LEMMiNO Vs Reaction Videos Ripping Him Off?

I've been a viewer of the videos of LEMMiNO for a long time now, first noticing his detailed, well-thought out content years ago, mostly his stuff about Space, which has developed into a multi-year, episodic series that I've recommended vigorously to my fellow space-nerd friends.

The video below is LEMMiNO's most recent video that he's uploaded to YouTube last May 2024 called "The Unbreakable Kryptos Code" that currently has 7.5 million views. Posting the video here does not detract views or Adsense revenue from LEMMiNO at all, as all views and ad money stays with the channel that uploaded it. Enjoy.

Now back to our previously scheduled blog post.

Like a lot of the really good content I stumble across, LEMMiNO was a smaller channel with niche-like beginnings (in his case an apparent love for "rage comics"), his content slowly morphed into more thought provoking stuff that he calmly narrated in a soft-spoken, almost ASMR-like Swedish accent.

But he was covering topics that piqued my interest and I found I'd go back and re-watch and make a note to myself that I needed to keep an eye out for whatever video he was going to upload next.

Back 11 years ago, LEMMiNO was like a machine and pumped out videos like crazy, uploading almost 50 videos in one year.

He'd do Top 10 this and that, sprinkling in some more about rage comics but shifting more towards "Top 10 Facebook" facts, "Top 10 COD" facts, then started discussing PewDiePie. Disney and honing his style.

Loved those earlier videos and you should take look if you're unfamiliar with them.

His videos got longer, with more detail and although the number he produced slowed to a crawl, (but almost 40 ten years ago) to 20 a year, then 10-12 a year, then only 3 to 5 per year.

The videos were better and they were finding an appreciative audience but then they stopped a few years back.

What happened? Had LEMMiNO packed in and retired? Was he now living the good life in Sweden on all that sweet Adsense money and decided sit back and count his Krona?

The he posted a video called "The Kennedy Assassination: Inside the Book Depository" that was well done, over an hour ana a half long, in his signature style. It currently has over 13 million views.

All good, right?

Well, there was a problem. Like many, that video fell victim to a common peoblem - reaction videos. Major Twitch streamers, YouTube content creators all started posting streams and uploading reaction videos where they played the video in whole to their various audiences.

Streamers are able to do this a bit easier than youtubers who usually have to cut their react videos a little shorter, but the problem was if you watch a video on someone's Twitch stream and THEY get the ad revenue as a sidenote, why would you bother going to the original content creator's YouTube channel to RE-WATCH the video a 2nd time?

Reaction videos are a tricky subject and everyone has an opinion.

Some who react do a good job and make their reaction content TRANSFORMATIVE which is the essence of Fair Use. Others, blatantly steal content, have minimal to no reactions to what they are watching and slap their own Google Adsense to viral videos and claim it's their's and we all know there are PLENTY who do this.

And this "siphoning" off of views is what likely irked LEMMiNO enough that he later uploaded the Q and A video which you'll find below the next video posted by Viper Rambles where he provides some back story and responds to LEMMiNO's Q and A video.

Just to let you know if you haven't see anything from Viper before. The video above was posted on his secondary channel but his main channel, DarkViperAU, has over 2 million subs and loads of good content.

Viper points out that LEMMiNO mentions that he has no problem with content creators using clips, parts, or sections of his videos as long as it's transformative or that they add content to make whatever clips they're watching better.

He says LEMMiNO does take exception to people watching the entirety of his videos on a watch stream (Hello Twitch and Kick) while staring blankly at their screens. This is a common complaint, but I won't just launch into rant mode again, I promise.

Hopefully after this lengthy blog sermon I've laid on you about poor reaction content and general IP theft, you're still interested in seeing more of LEMMiNO's content, so here's that Question and Answer video he posted in October 2023 after his channel hit 5 million subscribers.

Question for you. Were you familiar with LEMMiNO or Viper before seeing this blog post?