Content creators on YouTube are taking a new approach with their reaction videos, adding cringy TikTok videos to their queue of laughs and laudits If you love TikTok, have you watched vloggers' reactions to Tik Tok videos?
Owing to the COVID-19 pandemic and isolation with people browsing with a vengeance to be the first to send a forward for a good laugh, these YouTube videos are quite the life-saver.
The lockdown period all around the globe has also seen a huge swell of Tik Tok videos of solo-dancing, pranks on family members and roommates, as well as dubbed videos from famous scenes of reality television shows, movies, and songs - all of which have the cringe factor.
The YouTube reaction videos on the TikTok content are fun if you love puns and have a good sense of humor. The infinite Scroll feature of the Internet can offer great things, you can chance upon new books, quirky accounts on social media and, sometimes, you will end up on an interesting page that promises to make you an overnight expert in their given topic. I experienced the terms 'the web sucks you in' and 'deep dive' when I realized I had spent an entire Sunday afternoon watching vlogs on YouTube. What started with a link forwarded by a friend saw me finishing all the videos by that particular vlogger that very afternoon. By evening, I was not just an expert on the vlogger's choice of cha tractors and style of video making, I also discovered more vloggers and, finally, stumbled upon react-to, the peppy short-form videos in the ByteDance-owned platform.
The reaction genre of online video OS was made famous by U.S. based YouTub the Fine Brothers. In 2015, they even tried to trademark the term React', which set off netizens creators' collective fury. Al so not on TikTok, is the unbeatable You Tuber Kalen Allen who got famous overnight after making his first sass filled food reaction video. There is no questionable recipe to which Kalen hasn't reacted to. Plus, this discussion would be incomplete without mentioning the YouTube series Pretentious Movie Reviews. Comedians Biswa Kalyan Rath and Kanan Gill who started roasting mo movie scenes and songs from the '80s and '90s rocked YouTube netizens' feeds from 2014 to 2017.
A worthy time-pass?
When it comes to TikTok videos, Mahesh Keshwala - popularly known for his YouTube channel Thugesh - takes the cake.
With more than 4,87,000 YouTube subscribers, he makes sure he shoots reaction videos that cover a cross-section of topics; his to TikTok content runs in three episodes. The collection of reactions shows the amount of time he spent on the Chinese video-sharing social network platform. The chaste Hindi and his style of interaction come across as honest. Thugesh is ruthless and doesn't hold back even when it comes to doing a number on himself at times.
"Reaction videos are fun because we just have to react to what we see," says Sarbajit Sarkar aka Ranautneel. The 24-year-old TikTok star from Tripura mostly does eye-catching yet easy DIY recreations of celebrity dressing. "Instead of reactions, I like to recreate original videos in my style. I love watching coffin that ot where reaction videos, but think I am too small in the vlogging circuit to do reaction videos. My favorite reaction video os is make-up tutorials."Speaking of TikTok India and dancer videos is worth spending some time watching Korean YouTubers react to Indian dance videos one can browse through the Namaste Korea YouTube channel, which has more than 59,200 subscribers.
What makes reaction videos popular? "Literally everyone cringes at Tik Tok videos," says Mumbai-based You- Tuber-actor-comedian Viraj Ghelani, who known to be one of the popular faces on FilterCopy. He also feels that reaction videos are a distraction from the depressing news around us. Reaction videos make us relate to them. More often than not when we see videos es especially on TikTok, the first reaction is and the vlogger's reaction videos act as an outlet to that emotion."
If one has to discuss TikTok reaction videos and creativity. Tanmay Bhatt aces it with his focus on background laughter and songs. In his March 22 video TikTok reacts to Corona Virus - In sane Cringe, he explains that if TikTok was a movie, then the movie will be packed with 27,000 songs.
So, are we discovering more reaction videos these days? "In a way, yes. Practically everyone is on the phone looking for content. Vloggers are busier than ever to meet the demand. How the Internet works is interesting; any old video resurfaces when one person clicks or comments on it," concludes Viraj.
Source: The Hindu Delhi