The ego, the id and the youtube reaction video

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.

Suspect_Frequency · 2023-04-02T10:41:35.346Z

They know everything you’ve ever done, all your dirty secrets, that bag of M&M’s you have hidden under your pillow, and they also know everything you are ever going to do in the future.

You could try and fight it, tell yourself you are protected with vpn’s and other useless software scrubbers, but it’s all a failing illusion. The computer AI overlords took control of us all years ago. You are a sheeple eating digital grass. Fatten up and obey.

Also, I found a whole genre of reactors reacting to reaction videos. The cycle is complete.

Kegeratorz · 2023-04-03T12:04:19.657Z

onthebannedwagon:

Ever go to Starbucks and have the person in front of you show the cashier a tiktok of some crazy drink they want?

Even worse, the person behind them recording their conversation.

onthebannedwagon:

That is a societal low…

onthebannedwagon · 2023-04-03T12:05:11.547Z

Kegeratorz:

Even worse, the person behind them recording their conversation.

So they know what drink to order?

m0ld · 2023-04-03T13:42:19.753Z

onthebannedwagon:

Ever go to Starbucks and have the person in front of you show the cashier a tiktok of some crazy drink they want?

If I ever see this - and I’m sure I will when I move next year - my soul will leave my body.