this post was submitted on 15 Mar 2025
253 points (96.7% liked)

Leopards Ate My Face

5466 readers
1145 users here now

Rules:

Also feel free to check out !leopardsatemyface@lemm.ee (also active).

Icon credit C. Brück on Wikimedia Commons.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

What I meant is the appeal to watch them (I know that was probably clear, but I'm still interested)

[–] fuzzy_feeling@programming.dev 6 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

don't like them either, but i think people watch it because they get context.

they also get told, how they should feel about it. seems like people stoped making up their own mind. it's easier, i guess.

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 3 points 14 hours ago

That's one kind of reaction videos, or like one thing you can get out of react content, but for me when I indulge in it (rarely) it's because it's "X-persona reacts to thing from Y-culture". Mostly I'm amused by Americans watching European things and getting their minds blown. Sometimes it's also because the person reacting is an expert in the topic and provides helpful additional context, for example with fitness stuff it's nice to get a medical opinion about it, etc.

With all that said, you do have to avoid mountains and mountains of garbage content that's only made because it's an easy grift to find the ones worth watching.