What's the purpose of making reaction videos and posting them online?

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Hi. I am curious about this. There are a handful of people I know of on YouTube who are known for producing reaction videos; i.e., making videos of themselves reacting to other people's videos. I know there are reaction videos on other video hosting sites, but I haven't seen any yet, as of the time of the posting of this.

What is the purpose of that? Is that for fun and/or to get attention, or are people doing that to earn money?

Please help- thank you.

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@JGoldman10,

JGoldman10 wrote:

Is that for fun and/or to get attention, or are people doing that to earn money?

Good grief. Fun being subjective to the video creator and her/his audience.

Yes to all three. Not that difficult to figure out. Money being driven by a minimum amount YouTube views and YouTube ad revenue if the video in question fits within the relative restrictions (language, fair use copyright, etc...) laid out by YouTube's policies.

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It is the pure purpose of the enjoyment of them wanting to be seen hearing themselves talk and getting likes

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@JenOvi2019,

Seems more like an ego thing to me. Some people like to be noticed.

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