YMMV / React

• Animation Age Ghetto:
  • "Teens React to My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic" had elements of this trope. Naturally, the bronies were not happy about this, so they created Bronies React as an initial response to this.
  • Averted with "Kids React to DuckTales" (woo-oo!), even though they are kids and that, like the above Teens React example, the Fine Brothers only showed the intro sequence. Eleven of the thirteen kids seen in the episode said that they would watch an episode of DuckTales, and one of the younger kids even said that today's cartoons are terrible compared to back then, and that's just from watching an intro!
  • Discussed and mocked in "Teens React to Attack on Titan".
    Benny: "Why is there a stigma, like when some people say 'anime' and a lot of people are like 'Aww, I hate it...'"
    Labib: "'Aww, you're so immature, you should grow up, blahblahblah...' Calm down."
    Josh: "In anime you could make things like, more intense than you could in things like The Walking Dead and Game of Thrones."
    Eric: "People are always like "oh, it's cartoons, you can't watch it, it's for children", and then they go and see Frozen (2013) twelve times, and The LEGO Movie ten times, so you can freaking watch anime people!"
    Overlay: TRUTH
  • There's also "Elders React to Too Many Cooks", where one of the elders revealed that she'd already seen it from following [adult swim], then immediately added "I know I shouldn't".
• Ascended Fridge Horror: During "YouTubers React to Don't Hug Me I'm Scared", Hank Green was asked how actual kids would react to this clip, upon which he retorted that the Fines could easily do that themselves, being in charge of Kids React and all. Sure enough...
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: One from Maksim at the "Subscribe/watch another video" end of Kids VS Food: Vegemite, while saying the line below, he picks and lifts up his chair like he was about to whack someone with it, for no reason.
  Maksim: Don't forget to Subscribe... *starts to pick up his chair* And see us eat more nasty stuff, baby!
• Broken Base:
  • Sometimes within each episode, just look at "YouTubers React to Best Song Ever" for one example. You have people who like and don't like the song, then people who promptly didn't like it upon finding out a very large amount of it had been taken from The Who's "Baba O'Riley".
  • The base is broken between people who like the new React channel, as it means virtually more React videos for them to enjoy, and people who hate it, as it means React is even more of a Cash-Cow Franchise for the Fine Bros than ever before and thus more overtly prevalent.
  • The Nickelodeon show completely dispenses with the Q&A sessions that result in a lot of the videos' best material, focusing entirely on the direct reactions. Though it also adds fun twists like having the kids finish a video's story, and physical challenges based on them.
  • Any video that talks about controversial topics gets this. Either because kids are too young to talk about this, or accuse the Fine Bros of promoting their own agenda... whatever that is supposed to be.
  • The decision to terminate their "React World" plans. While some have forgiven them, others thought their apology was half-assed and that they should have posted a video dropping their plans instead of just a simple blog post. This has since led to a split between those who say they'll stop disliking the videos if/when a public apology is posted on their channel and those who have said it still won't be enough.
• Crosses the Line Twice:
  • Shane Dawson... um... "starting a relationship" with Magibon. Most of the things he said when watching the videos in general.
  • In "YouTubers React to Viral News Clips", Kurt Schneider, upon learning that "Kai the homeless hitchhiker" has been arrested on suspicion of murder, eventually gets over his initial shock and asks "is there a video [for the murder] too?"
  • This bit of dark humour comes up when the Middle Eastern-looking Labib kept trashing the Santa Claus character in Happy Wheels.
  "By next week's episode I'll be in Guantanamo Bay."
  • Elders Play Grand Theft Auto V is full of it, best example being "I hit a woman for the first time in my life... and I'm having fun!"
  • Catherine called Snooki "it" in ''Elders React to Jersey Shore'' and her insistence to use the pronoun even after the Fine Bros point out.
  • Troy's reaction to Sam's and Henry's deaths in "THE LAST OF US: PART 14 (Teens React: Gaming)".
  Troy: They just dragged us down and ate our food.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • Likely due to being older, Lia Marie Johnson was significantly more popular than the other regular kids from the very start of Kids React. She pretty much became the Series Mascot in the fans' eyes until she stopped appearing in 2015. Her personal YouTube channel even got some cred from her popularity on this series, so she was able to graduate to YouTubers React.
  • Morgan Bertsch seemed to be the viewers' new favorite kid on Kids React after Lia moved over to Teens React.
  • William Sherman was also a popular kid on the show, due to him being more aware of what happens on the Internet than any of the other kids, as well as for being a Deadpan Snarker. In the comments section of some post-William Kids React episodes, some fans have stated how much they miss him and even tried asking why was he no longer on the show.
  • Jaxonhh has gained a cult following on Instagram. He also has a fan made video celebrating his birthday and even a fan-made website!
  • Tom from Teens then Adults. He's one of the most popular and recognized face of the series, and his popularity got to the point that he himself became a host of several of the series' shows.
  • Tori is very popular. It's not uncommon to see "If I see Tori, I click" comments on the videos, and it's universally agreed among fans that she's the new Series Mascot after Lia left/went to sabbatical. The same can be said for Lucas from Kids and also shares said mascot status with Tori, and not just for being adorable. ^note  Ironically they both share the same last name, but they are not related and their last name spellings are different by a letter (Tori Vasquez and Lucas Vazquez).
  • The younger Sydney is another huge fan-favorite due to her feisty personality, Hidden Depths, and Genre Savvyness.
  • Other hugely popular reactors are former Teens Eric, Jeannie, Adam, (the original) Madison, Chelsea, (the third) Morgan, and Ethan James, the former Kid Mikaela and Marlhy from Teens, and the Elders Bill, Catherine, Rock and Don.
  • Among staff members, Alex. The associate producer has since 2017 frequently appeared in front of the camera due to Challenge Chalice and FBE Studio Life. (He has since left the company due to new opportunities.)
• Fandom Rivalry:
  • With Miley Cyrus, owing to her executives getting the Teens React video to "We Can't Stop" taken down because they didn't like the comments, as well as her more rabid fans spamming negative comments towards the Fine Bros on Twitter, Facebook, and the video (plus various fansubs) itself; to make matters worse, most mirror uploads got taken down by her label. Plus, since One Direction decided to do the same thing for "YouTubers React to Best Song Ever", they've also (rightfully so) earned the ire of both the Fine Bros and their fanbase. The videos were thankfully restored, but a few fans are invoking Never Live It Down.
  • Disney has since earned the ire of the fanbase by blocking "Kids React to Frozen- Let It Go (Multi-Language)" even though there was virtually no negativity whatsoever. This might be in part owing to the automated Content ID system, so the hate is mildly less justified. Since it now has been restored, only time will tell if Disney will be forgiven.
  • After the whole "React World" fiasco, the fanbases of Nerd³, FilmCow, Cr1TiKaL, Mega64, AlphaOmegaSin, Hat Films (specifically Ross Hornby) and others have turned on the Fine Bros after seeing said creators do the same. In the case of Mega64, though, things seem to have smoothed over after group members started making post-controversy appearances on "YouTubers React".
• Genius Bonus:
  • Yehuda listing off some maneuvers from MMA and judo at one point.
  • Bill knows the science behind the Cinnamon Challenge, Salt and Ice and even Milk Chug.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: Going by the comments on Nico Nico Douga, Lia has some fans in Japan, and some fans in Taiwan as well. She's hardly unpopular in the States or UK, though.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • In "Celebrities React to Viral Videos", when asked about celebrity crushes they had when they were younger, Nick Cannon mentions his wife, Mariah Carey, indicating that his dream actually came true and getting the "Aw, CUTE!" overlay. Not long after the video was released, the couple announced their separation.
  • Just hours after "Teens React to Anaconda" by Nicki Minaj, famous YouTuber Sam Pepper, who had also appeared on YouTubers React, uploaded a "prank" video in which he groped women's butts, prompting backlash and further discussion about whether women were being sexualized by the online community. This, along with the Fine Bros announcing that they had banned Pepper from ever appearing on the show again, make parts of the video even less comfortable to watch. (He has stated in a later video that this was staged, but this doesn't really make it any better.) A few days after that, someone uploaded a video describing, with evidence, how Sam Pepper had raped her, and that she was too scared until now to actually tell anyone or go to the police.
  • "Kids React to CTFxC": Athena predicted Charles and Alli would get divorced. Two years after the Kids React episode, they did.
    • Also in that same episode, Riley asked if Charles and Alli would still vlog if one of them was in the hospital. Sure enough, after Charles went through seizures, tumors and chemotherapy, they kept going with their vlog (which has continued with Charles' new girlfriend Allie.)
  • Any YouTubers couples who break up or decide to "spent some time alone" after featured in one or more YouTube Couples React episode.
  • "YouTubers React to K-pop": At the time of the video's release, nobody would have batted an eye at Ingrid Nilsen fawning over South Korean boy band Shinee. Two years later, though, she publicly came out as a lesbian, saying that she had spent most of her life suppressing any homosexual feelings she had to make herself feel loved by her mostly-homophobic family. What makes the comments she made about Shinee fall under here is that Ingrid was pretending to be someone she wasn't as something of a survival mechanism, which makes her comments about the band (and several videos on her own channels) really awkward in retrospect.
  • After playing Silent Hills, the Fines sarcastically tell Ethan James about calling him to play the full game someday. Given the game's cancellation... yeah, you can see where this is going.
  • In "Kids React to VidCon," the Fine brothers asks the kids if they know who Shane Dawson is, and Morgan says, "Yes. He's a bad, bad person."
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • The React World controversy and backlash was already intense on its own, but it's even more jarring when you remember how in the announcement video, Benny stated that the day of the announcement was supposed to be a day that everyone could look back on after some years and reminisce on how such a revolution began.
  • Justine Ezarik saying "how could you watch this and not dance to it" about "Evolution of Dance". Eric had the same idea...
  • Lucas Cruikshank during "Teens React to Shit Girls Say", admitting that he knows "some girls that are more manlier than me", means something quite different now that he has come out as gay.
  • During "Kids React to Smosh", the kids are asked what they'd bring to the table for Food Battle, and Morgan presumably wanted spaghetti but mispronounces it into 'sketti'. We learn what that is later on in "Kids React to Here Comes Honey Boo Boo".
  • Athena having some trouble differentiating dubstep from techno. Nine months later, she would get a crash course on the set of MyMusic.
  • Shane Dawson watching Justin Bieber and saying "this makes me miss Justin Timberlake". Five days later...
  • One of the teens compared Dumb Ways to Die with Happy Tree Friends. Later, the elders get to react to it.
  • During "Kids React to One Pound Fish":
  Benny Fine: "Do you think he has a future as a singer?"
  Christian: "He doesn't really have (air quotes) the 'X Factor'."
  Benny Fine: "He was on X Factor UK and sang this song and didn't make it through, it's just funny that you'd say that."
  • A very short-range one when Tay Zonday says he'd not gonna cover the Knife Game song... then not only improvises a short verse in Sarcasm Mode, but sings the actual one when doing the Knife Game handle first.
  • During "YouTubers React to Best Song Ever", Adande asks "are these guys peeing in buckets yet?" One week later we get "Elders React to Justin Bieber", which shows Bieber doing just that in his descent into The Tyson Zone.
    • This one also fits considering the public reaction to two of them (One Direction) openly smoking marijuana.
  • Near the end of "Teens React to Epic Rap Battles of History", Rachel predicted Rick Grimes vs Walter White just below a year before it came out!^note The React episode was released on May 19, 2013 and the ERB episode was released on May 5, 2014.
  • Similarly, near the end of the "Teens React to Honest Trailers", when asked what future video they'd like to see, The Fault in Our Stars ended up becoming the favorite choice. Three months later, the trailer was made, and it did end up being one of their most requested to boot.
  • Troy's debut on Teens React features Nicki Minaj's "Anaconda", which happens to have a line that goes "I got a boy toy named Troy". One wonders if they knew...
  • In "Kids React to Gay Marriage", Maksim needed a little explaining to understand the subject, and eventually reacted positively to it like the majority did. Fast forward to Opinions on the React channel and who's Maksim's celebrity crush? Ellen Degeneres.
  • A particularly delicious short-range one when Lyrics Breakdown does "Every Breath You Take":
  Evelyn: If you like the person singing to you, this will make you happy; and if you don't like the person singing to you, you will call the police!
  • During the "Adults vs. Food" episode featuring fish semen, the third and oldest Morgan made a teasing closing statement saying "sometimes it's good to step out of your (culinary) comfort zone". While it can still be interpreted as felatio, the statement had a whole new meaning once she came out as lesbian.
  • In Kids React to Sitting On The Toilet, the Fine Bros asked, “If she made any other songs, what do you think those songs be about?” Emma says “singing in the shower”. In 2014, a song by Becky G was released called Shower that has the line “singing in the shower”.
• I Knew It!: The fact that Ethan James, despite having turned 20, continued to appear in the React Spin-Off videos was the first indicator that the Fine Bros. was bringing back their Adults React concept. Madison joined in later on (and was with Ethan James in the 4th "Try not to laugh" episode).
• It's Popular, Now It Sucks!: Invoked in-universe in "Teens React to Cup Game":
  Rumor: "It's pretty big... which makes me mad, 'cause it's my party trick, which makes it not a very good party trick."
• Just Here for Godzilla:
  • Most people don't even know that the Fine Bros make other videos (like comedy sketches) besides the React ones.
  • Ever since their "React World" fiasco, many people are now there just see the comments. Expect any comment that explicitly mentions this to get thousands of upvotes.
  • Any of the fan favorites will lead to comments such as "I see *fave reactor's name*, I click!"
• Memetic Mutation:
  • The guys succumb to the Harlem Shake. Yes, they also showed it to the kids and teens anyway.
  • Shane Dawson acknowleged Nicolas Cage's memetic status during "YouTubers React to Screaming Goat Remixes".
  • They do it again with the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, but with a twist on the actual format, donating US$100 for every kid that agrees to go through it. (Interestingly enough, this was the one big meme that never made it to Teens React.)
  • "Elders React to Fifty Shades of Grey" has the Fines setting up their own "Dramatic Reading".
  • In-universe has the teen noticed how Lee falls over pretty much everything in a critical moment in "Teens React to The Walking Dead".
  • An example of a meme stemming from the show: in "Kids React to Game Boy", Addy ended up saying "Girls can play this, why can't it be called Game Boy Girl?" The feminism-lampooning bunch of the Internet took her statement and completely ran with it.
  • Lucas' "Oh my god, Fortnite!" quote gets used as a comment whenever he's around in the internet.
  • They seem to be very good friends. ^explanationAn image exploitable◊ that came from the Elders react to Shakira's "Can't Remember to Forget You" music video. One of the elders said this sarcastically in response to the Les Yay Shakira and Rihanna were displaying in the video. This quickly morphed into a meme of denying any and all type of Ho Yay, whether it be subtext or outright explicit.
• More Popular Spin Off: Despite being the show with the sole accolade, Kids was eventually overshadowed in popularity by the other shows.
• Paranoia Fuel: Slender naturally invoked this on many of its participants. While playing it, Madison suspects there's someone behind her and she turns around, and Tom gets nervous whenever he sees someone pass by in his peripheral vision.
• Pop-Cultural Osmosis:
  • Why one of the kids was reminded of Kill Bill rather than Bruce Lee in "Kids React to Dragon Baby". Later happened again in "Teens React to PSY - Hangover feat. Snoop Dogg".
  • It happened again when a few YouTubers heard One Direction's "Best Song Ever", not realizing that the chord structure and opening was very similar to The Who's "Baba O'Riley". Most of them were disappointed or annoyed upon finding out.
  • During the "Facebook Parenting" one, one teen mentions that "it's not like he's keeping her in a little cupboard under the stairs". Younger viewers are reminded of Harry Potter. Older viewers are reminded of Carrie. The teen was most likely implying the former.
• Scrappy Mechanic: While the "Reactception Episodes" (Reactors reacting to their past selves) are very popular, the ones where Teens cast who never moved from Kids reacting to their debut episode isn't due to many feeling that those Teens featured should have graduated to Adults first before doing an episode like this. Tellingly, this part of the Reactception was discontinued for a while in favor of the ones featuring those who graduated and the Elders cast reacting to their old photos, and was then reused for the Adults cast who made their debut in that show.
• Squick:
  • From the honey badger tearing through that snake.
  • Some of the girls to FPSRussia cooking a pig with a flamethrower and eating it.
  • Jake in regards to Mama June.
  • The YouTubers to the figures around Magibon's channel - primary demographic, males 45 and above. Yet we have both the ladies Squeeing over Justin Bieber.
  • One episode of Happy Tree Friends the Elders watched had one of the characters cut an eyeball with a knife. They found it very gross to say the least.
  • If you don't like the sight of blood, knifes or people cutting themselves, then you may not want to watch "YouTubers React to Knife Game Song" or its bonus video for that matter. (That or use the seek bar to skip the third Knife Game Song video shown at the beginning of the episode, as well as at the beginning of the bonus reactions video.)
  • "YouTubers React to Don't Hug Me I'm Scared".
  • "Elders React to Eyeball Licking". This was basically the reaction that every single senior on the show had towards it, and the Fine Bros weren't exactly hesitant to indirectly condemn it through pointing out the diseases you can get from doing it.
  • Shane Dawson's reaction to "Everybody Spurts" in the YouTubers React episode on Vine videos.
  • Everyone had this reaction in "YouTubers React to DyE fantasy", and for very good reason.
  • About half the teens in "Teens React to Wrecking Ball (Chatroulette Edition)".
  • "YouTubers React to Shrek Is Love, Shrek Is Life"
  • All of the elders in "Elders React to Mortal Kombat X: Fatalities"
  • The whole concept of putting the React cast in the Reddit 50/50 Challenge.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Many feel this way towards the "Teens React to their Audition" format of the Reactception episodes. Due to showing Teens cast who never moved from Kids reacting to their debut episode instead of waiting for them to graduate to Adults, it results to the featured reactors' Character Development and growth coming off as underwhelming and not as compelling compared to the ones featuring Teens who are former Kids and Adults who are former Teens who actually graduated (and even the ones featuring the Elders reacting to their old photos). The format was then reused for the Adults cast members who made their debut in that very show.
• Unconventional Learning Experience:
  • YouTubers React. No, really. The YouTubers, being actually in the business of making web videos, will often impart a lot of their experiences here. Of course, this could apply to all the React variations with the inclusion of those popup "React Facts".
  • Adults React has the unexpected bonus of bringing in people with jobs relevant to the subject and able to offer a deeper insight to it, like school teachers and that one cop.
• What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?: In some episodes of Kids React, the children will occasionally be shown age-inappropriate videos that are either censored (like the episode about The Room) or they have a choice to opt out of if they don't feel like watching it. (like the It: Chapter Two trailer, which was a "How Long Can You Watch?" challenge) Aside from this, sometimes the kids on the show either reference age-inappropriate franchises or come in with merchandise related to it. For instance, in both the Teddy Ruxpin and Furby episodes, kids compared the toys to Five Nights at Freddy's, and in the aforementioned The Room episode, a kid wore a t-shirt depicting Rick and Morty.

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