"Jesse's Auditorium"

[kane_magus]

Man, if you'd told me before an hour or so ago (it's currently almost 4am) that I'd be into watching videos of some dude listening to and reacting to video game music for games he (claims to have) never played before, I'd have told you "No, not really, but that does sound kind of interesting. Let me look into that."

And then we'd be here, now.

(I see in the Youtube sidebar that this is A Thing™ that apparently lots of other people do as well, which is a rabbit hole into which I am not properly equipped to dive, at the moment. I don't even have the wherewithal at the current time to even embed a shit ton of this guy's videos, much less anything else. Probably should go to bed now, for real.)

(EDIT) This isn't my first introduction into "React Andy"-type streams, because I've seen all of the slop streams of Woolie and Reggie, but the "entire video reacting to just one (or two or three) song(s)" is a new wrinkle. (/EDIT)

Comments

[goldpseudo]

Reactors who are just fans of stuff reacting to more stuff are a dime a dozen, and to me at least not very interesting. A lot of them, it just feels like they're trying to monetize the popularity of [insert copyrighted whatnot] as if it were 'content', without bothering to bring any actual content to the table.

I find the best 'reaction' videos are from reactors who have some level of actual domain expertise (i.e. professional music developers, or people who studied music theory), who not only react to awesome things, but can tell you why they're awesome. I don't find that very often with video game music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeCtO_9E0LE is a good example I came across recently, and I was disappointed that he doesn't do blind reactions as a regular thing; he has other video game music breakdowns, but he tends to do them as prepared video essays/lessons instead.

[kane_magus]

Yeah, that Jesse guy above is kind of in between. On the one hand, what I've seen of his reaction videos are maybe half him actually listening to the track and reacting to it, and half him talking about it afterward. He's not just "slop-streaming," in other words. And he's a musician in the sense that he plays guitar, at the very least. Not sure how "qualified" that makes him, though. And he seems to be more "vibes"-based, rather than going into much technical stuff, from what little I've seen of him so far.

However, on the other hand, he's also definitely monetizing it all, and on top of that he's charging people via Patreon or whatever just to send him requests, starting at the $10/month tier for just 1 request per month (2 at $20/month, though that tier is "sold out" apparently). Which... ...isn't a good look, in my eyes, at all. Nice hustle if you can get away with it, though, I guess, which he seems to be. *shrug*

I'll probably still watch his videos, either way, even if I have zero intention of ever giving him money.

I've peeked at the channel for the guy you gave a URL for up there, and he seems interesting, so I've added him to my "Music Youtube" list on Feedly as well.