The ego, the id and the youtube reaction video

shigginpit · 2023-03-30T19:30:13.091Z

you bring up a fantastic point - how arrogant is it to tell the faceless masses they’ve been doing something wrong and make a pooty face while touching your forehead or pinching your eyebrows. Is this the “neg” culture where people are supposed to be drawn in by an insult? oh this guy is legit, his backhanded remark in times new roman with a picture of his scrunched up face really got me off my ass and now I’m going to subscribe for more ass-hattery to fund his chicklet sized revenue share and vst plug-in habit.

I think regardless of how I may or may not be targeted by the wrong algorithms of 16 year olds hearing kesha for the first time reaction videos, I have made the right decision by not handing over my personal information to youtube beyond the general mills cereal factory broadcast that my simply being online projects. I mean in this day and age it is so hard to not transmit any data, you have to literally be all hack the planet and shit. And I am not that guy. Save your Guy Fawkes or Guy Fiori or Guy Pierce or Guy Richie mask for the next guy, I’m trying to learn how to trigless trig a hot buttered pancake so that I can eat without getting my keys sticky.

or something.

jdaddyaz · 2023-03-30T20:29:57.452Z

It certainly messes with my ego. I get so jealous thinking these jerks are making a comfortable life doing these quasi ASMR video reactions. I mean come on! I’m way more entertaining than they are…right?

shigginpit · 2023-03-30T20:37:20.626Z

you are the pride of arizona, doing your part to keep it shitty, daily

jdaddyaz · 2023-03-30T21:12:43.817Z

obscurerobot · 2023-03-31T18:45:57.085Z

shigginpit:

everything you said except I also probably genuinely don’t like reaction videos

The genre peaked where it started: with 2G1C reaction videos.

shigginpit · 2023-03-31T18:50:58.019Z

I’m not touching that with a 10 foot cup.

is mst3k reaction genre? or is that another genre altogether? I can’t put that in the same box

Barbour · 2023-03-31T18:52:42.383Z

It’s MANOS, the HANDS OF FATE

obscurerobot · 2023-03-31T18:53:10.316Z

If mst3k is in the reaction genre then so are Statler and Waldorf

shigginpit · 2023-03-31T18:54:07.340Z

that is heckler genre, I’ve just coined it.

DovrBch · 2023-03-31T18:54:24.220Z

I love to imagine YouTubers 30 years from now, showing their grandkids the faces they pulled in their thumbnails.

shigginpit · 2023-03-31T18:55:12.327Z

yes!

FRAMED ABOVE THE FIREPLACE!!

obscurerobot · 2023-03-31T18:57:11.475Z

CoinCore

shigginpit · 2023-03-31T18:57:33.502Z

that’s arcarde game theme song genre

onthebannedwagon · 2023-03-31T19:34:09.089Z

Whenever I see some video’s landing page still with the dude looking like he’s going to bite the piece of gear my soul swallows a little bit of its own vomit. Thankfully there are still tasteful people out there like the resident turtorialist Elektro-Mech who doesn’t stoop anywhere close to such tackiness.

shigginpit · 2023-03-31T19:36:24.295Z

I’ve never seen Dave, Eaves or Miles be anything but classy or humorous. Even Max Marco always acted only with class and Muscles.

onthebannedwagon · 2023-03-31T19:44:22.944Z

Not sure if you’ve met many influencers in person but every time I have (knowingly and not synth related) they are rather shy and it felt like they were unable to have a face to face conversation. I would guess that the non-sensationalist turtoralists, such as the ones you’ve mentioned, are likely the opposite of that. It seems like those who invest the most in some constructed online personality are doing so out of an insecurity and understanding as much should make a person be a bit more understanding but…it’s hard as fuck most times.

shigginpit · 2023-03-31T19:49:20.383Z

I’m sure it makes sense for some to have personalities like that but I can’t necessarily judge it to be black or white, my friend worked at a really schmancy eating establishment and people would come in trying to get preferred seating by using their twitter following as a bargaining chip like they can move to the head of the line if they agree to shout your restaurant out to their sheeples. It just shows that it’s fine to have people’s interest in what you do, but what you do with that interest might be what begins to define who you are as a person outside of that context. And realistically for us when we’re talking about Elektron tutorials it’s such a niche market to begin with, I mean people hate to hear their passions referred to as niche market but it’s just reality. Even synthfluencers in general are such a small share of youtube famery. Video game playthroughs and shit like makeup tutorials are crazy popular.

onthebannedwagon · 2023-03-31T19:53:08.454Z

Ever go to Starbucks and have the person in front of you show the cashier a tiktok of some crazy drink they want? That is a societal low…just order a fracking dragonfruit whatever and be done with it.

thoughtstarZ · 2023-04-02T00:48:29.829Z

This is interesting. I do have a question. If algorithms are watching you on YouTube, wouldn’t they be smart enough to do the same on the rest of the web? I could imagine bots trolling the the rest of the internet to do the same.

shigginpit · 2023-04-02T00:53:23.042Z

every time someone visits a website and clicks “allow” without optimizing for cookies, you open a door, and when you close it, still a window into your phone/computer/browser is left open. web crawlers aren’t the only bots logging site traffic on the internet.