ICYMI - Inside the Reaction Video Economy
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2021
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode, Madison and Rachelle try to answer a listener question about whether over-the-top DIY videos are secretly kink content. They end up get pulled into the world of online reaction videos and discuss why these DIY videos are so tempting to react to, how TikTok has made engaging with this content even easier, and if reaction videos are maybe just the internet’s own kink.
Things discussed on the show:
- @sadsadmatt reacting to a TikTok where a girl pours paint on herself in a kiddie pool.
- “42 Holy Grail Hacks That Will Save You a Fortune,” from 5-Minute Crafts on YouTube
-“Your Least Favorite Gross Viral Food Videos Are All Connected to This Guy,” by Ryan Broderick in Eater
- @lixvucy on TikTok reacting to 5-Minute Crafts videos
- @vernonrecords on TikTok reacting to 5-Minute Crafts videos
Podcast production by Daniel Schroeder and Derek John.
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| 0:00.0 | Great. |
| 0:01.0 | This is going to be so beautiful. Yeah. Yeah, keep going, keep going. Fill it up, fill it up. Get it going. Look it up to like there with the green. Yeah, keep going, keep going. This is a king, good net. Hi, I'm Madison Malone Kircher. And I'm Rachel Hamden and you're listening to I see why I am I. In case you missed it. Slate's podcast about internet culture. And Madison is |
| 0:22.6 | once again getting off the internet to go into the woods. The thick of it, you might say. |
| 0:29.3 | We might. And so in preparation for Madison going to the woods, I just wanted to impart on you |
| 0:35.7 | the knowledge I have of how to avoid getting eaten |
| 0:38.8 | by a bear. Where did you glean this knowledge? I don't know, but it's in my brain. Okay, I just, |
| 0:44.9 | knowing what I know about you, I don't know that as I head off into the wilds of Alaska, |
| 0:50.0 | you're who I want to take wilderness advice from. |
| 0:58.2 | Anyway, what I have gleaned is that to avoid being eaten by a bear, you have to make a lot of sound and make yourself really big. |
| 1:08.8 | So what I think you should do, should you see a bear, is to raise your arms over your head and start singing in the heights really loudly. Don't make me laugh. I've been trained. Exactly. I'll be alive forever. You'll be alive forever. And then, sorry, there's one more. There's one more thing I've gleaned. You then have to record it and put it on TikTok. |
| 1:28.0 | Yes, of course. There we go. |
| 1:30.2 | Rachel, thank you for these pieces of advice. I hope you enjoy hosting this podcast alone when I am eaten by a bear. |
| 1:36.6 | I mean, maybe that was the end game all along. |
| 1:39.9 | Before I head out, though, today we're bringing back a segment, you know it, you love it, |
| 1:47.2 | Red Receipts. |
| 1:51.3 | I want to see the receipts. |
| 1:57.5 | Read Receipts. |
| 1:58.2 | It's pronounced Red Receipts. |
| 1:59.5 | Our audience said it was read receipt, actually. It was a very receipts. Our audience said it was read receipt actually. |
| 2:02.2 | It was a very close tie. Yeah, but it was not a tie. I won. It's read receipt. It's red receipts. |
| 2:09.0 | It's read receipts. According to the I see why my fans is read receipts. |
| 2:12.8 | Well, red receipts is the segment where we answer some of the very thoughtful DMs and questions that our listeners have been sending to us. |
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