Bad Actors And Reactors With The Act Man

Now this is the type of video I like, where the person uploading the video has something say.

This first video was posted back in August 2023 but it still has relevance today. Its from The Act Man, a youtuber quickly closing in on two million subscribers, who has 415 videos on his channel and will be celebrating his 10 year anniversary on YT in two days time, uploading his numero uno video back on June 15, 2015 (congrats!).

His bread and butter is usually gaming content but he's not adverse to calling out bad actors online and this was what he was doing on this video. He did balance things out by acknowledging some better reaction content (old H3H3 , and the new, at the time, JJJacksfilms) but he had to give the stink eye to some other youtubers with "less than stellar" reaction content.

So a little recognition and kudos to a longtime youtuber for their hard work. But let's take a gander at this video I mentioned earlier.

Its called "The Dark Side of Reaction Content" that maybe you haven't seen yet, although it has a solid 1.9 million views.

Easy targets SSSniperWolf and xQc

I've sat through several of SSSniperWolf's own reaction content and viewed several of Jacksfilms of him suffering through her "reactions" as well as watching several videos from others outlining the full litany of complaints about her obstinate omission of creators' names or recognition and her bare minimum of effort to try to transform what she's "watching".

This video by The Act Man pointed out that she doesn't seem to be actually viewing the video she's supposedly "reacting" to which is an eye opener. Maybe she has some third party write the, um "script", for her to read? If so, wow, that's even less effort.

Almost like an assembly line of slop content being dozed out to her 35 million-plus audience.

It does look like SSSniperWolf's overall weekly views have declined from 25 million a week in July 2024 to around 16 million a week in June 2025 which although a drop of around 35 percent or so from last year, but most would still kill for that kind of viewership.

Obviously I cannot know her real numbers but she's still making bank.

But as for xQc, I know he's huge in the gaming world and that he's Mr Bigtime over on Twitch where his channel has over 12 million followers. On Kick he's sitting around 900K followers and on YouTube he has approximately 2.4 million subscribers although on YT he's accumulated around 1.7 billion views but that pales in comparison to SSSniperWolf's massive total of 26 billion.

On YouTube, it looks like xQc averages appropriately a little over 3 million views per week, but I'm guessing the bulk of what he makes is provided by Twitch and Kick.

What he gets from YT is likely pocket change compared with the other platforms. But of course 3 million views a week with YouTube would be like hitting the lottery for most youtubers.

But What About Asmongold And Hasanabi?

Those two are some of the really big fish, whales actually. Both kill it on Twitch and Asmongold recently announced he's also going to start streaming over at Kick where the revenue split is 95 percent there for content creators. Hasanabi is on YouTube but seems happy with his position at Twitch for now.

Okay, Let's Get Back To The Act Man's Video

Yeah, enough about all the moola everyone's raking in. The Act Man concludes by finishing his critique of xQc's lackluster reaction styling and feeble attempts to actually have his reactions come across as transformative which seems to be inconveniencing xQc.

I guess having to put in some effort to his reaction channel means a little more effort than counting those fat stacks of cash. Who'da thunk it?