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context: I agree that most are terrible and fake, but there are a few with genuinely awesome reactions.
  I particularly enjoy watching ones that teach me about things I didn't pick up on. For example, this Bo Burnham reaction goes into the musical theory - chord progressions, key changes, etc - which is really interesting to learn about. And he gets genuinely excited about some clever/impressive things that he did >
  
  The problem is most of them don't add anything to it and it's just annoying, if you have something to add then great but if all you're going to contribute is excessive laughter and way over the top OMG NOOs and whatever, that mean I can't even hear what the hell is going on, I can't understand how you get any views. >
  
  This. It's lame, and it's also a copyright  violation because it's not a transformative work. But little guys  have 0 chance of enforcing copryight on their works, just look at old internet history with shit like ebaums world. >
  
  Opinion must be in the title >
  
  Oops >
  
  Given how popular reaction videos seem to be this is an unpopular opinion >
  
  There's a big difference between reaction YouTubers and those reels where you see people watch other reels. Most of the time you just see them stare with no reaction at all. >
  
  mate, you think that's cringe where i live there's an entire tv show about watching people watch tv, i shit you not. >
  
  how do you feel about people watching videos of people watching videos? >
  
  How do you feel about me watching you watching videos of people watching videos through your bedroom window? >
  
  I don't get suggestions for this in my YouTube feed, so I'm only tangentially aware of their existence. I'm sure you can modify your YouTube feed somehow to make them go away >
  
  I've never understood the dislike people have for those. It's like watching a movie you love with someone who has never seen it and seeing how they react to the good moments.
  The problem is they feel fake sometimes, but the concept is good. >
  
  People who don't like them don't grasp the idea that people who watch them tend to watch them more for the personality of the person watching them, there are many people who do reactions who are entertaining >
  
  omg yes
  Especially since now the actual video is smaller and has poorer audio quality so most of what I hear is your laughter and snorting! >
  
  Oh man, i agree so much with this, i hate that too >
  
  Reactions are some of my favourite videos. It's like a review in real time >
  
  Some reaction vids are actually good, TheThirdErnest for example, he picks up on a load of shit you would never otherwise notice, he mostly does music reactions >
  
  100% agree. They pop up so damn often because I've watched one or two of them. Nobody cares what you think, Mr or Mrs Rando! We're all only came here to watch the original video and skip through your annoying, interrupting-cow commentary. 
  Just people seeing a trend and an opportunity to generate views for their BS YouTube page,  so they can't try to make money sitting on their ass doing nothing of value >
  
  reaction videos and videos of videos. only the watchers of these videos is the reason it continues. you need people to participate in it. if they dont, it goes away. simple >
  
  I’m sorry Brad Mundo!!! >
  
  I worked with a dude that'd sit in the truck and watch that stuff on purpose, then he can react to two people >
  
  Are we talking about people like Penguinz0 or those Asian youtube shorts channels that react to ripoff dhar mann videos? >
  
  I mean some reaction content creators do interject the reacted video with their take on things in an interesting way. Most dont, though, so yeah most are terrible. >
  
  Upvoted as being an unpopular opinion,  as evidenced by the massive number of these videos and their evident popularity. >
  
  NOTHING MAKES ME CRINGE MORE THAN PEOPLE POSTING IN CAPS >
  
  Depends on the youtuber, i like to have reaction videos as background noise while i do other stuff >
  
  "Nobody cares"
  Then why d reaction videos get millions and millions of views? >
  
  
  Nobody cares what your reaction to the video was.
  
  Well..you are of course entitled to your opinion, but the mere fact that these videos are so popular is a direct contradiction of what you said there. Cheers! >
  
  Not sure if this is really unpopular or not.
  Either way, I'm still surprised more of the skeezier "reaction video" channels haven't been sued into oblivion for copyright violation.  
  If I make a video and you repost said video but with you on the side going "uh-huh. huh. lol" once every 5 minutes, you haven't changed the work and are 100% in copyright violation. And that's just in America which has some relatively lax laws compared to other countries.