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DRK Star
The reason I couldnt find it is that there were about 20 "Reaction" videos that were essentially posing as the actual video. Who in the fuck decided to let this shit fly? I tried another video and saw 5 reaction videos for that one too.
There are a dangerous amount of narcissistic fucknuts out there who really think people care about their thoughts.
It's odd that they're showing up in search. Their goal is actually to show up in the recommendation sidebar to piggyback off the popularity of the original video. About 4 years ago there was a plague of "reply girls" that figured this out. Most of these were 30 seconds of broken english by an eastern european that obviously didn't even watch or understand the original video. Everyone hated these videos, but people still clicked on them because boobs. Click through rates were a big factor in sidebar ranking, so any new video with 1 million+ views would have a full sidebar of tit thumbnails.
This actually happened to me by accident with Messageboard Grinder. The thumbnail has a cute girl with huge boobs, and at some point it started showing up in the sidebar for machinery and home improvement videos. I guess because it has the word grinder in it. Views trickled in slowly at first, but as more people clicked, it started showing up alongside more and more videos. It quickly snowballed, and one point was getting 40,000 views per day.
Then algorithm changes happened and all the reply girls disappeared. I think adding weight to likes/dislikes for ranking was the killing blow, as most of the reply girl videos had tons of dislikes.
Today, the new spin on it is reaction commentary. Unlike reply girls, there is actually a receptive audience for some of these attention whores, so dislikes aren't as much of an issue. Just like the reply girls, these videos can be quickly churned out with little effort.
h3h3productions is an exception, one that I'll admit to enjoying, as they put some effort into editing and creating some original content.
I haven't noticed too much SEO wonkiness with reaction videos like there was in 2012, so maybe this is just an outlier with the particular video you searched for. YouTube is usually decent at delivering relevant results.