People are Cashing in With This Controversial But Super Easy (and Still Growing)YouTube Niche

Dean Brooks
The Side Hustle Club
14 min readMay 30, 2022

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Man, it’s 2022 and hustling a substantial side income has never been so easy.

How easy are we talking here? How about watching movies and TV easy? That’s not too hard to do, is it? I mean, it doesn’t get much easier than that, except maybe for sleeping. And no way would anyone catch big bucks while catching some big Zzzzs, right?

Oh, wait, nevermind. Someone did just that.

Anyway…this niche does not JUST involve watching movies and TV. It’s also about reacting and providing some commentary, and preferably doing so at least somewhat humorously, and maybe with a little personality.

That’s right. I’m talking about the Movie/TV Reaction niche on YouTube.

People are recording themselves reacting to everything from new episodes of TV shows like Better Call Saul, to classic action films like Terminator 2: Judgment Day, to even recordings of kid’s show hosts. Watch this young woman almost have a meltdown watching a message from Steve Burns, former host of Blues Clues.

By the way, if you prefer to watch someone else react to a video from a TV host who retired decades ago, there are a dozen others for your nostalgia-mongering pleasure. Seriously. And they all have…

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Dean Brooks
The Side Hustle Club

Novelist. I write about everything and I'm right about everything.