Youtubers reacting to your videos, reaction videos.

What reaction video?

My God, what the, what is going on?

Make it stop, make it stop, wow.

So you might have noticed recently if you watch videos about Japan that everyone and their mom has been churning out reaction videos, particularly to a video I made a few years ago called what not to do in Japan with this terrible thumbnail.

I'm sick to death of seeing now.

I've never really got the whole reaction video thing.

I don't think I've made a single reaction video ever and the 200 videos that I've made and I guess that's because when it comes to reaction videos, I've always thought he really wants to watch them.

And at the end of this, is that three million views just to watch a person.

Watch another person.

This guy is a genius.

George George Japan, I hope that's his real name.

George Japan.

Maybe I should rebrand to chris England.

But look at this perplexed expression combined with the word interesting.

It's genius.

How could I not click on that?

It must be, must be bloody spectacular.

Let's have a look at them before we watch it.

Let's put it into 10 80 p.

I can't watch a video in 4 80 p.

Is that it?

4 80 p.

Only 3.3 million views and a 4 80 p video.

You having a laugh and here I am like an idiot trying to make videos in four K.

Super wonder definition so you can practically reach out and touch Joey the anime man's face and a bath for what?

Nothing.

I should have just filmed it all on my broken iphone in 4 80 piss.

Right, okay, we're going to stop the video there for a moment.

Okay.

Some people might find this sort of thing funny, but I certainly don't.

Quite frankly, I feel he's disrespectful to the people of Japan.

If you don't like Japan, go home to your own country, if you can't stand the heat, get out of the go somewhere else.

Quite frankly, clearly he's run out of ideas and I don't want to watch anymore.

What are we going to watch some more?

So when I first started seeing these reaction videos pop up, I was pretty surprised and I really sat up and took notice when the Japan times did an article discussing the emerging trend of japanese reaction channels and by now you probably hate this damn thumbnail as much as I do as more and more creators utilize it in increasingly provocative ways.

What started out as all interesting.

It's gone on to become, that's bullshit.

Lies rubbish.

In fact, I predict by the year 2025 most people actually watch abroad in Japan through someone else's youtube channel.

In fact, you're probably not watching this video on abroad in Japan right now.

Probably on the George.

Japan, isn't it?

George is up there somewhere reacting away, aren't you?

George reacting in a room.

Yeah.

To be honest, Chris your face looks better in four ADP.

Anyway.

Now, perhaps understandably, I get a lot of questions about this.

How do I feel?

Do I benefit from having people react to the video?

Does the original video do better?

What the ethics around just taking someone's entire video and just reacting to it at your desk and am I angry about it?

To which I say yes, I am angry off with their heads, a lot of them.

Oh God, if you're gonna make a toy sword, like have a volume control on it, that's really, that's really unnecessarily loud.

I don't, don't know what I've got this, put that there, but I'll get to my brutal, honest opinions in a minute because I feel like before we reach any conclusions, we should probably watch some of these reaction videos first.

God forbid.

So buckle up and get ready for the next level of inception style reaction videos where you can watch a british guy reacting to a Japanese guy reacting to a british guy reacting to Japan, fuck my life, this is it is the future of youtube, the future.

We deserve.

This product is pretty, pretty damn intimidating.

I'm telling you not to do what not to do in Japan by Yuya with very, very ominous looking expression.

Let's see what happens.

Welcome back to my channel today.

Let me try to react to this video again.

12 things not to do in Japan in the last video.

That was my first reaction videos.

So I wasn't good enough and I got some comments doing it again because the first attempt wasn't good enough.

That is, that is pretty impressive.

I think my favorite thing about watching these reaction videos is seeing where all the different people are reacting from you.

It looks like he's at work in an office or something.

He's very smart.

It's like he just snuck off to the side room quickly because he simply had to react to this to this video.

Hello guys, I'm George.

So today I'm going to react to a video called 12 things.

I just love how humble georges right?

He's barely in the frame of his own video.

Like the doors on the right hand side of the frame take up more space than George does.

What humble guy.

Japanese lady reacts to.

12 things not to do in Japan.

Mrs eats straight up.

Eat.

You're getting it yet.

There's a lot of eating going on there.

Let's dive in.

Hi everyone, this is Mrs eat today.

We're gonna be watching 12 things not to do in Japan seems very nice.

I like to think when she's not filming reaction videos or eating things.

She adorns the impressive red samurai helmet behind her on the shelf and becomes Japan's most ruthless masked vigilante like batman, Japanese batman, but with the samurai helmet, that's Mrs eats if you want to exchange your name card with your client.

This is your client and you, you have to be below than him because this is showing some respect.

That's awkward.

I didn't know that.

That was supposed to hold your business card below the client.

I'm usually up here and they're down there.

I think that might explain quite a lot of situations I've got myself into over the years.

Good commentary.

It's interesting point.

Tokyo foodie Sarah literally tearing her hair out what the funk it says, let's, let's have a look.

Hey guys, welcome to my channel.

Tokyo 30 Sarah.

If you're new here, my name is Sarah and I make videos on Japanese food and culture.

No.

Yeah, good cakes.

Oh no, NATO.

So fermented soybeans, bad move.

There took a sharp turn today.

I want to be reacting to abroad in Japan channels most watched video.

12 things not to do in Japan.

First thoughts how many dalmations died for that top Sarah.

Second thoughts, I have to say that's one of the most impressive british accent I've ever heard from a Japanese person you put ricotta Rose accent to shame.

Well done.

I have a question if we meet today right now and exchanged our business card, what would you think if we act like this?

Oh, your name is you, You wanna be cool.

Cool billions cards.

Huh?

Hmm.

I like it.

Alright, see you next time.

Bye.

Why do I get the impression he does that Look at this.

11,000 people have liked it.

That's how screwed we are.

People actually like really throws Japan.

Here we go welcome to Rio Tokyo.

Japan and I need to confess that I never watch aboard in Japan apart from the ones I mean yeah, laugh at your crap jokes.

Looking through the channel.

I found out that the most watched video ever was called 12 things not to do in Japan and without me in it.

Yes, notice whenever realtor is not in the video, people actually want to watch it walking down the street whilst eating and drinking is illegal.

You're not going to get shouted at, you're not gonna get.

But what you will get is the stare of disapproval.

Kind of not that strict if you google table, which means eat and drink well water.

You can find many good places for a rookie for instance, in Osaka, I see a lot of people eating Tako Yaki while walking so it doesn't make sense.

Right?

So please don't take it seriously.

There are a lot of people including me do drink Starbucks coffee while walking even in Tokyo or everywhere.

So it's okay eating while walking is not seen as such a good thing.

My hometown is not a big city.

So one day I was waiting for my train at the platform and I was eating a small cracker like this.

There was nobody behind me and then suddenly older guy was approaching me and then suddenly he looked at me.

This is not true.

I don't agree with him on this part because sneezing and blowing nodes are completely normal quality function.

It cannot be healthy.

What do you have to do is very simple?

You have to show your effort to try to make this sound smaller to show some effort.

What does that mean when blowing one's nose?

How do you make an effort?

Like What is the scale of blowing your nose in the UK?

We just blow our nose there and then right, we don't really have some sort of special you year scale.

I want to see a dedicated video.

If you're watching this, make the video, we deserve how to blow your nose.

I'm 11 minutes in.

I haven't seen you your smile and I want to see a smile come on eric this is getting very serious.

What is that?

Is that a smile there?

It's kind of like is it weird that I'm getting anxiety from watching this because of how close Sarah's chin is to the razor sharp edge of that reaction video.

Like if her arms slip, she's gonna smash her face into that corner.

Like if you're gonna make a reaction video, please make sure to do it.

A safe distance, health and safety first.

Real Frenchman responds to abroad in Japan.

Alright, let's check this out.

This is without a doubt a real Frenchman plant.

Can you sexy at that point?

All right.

I love the way he's trying to one up me with his massive plant on the desk there.

I remember when I used to film this window actually I thought the backdrop looked really crap.

So I used to rather awkwardly stick a fake plant in the background to try and make things nice.

But I've come a long way since then got rid of the plant.

Mm hmm.

If you've got a running, so intimidating, that noise, you think that something bad is gonna happen?

Any hand drying gonna get funked up by George.

He looks a little red here.

Is he drunk?

But how dare you abroad in Japan videos always shot sober and in a clear state of mind unless I'm drunk.

Like I probably was here, probably cheap.

Which don't pause the video there.

Look at that, It's horrible.

I think this is my main issue with reaction videos.

They always pause at the worst possible moment.

I mean, look at that, that's the last thing you see before you die time.

One of my colleagues when I was teaching, I asked him do you have any pets?

And he said to me, maybe my cat is dead laughing at a dead cat George disgrace.

Come on.

Oh yes, yes, he fucking smiled.

Thank God for that big smile.

He said, what a nice young man.

I like this year.

Yeah, he's a good lad.

So is this christmas it's quality content.

Watching a Japanese guy react to another Japanese guy butchering john Lennon.

Oh no George.

Oh, that's key is not going to like that when you come to Japan, please please don't be nervous.

We're all kind.

And also when I go to your country, please be kind to me.

No, sorry George.

That's not how the UK works.

So what do I think about all these reaction videos and is it actually beneficial to me personally?

I think like a lot of people, I assumed that surely the original video will be getting more views as a result of all these reaction videos.

But if you look at the statistics since the first episode went up in september views have been pretty consistent.

In fact, they may even be lower than before.

Some people assume that I'm angry to watch these other Youtubers take the entire video and just react to it for a few minutes and I didn't feel angry when it first happened, but I felt a bit weird about it.

I mean from my perspective, right?

I spent maybe seven days producing the original video.

It took a few days to research and script and plan.

Then I had to go out and film it in public and make a complete fucking idiot of myself before sitting down to edit it all together into a dynamic and fun way, which meant basically just use some Brazilian music.

Yeah, I never thought the video would do as well as it did, but I was really glad when it sort of took off because it felt like that sort of production process was completely worthwhile.