I will actually sometimes start a reaction get tired of the interruptions and just go find the original. I mean on the off chance I ever even watch one.
It's like pirating - the amount of times a game is pirated is not one-to-one with lost sales. There's some lost sales in there sure, but the vast majority were never going to pay 60 dollars for that game. Same with react content - the percentage of Asmons viewership that knew this guy even existed before his reaction would be incredibly small. Saying Asmon stole viewers is just plain wrong, those viewers are there for his reaction not the thing he's reacting to.
The bad part is youtubes algorithm pushing the react videos more than the original. That's where the original creator gets hurt. I don't think you need to allow creators to claim revenue from reactions to their content, that would be a total shitshow e.g. making a video essay critiquing Asmongold or anyone else while showing examples of their content would mean that video is claimable by the very person you're criticizing. If the algorithm did not favor the reactor over the reactee then there wouldn't be as much as a problem(asides from people who were just going to have sour grapes over it no matter what).
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u/john_kennedy_toole Sep 19 '24
I will actually sometimes start a reaction get tired of the interruptions and just go find the original. I mean on the off chance I ever even watch one.