Reactors and React "Content"
this is a response I gave to someone who was arguing for react content being "transformative" and comparing it with: Let's players, film critics, and parodies.
TLDR: React Content steals and replaces the original video by making an exact copy of it in another channel, do NOT support anyone who does react "content", press the three dots
and click on "do not recommend channel"
This will help actual honest content creators showing in YOUR algorithm, instead of some scummy reactor.
Why are reactions NOT transformative and you can't compare them with this kind of content:
(1) let's players; videogames can be played in different play styles, and everyone can have different experiences with a game, it is essentially promotion for the game and nobody can replicate your own experience with it, there's a reason why companies give away games to influencers for free.
(2) film critics; are usually done for people that have **already** seen the movie, have you ever seen a film critic upload the *whole* movie into their YouTube channel? no!
(3) parodies; *are* a new form of media and it can't and will never replace the original content, you can watch a movie and a parody of it, they're *not* the same and never will be the same.
But reaction content is actually lazy content, it's not the same as a film critic, a reactor can upload someone's whole video to their channel, say blablabla (which doesn't need to add anything in particular), say "go see the original video in their channel" (which nobody ever does) and upload it, it's stealing the *whole* video.
It's really not fair that an animator who spent 200 hours making an animation, being robbed from a reactor with a channel 10 times their size, watch their video for 1 hour *max.* and then get 2 or 3 times the views and the money of that animation that he didn't had *any* kind of participation, and it's not just *one* video, it's 200 hours of work that will have an impact on the animator's YouTube channel too, all those view that could have been theirs? gone, the algorithm will prefer the reactor, since it gets more views. And **remember**, the reactor *reacts* to aprox. 8 videos a day! that's almost 1000 hours of work being replaced by a reactor in **8 hours**, do you realize yet how crazy and scummy this is?
It's never transformative and never will be, only steals a whole video and says random stuff at the camera, then they proceed to upload the video to their YouTube channel, and with that they make money and get more chances in the algorithm by stealing a whole video. If you see someone's reaction to a video, you will *never* see the original video in the creator's channel, the reactor has already robbed and made an exact copy of it in the reactor's channel, and there's no need to watch the original, you've already seen it.
