Ask the Community ✦ How'd you get into reactions? (Patreon)

Hey everyone! This is a different kind of post, but it was an idea that came through in my DMs from a patron here!

Chris is curious how everyone got started in their journey of watching reaction videos.

Please share below! This will be really fun for me to read too.

Here's my story:

It was the spring of 2019 and I randomly decided to start watching Game of Thrones for the first time. I knew Season 8 was dropping soon and the hype around it on social media was REAL. 😂 So I started from the beginning and ended up getting hooked in so badly that I binged all 7 seasons in about 3 weeks and finished right before Ep 1 of Season 8 released. And for me it was so fun getting to experience that final season in real-time with everyone else.

When the show was completed, I went on YouTube to start watching videos about it, not reactions because I didn't know those were an actual thing outside of what The Fine Brothers were doing. Through searching or recommendations, I ended up stumbling across Nikki & Steven's channel and their Game of Thrones reactions. Started at Episode 1 and re-watched the entire show through their eyes. It was SO fun for me to not only watch their reactions but listen to their opinion of each episode and what their theories were about what was to come next. We had approached the show pretty differently at times, which I thought was so cool. My life at the time wasn't spent on YouTube all that often, so I didn't stick to watching reactions in general after I was done their GoT reactions.

Fast forward to fall 2021 when I was given the nudge to record myself watching Star Wars for the first time and upload them to YouTube, I had remembered the N&S reactions and how they were formatted, so this was definitely my starting point for my own channel from an editing perspective. Once I started, then that motivated me to search for other reaction channels to see what other people were doing mainly from an editing perspective. And then that's how I found all the channels that I watch today. Cassie at Popcorn in Bed was the first channel I found when I searched for reactions to A New Hope to watch after I put out my own reaction to it. The other channels after are all a blur as to what order I found them in, and I am still subbing to new reaction channels that pop up now.

As for music reactions... I believe this was something that I had found BEFORE movie and TV reactions, but I could not tell you when or where or how. I think these days they kinda just naturally pop up in your recommendations if you've listened to certain music. 😅 I don't watch them a ton anymore, but every so often I'll check out a couple.

Share your story below!

If anyone thinks of another fun question to drum up community discussion like this, please send me a DM! This could be really fun to incorporate here every so often. 😊

Cheers,

✦ KL