts.

      I couldn’t care less what they think about anything.

      The only reaction videos I watch are animal attacks.

      It can be a swan, domestic dog,
      But the best ones tend to be your apex predators.
      Your tigers, grizzly bears etc.

      I enjoy seeing anyone attacked.
      But really enjoy it if they are black or American.
      Or black American 👍

      This one made me laugh

      https://youtu.be/lgPjlroothk?si=2OrETImt-mbeMnOW

      • Dear Mis. look up elephant stampedes through Indian villages as well donkeys, horses and mules that”ve been pushed too far by humans,.Hilarious.

      • Shack@

        I’ve seen quite a few of elephants losing their shit and throwing someone a beating!!

        Good for them!

      • Didn’t realise Mis you were cultured in animal attacks, especially when they’re being tormented. I thoroughly enjoyed twats encouraging bulls to tear them apart on crazyshit.

      • There are some hilarious somersaults when the bull gets his horns caught in the underpants of someone tired of life.

    • I like Rick Beato.
      I know IY hates him, but he’s a decent player and knows his stuff.
      Some of his lessons I have to watch about 4 times to get my head around what he’s talking about.

      I also like Tim Pierce who is a session guitarist and played on some famous songs.

      Now I’m conflicted on my nom.
      I suppose it’s that for every person who is knowledgeable, there are 100 who just sit there and watch a music video and give some banal commentary.

  6. To be fair to Youtube, there is some excellent content on there if you look. For instance, reruns of classic comedies and dramas like Colditz – the whole series is on Youtube. And old Parkinson and Dick Cavitt interviews, when television interviewing was an intelligent art, before it became debased by Ross and Norton. There are also excellent astronomy Youtube channels, many with superb graphics, which are often informative and accurate (needless to say none of these are of the unboxing/reaction genre). Cool Worlds is one I recommend – the title sounds glib, but it’s extremely intelligent and thought provoking.

    • Morning MMCM…this vid about what will happen to the universe in quintillions of years’ time is, I believe, the best thing on Youtube:
      https://youtu.be/uD4izuDMUQA?feature=shared
      Utterly fascinating, if nothing else than attempting to get your head around the unfathomable….like asking people: if the universe is constantly expanding, what is it expanding into?

      • That looks excellent Thomas. I will watch it all the way through later.

        Current thinking is that the universe will continue expanding infinitely. But everything in it will die and it will become too cold to sustain life. After the last star is extinguished, only the black holes will remain until they too, eventually, use up all their energy and entropy takes over. Then there will be nothing. Not a single photon of light. Just utter blackness for all eternity.

        I can’t wait.

      • Thermodynamic equilibrium.
        Maximum entropy
        Nothing more can change, nothing else can happen.
        Only the quantum vacuum will see any activity.

      • What an ideal place Thomas, for the final part of the journey for these waste of timers. From one shithole to the never ending giant depth of the big black shite hole they all will be destined.

    • You are right about the interview being ridiculed by the pair mentioned, but the only serious one given by Ross was to the Finnish film director Aki Kaurismaki, albeit in Finland.

  7. I treat Yt like a library..you know their will be loads of Mills and Boon but there is also some belting stuff lurking about..some of the history channels are very well done..Kings and Generals being one.

    There is also a great deal of excellent sport on there,for combat sports One Championship is outstanding and for street fighting King of the Streets is recommended.

    What I don’t need is some cunt telling me about their reaction to anything at all,they can get to Fuck.

    Morning Gents.

  9. Sometimes I see useful stuff but usually reaction videos are just a way for people with no talent to get clicks by riding the backs of performers to get a following.

    Fuck them.

    Like and subscribe to my channel…….

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    • I’m subcribed to a couple of channels.

      One’s about a guy who whacks pigeons with an air rifle. The other’s about a guy who whacks rats with an air rifle.

      It’s pest control, so it’s a guilt free watch.

  10. Kath was brilliant with the guitar, but his firearm skills left a lot to be desired.

    • Agreed – one of the best. His singing voice tipped Cetera’s into a cocked hat too.

      Kath took over from Cetera on bass on “if you leave me know”. The bassline makes that song.

      Chicago became an 80s cheese act after Kath’s unfortunate demise.

      • After the huge success of ‘If You Leave Me Now’ Chicago attempted to recreate it with every single they put out. But most of them were overproduced ballads.

        I have an un unusual 12′ record, It’s an ambient track based around samples of a (old) BBC religious programme and Chicago’s ‘If You Leave Me Now’. Lemon Jelly put the record out.

  12. I love to watch ‘unboxing’ videos.

    It’s the most fun you can have without laughing. A bit like watching ‘Friends’.

    Morning all.

    • I don’t understand the appeal of those. Seems like bragging to me. I just bought myself this exclusive limited collector’s edition piece of shit, or it was sent to them as part of a promotion for a favourable review.

    • My Lass, when she was much younger, used to be transfixed by these
      “unboxing” things.

      I asked her why, she said ” I dunno, I know it’s rubbish, but it’s sort of compelling, so I introduced her to horse racing, and calculating bets.

      We’re winning. Mind like a super duper computer.

  13. A pathetic spectacle.

    Some cunt thinking their not-at-all rehearsed reactions are worthy of my time, particularly to mundane pop cultural shite or some mediocre old cock like a Beatles song.

    There used to be a pair of brothers (I think they were Jewish, Miles) who had old people reacting to modern shite and kids reacting to old shite, but they started getting political and the chaps behind the camera loaded their questions. That was many years ago before youtube was ruined by unskippable ads.

    All of these other millennial/Gen Z cunts ‘reactions’ are faked or exaggerated.
    One ‘reactor’ had a recent meltdown (b-dum tssh) after being savaged for her spazzing out over some Star Wars shite. Tried to get the bloke’s channel taken down. I woukdn’t be surprised that these cunts are now taking money for overreacting to certain songs and film and TV trailers as part of a marketing strategy. Literally opening their mouths wide for the entertainment industry. All that’s missing is a music/TV/software executive’s winky sliding in and out.

    Full marks to this cunting.
    Reaction videos are made by cunts, for cunts.
    Just too bad Channel 4 made a series based on it, but then we know what the producers at channel 4 are.

  14. One particular cunt has made a fortune out of pulling vacant and ridiculous faces while ‘reacting’ to stuff on Youtube,

    His ‘name’ is Mr Beast, and his stupid fucking face is now everywhere. There’s even lifesized cardboard cut out of him in our local Spar. The ultimate famous for nothing knobhead.

  15. There were (and probably still are) these two daft slags who posted ‘drunk reaction’ Youtube videos. Thing is, they were never drunk (you can tell), and it was all attention seeking shit. And what they ‘reacted’ to was a load of sad bollocks like Doctor Whoke or Sherlock. No wonder Elvis Presley shot his TV screen. He would have done if he’d seen these cunts.

  16. Loads and loads of attention grasping mongs are now ‘reacting’ to that ‘last’ Beatles song and its ghastly video. Pretending to cry and other such bollocks. And, of course, there is a cavalcade of stupid open mouthed ‘shocked’ faces. I’d like to slap every single one.

    And what are those videos about? When (usually) a dark personage ‘reacts’ to the aforementioned Beatles, or Led Zeppelin, or some other ye olde rock act. Totally ridiculous and OTT. A bit like when Rigsby off Rising Damp said that African tribes worshipped petrol pumps.

  17. For reasons unknown to me I have a deep loathing of these fucking vids. I open a box and it’s a fucking youtube video.. And those fuckers at yt want me to pay for this fuckery? Kiss my ass..

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