The OP probably thinks that most so called reaction videos are made up, that is, they know perfectly the song but pretend to have never heard it before.
I have no idea if that’s true on reaction videos I watched myself, but if it is then they’re definitely good actors.
Since we’re at it, here’s a lesser known Phil Collins with the Brand-X band.
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There are certainly reaction photos, most likely there were pre-Youtube postage-stamp size videos. Monetizing it is new.
For those interested in recreating that sound, a VST plugin was created years ago to emulate the talkback microphone on Solid State Logic consoles, the one that gave that gated ambience effect to Phil Collins’ drumming.
Download link (free)
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You are aware that people don’t pop out of the womb having already heard Phil Collins, right?
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Yeah, I think we, who are familiar with the song, kind of denigrate it because when these pop songs come out they are in heavy, heavy, heavy rotation. You couldn’t escape this song in 1980.
Apparently the twins’ now viral reaction vid sparked a resurgence on the charts for Phil:
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We all apparently have that A-hole friend who delights in the horror of the ones who they supposedly care about…
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I love this guys stuff and his energy in discovering something is hard to resist. It makes me uncomfortable about my own reaction in so far as this is a Black guy loving a white guy playing Black music. Oh, I’m white Australian.
One of my favorites (??) is his reaction to Led Zeppelins ‘Levi Breaks’, a song that they ‘covered’ from a song by Kansas Joe McKoy and Memphis Minnie from 1929 based on a devastating flood when the Mississippi river broke it’s banks. I’ve watched quite a few other Black reactions to Led as I’m a fan and a few were about Jon Bonhams drumming - I could never last the 20min drum solo in Moby Dick until I heard it thinking about New Orleans second line drumming! Then it made sense… is it reference, appropriation, stealing or perhaps something more complex that can play out in a musical space? Music can be a two way street!
“Don’t ctritisise what you don’t understand” I believe that comes from some song 
To suggest that street vernacular is an ‘accent’ may be a bit of a miss understanding of the cultural importance of the way that language works! I have talked to bogans that believe that immigrants should learn to speak ‘Australian’ when they settle here… perhaps it’s a good thing that they don’t say English?! Three episodes of The Wire with an open mind and things will make sense to most people I hope.
The video that I posted above illustrates a very common trait in so far that the commentators are all over the meaning of the lyrics and will pause if they’re not getting it. Music divorced from lyrical content in a song is a weird context… I’m pointing my finger at you opera goers who don’t understand the text!!
End rant
There was a goatse reaction photo website in the late 1990’s.
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Not sure why that was aimed at me?
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I was more supporting your discussion on “Black vernacular” than taking aim at you. Your comments struck a chord (pardon the pun) with regard to what I was thinking about with regard to appropriating language and music in my response to Black reaction videos. I thought it would be clear that this was more pointed toward the commentator you were reacting to.
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No, “we” don’t.
I tend to refrain from having such folks in my personal social circles… but even if I didn’t, I would never watch anything they suggested, just as I would never ‘pull their fingers.’
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Ha, yes. Watching vocal coaches reacting to Jinjer is my new hobby.
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