I generally enjoy them, especially ones where someone who might be a musician or vocal coach is reacting to a band or musician that they aren’t familiar with. Some good insights as to what’s working or not working in the song sometimes. And I do like the Lost in Vegas guys, too.
There are some channels of reactors that are more annoying than anything; like anything else, there’s good and there’s bad to sift through if you are interested in finding some gold.
Having listened to a few more Stapleton tracks, I see that some of them are more country-ish. It’s just that the ones I started with weren’t that way.
I don’t know why, but I like the Frankenstein’s Lab reaction videos. Basically two (often extremely stoned) friends laughing their asses off at standup comedy routines from the likes of Bill Burr, Dave Chappelle and Theo Von.
Also, AFAICT there’s a couple rugby players that do reaction videos to NFL football, I like those as well, especially the one where the guy reacts to Barry Sanders top 50 plays.
I don’t watch them much but a few years back I enjoyed videos of children reacting to old technology like VCR’s and film cameras and old people reacting to new technologies like virtual reality.
I never would have expected to enjoy them, but I ran across some reactions to “The Day of the Doctor” (the “all 13” and “Curator” scenes) and got a kick out of them.
Yep, those were FBE at their peak, and some of those episodes were copied by tv talk shows like Ellen. One of my favorites was teens playing the old “Duck Hunt” game and finding an old primitive game to be very fun.
Yes. If I find something interesting, I like to see what others think.
One of my recent favorites:
I love reaction videos. I think the Lost in Vegas guys are among the best.
Why do I like them? It was sort of touched on in other posts, but the big appeal for me is they make me feel like I’m sharing something I love with somebody else. I remember watching the “Live in Buenos Aires” video of Nightwish performing Ghost Love Score with their then-new singer, Floor Jansen, and being completely overwhelmed by the performance. It’s been six years ago now, and every hair on my body *still *stands up when Floor hits the final notes. Now her performance is showing up in a lot of these reaction videos (though its usually the official video of their performance of the same song at the Wacken festival in Germany, later in the same tour), and it is pure joy seeing other people having responses similar to mine.
Seeing that kind of thing is important to me for a couple reasons, which could be based on my age and/or the fact that I live in a relatively small town. I’m over 50, and I made a conscious decision several years ago to actively look for new music instead of just sticking with the music of my teens and twenties. The overwhelming majority of what I listen to these days is performed by bands that were formed, at the very earliest, in the mid-to-late 1990s. They say that rock is dead? I call bullshit. There is so much amazing stuff being made right now that simply doesn’t get mainstream airplay in the USA. This new music gets me excited in ways music hasn’t excited me in a long time.
I try to share it with other people my age, people I know, people who like the same genres of music I like. They should love this stuff, right? Nah. I play it for them, they say, “cool” and go right back to listening to Metallica and Van Halen, and tuning in the “classic rock” station where they’ll hear something familiar. Nobody wants anything “challenging”.
So getting to see other people reacting to this music with same awe I felt the first time is gratifying.
I like Chadtronic but other than him, no.
I think this can be a valid complaint, but I also think (and bear in mind this is me writing this) that it’s overly cynical: there are genuine people out there, and it can be fun to watch them. Let me try and persuade (and entertain those who already enjoy), please:
Recently, there have been a spate of videos of people reacting to the same song, ‘Pisces’ by Jinjer. Quite a few of them are fun to watch and feature (IMO) genuine reactions. Some of the more recent ones are undoubtedly aware they are piling on some sort of bandwagon, but after you hear the song/see the video (it’s a “live in the recording studio” video), I think you’ll agree that many reactions are genuine and that even the affected ones contain some degree of truth.
Vocal Coach Sam Johnson was, AFAIK, the first to do this, back in October.
Lost In Vegas followed in December.
Vocal Coach Beth Roar posted hers in early January.
King KTF just posted his last week, but I still thought his initial reaction was awesome. He undoubtedly knew something was gonna happen that warranted his being asked to react to this, but it seems impossible to me that his reaction isn’t genuine.
I just noticed that the Lost In Vegas guys did this in December of 2017, making them by far the first people to react to this Jinjer song. 
Those guys totally fucking rock!
Honestly, I think a lot of people just have too much time on their hands. The internet was made for them more than for anybody else.
reported (foodieboy).
Eh, I watched the first one – I didn’t care for the song and had no interest in watching more than one person react to it. He starts off by saying that it’s going to be a reaction video. It may be the first reaction video to this specific song but “reaction video” is obviously not a new concept. He has a professional channel (that now has in excess of eighty reaction videos on it; I didn’t bother looking to see which song was his first) where he’s no doubt making money off of them.
Reaction videos are an entertainment product created to get clicks and make dollars. That’s why they’re on the internet and it’s hardly cynical (one might say “realistic”) to view them through that lens. Some people might more more or less artificial about it but they’re all doing it for the clicks. It’s reality TV shows on the internet.
Your post makes no sense to me. I’m sorry you can’t get past your biases and attitudes to appreciate a completely innocuous form of entertainment (and a good way to gain new information), but I appreciate your begrudging willingness to partially try and appreciate what some of us like.
Really? You can’t understand that Youtube videos (in particular from people with professional channels; we’re not talking families sharing baby’s first steps with aunts in Australia) are an entertainment product and are designed around generating clicks because clicks equal money? And that this means that creators are incentivized to make them “entertaining” by exaggerating emotions, reactions, drama, etc? This is literally the same model as reality television uses. I’m just not generally a big watcher of reality television and reaction videos are a branch of that genre. But at least most of them you’re watching knowing full well that it’s silly and fake but you still want to see how the drama resolves or whose dress get picked or who gets kicked off the show. Watching a video where the whole point is to see someone’s reaction, knowing that they’re getting paid specifically to have an entertaining reaction, seems especially pointless.
I’m fine; there’s plenty of other entertainment to appreciate and enjoy in the world. Better to use my time on those than trying to force myself to “appreciate” stuff I’ve tried and didn’t particularly enjoy.