Note that Twitch trains AI on user data by default, but recently added the option to opt-out:

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/twitch-content-has-trained-amazon-ai-for-years-but-users-can-opt-out-now/

If you are planning to stream, or are already streaming, check your settings.

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.

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

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.

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

The first or the last part?

pacman mouth sex

Used to watch English Minecraft Youtubers as a kid, pretty sure the humour, the English and me narrating and commenting on my own passive life in that English is an incredibly weird hobby I got, it was fun to attempt the huge English vocabulary I was learning from my fiction books (yes I was a complete loner who lived in books and my own world no surprise) and YouTube, not sure how much of a skill spontaneously going off into fluent delusional conversations with yourself in a foreign language is though.

I wonder whether this is just something normal I'm over thinking perhaps.