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So maybe this video will answer the objections of that few percent of people that exist in Gabi's fantasy land. |
And with that, I wish you all the best. Boop! |
Sources |
Original essay [https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRid-d3hQpDnTpAlIBWICuZO4J_C2j0FX-PqT2HPEGLDpTy_jhebAiXbBtn-6OwdPvY_mj0VYDfkHPj/pub How The React Grift Works By DarkViperAU] |
penguinz0鈥檚 response to the document [https://youtu.be/FAPDd-cB8Do https://youtu.be/FAPDd-cB8Do] |
Playlist on react content [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAnJ4ZuTYaeGv4WIexP9C5LAuMEnMkG-Q Why React Content Harms Everyone] |
React Streamers Are Destroying YouTube? (tldr; MoistCr1TiKaL & DarkViperAU drama) [https://youtu.be/c3cQCw1TiNs https://youtu.be/c3cQCw1TiNs] |
Pokimane and DisguisedToast getting banned for streaming anime on Twitch [https://www.gamespot.com/articles/popular-streamers-pokimane-and-disguised-toast-react-to-getting-banned-on-twitch/1100-6499539/ GameSpot] |
moistcr1tikal streams [https://www.twitch.tv/moistcr1tikal Twitch] |
Mizkif Twitter [https://twitter.com/REALMizkif X (twitter.com)] |
Mizkif racist remarks [https://www.sportskeeda.com/esports/news-i-m-taking-out-ice-poseidon-leaks-mizkif-dms-revealing-racist-remarks sportskeeda.com] |
Mizkif sexual assault cover up [https://kotaku.com/twitch-streamer-crazyslick-mizkif-maya-gambling-assault-1849560465? (kotaku.com] |
h3h3Productions court case [https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-41037631 BBC News] |
GorTheMovieGod [https://www.youtube.com/@GorTheMovieGod https://www.youtube.com/@GorTheMovieGod] |
GorTheMovieGod YouTube statistics [https://socialblade.com/youtube/user/gorthemoviegod Social Blade Stats] |
Mogul Mail [https://www.youtube.com/@MogulMail https://www.youtube.com/@MogulMail] |
Philip DeFranco [https://www.youtube.com/@PhilipDeFranco https://www.youtube.com/@PhilipDeFranco] |
Skill Up [https://www.youtube.com/@SkillUp https://www.youtube.com/@SkillUp] |
Gamernax [https://www.youtube.com/@gameranxTV https://www.youtube.com/@gameranxTV] |
MadSeasonShow [https://youtu.be/AW1ifkVDh7s https://youtu.be/AW1ifkVDh7s] |
Follow up video [https://youtu.be/7tnkfjWizKI https://youtu.be/7tnkfjWizKI] |
How Do Creators Justify Being Exploited By Reactors? (feat Necrit and Asmongold) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuJz9S52llw |
'''How Do Creators Justify Being Exploited By Reactors? (feat Necrit and Asmongold)''' |
'''Original video: '''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuJz9S52llw How Do Creators Justify Being Exploited By Reactors? (feat Necrit and Asmongold)] |
I honestly wish that I had a quick sound bite that could instantly communicate to you the harm of reaction content, but I don't. Reaction content is surprisingly a complicated topic. Even if at a surface level, most people can see that things seem a bit sus. |
You have two groups that exist in the same space that want some of that juicy finite attention, that being creators and reactors. |
One group does all the work, while the other simply takes that work to redistribute. |
One puts forth risk and effort, while the other doesn't, yet they often still reap a far greater reward. |
But recognizing this imbalance doesn't immediately communicate who is harmed or why. I've even heard some remark, maybe it is unfair, but it is what is best for everybody. |
But is that true? Can the people who avoid all the work in video creation by simply hosting watch parties of other people's creations really just be helping out? Necrit is one such person who thinks so, as expressed in his video, "Are reaction's harming channels." |
I'll be looking at Necrit arguments in just a moment, but first, slot machines. This may seem like a wild tangent, but trust me, it's very important. I want you to answer a simple question. Are slot machines a good way to make money? Does your answer to this question change if I showed you someone losing a bunch of money to slots? What if I showed you someone breaking even, neither losing or gaining money? What if I showed you someone playing slots and winning a bunch of money? Still, I don't think your answer would change, and I don't think it would change even if I showed 100 people winning money on slot machines. |
The reason is that you have some understanding of what slot machines exist to do and how they achieve it. They obviously exist to take more money from others than they ever give back, and they would simply stop existing if they failed to achieve that. You likely know that there must be people in the world who've had their lives changed for the better by at some point winning money on slot machines. But despite this, because you understand the underlying system, you can still say that slot machines are a bad way for players to generate wealth. In fact, you may even argue that society as a whole would have been better off if slot machines had never existed, even if you acknowledge that some particular individuals would have been worse off for that. |
The previous example highlights why we rightly seek to judge a system as a totality rather than simply by looking at one particular individual's interaction with it. We do this because every system, good or bad, has some positives and some negatives, some winners and some losers, some advantages and some disadvantages. |
As a consequence, it is usually prudent to assess the underlying logic of a system to get a sense whether or not it would be better off with or without it given its likely overall impact. With understanding, you can likely see how fairly meaningless social media posts are that proclaim to have either lost, seen no impact or gained from reactions. |
Short term effects for individuals can swing positive or negative based on any number of factors in a system. So none of these sorts of posts speak of how this system of reaction content works, its underlying nature and purpose. To spoil the obvious conclusion of this video, these posts don't change that overall reaction content has a harmful effect on everyone but the reactors themselves. |
Reactions exist to increase the amount of time people spend watching the reactor's content and to therefore by necessity reduce the amount of time they spend doing anything else. |
Reactors exist to act as the middleman for the exposure natively given by social media platforms, which basically means that they work to convince algorithms to promote the reactors instead of creators. |
The goal of reactors is to always take more viewers away from creators than they ever inadvertently give back. Reactors will speak about how easy it all is and how much value they gain and their rights. The easy value that they accumulate for themselves doesn't pop into existence like magic. It is instead extracted from a wider market of creators who are trying to survive and who are having their chances hurt by the existence of reactors. |
I recognize that my stance on these issues is not very palatable for some because I am in a sense telling them that Santa Claus does not exist. Who the hell wants to hear that reactions are not some sort of infinite money glitch that make it so everyone's lines can do nothing but go up? |
As much as I hate to be the bearer of bad news, ignoring bad news does not make the consequences of it go away. |