Reactors: The Professional Parasites

Over the last few months, I have learned that few seem to understand why react content is harmful. Even among those who dislike it, their reasoning is often as simplistic as “it’s boring” or “it’s lazy”, while the real problem is much more insidious. Reactors are playing a game with our online content creator ecosystem where everyone loses except the reactors themselves. The premise of this video is that react content is a system of exploitation that siphons an incalculable amount of money and exposure away from the hard working straight into the pockets of the incredibly lazy. Watch as I go in-depth on this topic, looking at some analytics and breaking down how this content relates to the overall content creator ecosystem on YouTube, Twitch, and elsewhere. The two creators most at focus with this series are Asmongold and xQc. This is a follow up to the dispute I had with MoistCritikal about the same topic. Reactors - The Professional Parasites - How Everyone Loses Except The Reactors (Feat Asmongold & xQc). The Lies That Stole A Fortune - How The Scam Works. 0:00 What Is This All About? 2:03 What is a reactor ? 3:36 What are Youtube and its creators trying to do ? 7:03 Why do many of the large creators do reaction content? 11:52 Reactors get HOW MUCH for watching Youtube videos? 17:29 But what’s the harm? 23:16 But can’t everyone just do react content!? 24:05 Is the reactee at least better off? (Data) 27:50 Why are reactions so ineffective? 39:33 But what about when react content works!? 41:11 Why aren’t all creators adamantly against react content? 44:06 But shouldn’t the market decide!? 44:38 BUT WHAT ABOUT FAIR USE!? 49:30 Twitch is bad and it should feel bad 50:12 The Twitch struggle 52:36 Twitch’s fatal exposure flaw 54:28 Twitch Reacting: a cheat code to screw everyone 57:26 So other Twitch streamers get screwed, but the Youtube reactees benefit, right? 1:03:02 Why doesn’t everyone just do react content on Twitch? 1:04:14 But isn’t all content just react content? 1:05:23 But the reactors will stop if asked! 1:06:09 To the reactees, the unpaid interns 1:07:37 A sad note to end on Script and sources for this video: ✔Twitch Channel ~ ✔Rambles Podcast ~ @ViperRambles ✔VOD Channel ~ @DarkViperAUVods ✔Clips Channel ~ @DarkViperAUClips ✔Merch ~ ✔My Discord ~ ✔DarkviperAU Subreddit ~ ✔YouTube Membership ~ ✔Patreon ~ ✔Twitter ~ ✔Instagram ~ ✔TikTok ~ @darkviperau ✔GTA 5 Speedrun Discord ~ ✔Business Email ~ darkviperau@ Check out YouTube Keyword Search, a tool that allows you to find clips by searching YouTube subtitles~ Editors (On Discord) Martin - @BobTheMartin3484 DMoDMusic - @DMoD8772 Ein - @Ein Typ ohne Gehirnzellen9964 YellowBat - @TheYellowBat4705 Rogerio - @Rogerio6703 Music by Chillhop: Complete content ID Playlist: Listen on Spotify: