What are reaction videos?
These are videos with limited (or cut) viewings uploaded on YouTube channels by creators detailing the reviewer’s (channel owner) often spontaneous expressions, thoughts and opinions about the subject/object viewed.
Reaction Videos leverage on suggestions of the channel followers, who more often than not have seen the videos or works in question, but are interested in getting the reactor’s (channel owner’s) viewpoint, which might or might not align with theirs.
Comment sections on Reaction Videos also offer insightful information on the videos/subject in question while also offering suggestions to the creator’s ideas for the next upload or project.
So, today, we will look at three Wholesome YouTube Reaction Videos To Watch/Follow:
Kevin Langue (All In A Day’s Work)
Created by Kevin Langue and produced by Zane Helberg, this unique channel is not a reaction to an upload film, movie or newsy video. Rather, it is a video upload of where the host, Kevin Langue, and a group of his friends try to figure out certain information about the cast of the show at any particular time.
Langue, who is a bilingual Sengalese resident in the United States, has his friends – comedian and actor, Denny Love, comedians – Herman Wrice and Aaron Branch and Christian Pierce, as a panel of experts on black people try to guess – who is the black person out of a cast of five or six persons (one black and five whites) masquerading as a white person, and vice versa. But it is not limited at all to guessing the white or black person hidden under the green overall costume. It could also be about guessing who is the policeman, airport security, or twins in a five-man cast line-up. it could also be about guessing who one member of the cast is dating etc.
As such, a shuffling of their other friends – Zach Justice, Asia Mark, Audrey Stewisart, Ty Styler, Sean Does Magic, Lawrence Johnson, Mphatso, Tatyana Guchi, Aaron Branch and Asia Mark feature as experts in the panel.
The unique thing about the show is its organic-ness that is a result of the casting real members of the public, whom they don’t know anything about rather cast in all videos to slowly and eventually reveal information about themselves based on Langue and his friends’ questions to decipher what or who they are.
Then of course, there is the natural camaraderie between first the panel members who roast each other to death, and their cast members (but not as much as each other) in the entire process of the video which runs from 20 something to 45 minutes. But it is all good-natured.
Opened in January 9, 2009, the channel has over the years, and with 903 video uploads harnessed about 1.4 million subscribers.
This has led the team to take the show to the road Nand Live! venues in the US, including New York City, and Langue hopes to take the show to Africa in the near future.
On October 5, Langue began posting Behind-The-Scene videos of the show in another handle Kevin Langue 2 – opened in 2018, and has 38,500 subscribers.
Rob Squad Reactions
Rob Squad Reactions is a channel founded by the cute and cosy married couple Jordan and Amber Rob. The channel was founded four years ago (2021) as the couples means of catching up on classic and vintage movies they missed out on, or forgotten about, owing to their athletic commitments while in school. The channel Rob Squad Movie Reactions has 182,000 subscribers amassed over a 247 video uploads, compared to their Rob Squad Reactions which has 599,000 subscribers.
Jordan and Amber’s ability to create a space of warmth, coziness for their audience, and a great measure of grace for characters in movies they have watched is so different from so many other reaction channels. It definitely feels like you are watching those videos with a loving family member. Not to mention that their love and respect for each other can be felt through the screen.
They also have The Rob Squad Vlog – opened in 2022 that chronicles their family life and events with their three children – the eldest child and daughter Bria; the second child and youngest daughter Kiya; and their third, youngest child and son, Luca.
Reacts
Opened June 4, 2007, Reacts is an award-winning channel that has a crew of producers and their favorite reactors ranging from Baby Boomers to Millennials, Generations X md Z react to music, movies, animations etc from across the different decades up to the 1930s.
There is also the gaming aspects to it – which has regular cast members guess iconic scenes, speeches or symbols from a movie, animation or TV series; the lyrics to a popular secular song, in addition to having having its male casts endure cramps pain, guess the cost of being a female through feminine products, or choose to either Bop, Kill or Marry animated or human characters – all the while pitting the cast members (within or across generations), against one another, in a lighthearted competition.
There you have it. Three wholesome Reaction channels you can binge watch or follow, and recommend to friends.
