There's a Giant Bomb quote in a new Teens React video.

Giant Bomb moving up in the world.

Is this really moving up?

Yay, completely baseless claims from the wiki!

Also, image isn't showing for me.

Okay, I'll admit, that's a pretty good quote to pull. Whoever wrote that, kudotsunodas.

Whoever is running that youtube channel decided to use Giant Bomb over Wikipedia. Mission Accomplished!

Neat!

This is why wiki articles need to be objective.

I'd call it a parallel move.

[citation needed]

We have arrived?

Cool that Giant Bomb's wiki got quoted, but like MB alludes to, they quoted the wiki on a completely unsourced statement. There is probably Mattel marketing data somewhere that lists the reasons that "most kids" gave for why they didn't like the Power Glove, but I highly doubt that whoever wrote that wiki article has that information.

MOVIN ON UP

That's actually pretty funny. =)

I hate the "x reacts" videos, but that's pretty good.

According to gaming website Giant Bomb, the Power Glove is "so bad"

me neither

@armaan8014: it's not showing for me either but it shows if I click it

I just feel bad for whoever was forced at gunpoint to watch YouTube "Reacts.." videos

@krullban: Ah.. Thanks

They finally made it into the big leagues... Jeff and the rest of the crew must be ecstatic.

I'm going to look back at this moment, when GB is on every billboard in Time's Square and say: "This was it. This was the moment that Giant Bomb became the god of the new world."

Remember when Sky News quoted the wiki page for RapeLay? At least that one was an objectively written summary of what you can do in RapeLay.

I too can't see the image

@nightriff: click it

@mb: @bisonhero: I've always wondered why the GB wiki doesn't support footnotes or references. I'm all for sourcing everything and being objective, but it's a little difficult when the tools aren't there to properly reference an entry.

Don't feel bad ... I watch most of them and enjoy them a lot.

Now I just feel bad for you.. sigh..

@2headedninja: The elders one is the most watchable to me. But that one nutjob woman annoys me.

Giant Bomb will move up in the world when Unprofessional Friday moves to CBS?

49th reacts to Giant Bomb quote on Teens React:

Neat.

If you have a sense of humor I think it is.

I like Teens React and I don't care who knows it!

Those are some charismatic Teens.

@2headedninja said:

Yeah, I don't see what peoples' problem is with that video series. I think it's interesting to see how generations other than my own respond to past and present events/videos/objects, and interesting for them to be put into a spot to potentially explain why they feel that way.

I actually get the least out of the Kids React ones, because some of those kids are like 5, and it just feels like their reactions are less a product of their generation, and more a "Kids Say the Darndest Thing" product of how 5-year-olds are oblivious to how almost everything works. But the Teens React and Elders React both have their interesting moments. My only issue is that they lean on the same set of teens/elders a little much, instead of getting a broader sample of people.

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They did it, they finally did it.

+1

Its really about ethics in wiki articles.

Be on your toes, people, literally anything you say on this website could be pulled for quotation by a popular YouTube franchise.

@bisonhero: I just think it's incredibly lame. Grandparents react to Grand Theft Auto wooo look at how shocked they are! Like c'mon.. Obviously there is a huge audience for this stuff but then again plenty of people went to see Grown Ups 2.

@humanity: Follow-up question: did you actually watch that particular video? Sure, the implied "hook" of the title and thumbnail is "Oh, they're seniors, of course they'll be shocked by GTA and think it's abhorrent", but in the actual video most of them have fun with it (aside from some difficulties with the controls). One or two are prudish about it, but most of them actually see the appeal of it, and are wiling to have a discussion about why they think the game is so popular and a few other discussion topics.

I think people judge that series a lot at face value, and assume it's just kids or teens or seniors watching something and going "EWWWWWW GROSS" or "That's fucked up, fuck that", and while like 25% of the time that might be the case, the guys behind the "React" videos do their best to try to give some more context to whatever is being reacted to and try to prompt some discussion. The first half of the video is usually people giving gut reactions to the thing, the second half is the creators posing a series of questions to the people exploring why they feel that way, or even challenging them on whether they're having an open mind about the topic.

You're welcome to disagree, but I think you're not giving it enough credit. If you want I can link you to a few videos that demonstrate what I'm talking about. Comparing the "react" videos to Grown Ups 2 is not a fair comparison.

@bisonhero: I haven't watched any in a while but I've become somewhat uncomfortable with the entire YouTube culture. Strangely enough I used to watch a lot of original YouTube content in the past and thought a lot of it was really great. Overdrift is one of the best amateur short movies I've ever seen over there (it's about drifting so hard you turn into a dinosaur). At one point though a lot of it stopped being content ostensibly made for the sake of creating cool content, but content created with the explicit purpose of harnessing views. The YouTube template is something that actively turns me off these days. The bright neon thumbnails that abandon any aesthetics in favor of catching the eye, the blatant "rate, comment, subscribe" on each video, the all too familiar fluff that Jeff mentions on this weeks Bombcast. For a while I followed that CTFxC channel in the past, completely entranced and simultaneously really grossed out by the prospect of these people just recording themselves daily, having no jobs, living off viewers (like me) watching them walk their dogs or go shopping. I'd watch it and get upset thinking how pointless all of this is and how much money they are making from it.

I honestly can't explain it. Maybe I've unwittingly hit some weird hipster attitude of this stuff getting too popular so I can't stand it anymore. Maybe it's that all of it stinks of cheap monetization tactics. I'm sure some of those shows have genuine care and production values put into them, but personally I am nearly physically repelled by it.

I'm kind of on board with this even though I watch reactions every once in a while. Though, like porn, I prefer to watch amateurs.

For me I think the FIneBros. are what I dislike about YouTube culture. I was there for the early days of YouTube when Finebros actually put out original content. However, there channel just became a stream of effortless money-grabs. "50 spoilers in a minutes" "Let's watch people watch ERB/ME!ME!ME!/Other thing that's popular on YouTube." They rely so much on other people's works that it seems like they are totally creatively bankrupt.

GiantBomb, a website where literally anybody posting anything somehow has become some sort of philosophical debate by the time you get to the thread.

@humanity: I see what you mean, in that we've entered some weird era where every Youtube channel that wants broad exposure has to be its own carnival barker and make the thumbnail really eyecatching and oversimplified, even in the case of a video that is actually much more intelligent than its thumbnail and video title imply. I'll agree that it's way grosser than the equivalent in other media, such as book covers (they have some standards), newspaper front pages (some standards unless they're a rag), magazine covers, movie posters/trailers, etc. Because there is no gatekeeper and very minimal sense of integrity or standards within the Youtube "industry", it's sadly a race to the bottom in terms of how you present the titles and thumbnails of your videos.

I guess I'm still at the point where I can ignore that bullshit in some cases, if the content of the videos is worth it, and the "React" videos are one of them for me.

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