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Anon is only a little strange (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] 36 points 2 months ago (8 children)

The reaction videos make no sense to me either. The few that pop into my feed are usually just some face nodding and barely reacting to an endless stream of slop shorts.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago

    Mainstream Japanese TV was basically doing reaction videos before the internet was even a thing. Rather than use a laugh track, they put a box in the corner of various "celebs" reacting to the content. I'm really hoping it goes the way of the laugh track, but it's still pretty ubiquitous.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    My favorite is the Deadpool reaction shorts. Like, you don't even get a face.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    that kind of thing has popped up on my feed and I really don't understand it

    like the actual content is this tiny window in the middle of the screen, there's a background video for motion, some sort of border effects, and then just stock footage of some dude sitting in a chair nodding?

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    I’m still trying to figure out what an “iceberg” video is. The idea of an iceberg makes me think the bottom info should be more hidden or secret information, but from what I’ve seen, it’s just a ranking system? Not sure what it has to do with icebergs, or if it started as something that made sense and morphed into what it is today.

    All I know is, YouTube keeps wanting to suggest them to me and there seems to be no way to get it to stop. I heard from one creator that it’s a format that’s currently trending, so that’s probably why they’re everywhere. But if they’re being recommended constantly, are they really trending, or is the algorithm just pushing them?

    Anyways, I prefer to go off recommendations from other people anyway. YouTube’s suggestions are utter trash.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago

    Some used to be that way.

    Youtube has folks that dig way too deep into Elder scrolls lore and several use the format. Those work from "literally stated in the game" to "if you read these books in game in this mobile only title from 2001, look at questionably cannon dev comments, and look at the assets names, you'll find this reoccurring thread "

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    It can be both. It doesn't push the iceberg videos to me, so I guess they're not trending in my kind of demography.

    I usually find new things by the suggestions that are related to the channels that I do watch, not from the general feed, which is useless. So I basically only watch the stuff that I subscribe to, making my own feed with those.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    There are some actual good reaction channels, where they actually add relevant commentary and such. One I have been enjoying is Warp Reactor, love his break downs and medium dives after the video, he does a lot of shows like star trek, Babylon 5, The Orville, and many many more. T. Folse Nuclear is a nuclear engineer and reacts to a lot of sciency stuff with his background. There are a couple more I watch but mostly many of them are questionable content farms

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