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Anon is only a little strange
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this post was submitted on 20 Aug 2026
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The reaction videos make no sense to me either. The few that pop into my feed are usually just some face nodding and barely reacting to an endless stream of slop shorts.
There are some actual good reaction channels, where they actually add relevant commentary and such. One I have been enjoying is Warp Reactor, love his break downs and medium dives after the video, he does a lot of shows like star trek, Babylon 5, The Orville, and many many more. T. Folse Nuclear is a nuclear engineer and reacts to a lot of sciency stuff with his background. There are a couple more I watch but mostly many of them are questionable content farms
they are parasocial.
it's a replacement for watching videos with a friend.
Mainstream Japanese TV was basically doing reaction videos before the internet was even a thing. Rather than use a laugh track, they put a box in the corner of various "celebs" reacting to the content. I'm really hoping it goes the way of the laugh track, but it's still pretty ubiquitous.
My favorite is the Deadpool reaction shorts. Like, you don't even get a face.
I’m still trying to figure out what an “iceberg” video is. The idea of an iceberg makes me think the bottom info should be more hidden or secret information, but from what I’ve seen, it’s just a ranking system? Not sure what it has to do with icebergs, or if it started as something that made sense and morphed into what it is today.
All I know is, YouTube keeps wanting to suggest them to me and there seems to be no way to get it to stop. I heard from one creator that it’s a format that’s currently trending, so that’s probably why they’re everywhere. But if they’re being recommended constantly, are they really trending, or is the algorithm just pushing them?
Anyways, I prefer to go off recommendations from other people anyway. YouTube’s suggestions are utter trash.
Some used to be that way.
Youtube has folks that dig way too deep into Elder scrolls lore and several use the format. Those work from "literally stated in the game" to "if you read these books in game in this mobile only title from 2001, look at questionably cannon dev comments, and look at the assets names, you'll find this reoccurring thread "
The idea is that common knowledge is the tip of the iceberg, and as you go deeper you get more niche and involved. A math iceberg, for example, would start with addition and subtraction, go into exponents, radicals, algebra, then imaginary numbers, series, set theory, then calculus, proofs, theoretical stuff.
The problem is they became popular, so its really just "stuff i wanted to talk about in a particular order". Tier lists are slightly better designed, but people also vastly misinterpret the purpose of those as well; i highly suspect most tier list makers dont even know where S tier comes from
It can be both. It doesn't push the iceberg videos to me, so I guess they're not trending in my kind of demography.
I usually find new things by the suggestions that are related to the channels that I do watch, not from the general feed, which is useless. So I basically only watch the stuff that I subscribe to, making my own feed with those.