Amelia Pathways React Compilation Part 5 (4 Clips)

Описание: The super-viral meme Amelia is still going strong and getting bigger than ever! I look at four clips, all by new channels, instead of revisiting the same channels I'd gone to before. One of these is a compilation of Amelia scenes from the original Pathways propaganda game, one appears to be from the original Pathways game, but it is too hilarious and I haven't seen it in other scene compilations, so I think that it is new stuff just made to look like it is from the original game, and two are entirely new content. All four are from channels that I haven't looked at before. There's awesome music and a lot of references.

This time, these four clips were all pre-watched: because I did actually watch and react to them fresh, and uploaded that video briefly yesterday, before deciding I needed to film a new reaction video. If you want all the details of why, you can go to the end of my react video where I explain it.

The 1st video is "Amelia Scenes From Pathways UK Extremism Game" compiled and uploaded by ‪@KuroKuroClips‬ and the link is here:    • Amelia Scenes From Pathways UK Extremism Game  

The 2nd video that appears to be from the original game, but is almost certainly not, is "Pathways EVIL Ending" by ‪@DrPhoxotic‬ and the link is here:    • Pathways EVIL Ending  

The animated duel between Amelia and Keir Starmer is "MP Amelia Vs PM - Duel of Politics" by ‪@AmeliaPathway‬ and the link is here:    • MP Amelia Vs PM - Duel of Politics  

The music video that uses "a guy reading a book to his kid" as a framing device is "BASED in the UK (Amelia's Anthem)" by ‪@Jay_I_TV‬ (probably a pun on A.I.) and the link is here:    • BASED in the UK (Amelia's Anthem)  

To explain about why I refilmed this reaction video and took down the "fresh react" version to replace it with this prewatched version, the gist of it is that I was producing rushed content right before leaving for work, and I uploaded it to YouTube after doing spot checking that wasn't thorough, only to realize that it just wasn't the kind of thing I wanted to represent my channel. I do a pointing a camera at the screen technique for my react videos, but I still strive for a high quality, and this was just too rushed.

I realize that flubs like that can increase the popularity of a channel, but, if I do become big, I don't want it to be because of reasons like that. A channel that develops popularity because of goofs will create pressure to either do them on purpose (which is deception, and I don't want to deal in deception) or it will create pressure to not even try to avoid blunders, to just be a low-quality amateur who never improves in quality and who lets many fumbles happen. This second path is not deception, but it creates an incentive to avoid improvement for my channel. I don't want to go down either of those paths. Every time I make a blunder, I don't want to wonder if I'm deluding myself into making more fumbles than normal because it draws in more viewers. Instead, I want to just try to make good content, resulting in my channel either growing, or failing to grow, based on the good things I do, not based on my mistakes.

In my end-of-video ramble, I did mention Reviewbrah tilting a pie by mistake that went viral, in "Taco Bell's NEW Baja Blast Pie Review!" at link    • Taco Bell's NEW Baja Blast Pie Review!   and he later makes an explanation video    • Addressing The Controversy   where he says it was indeed a mistake. I wanted to clarify that I am not accusing "The Report Of The Week" of doing this on purpose in order to go viral. I am simply pointing out that weird flubs can increase popularity and I'm using his pie fumble as a recent well-known example.

I also mention that I'm thinking of stopping my technique of pointing a camera at the monitor screen to film reactions and instead I will likely start using screen capturing. There are a bunch of reasons why I've used the camera-at-the-screen technique for so long, but here are the three biggest:

1) People encouraged me to do it, because it creates a sense of nostalgia for the early days of YouTube.

2) I feel like pointing a camera at the screen for reactions helps to drive my viewers to the original videos, so that I don't "steal" that other channel's potential viewers by doing a reaction. This is something I worry about, because I know that react content can become parasitic, and I want to discourage that parasitism.

3) At a time when YouTube is possibly harder to succeed at than during any previous time, doing something that is very different from what everyone else is doing will help my channel stand out from the crowd.

However, continuing to point a camera at the screen now, after I've reached a hundred subscribers, does feel like it is maybe something that I should move on from. If my channel growth stalls, or if I get a lot of complaints about "why did you stop pointing a camera at your monitor screen" then I will probably go back to that method.