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That's not autism, that's loneliness.
The first or the last part?
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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.
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.
that kind of thing has popped up on my feed and I really don't understand it
like the actual content is this tiny window in the middle of the screen, there's a background video for motion, some sort of border effects, and then just stock footage of some dude sitting in a chair nodding?
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.
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
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 "
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.
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
Wholesome? On my 4chan?
Seriously, though, OP should just... you know... stream. It's free, and it's not that hard.
Dealing with the general public is kinda hard, though. There's lots of anxieties and disappointments that come with it, and that's before you even encounter assholes, spambots etc.
Also, not everyone has sufficient uplink for lifestreaming. If I tried that kind of thing, the quality would have to be something like 360p or 480p.
I half remember this streamer was live when one of her fans walks into her living room from the balcony after climbing 2-3 stories. Fucking terrifying. Bro literally though they were friends and that it was a normal thing to do.
wait it isn't?
Also, not everyone has sufficient uplink for lifestreaming. If I tried that kind of thing, the quality would have to be something like 360p or 480p.
Sounds perfect for streaming yourself playing early 1980s Atari 2600 games. The low quality video would be an element of immersion mimicking 1980s video tech.
You'd have to also try to emulate CRT screens to 'cut' the pixels up.
Ahh, that would be awesome...
I bet there's a filter you can put over your video stream that makes it look like a CRT
I know there's some for games, none work on linux though, that I know of. .-.
I'd need to get into that kind of retro content first (I'm more of a turn of the century PC games kind of person), but you're right, that resolution would be perfectly fine for older pixel graphics (assuming the streaming codec doesn't mangle it somehow)!
I’d need to get into that kind of retro content first
Having no basis for old Atari 2600 games would be an interesting premise for streaming. The audience could see you reactions as you see a game for the first time, puzzle out the controls, game strategy, and then the play through. Leverage your lack of knowledge and experience on it as part of the content.
I streamed for a while, just for fun. Never tried to get popular or anything. (And I never did get popular.) Just a humble speedrunning stream. I had like one viewer who caught my stream on anything like a frequent basis. I just made conversation while I streamed. It was very chill.
All that to say, I think the issue with people is way easy for anyone who never has more than like... 4 simultaneous viewers?
Oh, I think a lot of Peertube instances support live streaming. If you wanted to ensure your viewer base stayed small (and probably that it remained more civil than the average Twitch viewer), that might be a good way to go as well.
And you're probably right that I was pretty lucky to have pretty good internet where I live. My favorite content creator/streamer doesn't stream so much any more because his ISP was shit for a good while. (His ISP was Cox and when he started dropping frames, he called it being "Cox blocked". Lol.) He's got way better internet now, and does occasionally stream, but hasn't really gotten back into the groove of streaming like he used to, and maybe doesn't want to any more.
But also, as others are saying, 360p is fine sometimes. Just depends what you're streaming.
Note that Twitch trains AI on user data by default, but recently added the option to opt-out:
If you are planning to stream, or are already streaming, check your settings.
Ah, thanks for that. I hadn't heard. It's been a few years since I've done any streaming. I'll probably go log into my account and make sure I'm opted out in case I ever decide on a lark to start streaming again.
Video killed the radio star.
Webcams killed hanging out and hugs.
pacman mouth sex
Bottom-up view of sitting person
Oswald Jacobs? That's right.
It's weird how fun it is to pretend to be a streamer or gaming YouTuber. It's probably good practice incase you do actually want to do that
Used to watch English Minecraft Youtubers as a kid, pretty sure the humour, the English and me narrating and commenting on my own passive life in that English is an incredibly weird hobby I got, it was fun to attempt the huge English vocabulary I was learning from my fiction books (yes I was a complete loner who lived in books and my own world no surprise) and YouTube, not sure how much of a skill spontaneously going off into fluent delusional conversations with yourself in a foreign language is though.
I wonder whether this is just something normal I'm over thinking perhaps.
A little perspective is always useful.
this post was submitted on 20 Aug 2026
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