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Hello and welcome to a new edition of the digression. I am Sascha Markmann and
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I'm going to deviate from the real issue or not. In recent times, diligent
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I just don't go far enough. First of all, hello and welcome. If you like the video
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should like, subscribe, hype and haven't you seen when you listen to the podcast,
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Gives me a 5 star rating. That would be cool. Yeah, what am I supposed to say? Today's topic is,
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Why are YouTube videos or so reaction videos getting longer and longer?
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I've noticed that recently reaction videos are being made on a video,
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what one content creator has created, and then another makes a reaction to the
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Reaction and then maybe a reaction on a reaction on a reaction and then makes
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The content creator has a reaction on the reaction on the reaction on the reaction. And
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It's like a 20-minute video, a 40-minute video, an hour video.
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And in the end, it's kind of an hour and 40 minutes of video, because everyone does their part.
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He contributed to it and said a lot about it, just to put it in perspective. It's me
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Especially noticed in these controversial topics, i.e. in these YouTube-Leaves or when
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Some scandals are that the reaction to reaction is almost mutually exclusive.
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increase and that it will become more and more. For me and my part, this is relatively boring.
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If I've seen the original video. If only I saw the first reaction
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I have, then I have someone who stops the video in between and then talks, then the video
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Let's go, stop and talk again. So I almost have a classification and stop
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It's a pretty fluid picture of what happened in the video. But at the latest,
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If there's a reaction to the reaction, I don't have it anymore. And find that
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It's hard because I can't follow the original video. Good,
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I could go and watch the original video or watch it first.
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but then I could just watch the reaction video without the reaction,
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So without the part that you just comment on, but only what the reaction streamer
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or content producer, as an off-comment.
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I really don't know where this trend is coming from. I know that in Germany we
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have a very pronounced reaction culture that is very extensive about the,
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what you look at or watch in the live stream and comment on it with the audience.
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that in other countries it's more like this, the video goes through and then "hmm yeah cool,
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ha, ha, it's funny, haha" and that it was a reaction. What it is in my eyes
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Of course it is not, but there you should already contribute something and there we are also at the
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German law. There is the right to quote and when I go, show excerpts,
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I have to add value to this in order to make it roughly interrupted. So look
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I take a bit of it and comment on it or make a classification, rate it or just say
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Just my opinion on it. So I'm providing some added value. But if I then
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have added value on the added value and on the added value and the actual video, let's say,
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20 minutes and the reaction chain is somehow three or six times the actual
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Time is, then the original video is no longer the decisive,
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It's just the reaction on the reaction. So what did the one streamer say or
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YouTuber and what did the next one say about it and how does one classify it and the other and
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Who and by whom and by whom. Really, that's too much. So at the latest when
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The second one already talks about the first one, that's too much. Unless it's such a good one.
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grenade, i.e. if everything is misinterpreted or a false added value is given,
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It's just going in the wrong complete direction. When I look at some of my YouTube colleagues,
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who react to a video and then make themselves bigger than what they react to,
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First of all, I find a pretty strong statement, because I'm more important than the content,
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which we now look together, which I now froze. And then there's a little bit of
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I've lost the fact that I'm dealing with the content because I'm in the foreground.
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And others that provide so much extra information that the original video just kind of
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sinking. And that's just not expedient, and that's not that, either.
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I'm thinking of a reaction. I would also like to take a look at this or
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Other videos respond and I've thought about it before. So here I am with
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my good-looking stature to sit there in front of the camera and do that, that would find
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I'm also a bit out of place now. There are livestreams where I was a guest, where I also
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I did, but I just don't feel well anymore. Six years ago, it was different.
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I'm still doing YouTube videos, but now that's what I'm doing.
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Our livestream experience just doesn't feel like it anymore. And I think the medium audio podcast
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Podcast, I like it best. I don't have to do a videocast or anything like that because
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from me – and this is, of course, the reference that is closest to me –
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then I hear most things anyway only as pure audio format and have the window in the
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Open in the background and listen to the videos or I just listen to podcasts in the evening. Or
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when I'm doing something where I don't have to be focused, but where I have to be
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You can also listen. Fold, fold, hang or rinse laundry, put dishwasher in and
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Clean up and stuff like that. I can do this very well, because I'm not necessarily 100 percent.
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must be in the matter. Quite the opposite, for example, when I'm coding and stopping at the
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Web server bastle or stop at the AI server optimization, I already have to
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I am very focused and I listen to music in the background. That's why this year I also
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Thousands of hours of playtime on Spotify. Also an interesting story.
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Maybe we should talk about it. My Spotify age is 16. Unlike the Spotify age.
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My partner is 76. She didn't think it was funny, I thought it was very funny, and I think
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This age doesn't say much when you look at the results.
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Yes, we were distracted by audio. For me, video is just something where I either
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actively watch or just have it in the background and listen to the sound. And that's what I do at
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So many things. Unless, for example, I want to watch a video.
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City skyline, how someone builds a city. Then I look at it, then I hear it
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I don't look at it anymore, so I'm actively watching. But I also have to make time for it. And
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because I only take a certain amount of time a day to sit in front of the PC, I have to
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use as effectively as possible and I usually do several things at the same time. And then
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I think such a normal reaction video is perfectly okay, but if I then stop
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must pay attention to all these different layers, i.e. to the storyline in the original video,
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then to the reaction, then to the reaction of the reaction and, if necessary, a reaction
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The reaction of the reaction. Then I have so many levels of history, of narratives in my head,
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What I have to look out for to be in the flow. So you know what I mean,
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So that I have the flow of the first reaction type, then the storytelling
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From the first, from the original, from the original, and then from each other's reaction to it.
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power. And it's exhausting, actually, that's really exhausting. I tried it once
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And then it's actually easier to just watch the video, because then you have two heads
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or a head or, as in one case, even four heads, so in every corner somehow
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one so that they do not flatten each other. Then you have several more of the Sheds
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the rattling and that's just a pixel porridge, because the different shed overlays
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are. Yes, there's one on the left and one on the right, and that rattles through it all just like that. This is also
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exhausting for me, because I try to understand this whole construct then and
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to analyze. I'm an extremely analytical person anyway, and I'm trying to
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to decipher optical or visual stimuli. And then I sit there and do that. So
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That's why I prefer to listen to audio, but it shouldn't be so complicated. And this
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It's really a dilemma, if that's just those formats that are unnecessarily played up
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will be. I have nothing against a two hour or three hour, because of me four
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Hours of podcasting with several people, but then this is just a happening and not somehow,
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The one pays attention there, the next pays attention there, then the one gets upset over there,
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that one has paid attention to it and the next finds what the first has said, stupid, but
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what the second said, right and the third, he can't like anyway and
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That's why he reacts to it, just so he can say how shitty it is. It's all so confusing
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And hold such an extreme, this is not a meta-level, this is such a sub-meta-level, so
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A meta-level that is still below a meta-level. No, that's too much for me,
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I can't do that either, mentally. Maybe I'm just making too many
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Thoughts and this is really no problem for other people to separate all this for themselves and the
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Sort different channels and channels on the individual. It's definitely a huge one for me.
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Problem. And even then I don't feel like watching a video, which is just information- for 20 minutes
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Inflated to 1 hour 20 or 1 hour 40 to look at me, because Hinz and art mean,
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You have to add some quark to it. I don't know how you think about it.
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You can write it to me in the comments or on the blog in the comments
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Write under the podcast. I would definitely be happy and look forward to our
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Discourse. Like I said, you can like the video or the podcast, on YouTube you can hype it
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And don't forget to subscribe, because that helps immensely. Well, then I say thank you
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Good for listening and until next time. Goodbye, Sasha.
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Why 20 Minutes of Original Content Suddenly Turn into 1 Hour 40 Minutes Reaction-permanent sound reinforcement?
This episode of The Digression is about the escalation of modern reaction culture on YouTube: Reactions on videos, Reactions on Reactions – and eventually Reactions on Reactions. What was intended as a classification becomes an endless meta-loop.
I'm talking about it,
why opinions today potentiate each other instead of complementing each other,
why many reaction formats lose their real added value,
how creators are increasingly making themselves more important than the content they respond to,
and why these perpetual meta-levels are not only tiring for many, but downright overwhelming.
It also looks at the difference between active vision and passive hearing, at audio as an antidote to visual overstimulation – and at why less response sometimes means significantly more content.
A series about media mechanics, attention economy, ego stages and the silent longing for clarity in digital noise.
Topic overview:
1. Getting started: When Reactions Don't End
Observations from the current YouTube world:
How a whole cascade of reactions emerges from a video – and why this has now become the norm.
2. The first reaction – classification or already distortion?
Why classical reactions still make sense for many:
Pause, comment, classification – and where the added value really lies.
3. The second, third and fourth reactions – when meta-levels explode
What happens when you no longer react to the content, but only to other opinions?
Why overview, context and origin are lost more and more.
4. Ego instead of content - When creators become bigger than content
Self-staging, struggles for relevance and sovereignty of interpretation.
Why some reactions are less analysis and more self-stage.
5. Visual overload & Pixel chaos
Multiple faces, overlays, fades, chats, effects.
Why the brain gets out at some point – and what that does with real attention.
6. Audio as a counter-pole to sensory overload
Why pure audio formats are often quieter, clearer and more understandable.
Multitasking, podcast listening, and the difference between active seeing and passive listening.
7. Loss of Origin
How the original video is increasingly becoming a minor issue.
Why in the end often only opinions about opinions remain.
8. Personal boundary: Why not take part in everything more
Changed view of live streams, video formats and public responses.
Why distance is sometimes healthier than constant involvement.
9. The open question to the community
What is your reaction culture like today?
Overwhelming, entertainment, added value – or all together?
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Date of admission: 08.12.25
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Sascha Markmann is a creative mind with a moving biography – and a person who has rediscovered life after a stroke. After working as a paramedic and elderly caregiver, Sascha found his way into creative expression. As a blogger, podcaster, musician and visual storyteller, he brings together things that just don't fit at first glance: He combines his keen enthusiasm for technology – from self-hosted servers to electronic music production – with emotional depth and an oblique sense of humor. His contributions are somewhere between borderline, acid basslines and assistance – honestly, directly and with a wink. Guiding principle: “Audio-visual dullness with no usefulness – but perhaps that's why it's so valuable.” View all posts by Sascha Markmann
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