Generic reaction video churned out in a stream of homogenized content has twice the views of the video it was reacting to:

A listing of the top youtbers:

Look at this stuff.
Just look at it.
It's mostly music that teenage girls listen to, people literally just standing in front of a camera talking, or minecraft.
Like seriously
this woman is the fourth most popular (single) person on youtube and she literally got her popularity by talking about stuff like "how to make your boobs look bigger with makeup" and "i dislike it when men grab my ass"
Obviously ya'll know all about PewDiePie.
IDK I just figured I'd rant about how youtube is still mostly used by young teenagers and how people that actually try to make intelligent videos will never even have a shot at the top 50.
And no, I'm not just mad because I'm not popular lol. I don't have an active youtube channel right now.