Odd Youtube Fads

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The one type of these videos I like are the "People from country A try food/snack from country B" videos, but pretty sure that's just because it's interesting both to see unusual foods, and to see people reacting to foods that seem perfectly normal to me as though they were strange.
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White American who eats Balut at least once a month (which is amazing). No videos of people acting like food is weird or bad since we got my mom to try Balut. Wish we got that on camera...

She knew what it was btw... we just had to talk her into it.
 
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"How to draw" tutorials always amuse me. There's a few good artists who are capable of giving useful instruction on the craft, and then there's wave upon wave of fuckheads who produce useless videos of generic manga heads which vary between mediocre and utter shite. My favourite is alantutorial's excellent deconstruction of the genre:

And then there's the entire Minecraft community. The whole goddamn thing. I kinda consider Minecraft to be a youtube fad because it seemed to gain so much attention and popularity due to people making brainfuckingly dull videos of themselves playing it. In fact I suspect a sizeable percent of the community just watches the videos instead of playing the damn thing.
 
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After having an account on YouTube from 2009 until 2012, it's very interesting to look back on a lot of these fads that had happened (and continue to happen) on the website.

I used to watch a lot of YTPs when I first joined, and I believe during that time that was when stuff like ear rape and the like was really catching on. I even remember making some myself before I eventually lost interest in YTP itself since I felt like every YTP was just distorting everything to where it was nothing but ear raping audio and flashing colors (I was always a fan of YTPs that had hilarious sentence mixing and some sort of humorous storyline to it). Though I will admit those Spongebob Poops by people like LinkOnDrugs are so crazy; they take the show and make it to where it almost borderlines on creepypastas, and the editing and sentence mixing is just amazing. It's very surprising that YTP has lasted for over ten years now; it feels like almost yesterday that people were just making clip shows out of the Zelda CD-i games. Occasionally, I'll watch a few YTP videos, but it requires some digging to find the good ones.

Rants and commentaries were also one my favorite trends back the day. As many people in this thread pointed out, a lot of these people come across as spergy and miniature versions of A-Log in retrospect. Not to mention everybody back then would always do a rant on tired old topics like "YOUTUBE FUCKING SUCKS BECAUSE GOOGLE", Fred (back when he was still a thing), Chris Chan, and whoever was essentially the Lolcow of the Month at the time. Every now and then is there a rant that's actually interesting.

On the subject of commentaries, they were entertaining until the commentary community began to circle jerk each other, make unnecessary commentaries upon commentaries on rants because somebody didn't agree with the original commentator's points, proceed to make a video going "BANDWAGONS HAPPEN BECAUSE X, Y, AND Z!!", then rinse and repeat with another person of interest. I remember seeing one video get like five commentaries stacked onto each other, it was THAT bad. Pretty much after BlackBusterCritic starting doing videos on them did people like RandomDCE and youngbloodfantasy91 fade into obscurity.

Also, any video that has characters from Sonic X acting like Family Guy and Spongebob characters is the stupidest shit I've ever seen. Like this for example:


Actually, anything that has to do with Sonic X is absolute shit. Plain and simple.
 
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ASoulMan said:
Rants and commentaries were also one my favorite trends back the day. As many people in this thread pointed out, a lot of these people come across as spergy and miniature versions of A-Log in retrospect. Not to mention everybody back then would always do a rant on tired old topics like "YOUTUBE FUCKING SUCKS BECAUSE GOOGLE", Fred (back when he was still a thing), Chris Chan, and whoever was essentially the Lolcow of the Month at the time. Every now and then is there a rant that's actually interesting.

On the subject of commentaries, they were entertaining until the commentary community began to circle jerk each other, make unnecessary commentaries upon commentaries on rants because somebody didn't agree with the original commentator's points, proceed to make a video going "BANDWAGONS HAPPEN BECAUSE X, Y, AND Z!!", then rinse and repeat with another person of interest. I remember seeing one video get like five commentaries stacked onto each other, it was THAT bad. Pretty much after BlackBusterCritic starting doing videos on them did people like RandomDCE and youngbloodfantasy91 fade into obscurity.
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Honestly, if it weren't for his "Holier than thou" behaviour, BBC would have been part of that circlejerk in a heartbeat I feel. He's done almost everything the commentators and ranters have done and then some. The man even tackled topics that were well past dead by that point like Spax3 and OPL. All he needed was a (really) shitty mic, a group of internet friends and some Atismu to make it all complete.

Hell, even most of his arguments and trolling efforts recall that of the commentary community too. When he tackled those people, it just seemed like while he did have points, it sounded very hypocritical in the long run. And nowadays, I feel he's no better than the ones he mocks. What with his refusal to respect other people's opinions (even minor ones) and constant bitching about the whole "Console Vs. PC" debate (I think they're both flawed, and this is coming from a PC user. Something that even BBC fails to realize).
 
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Jewelsmakerguy said:
Honestly, if it weren't for his "Holier than thou" behaviour, BBC would have been part of that circlejerk in a heartbeat I feel. He's done almost everything the commentators and ranters have done and then some. The man even tackled topics that were well past dead by that point like Spax3 and OPL. All he needed was a (really) shitty mic, a group of internet friends and some Atismu to make it all complete.

Hell, even most of his arguments and trolling efforts recall that of the commentary community too. When he tackled those people, it just seemed like while he did have points, it sounded very hypocritical in the long run. And nowadays, I feel he's no better than the ones he mocks. What with his refusal to respect other people's opinions (even minor ones) and constant bitching about the whole "Console Vs. PC" debate (I think they're both flawed, and this is coming from a PC user. Something that even BBC fails to realize).
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I like to think of BBC as the black version of Voltaire, in that he's in a way, a prima donna and that most of the stuff he says starts controversy that has gotten him removed from YT quite a few times. His Console/PC videos got pretty tiresome after a while, along with his Xbone vids. In a way, he's a lolcow in and of himself, but that's a whole other story.

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AMV's can be pretty bad, especially if the song in question is any of Three Days Grace, Linkin Park, or Papa Roach's greatest hits.
 
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ASoulMan said:
I like to think of BBC as the black version of Voltaire, in that he's in a way, a prima donna and that most of the stuff he says starts controversy that has gotten him removed from YT quite a few times. His Console/PC videos got pretty tiresome after a while, along with his Xbone vids. In a way, he's a lolcow in and of himself, but that's a whole other story.

Back on topic:

AMV's can be pretty bad, especially if the song in question is any of Three Days Grace, Linkin Park, or Papa Roach's greatest hits.
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Oh yeah, not too big on AMVs myself, and I made a couple myself back in the day. I even made (but never uploaded) ones with Linkin Park and 3DG music in them. All made in glorious Windows Movie Maker.
 
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I have two: Littlest Pet Shop videos (just kids playing around with LPS toys and making dumb stories with them) and Object Shows (Rehashes of popular animated online show Inanimate Insanity, which comes from the show Battle For Dream Island. They're often lazily made and really bland.)
Oh yeah, and in the Inanimate Insanity community, they have reaction videos (which are encouraged by the creators as well as other "object show" creators with their shows) that are just kids saying their reactions over the video. Never really got that fad either.
If you want to really get into odd YouTube fads, there's also fads within the same community, which is when one popular (around a few hundred to a few thousand subs) animator from the community does a good animation, and then people copy it and make their own version.

Here's some examples of the first two "fads":
 
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They're still relatively common, but I remember when "angry reviewer" videos were all the rage. More often than not, the rage was incredibly cringeworthy and fake. I've never understood the appeal of watching someone string swear words together and scream incoherently when you can watch an insightful, comprehensive review instead.
 
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