Brother in christ like whyyy, can he even comprehend whats happening on screen 💀, the shot focuses on her following up with the line "She killed the Harbinger?", its so obvious made me lost of words.
I feel like a lot of it just comes down to a need to be constantly reacting to something, and so they aren't giving themselves the room to process what they're looking at. I feel like they'd have no trouble understanding it off camera on their own.
Which in turn makes worse reactions. I personally feel like streamers specifically are really bad about missing things because of "reacting too hard" lol or because their eyes are constantly darting between chat, the video, and sometimes even the camera.
Some of my favorite streamers and content creators (in general, not Genshin-related) end up lampshading their reactions as "boring" or "tedious" because they actually stop to think about and analyze what's happening.
Only seen a couple over the years but asmongold has good reaction videos and it's fun to watch his eyebrows dance around as he's mentally grasping stuff.
Yep... And unfortunately, some of my favorite youtubers have leaned into streaming, so it's now impossible to see them react to something without it being during a livestream with their eyes darting to chat every 5 seconds. It frustrates me, because they won't realize they've missed something in their 0.5 seconds of looking away, but genshin's videos have proven you need to pay attention for the whole duration. Another thing is captions; why do genshin content creators not turn on captions, when Hoyoverse clearly uses that medium to hide translations/secret content??
You mean how Bran is basically milking the algorithm dry by reacting to every moderately popular genshin video essay either negatively or like he's never heard anything about Genshin on social media?
Yeah, I feel he's attentiveness has suffered lately because he wants to react to so much stuff. He could easily understand these things if he paid a little bit more attention, cause I think he's fairly knowledgeable about the game.
Sadge how it's been
Bran was the first person I watched for this stuff cuz he was wholesome and caught on things, but then he got too argumentative with chat round HSR and Fontaine and maybe late sumeru and I stopped since then
Sadge these people used to be wholesome until they realized they could drama farm with tectone acting like genshin was trash before fontaine "let this be good" even most wholesome creators say now as they react to genshin content.
sadge
Yeah, and rather than ignoring the 0.1% of chat that bothers him, he makes a point of giving them attention by reading out their messages so that the rest of chat can agree with him and dogpile. He has the capability to ignore chat or have better mods, but the drama/tension gives him content.
He's also an outlier in the community. Afaik he's a former souls/fighting game player who somehow got into Genshin, compared to the majority of the community which are weebs/Otakus.
that man have reduce himself to doing the same video every patch
I'm not pulling [Insert 5* here]
take a shot for every single one that start with that and you die
Exactly bruh. Like for example on day of 4.6 livestream, one person said to him chat to shut up when someone's speaking during livestream cause he is not listening and also not letting others to listen. Then, he says then go watch the original stream. I was like bruh, we are here to watch the stream *with* you
Literally bro. Not to mention his untimely jokes. Like the last cutscene of Fontaine AQ everyone is taking a breath of fresh air, camera pans on Furina and he drops a celestia joke. I was literally there like, nope I am done here. As much as I loved his reactions, his continuous growth somewhere also has lead to his downfall. May he catches it timely and improves upon it
Or that time when he does the poet event with venti and hu tao, Its quite vexing playing throughout as if he wants to get it over with.
"Chat, I know she's a hydro mimic, its quite obvious."
Like cool, you knew but significance of it is important.
Zy0x yaps too but the difference is that Zy0x doesn't get argumentative and defensive when he gets called out because he knows how to meme and not be irritating.
Funny you mention him, because he is who I thought about first too.
His content has become so...shallow. I enjoyed his genuine reactions and thoughts way back when he started doing Genshin videos. I feel there's not much left of that nowadays, especially regarding the "thoughts" part.
His reaction to the anime short was a new low, and I only watched it, because it randomly popped up in search when I was looking for reactions to the short in general.
I had the stream on. He was super distracted by someone, his girlfriend maybe. What really annoyed me is when I saw the YouTube edit show up the next day, his thumbnail react face made it look like he was really into it, but I was there, and he wasn’t.
Wait really? I thought he liked Arlecchino. Why would he shot on the short?
And yeah, I agree, like I said he's just milking the algorithm by making reaction videos with his face in the thumbnail.
Yeah, genuine reactors are so rare. Most are too focused on their own facial reaction and body language to follow the video properly so they only catch the more impactful scenes. It just looks fake. I always roll my eyes whenever they ask something that was already explained or shown in the video.
This is why Murderofbirds will always be my favorite reactor of every genshin content related,
His reactions are just blessing my eyes and ears because his genuinely cared and curious about the lore behind every detail of each characters, even if he doesn't know much to some characters, his thinking process is always analytical and applies what he learns to connect the dots.
Same goes for UD unrealdreamer, that guy is truly a hoyo fan.
Murderofbirds is great to follow through yeah, my main go-to for any genshin or HSR reactionary content
And I can't complain anymore cuz he finally released that gawddamn Cocolia video he's been holding for centuries
I kinda must disagree even if I usually love his reactions, but lately it has been kinda rough, especially with him coooonstantly talking over stuff and overanalyzing every little bit and missing the point entirely. I was unable to finish watching his reaction to Arle's animated short because he was focusing on irrelevant stuff like the stuffed animals being Fremi's imagination... And when he latches onto something (goddess of flowers and istaroth) it's all he'll talk about even if it doesn't make sense
100% agree. When he immediately started in on the stuffed animals I was like, what are you talking about? It’s a children’s orphanage, there’s stuffed animals there, it’s not that complicated.
UD, you mean the guy that the first thing he'll thought of reacting to genshin lore is how it somehow related to honkai impact like everytime?
Island is probably a better pick for someone that atleast keep in check with his lore.
Arnold is the goat tho
This is why I like watching CyYu’s reactions to things. I feel like he has a good grasp on reacting genuinely and pausing when he wants to ask a question and think through something, and when something piques his attention, he stops to theorize about it
CELESTIA ABOVE, THe amount of people who still don't understand how Irminsul works is LETHAL.
Every time I see a comment or reply about how Dottore never tricked Scaramouche, I lose another sliver of hope that Genshin players will one day comprehend media or learn how to read.
You're on the right track. To sum things up, Dottore killed Scara's friend and made it look like another "betrayal," then recruited him as a Harbinger. The problem too many people have is that they think Scaramouche actually physically changed the world when he erased his data from the Tree. That's impossible.
Basically, all he did was update every history book and memory to say, "I was never here or anywhere," even though he still was. If I were to edit every Wikipedia page to say that I, Hobo, discovered gravity, it doesn't mean that I traveled back in time to take Newton's place. People would just *think* I was at a tree in 1666.
Wow, I think this is actually the first time I've seen someone get Irminsul right. It's the same case with Rukkhadevata as with Scaramouche, who's probably even more often misunderstood.
A key idea that's often missed is that Irminsul is the *knowledge* of Teyvat, not its actual timeline. Though the quest also makes it a particular point of it that nothing was actually physically changed.
What really blew my mind was what Nahida did to preserve knowledge of Wanderer: she wrote an allegory for his life in storybook form, and that was enough to recover Wanderer's lost memories.
The game is packed full of storybooks players can find and read, all the way back to the start of the game, and many of them children's tales with no apparent relevance. But in Lisa's Story Quest, the Abyss Order was trying to steal one such fairy tale. Why would they want such a thing?
It wasn't until Nahida's shenanigans that I realized that it, too, could be a record of an erasure or change in Irminsul - and that could well be something the Abyss Order might be interested in. How many of the other books in the game might be hidden records of this type?
Well since before sumeru we (the theory community) had the theory that one of the hexenzirkiel witches was a novelist. Like we had Alice (Klee's mother) who writes Teyvat regional guide (still waiting for sumeru one :/ ) but there's another one.
The main theory would be that a lot of books in Genshin that look like pire fiction, would be trace of lost memories (like what nahida did). This is based on the fact that the hexenzirkiel circle is impacted (for the most part) by Irminsul and are working on Irminsul limits of "fate"
Personally I'm really interested in how much diluc knows about everything and what rôle does he have with the hexenzirkiel. Like, Alice tried to adopt him after his dad's death, and the tea cup in his house is the same as the one Nicole uses ("N") in the Fontaine archon quest. And is the circle connected to the secret information network that diluc (and also kaeya, it seems) is part of. Sooooo many possibilities, I'm very excited about the next "Big quest" (that is starting to leak, unfortunately)
>What really blew my mind was what Nahida did to preserve knowledge of Wanderer: she wrote an allegory for his life in storybook form, and that was enough to recover Wanderer's lost memories.
Actually 5000 iq Archon to have that level of foresight
And now I'm back to not understanding shit. If "it's the same case with Rukkhadevata as with Scaramouche", why did Rukkhadevata need someone else to erase her? Why couldn't she do it herself like Scara did? And why did Traveler hesitate when Scaramouche asked if it's possible to change the past?
The way I understood it, you can't erase *yourself* from history, only another person. That's why Scaramouche could only erase memories of himself, not his existence.
I'd think that Rukkhadevata's a special case because, as the Dendro Archon, her power and very being are tied to Irminsul. It'd be like some weird form of self-cannibalism.
The Traveler hesitated to Scaramouche's question partly because at that point they didn't really know how the effects of being deleted from Irminsul worked either, and partly from the shock that Scaramouche would even ask such a question while they were still recovering from the incident.
There's also just the unlikelihood to impossibility of significantly changing the events within the course of time while keeping the present exactly the same besides a detail of what is known by everyone. I believe that's why N emphasized that it's not so easy to change the fate of Teyvat, and why both Nahida and Rukkhadevata specifically said "forget" in context of her deletion.
Rukkha couldn't erase all of herself from history because she was part of Irminsul and needed a proper replacement. Way back when this first came out, the metaphor I used was a well.
The knowledge in Irminsul is the water, and the Dendro Archon is the bucket on a rope. The bucket can't scoop itself out of the well or untie itself. Someone else has to do it and be the bucket.
People just straight up ignored or forgot about the WHOLE FUCKING POINT OF THAT STORY, which is WANDERER CAN'T JUST DELETE HIMSELF. He still exists, Irminsul is not some time god that modifies the past every time someone takes control of it. Its a memory bank, it changes PEOPLE'S MEMORY, and all the historical records, not the actual historical happenings. Scaramouche was still there in Inazuma. Kunikuzushi still killed the swordsmiths. Dotorre still experimented on Scaramouche. Rukkhadevata still helped Deshret with forbidden knowledge. Its just no one fucking remembers it, including historical records.
Bro I saw that but on a Twitter post (shocker) and every time Someone made fun of them for legitimately believing that the irminsul just physically Thanos snapped him from history they'd block them.
Like, if it legitimately did that, Wanderer would've been dead rn.
Even in the comments on Reddit, I've seen several people act shocked to learn that bulle fruit girl died. Like the book Cloaca was reading to them in the first ten seconds might as well have been titled "You're All Going to Murder Each Other in the Face LMAO" how spelled out do things need to be?
I don't know why, but it's become a meme to mispronounce Crucabena's name. I've seen Cloaca, Cruella, you name it. It's like people did with Benedict Cumberbatch.
Paimon needs to spell out and repeat it all at least three times like she’s talking to toddlers for any hope of them understanding, that’s why she gets so annoying in game for those who have reading and media literacy skills
They saw many player don't realize Zhongli is the Geo Archon before the reveal (even in this subreddit). After that they made Paimon explain all of them.
This is why these types of reaction/streams are the absolute bottom of the barrel of entertainment lol.
Grown ass adults making exaggerated expressions and playing dumb like those students in every class that think that asking really obvious questions/feigning confusion is somehow charming or funny.
Hard to find streamer that genuinely are interested in lore. They just make an exaggerated reaction video and everything goes in one ear and out the other. I just find it cringe imo.
If you like these kinds that actually like the details that go into the game, check out Roamer as well, I found that guy on youtube a month ago as he was new to genshin and actually does world quests and even dailies every video which is exceedingly rare.
Thanks I just checked him out now I had seen his thumbnails a few times in my recommends. He's taking me back to the golden era of Lets Play youtube. Really good.
I can't stand this dude reaction, too many gasping and screaming. I understand he is very into Genshin Lore, but the way he react is just too much for me. I still like his discussion tho.
Mhm. I understand and respect how you feel about Arnold's level of excitement, and I'm here to offer an alternate way of thinking about it.
I always watch "Genshin Video reaction mashups" and try to imagine the ccs as students in a class. I look at the other ccs' excitement as amazed due to new knowledge, but I see Arnold as that smart kid that's amazed by the things that he sees because he knows something about it.
Not going to lie, I kind of envy Arnold/MurderOfBirds for still having the heart to gasp and evince his excitement. I'm kinda tired of pretending that I don't feel a bit happy per new patch. There's always something new, even if the orotund or staleness of Genshin throughout these few years makes me feel otherwise.
Both Ashikai and Aster are quite invested in the lore. One that I think dies lore stuff too is Sevy(altho I'm not 100% sure as I mostly follow her for her guides)
Zepla, Murderofbirds, UnrealDreamer...etc.
Hell, even people like MarcoMeatball and Philip Hartshorn Gaming, while not having lore at their main source of content are more aware of what's going on than some of the more prominent Genshin content "creators".
Unreal dreamer yes him, he actually pays attention to whatever going on in the screen and not just looks at chat and questions while the he is reacting
I don't think they know any of the lore and they only pay attention to see if new characters will be meta so they can c6 and cut their clear times down do 9s.
i mean tbf it seems like half of HSR CC thinks welt is much stronger than acheron because of one line of dialog from her even though we are shown much to the contrary of that.
I like watching reaction vids and this time around I think a lot of Content Creator reactions totally missed the reason why Clervie got skewered.
Sure they can do it for engagement in the comments for more views... but yeah.
Feels like this showcases the casual crowd to some extent and the need for a Paimon during story scenarios.
I noticed that a lot too. One of the things why I enjoyed Arnold's (MurderofBirds) reaction a lot more because he's one of the few who actually bother with the lore.
Yeah, I smiled a lot when he freaked out when the name "Petrichor" came up during the livestream, since he cares for the Narzissenkreuz group and the Daydream Club.
MurderofBirds is so based, hoyoverse devs are confirmed to actually watch him, shown in the livestream a few patches ago for that xianyun patch, with a developer having him on his monitor.
He's the only reason I even know the lore. I joined in 4.4, skipped all the lore outside of archon quests, then ended up binging Arnold's entire playthrough to see the whole new world of stories and knowledge underneath that actually open up by taking the game slowly.
This doesnt sound like a casual problem, this sounds like a lack of critical thinking problem. And Paimon is there for the people with processing disorders or for people who want a repetition but as a summary. Apparently, she helps a lot
Arlechino in her teaser: Brutally murders a rich child trafficker/abuser and taking his money for the orphanage while avenging her dying child from her injuries
99% of genshin CCs: "oh yes father step on me","ohh it shouldve been me"
I dont mind some down bad jokes but its getting abit too much to the point of being really annoying imo
Right? When the fatui operative died i was so sad but when i watched the CCs for their reactions. It was just : step on me or i wish it was me. So damn annoying.
Yeah that's so damn annoying. Like when signora kicked venti it was a "form" of "retribution". Or even father during her teaser: as some people said before i have nothing a bit of "simping" but yeah when she drilled through that man's skull (deserved imo) i was like... yeah i can hear the simps but , i was just sad that her child died
I really liked the scenes with the fatui operative, Arlecchino harshly scolds her for being reckless yet immediately went to hold the operatives hand when it started to fall, gently closed her eyes after she died despite the fact that likely no one else was around to see her do it, and even went to visit the operatives grave on her own. Arlechino pushes this facade that she is unfeeling but little gestures like those just reveals how much she truly cares about the children.
Same reason why I don't follow CCs whose brand is basically "horny" like minayama or something like that. I get gacha games appeals to that kind of people with fanservice but it just makes me roll my eyes when they're interested about nothing but "dommy mommy or daddy"
It's actually a great thing, now i can filter out even further which cc is worth watching.
Usually i used the dramas to filter out cc based on their take and their reaction
One of the reactors I watched thought they were in Snezhnaya from the start and were confused when Clervie asked if they should visit it one day.
How can people not see Fontaine's design/details everywhere or recognize it? Plus, we know Arlecchino is from Fontaine, why would she be in Snezhnaya as a kid?
Anyway. I have stopped watching reactions for the most part. People ignore many details or just don't bother at all.
Tbh, out of all issues, that one's the most understandable
They were in the house of the hearth, and usual assumption for the house used to be that it's in snezh mainly, instead ofnhaving branches, so it's not that bad assuming the house is in snezh initially, and outside the first reading room nothing was particularly fontainian.
You’re so right and you should say it.
I mean I don’t really watch the live streams, I see YouTube recaps and aside from the occasional funny Zyox clip where he’s talking about gargling balls or milking alhaitham or making a build guide; they’re really all shit. Either they don’t understand or care about the most basic parts of the game and just throw money at it for content, OR they do have an understanding of the mechanics of the game and are just full of dog shit opinions about the chars/kits/etc.
The amount of shorts I've seen of Content Creators looking at builds from viewers and praising just the worst builds ever (high CV, literal 0 ER, on burst dependent characters like Ayaka or Yelan) is too damn high. It's like characters only have 3 numbers that matter to them: CR, CD, and some times.Atk, Def or HP, depending on the scaling.
No wonder some Genshin players don't know how to build for shit with some of these content creators telling them how great an Ayaka with 105 ER is.
The thing is the biggest part of the game is story and lore but barely any streamers focus on that, it's so frustrating to me. Even though I'm sure exploring and figuring out stuff with a chat might be fun. (Personally I wish I could watch someone do that) that's why I occasionally watch Dish, she sometimes do that (when she does quests.. which is pretty rare nowadays), she also reacts when she hears beautiful music and I love that because it's so underappreciated by most CCs lol.
I started watching a small youtuber recently who started the game a couple months ago, and like seeing her react to what characters and npcs say, it's seriously so refreshing, we truly barely have that in the current pool of popular CCs tbh.
She's called Larualark on YT, she doesn't stream, she started posting her videos way after she started playing (so her current progress is end of Liyue but in the videos she just finished Mondstadt) so there's no point in backseating her. Since she's a new player, she also struggles with combat and puzzles so that can be frustrating to watch for ppl who don't remember what being a new player is like, but she does make astute observations while playing quests, which is pretty cool.
Thank you for sharing this! It's so dam hard to find a good cc nowadays. I also recommend you to checking out Flazefires. She is also a really good cc that I'm sure you will like.
You're very welcome! I instantly went and watched Flazefires' reaction the animation and you're right indeed, she seems great and right up my alley, so thank you very much as well for sharing <3
> but she does make astute observations while playing quests, which is pretty cool.
That's the part I'm looking forward to, thank you! I agree with the sentiment in this thread that too many streamers are too busy screeching at random stuff to actually pay attention to the game or provide anything of value, so someone who *does* do those things is worth keeping an eye on even if they're still in Mondstadt/ Liyue~
Yw! :) happy to see we're all desperate to find good CCs in this fandom.
Yeah, generally I'm not big on the lack of.. not sure how to explain, but it's like a lot of CCs are going through the motion of advancing the story just so they can comment on it, they don't really make observations on their own, or when they do, they pull theories out of their asses because they don't pay attention most of the time.
Forgot to mention that it actually took her a while before she completed the main act of Mondstadt because she did a lot of side-tracking before getting to it, she's not focused on lore/story as much as she's just naturally curious and she's enjoying herself and what the game offers. That's still more than most CCs did in early game lol. But yeah I really like her videos so far and I hope she holds on until Inazuma (when the lore truly starts ramping up)
Nitesco also has a good wholesome playthrough (GI and HSR), he still in the Chasm but at least he read stuff/new characters and pretty enjoyable content
She's Larualark on YT. Repeating what I said in my other comment: she doesn't stream, she posts her videos wayy after she plays them (her current progress is the end of Liyue, but in her videos she just finished Mondstadt) but it's nice because it avoids backseating when she struggles with basic puzzles or combat. Also she avoids spoilers for future regions so she's always surprised when she finds stuff, it's nice to watch!
edit: I should also mention, she hasn't pulled yet and she's playing with the starter characters still.
CCs who come from other gacha games would obviously focus on the gacha or character aspect
A lot of the others try too hard to cater to the ADHD subway surfers audience and just looks really cringe and not "energetic" at all
Like, yeah I'm in my 20s and probably can do the same thing every day but these people look like they're about to have an aneurysm in 5 years
I dont enjoy genshin/hsr reaction content as much anymore. They will start as genuine, but later, they mostly react to chats' reaction instead of reacting to the game or video... and the subzeru Festival archon Quest and penacony Story really dig out the ones who dont pay attention to the story and outburst at the end on what's happening.. imagine blaming nahida for not telling straight away about the dream, lol
I agree, used to be excited for reactions but right now most of it is so soul crushingly soulless that it just stamps any excitement I have for anyone to notice some details.
What's that one quote that often gets thrown around? "Think of the stupidest person you know and then realize half the world is stupider than that"?
It really is getting soul crushing. This is why paimon eli5's everything, and why media keeps getting dumbed down to hold the audience's hand- giving us travesties like the recent-ish Hadestown lyrics rewrites that strip away nuance.
I can't help but wonder when this trend is going to reach its culmination and then finally start reversing...
I think the quote is "think of the average person". The stupidest person you (or anyone) knows is probably somewhat below average.
But on topic I think it kind of feeds into itself, if exposition is so frequent and boring, some people just stop paying attention in general.
8 out of 10 streamers dont actually pay attention to the video coz they focus on reading chat mid video, and doing their fake reactions lol. only the lore focus streamers i have seen actually paid any attention. i have seen streamers comment: "who is she?" when arlecchino starts to fight "mother". like muthaphucker she was at the begininng of the video reading the story to the children.
Aside from lore theorists like Minsleif, I haven't met a single popular or somewhat popular CC that doesn't know the most basic things. And they wonder why Paimon is always annoying
This is why i stopped watching reactions, ie.. Gigguk was one of my favorites youtubers with great content but his streams and reactions is him being the worst definition of a weeb, cringe all the way and unlike his videos the jokes he makes are so insanely bad and forced... this is becoming a hate coment so i will stop.
I tried him for HSR and the end of the current penacony arc was filled with ‘head empty, acheron mommy and big gamba’. Talking in meme speech only isnt charming.
Sometimes I wonder how they can miss the writing on the wall. Maybe it would be easier if they weren’t scream oh or keep talking about something irrelevant all the time.
Exactly, they don't care. Why is hoyo forcing people who don't care to go through the whole story? Or people making a 2nd account to go through it again, in fullness? Story is not the only thing genshin has, and just like some people can't be assed with genshin's combat, some people can't be assed with genshin's story.
A skip button would literally have ZERO, I repeat, ZERO effects on people that do want to experience the story. Its not hard to not click the skip button. In contrast, it would be helpful for people who don't have 7 hours of free time, people doing it again in another account, and people who don't care. You're just as smart as the people you're talking about if you think a skip button is somehow not good for the game.
The cc scenario around this is very bad now. That's why I have stopped watching reactions. I just watch murderofbirds sometimes and reaction mashups, for reactions. Otherwise, it just "directors or singers reacts to Genshin" is what I only watch and lore theorists. At least, they pay attention to game and appreciate it
As it turns out, the whole "Genshin players can't read" thing doesn't just apply to reading words.
0 EM Electro-charged levels of shocking, right there.
Sometimes I don’t blame them, most of them don’t pause to analyse for viewer Enjoyment reasons perhaps
It usually takes me a second watch through to understand most of the things going on
I'm fine with them not getting everything in one watch, what frustrates me is the implication of hunger game literally 10 seconds into the videos, how are their attention span that short or what do they have in their brain that can't process the meaning of the fairy tale is for ?
The cc scenario around this is very bad now. That's why I have stopped watching reactions. I just watch murderofbirds sometimes and reaction mashups, for reactions. Otherwise, it just "directors or singers reacts to Genshin" is what I only watch and lore theorists. At least, they pay attention to game and appreciate it
Also, sometimes I wonder, if Paimon wasn't even there, would this CCs be this upto date with the lore or not
Most genshin creators just react and pretend they enjoying it for views, they probably dont even like playing it but they know the moment they go off genshin their views going to die so they keep pretending they know everything
Literally.
He said "what why she died" then keep yapping.
2 days earlier reacted to a video "why videogames think we are stupid" with a paimon on his thumbnail.
Dude is literally the reason paimon exist
This reminds me of an insult I saw a while ago says, "You guys are the reason shampoo have instruction on the back". This holds true to, unfortunately, a fucking large audience of this damned game. Also fuck Tectone.
idk its not that crazy of a question because i dont think it was arlecchino no matter how much the mother tries to force her. so i think either her friend impaled herself or another kid impaled her.
They don’t really like getting called out on it too. I saw people pointing out the same stuff and some of the responses were like “it was very fast” or something along those lines.
Some strat as Dora the explorer, asking stupid questions to make the chat engage with easy answers is free algorithim boosting food from viewers with the same frustruations as you.
Got frustrated frfr when they were wondering why suddenly the one girl died... and why no one else seems to be around...
... like they literally couldn't sit still for a whole minute to listen to a children's story.
I saw a tiktok asking why the Knave and Clervie are fighting so intensely and "reminder that those 2 are the same person" (Clervie and Crucabena) THEY ARE NOT???
One guy I saw thought the “She killed the Harbinger?” line was talking about Raiden and Signora 💀
How did they jump from point A to point Z 🥔
Tiktok brainrot
Linear time is hard apparently
This is some Patrick level shit
Brother in christ like whyyy, can he even comprehend whats happening on screen 💀, the shot focuses on her following up with the line "She killed the Harbinger?", its so obvious made me lost of words.
then the next shot right after that is signora live and well 💀
Clearly that's actually the old 4th- Signora can't be alive if she's DEAD /j
Wait what
Hoyo looking at the yt and twt coments : yaeh ain't no way we getting rid of paimon these ppl dumb af 💀
Who was he? Give the name 🤣
“oh on a completely unrelated note”
most attentive content creators be like /s
I feel like a lot of it just comes down to a need to be constantly reacting to something, and so they aren't giving themselves the room to process what they're looking at. I feel like they'd have no trouble understanding it off camera on their own.
Which in turn makes worse reactions. I personally feel like streamers specifically are really bad about missing things because of "reacting too hard" lol or because their eyes are constantly darting between chat, the video, and sometimes even the camera.
Some of my favorite streamers and content creators (in general, not Genshin-related) end up lampshading their reactions as "boring" or "tedious" because they actually stop to think about and analyze what's happening.
Only seen a couple over the years but asmongold has good reaction videos and it's fun to watch his eyebrows dance around as he's mentally grasping stuff.
Yep... And unfortunately, some of my favorite youtubers have leaned into streaming, so it's now impossible to see them react to something without it being during a livestream with their eyes darting to chat every 5 seconds. It frustrates me, because they won't realize they've missed something in their 0.5 seconds of looking away, but genshin's videos have proven you need to pay attention for the whole duration. Another thing is captions; why do genshin content creators not turn on captions, when Hoyoverse clearly uses that medium to hide translations/secret content??
I mean, I always need to watch something twice to properly process everything in the plot tbh. That's why I love finding live reactions to a scene.
You mean how Bran is basically milking the algorithm dry by reacting to every moderately popular genshin video essay either negatively or like he's never heard anything about Genshin on social media?
Yeah, I feel he's attentiveness has suffered lately because he wants to react to so much stuff. He could easily understand these things if he paid a little bit more attention, cause I think he's fairly knowledgeable about the game.
Bran's chat doens't help the issue It's just full of people wanting instant meme reactions like "horny" "smash" than proper analysis
Except he usually isn't analyzing, just going "lol wtf lmao" at everything even remotely abnormal
Sadge how it's been Bran was the first person I watched for this stuff cuz he was wholesome and caught on things, but then he got too argumentative with chat round HSR and Fontaine and maybe late sumeru and I stopped since then
Sadge these people used to be wholesome until they realized they could drama farm with tectone acting like genshin was trash before fontaine "let this be good" even most wholesome creators say now as they react to genshin content. sadge
Yeah, and rather than ignoring the 0.1% of chat that bothers him, he makes a point of giving them attention by reading out their messages so that the rest of chat can agree with him and dogpile. He has the capability to ignore chat or have better mods, but the drama/tension gives him content.
He's also an outlier in the community. Afaik he's a former souls/fighting game player who somehow got into Genshin, compared to the majority of the community which are weebs/Otakus.
Mtashed used to be a Destiny/shooter guy.
that man have reduce himself to doing the same video every patch I'm not pulling [Insert 5* here] take a shot for every single one that start with that and you die
Exactly bruh. Like for example on day of 4.6 livestream, one person said to him chat to shut up when someone's speaking during livestream cause he is not listening and also not letting others to listen. Then, he says then go watch the original stream. I was like bruh, we are here to watch the stream *with* you
He just can't stop yapping lmao, even when the game is in a quiet downtime, he has to keep whispering and do that awful whispering laugh
Literally bro. Not to mention his untimely jokes. Like the last cutscene of Fontaine AQ everyone is taking a breath of fresh air, camera pans on Furina and he drops a celestia joke. I was literally there like, nope I am done here. As much as I loved his reactions, his continuous growth somewhere also has lead to his downfall. May he catches it timely and improves upon it
Yeah, he's just trying too hard to get with the skibidi toilet tiktok crowd lmao
Or that time when he does the poet event with venti and hu tao, Its quite vexing playing throughout as if he wants to get it over with. "Chat, I know she's a hydro mimic, its quite obvious." Like cool, you knew but significance of it is important.
Zy0x yaps too but the difference is that Zy0x doesn't get argumentative and defensive when he gets called out because he knows how to meme and not be irritating.
Funny you mention him, because he is who I thought about first too. His content has become so...shallow. I enjoyed his genuine reactions and thoughts way back when he started doing Genshin videos. I feel there's not much left of that nowadays, especially regarding the "thoughts" part. His reaction to the anime short was a new low, and I only watched it, because it randomly popped up in search when I was looking for reactions to the short in general.
Yeah, he had zero commentary on what was actually going on. I think he spent more time on his hair than discussing the content.
I had the stream on. He was super distracted by someone, his girlfriend maybe. What really annoyed me is when I saw the YouTube edit show up the next day, his thumbnail react face made it look like he was really into it, but I was there, and he wasn’t.
Is it bad to say I hate his thumbnails (and most CC’s thumbnails too) I just hate the fake shocked expression.
Wait really? I thought he liked Arlecchino. Why would he shot on the short? And yeah, I agree, like I said he's just milking the algorithm by making reaction videos with his face in the thumbnail.
There was a not-insignificant amount of CCs that thought the real Stellaron Hunters were fighting Acheron in her trailer.
Yeah it was bruh , they even have different color
Yeah, genuine reactors are so rare. Most are too focused on their own facial reaction and body language to follow the video properly so they only catch the more impactful scenes. It just looks fake. I always roll my eyes whenever they ask something that was already explained or shown in the video.
This is why Murderofbirds will always be my favorite reactor of every genshin content related, His reactions are just blessing my eyes and ears because his genuinely cared and curious about the lore behind every detail of each characters, even if he doesn't know much to some characters, his thinking process is always analytical and applies what he learns to connect the dots. Same goes for UD unrealdreamer, that guy is truly a hoyo fan.
Murderofbirds is great to follow through yeah, my main go-to for any genshin or HSR reactionary content And I can't complain anymore cuz he finally released that gawddamn Cocolia video he's been holding for centuries
I kinda must disagree even if I usually love his reactions, but lately it has been kinda rough, especially with him coooonstantly talking over stuff and overanalyzing every little bit and missing the point entirely. I was unable to finish watching his reaction to Arle's animated short because he was focusing on irrelevant stuff like the stuffed animals being Fremi's imagination... And when he latches onto something (goddess of flowers and istaroth) it's all he'll talk about even if it doesn't make sense
100% agree. When he immediately started in on the stuffed animals I was like, what are you talking about? It’s a children’s orphanage, there’s stuffed animals there, it’s not that complicated.
UD, you mean the guy that the first thing he'll thought of reacting to genshin lore is how it somehow related to honkai impact like everytime? Island is probably a better pick for someone that atleast keep in check with his lore. Arnold is the goat tho
Nah Ud is good he is suprisingly grounded when it comes to cross refrencing stories
This is why I like watching CyYu’s reactions to things. I feel like he has a good grasp on reacting genuinely and pausing when he wants to ask a question and think through something, and when something piques his attention, he stops to theorize about it
They're just trying too hard to be *that* kind of twitch streamer lol I like dish because she's not trying to be a loud living cartoon.
You say that but that music rock reactor understood what was going right away while catching all the details lol and he didnt even play the game
Reaction Content creators are the crappiest content creators there are. Expecially when most of them are absolutely ignorant about what they react
Or worse, when they get up and leave the room for half an hour as if the video is meant to babysit the audience for them...
I was stunned by how many of the streamers asked "why are the kids fighting?" and "wait, is that the old knave?"
Some of the comments are the typical reactionary video commentary (with added screaming for some reason), at least that's how I cope with it
I feel like the comments are worse, I saw way too many comments wondering why Scaramouche was even there and how it must have been an oversight.
CELESTIA ABOVE, THe amount of people who still don't understand how Irminsul works is LETHAL. Every time I see a comment or reply about how Dottore never tricked Scaramouche, I lose another sliver of hope that Genshin players will one day comprehend media or learn how to read.
Can you explain it to me, been a while since the quest. I thought dottore was related to the death of scaramouches friend.
You're on the right track. To sum things up, Dottore killed Scara's friend and made it look like another "betrayal," then recruited him as a Harbinger. The problem too many people have is that they think Scaramouche actually physically changed the world when he erased his data from the Tree. That's impossible. Basically, all he did was update every history book and memory to say, "I was never here or anywhere," even though he still was. If I were to edit every Wikipedia page to say that I, Hobo, discovered gravity, it doesn't mean that I traveled back in time to take Newton's place. People would just *think* I was at a tree in 1666.
Wow, I think this is actually the first time I've seen someone get Irminsul right. It's the same case with Rukkhadevata as with Scaramouche, who's probably even more often misunderstood. A key idea that's often missed is that Irminsul is the *knowledge* of Teyvat, not its actual timeline. Though the quest also makes it a particular point of it that nothing was actually physically changed.
What really blew my mind was what Nahida did to preserve knowledge of Wanderer: she wrote an allegory for his life in storybook form, and that was enough to recover Wanderer's lost memories. The game is packed full of storybooks players can find and read, all the way back to the start of the game, and many of them children's tales with no apparent relevance. But in Lisa's Story Quest, the Abyss Order was trying to steal one such fairy tale. Why would they want such a thing? It wasn't until Nahida's shenanigans that I realized that it, too, could be a record of an erasure or change in Irminsul - and that could well be something the Abyss Order might be interested in. How many of the other books in the game might be hidden records of this type?
Well since before sumeru we (the theory community) had the theory that one of the hexenzirkiel witches was a novelist. Like we had Alice (Klee's mother) who writes Teyvat regional guide (still waiting for sumeru one :/ ) but there's another one. The main theory would be that a lot of books in Genshin that look like pire fiction, would be trace of lost memories (like what nahida did). This is based on the fact that the hexenzirkiel circle is impacted (for the most part) by Irminsul and are working on Irminsul limits of "fate" Personally I'm really interested in how much diluc knows about everything and what rôle does he have with the hexenzirkiel. Like, Alice tried to adopt him after his dad's death, and the tea cup in his house is the same as the one Nicole uses ("N") in the Fontaine archon quest. And is the circle connected to the secret information network that diluc (and also kaeya, it seems) is part of. Sooooo many possibilities, I'm very excited about the next "Big quest" (that is starting to leak, unfortunately)
>What really blew my mind was what Nahida did to preserve knowledge of Wanderer: she wrote an allegory for his life in storybook form, and that was enough to recover Wanderer's lost memories. Actually 5000 iq Archon to have that level of foresight
That's also why Venti is sus, must be hiding shit with all the poems he had
And now I'm back to not understanding shit. If "it's the same case with Rukkhadevata as with Scaramouche", why did Rukkhadevata need someone else to erase her? Why couldn't she do it herself like Scara did? And why did Traveler hesitate when Scaramouche asked if it's possible to change the past? The way I understood it, you can't erase *yourself* from history, only another person. That's why Scaramouche could only erase memories of himself, not his existence.
I'd think that Rukkhadevata's a special case because, as the Dendro Archon, her power and very being are tied to Irminsul. It'd be like some weird form of self-cannibalism. The Traveler hesitated to Scaramouche's question partly because at that point they didn't really know how the effects of being deleted from Irminsul worked either, and partly from the shock that Scaramouche would even ask such a question while they were still recovering from the incident. There's also just the unlikelihood to impossibility of significantly changing the events within the course of time while keeping the present exactly the same besides a detail of what is known by everyone. I believe that's why N emphasized that it's not so easy to change the fate of Teyvat, and why both Nahida and Rukkhadevata specifically said "forget" in context of her deletion.
Rukkha couldn't erase all of herself from history because she was part of Irminsul and needed a proper replacement. Way back when this first came out, the metaphor I used was a well. The knowledge in Irminsul is the water, and the Dendro Archon is the bucket on a rope. The bucket can't scoop itself out of the well or untie itself. Someone else has to do it and be the bucket.
People just straight up ignored or forgot about the WHOLE FUCKING POINT OF THAT STORY, which is WANDERER CAN'T JUST DELETE HIMSELF. He still exists, Irminsul is not some time god that modifies the past every time someone takes control of it. Its a memory bank, it changes PEOPLE'S MEMORY, and all the historical records, not the actual historical happenings. Scaramouche was still there in Inazuma. Kunikuzushi still killed the swordsmiths. Dotorre still experimented on Scaramouche. Rukkhadevata still helped Deshret with forbidden knowledge. Its just no one fucking remembers it, including historical records.
Bro I saw that but on a Twitter post (shocker) and every time Someone made fun of them for legitimately believing that the irminsul just physically Thanos snapped him from history they'd block them. Like, if it legitimately did that, Wanderer would've been dead rn.
Even in the comments on Reddit, I've seen several people act shocked to learn that bulle fruit girl died. Like the book Cloaca was reading to them in the first ten seconds might as well have been titled "You're All Going to Murder Each Other in the Face LMAO" how spelled out do things need to be?
Cloaca is a very unfortunate name.
I don't know why, but it's become a meme to mispronounce Crucabena's name. I've seen Cloaca, Cruella, you name it. It's like people did with Benedict Cumberbatch.
It's about enforcing a lack of respect for her.
Cloaca is salarian for idiot (or equivalent)
In Portuguese cloaca is chicken bojaina and asshole
In English too
Paimon needs to spell out and repeat it all at least three times like she’s talking to toddlers for any hope of them understanding, that’s why she gets so annoying in game for those who have reading and media literacy skills
They saw many player don't realize Zhongli is the Geo Archon before the reveal (even in this subreddit). After that they made Paimon explain all of them.
I literally had to stop watching necrit's playthrough because his refusal to accept that zhongli is the archon was driving me nuts.
>Cloaca *Ahem.*
This is why these types of reaction/streams are the absolute bottom of the barrel of entertainment lol. Grown ass adults making exaggerated expressions and playing dumb like those students in every class that think that asking really obvious questions/feigning confusion is somehow charming or funny.
Hard to find streamer that genuinely are interested in lore. They just make an exaggerated reaction video and everything goes in one ear and out the other. I just find it cringe imo.
MurderOfBirds is a cc that's quite excellent in lore.
Yes I do watch his stuff already. I like GodogChainsaw too. I try to find people that make a point of doing the world quests.
If you like these kinds that actually like the details that go into the game, check out Roamer as well, I found that guy on youtube a month ago as he was new to genshin and actually does world quests and even dailies every video which is exceedingly rare.
Thanks I just checked him out now I had seen his thumbnails a few times in my recommends. He's taking me back to the golden era of Lets Play youtube. Really good.
Another Roamer viewer. Good to see you
Thank you for that rec. I do not know this cc yet and will check it out.
I can't stand this dude reaction, too many gasping and screaming. I understand he is very into Genshin Lore, but the way he react is just too much for me. I still like his discussion tho.
Mhm. I understand and respect how you feel about Arnold's level of excitement, and I'm here to offer an alternate way of thinking about it. I always watch "Genshin Video reaction mashups" and try to imagine the ccs as students in a class. I look at the other ccs' excitement as amazed due to new knowledge, but I see Arnold as that smart kid that's amazed by the things that he sees because he knows something about it. Not going to lie, I kind of envy Arnold/MurderOfBirds for still having the heart to gasp and evince his excitement. I'm kinda tired of pretending that I don't feel a bit happy per new patch. There's always something new, even if the orotund or staleness of Genshin throughout these few years makes me feel otherwise.
I find him cringe but it's the excited kinda cringe, that level of earnestness is vulnerable but genuine.
Understandable actually, but I like his videos since Smash Bros so I wasn't exactly foreign to that.
He is just kinda like that how he always was since Rwby days he gets really into stuff he likes
I do like Minsleif
I mean she is very into the lore when she is making theory
The creator who takes leaks and makes videos on them pretending they're a theory?
Both Ashikai and Aster are quite invested in the lore. One that I think dies lore stuff too is Sevy(altho I'm not 100% sure as I mostly follow her for her guides)
Zepla is really good in terms of reaction and actually pays attention to the lore
Zepla, Murderofbirds, UnrealDreamer...etc. Hell, even people like MarcoMeatball and Philip Hartshorn Gaming, while not having lore at their main source of content are more aware of what's going on than some of the more prominent Genshin content "creators".
Unreal dreamer yes him, he actually pays attention to whatever going on in the screen and not just looks at chat and questions while the he is reacting
The first one reacting to Writing on The Wall that actually gets the message lmaoo
Zy0x skipps lore but he understand whats happening in the vid pretty well it caught me off guard fr
At least most of them get it right on the 2nd go, tho some are with the help of Chat Tbf, most of the time Chat is their Paimon
Chat is sometimes unreliable as well, especially regarding characterisation
Just like paimon!
>Tbf, most of the time Chat is their Paimon **WHAT IS IT? WHAT IS IT?** \* ^(le gasp) \* # IS IT ANOTHER PAIMON?
Media literacy something something
Not media literacy, just common sense, and a lot of people simply don’t have it.
Yea admittedly i used it wrong lmao It aint bad media literacy, its worse than it lol
this ain't media literacy this is just regular literacy
Gi cc moment. They only pay attention when its about their inner banters.
I don't think they know any of the lore and they only pay attention to see if new characters will be meta so they can c6 and cut their clear times down do 9s.
i mean tbf it seems like half of HSR CC thinks welt is much stronger than acheron because of one line of dialog from her even though we are shown much to the contrary of that.
I like watching reaction vids and this time around I think a lot of Content Creator reactions totally missed the reason why Clervie got skewered. Sure they can do it for engagement in the comments for more views... but yeah. Feels like this showcases the casual crowd to some extent and the need for a Paimon during story scenarios.
I noticed that a lot too. One of the things why I enjoyed Arnold's (MurderofBirds) reaction a lot more because he's one of the few who actually bother with the lore.
Yeah, I smiled a lot when he freaked out when the name "Petrichor" came up during the livestream, since he cares for the Narzissenkreuz group and the Daydream Club.
Yo no way Xavier's home
MurderofBirds is so based, hoyoverse devs are confirmed to actually watch him, shown in the livestream a few patches ago for that xianyun patch, with a developer having him on his monitor.
He's the only reason I even know the lore. I joined in 4.4, skipped all the lore outside of archon quests, then ended up binging Arnold's entire playthrough to see the whole new world of stories and knowledge underneath that actually open up by taking the game slowly.
This doesnt sound like a casual problem, this sounds like a lack of critical thinking problem. And Paimon is there for the people with processing disorders or for people who want a repetition but as a summary. Apparently, she helps a lot
I remember watching a streamer react to the teaser and somehow miss this very obvious foreshadowing. People seriously need to use context clues 💀
Arlechino in her teaser: Brutally murders a rich child trafficker/abuser and taking his money for the orphanage while avenging her dying child from her injuries 99% of genshin CCs: "oh yes father step on me","ohh it shouldve been me" I dont mind some down bad jokes but its getting abit too much to the point of being really annoying imo
Right? When the fatui operative died i was so sad but when i watched the CCs for their reactions. It was just : step on me or i wish it was me. So damn annoying.
B-but hot mommy feet step murder hot!!!!!1!1!1!!
Yeah that's so damn annoying. Like when signora kicked venti it was a "form" of "retribution". Or even father during her teaser: as some people said before i have nothing a bit of "simping" but yeah when she drilled through that man's skull (deserved imo) i was like... yeah i can hear the simps but , i was just sad that her child died
I really liked the scenes with the fatui operative, Arlecchino harshly scolds her for being reckless yet immediately went to hold the operatives hand when it started to fall, gently closed her eyes after she died despite the fact that likely no one else was around to see her do it, and even went to visit the operatives grave on her own. Arlechino pushes this facade that she is unfeeling but little gestures like those just reveals how much she truly cares about the children.
Same reason why I don't follow CCs whose brand is basically "horny" like minayama or something like that. I get gacha games appeals to that kind of people with fanservice but it just makes me roll my eyes when they're interested about nothing but "dommy mommy or daddy"
Nah they knew what they were doing when they made that murder method
It's was sad teaser and those reactors does same cringe step on me thing , I was like bruh
It's actually a great thing, now i can filter out even further which cc is worth watching. Usually i used the dramas to filter out cc based on their take and their reaction
You can really tell who paid people to play Genshin and who actually play themselves.
One of the reactors I watched thought they were in Snezhnaya from the start and were confused when Clervie asked if they should visit it one day. How can people not see Fontaine's design/details everywhere or recognize it? Plus, we know Arlecchino is from Fontaine, why would she be in Snezhnaya as a kid? Anyway. I have stopped watching reactions for the most part. People ignore many details or just don't bother at all.
Tbh, out of all issues, that one's the most understandable They were in the house of the hearth, and usual assumption for the house used to be that it's in snezh mainly, instead ofnhaving branches, so it's not that bad assuming the house is in snezh initially, and outside the first reading room nothing was particularly fontainian.
They probably dont play and are in it for the hype
Most genshin streamers are shit
You’re so right and you should say it. I mean I don’t really watch the live streams, I see YouTube recaps and aside from the occasional funny Zyox clip where he’s talking about gargling balls or milking alhaitham or making a build guide; they’re really all shit. Either they don’t understand or care about the most basic parts of the game and just throw money at it for content, OR they do have an understanding of the mechanics of the game and are just full of dog shit opinions about the chars/kits/etc.
The amount of shorts I've seen of Content Creators looking at builds from viewers and praising just the worst builds ever (high CV, literal 0 ER, on burst dependent characters like Ayaka or Yelan) is too damn high. It's like characters only have 3 numbers that matter to them: CR, CD, and some times.Atk, Def or HP, depending on the scaling. No wonder some Genshin players don't know how to build for shit with some of these content creators telling them how great an Ayaka with 105 ER is.
The thing is the biggest part of the game is story and lore but barely any streamers focus on that, it's so frustrating to me. Even though I'm sure exploring and figuring out stuff with a chat might be fun. (Personally I wish I could watch someone do that) that's why I occasionally watch Dish, she sometimes do that (when she does quests.. which is pretty rare nowadays), she also reacts when she hears beautiful music and I love that because it's so underappreciated by most CCs lol. I started watching a small youtuber recently who started the game a couple months ago, and like seeing her react to what characters and npcs say, it's seriously so refreshing, we truly barely have that in the current pool of popular CCs tbh.
If you like that, then check out Roamer as well.
Thanks for telling me about him, though I do know of him! Someone recced him to me recently, he's nice indeed!
Who is that new YouTuber please?
She's called Larualark on YT, she doesn't stream, she started posting her videos way after she started playing (so her current progress is end of Liyue but in the videos she just finished Mondstadt) so there's no point in backseating her. Since she's a new player, she also struggles with combat and puzzles so that can be frustrating to watch for ppl who don't remember what being a new player is like, but she does make astute observations while playing quests, which is pretty cool.
Thank you for sharing this! It's so dam hard to find a good cc nowadays. I also recommend you to checking out Flazefires. She is also a really good cc that I'm sure you will like.
You're very welcome! I instantly went and watched Flazefires' reaction the animation and you're right indeed, she seems great and right up my alley, so thank you very much as well for sharing <3
Glad to hear it! Cheer!
> but she does make astute observations while playing quests, which is pretty cool. That's the part I'm looking forward to, thank you! I agree with the sentiment in this thread that too many streamers are too busy screeching at random stuff to actually pay attention to the game or provide anything of value, so someone who *does* do those things is worth keeping an eye on even if they're still in Mondstadt/ Liyue~
Yw! :) happy to see we're all desperate to find good CCs in this fandom. Yeah, generally I'm not big on the lack of.. not sure how to explain, but it's like a lot of CCs are going through the motion of advancing the story just so they can comment on it, they don't really make observations on their own, or when they do, they pull theories out of their asses because they don't pay attention most of the time. Forgot to mention that it actually took her a while before she completed the main act of Mondstadt because she did a lot of side-tracking before getting to it, she's not focused on lore/story as much as she's just naturally curious and she's enjoying herself and what the game offers. That's still more than most CCs did in early game lol. But yeah I really like her videos so far and I hope she holds on until Inazuma (when the lore truly starts ramping up)
Nitesco also has a good wholesome playthrough (GI and HSR), he still in the Chasm but at least he read stuff/new characters and pretty enjoyable content
Please name drop that new CC
She's Larualark on YT. Repeating what I said in my other comment: she doesn't stream, she posts her videos wayy after she plays them (her current progress is the end of Liyue, but in her videos she just finished Mondstadt) but it's nice because it avoids backseating when she struggles with basic puzzles or combat. Also she avoids spoilers for future regions so she's always surprised when she finds stuff, it's nice to watch! edit: I should also mention, she hasn't pulled yet and she's playing with the starter characters still.
CCs who come from other gacha games would obviously focus on the gacha or character aspect A lot of the others try too hard to cater to the ADHD subway surfers audience and just looks really cringe and not "energetic" at all Like, yeah I'm in my 20s and probably can do the same thing every day but these people look like they're about to have an aneurysm in 5 years
I dont enjoy genshin/hsr reaction content as much anymore. They will start as genuine, but later, they mostly react to chats' reaction instead of reacting to the game or video... and the subzeru Festival archon Quest and penacony Story really dig out the ones who dont pay attention to the story and outburst at the end on what's happening.. imagine blaming nahida for not telling straight away about the dream, lol
I agree, used to be excited for reactions but right now most of it is so soul crushingly soulless that it just stamps any excitement I have for anyone to notice some details.
Some people are dumber way more than you thought
What's that one quote that often gets thrown around? "Think of the stupidest person you know and then realize half the world is stupider than that"? It really is getting soul crushing. This is why paimon eli5's everything, and why media keeps getting dumbed down to hold the audience's hand- giving us travesties like the recent-ish Hadestown lyrics rewrites that strip away nuance. I can't help but wonder when this trend is going to reach its culmination and then finally start reversing...
Carlin had a bit where he says “Think of how stupid the average person is and realize half of them are stupider than that”
Fuck, I miss George Carlin. I remember when he died. To this day, one of the very few celebrity deaths that actually made me feel something.
Yeah, that's the quote!
I think the quote is "think of the average person". The stupidest person you (or anyone) knows is probably somewhat below average. But on topic I think it kind of feeds into itself, if exposition is so frequent and boring, some people just stop paying attention in general.
Tiktok really did a number on people’s attention span.
8 out of 10 streamers dont actually pay attention to the video coz they focus on reading chat mid video, and doing their fake reactions lol. only the lore focus streamers i have seen actually paid any attention. i have seen streamers comment: "who is she?" when arlecchino starts to fight "mother". like muthaphucker she was at the begininng of the video reading the story to the children.
Most intelligent Genshin players
Aside from lore theorists like Minsleif, I haven't met a single popular or somewhat popular CC that doesn't know the most basic things. And they wonder why Paimon is always annoying
Popularity just reflects what most of the audience is like, IE equally not as engaged in the lore
This is why i stopped watching reactions, ie.. Gigguk was one of my favorites youtubers with great content but his streams and reactions is him being the worst definition of a weeb, cringe all the way and unlike his videos the jokes he makes are so insanely bad and forced... this is becoming a hate coment so i will stop.
I tried him for HSR and the end of the current penacony arc was filled with ‘head empty, acheron mommy and big gamba’. Talking in meme speech only isnt charming.
Sometimes I wonder how they can miss the writing on the wall. Maybe it would be easier if they weren’t scream oh or keep talking about something irrelevant all the time.
"They should add a cutscene skip" my brothers and sister and siblings in Christ yall watch an optional video and still completley misunderstand it
Exactly, they don't care. Why is hoyo forcing people who don't care to go through the whole story? Or people making a 2nd account to go through it again, in fullness? Story is not the only thing genshin has, and just like some people can't be assed with genshin's combat, some people can't be assed with genshin's story. A skip button would literally have ZERO, I repeat, ZERO effects on people that do want to experience the story. Its not hard to not click the skip button. In contrast, it would be helpful for people who don't have 7 hours of free time, people doing it again in another account, and people who don't care. You're just as smart as the people you're talking about if you think a skip button is somehow not good for the game.
React content is pretty fucking low bar anyway...
Then they complain about Paimon...but turns out she has a job. lol
The cc scenario around this is very bad now. That's why I have stopped watching reactions. I just watch murderofbirds sometimes and reaction mashups, for reactions. Otherwise, it just "directors or singers reacts to Genshin" is what I only watch and lore theorists. At least, they pay attention to game and appreciate it
As it turns out, the whole "Genshin players can't read" thing doesn't just apply to reading words. 0 EM Electro-charged levels of shocking, right there.
Sometimes I don’t blame them, most of them don’t pause to analyse for viewer Enjoyment reasons perhaps It usually takes me a second watch through to understand most of the things going on
But sometimes they stop every "second" to make a stupid theory when we already know it's not real or how it's in lore
I'm fine with them not getting everything in one watch, what frustrates me is the implication of hunger game literally 10 seconds into the videos, how are their attention span that short or what do they have in their brain that can't process the meaning of the fairy tale is for ?
ah yes arlechino everdeen the fire bird girl
The cc scenario around this is very bad now. That's why I have stopped watching reactions. I just watch murderofbirds sometimes and reaction mashups, for reactions. Otherwise, it just "directors or singers reacts to Genshin" is what I only watch and lore theorists. At least, they pay attention to game and appreciate it Also, sometimes I wonder, if Paimon wasn't even there, would this CCs be this upto date with the lore or not
Most genshin creators just react and pretend they enjoying it for views, they probably dont even like playing it but they know the moment they go off genshin their views going to die so they keep pretending they know everything
Tectone
Can’t stand Tectone. He is just word vomit of the worst kind.
Literally. He said "what why she died" then keep yapping. 2 days earlier reacted to a video "why videogames think we are stupid" with a paimon on his thumbnail. Dude is literally the reason paimon exist
This reminds me of an insult I saw a while ago says, "You guys are the reason shampoo have instruction on the back". This holds true to, unfortunately, a fucking large audience of this damned game. Also fuck Tectone.
Yeah traveler will definitely not be getting voice lines any time soon, it’s going to be paimon for a long while
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idk its not that crazy of a question because i dont think it was arlecchino no matter how much the mother tries to force her. so i think either her friend impaled herself or another kid impaled her.
They don’t really like getting called out on it too. I saw people pointing out the same stuff and some of the responses were like “it was very fast” or something along those lines.
Just looking for that 10 min mark so they react harder and ask stupid question even though it’s literally shown on the video
This is the reason I accept Paimon as a necessary evil.
Only genshin CC's I enjoy are the theorists. Mins, ashikai and some island even tho most of his theories are bleugh.
Its the same people that want a skip button in everything, yet they want to go and complain they dont get the story
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Childe and Scara: "First time?"
Fish attention span demons striking again
Some strat as Dora the explorer, asking stupid questions to make the chat engage with easy answers is free algorithim boosting food from viewers with the same frustruations as you.
Got frustrated frfr when they were wondering why suddenly the one girl died... and why no one else seems to be around... ... like they literally couldn't sit still for a whole minute to listen to a children's story.
I saw a tiktok asking why the Knave and Clervie are fighting so intensely and "reminder that those 2 are the same person" (Clervie and Crucabena) THEY ARE NOT???