I do not understand these vids. I was watching woodworking and bad new house inspections shorts, as one does, and a bearded guy in an orange vest popped in. All this man did was make facial expressions at other vids of construction accidents made by other people. He superimposes himself on someone else’s video and makes faces. Tons of views. Including mine, looking at his page, trying to figure out why this is a thing. The algorithm then tried to feed me more. Had to “not interested” the front page for a couple reloads to scrub that crap.

What is wrong with people that this is what they seek? There’s no content in this content.

Maybe I’m just old.

[–] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 14 hours ago

Like with most other forms of content, there's a variety in the quality.

Admittedly, I do watch a few reaction channels. They're mostly covering content I enjoy and the reaction portion is usually one part. They react then discuss it and I usually enjoy the discussion more than the reaction.

[–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 6 points 13 hours ago

In cases like that its literally just them stealing the content and tricking people (like you) into watching it because you were actually looking for the information in the video he is "reacting to".

This happens a lot with crafts and things because people who are good at doing crafts and building shit aren't necessarily good at marketing their video content (if they are even interested in doing so).