The Fine Bros

[Twisterheart]

What do you guys think about the drama surrounding the popular YouTube channel TheFineBros? If you don't know who they are or what happened, basically they're a popular react channel. A few days ago they made a video saying they want to liscense reaction videos which I guess means they would own the idea? There's more to the story than that, but I'm not really good at explaining and I don't really understand the whole story myself, so you would have to look it up to understand more. There are things that explain it better than I can. A lot of people hate them now and they've lost over a million subscribers. Their videos are getting tons of dislikes and all their videos are full of hate comments.

I don't really have an opinion because I don't really understand what's going on. But what do you think?

 

[jiny]

i don't like them anymore because of that

 

[Fantasyrick]

well it's their channel and they never said the react stuff in general was their idea the way they do it is original to them though that's what they mean. it's really childish and unnecessary oh well tbh.

 

[Jacob]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WH0qahqv5YM

haha

 

[Spongebob]

Its hilarious to see them lose so much subs in so little time

- - - Post Merge - - -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WH0qahqv5YM

haha

THANK YOU FOR THIS ITS AMAZING

 

[Paperboy012305]

Well, if they aren't popular anymore. What are they gonna do in their lives now?

 

[Spongebob]

Well, if they aren't popular anymore. What are they gonna do in their lives now?

Who knows my friend? Who knows...

 

[Tao]

well it's their channel and they never said the react stuff in general was their idea the way they do it is original to them though that's what they mean. it's really childish and unnecessary oh well tbh.

The way they're going about it sounds like they think reaction videos were their idea. If the way they made the videos is what they meant, they wouldn't be sending takedown notices to people uploading videos that aren't in that format.

I mean, reaction videos are pretty much scraping the bottom of the youtube barrel in how much effort it takes to make them, but theirs are a higher quality and I get that. They're talking about all reaction videos though, not just the ones in a 'similar format' to theirs.


With what they're doing, it would be like developers having to pay Nintendo a small fee every time they made a platformer.

 

[N e s s]

oh wait nvm

 

[oath2order]

yeah they're ****s

 

[Llust]

i get why they'd do it, but that's just stupid

 

[Zodiac Crossing]

They just posted an update video explaining everything but i dunno

 

[tobi!]

I never liked them.

 

[tae]

never heard of them before, but since they just do reaction videos, well it sounds like they're boring as **** anyway.

 

[Pharaoh]

You can't really own reaction videos though, that would be like saying every time Pew Die Pie played a video game, no one else could play that video game and upload a video because he played it first, I don't think I'm understanding how they think they'd be able to pull this off. Unless I'm just not understanding what is it they're claiming. It's a bit extreme though, and I thought their videos were occasionally funny before, but seeing their subscriber count just drop might be their funniest stunt yet.

 

[Spongebob]

Watching their subs drop is actually pretty entertaining, especially watching it with other people.

 

[Romaki]

I always enjoyed and still do enjoy their reaction videos as well as their original content.

I've read the reddit thread that has been shared and I think they're taking it a bit too far.

Letting kids react to clips was an entertaining idea, but certainly not an original one.

I get that they're trying to protect their content and don't want people to just copy their work frame by frame, but, again, they've taken it too far.

If anyone's interested on some serious thoughts from a YouTuber who've worked with them before, I'd suggest this video.

 

[Zane]

cant believe some guys i never heard of until just now invented reaction videos, learn somethin new erryday

 

[Twisterheart]

Okay so I think I understand what happened now. With that being said, I kind of think people are making this a bigger problem than it really is. Like I've read some comments comparing them to Hitler... Yeah they're greedy and React World is a bad idea but they're not evil.

 

[Bowie]

What is it with people lately and licensing basic concepts?