ALRIGHT so I've been thinking about kpop reaction videos for a while. They often show up as recmommended videos when I watch kpop, they have a shit ton of views and they're not even that high in quality. I'm confused. 

I like to watch Shade Dawson react to stuff, but that's pretty much it. I love to watch EYK's reviews of kpop videos, but they don't do pure reactions. I've just been really curious about what makes the reaction videos so popular.

I don't typically like those videos and the #1 reason is that they are very often super low quality, in terms of video and audio, while also (quite often) being super insincere and awkward. In a way I can totally see the appeal because kpop fans love to see others that are just as obsessed with kpop as themselves, but I don't feel like a lot of the reviewers put in all that much work into it. 

Watch Shane react to anything, and he'll be making witty comments, have snappy editing overall be very entertaining. Watch a kpop reaction video and there's gonna be people sitting there either screaming for 10 minutes, or non kpop fans sitting there awkwardly going "ooooh the dance tho!". 

I have been wanting to make reaction videos myself, I honestly have. Not because they would probably get way more views than my main channel, but because that would be a better way for me to talk about kpop and experience more kpop and establish myself within community. I did do a couple of reviews but I ended up feeling like those weren't what I wanted to do. My reviews were only halfway expressing how I felt about it all. 

The perfect thing for me would be to do a combination of EYK's reviews and Shane's reactions. I don't want to just sit there screaming and make witty comments, I also want to comment on the things and stuffs and I want to have a little section at the end where I sum up my thoughts after a couple more listens. That's what I want to do. 

I'm thinking I'll be giving it a try on my kpop channel (of which I'm probably going to change the name maybe I don't know I kinda started a brand so meh) once I get a new camera, so probably around the start of November. Probably. Maybe. Money is key. 

I don't think I'll be looking too much of other reaction videos because I want to do my own thing, but any suggestions and feedback would be great, when that time comes. Sounds good?

Good.