HOT CHIP CHALLENGE & GAMING

@Ken Myers, I can totally appreciate your viewpoint and your list (lots of good movies there). While I have no doubt that many reactors do, indeed, play the numbers game by staying on the "popularity train", I choose to believe Ashleigh is NOT on that particular track. *** Ashleigh, please correct me if the following is off-the-mark in any way*** Her channel was created quite organically, amidst pandemic lock-down boredom, with no real intention or expectation of it becoming anything more than something she did to kill time for a few weeks/months. Her popularity and growth was more of a happy accident, and a blessing to those of us who just adore her, than a Get-Rich-Quick-On-YT scheme. Of course, when her YT income actually enabled her to quit her day job, it would have been foolish if she didn't at least consider incorporating CEO-esk decision-making along the way, right? I have no actual insight to her business plans but I do NOT believe she's trying to jump on the "popularity train". She's just living her best life, being her genuine self, and doing her best to keep the"Hot Mess Express" chugging along. She is considerate of her followers and is constantly making adjustments, trying to accommodate her "family of ticket holders". Hence, the polls...since the "ticket holders" are now paying the bills. :-D I don't know how/why most followers fell into watching reactors but I tend to believe there are basically 2 camps. Camp 1 enjoys watching lots of different people react to their own (the follower) list of favorites and Camp 2 (me) enjoys watching particular reactors, regardless of content topic, because of the reactor's personality. (Normally, I would NEVER watch horror or watch gamers play games but I get such a kick out of Ashleigh, I'll watch whatever she posts). She is totally down to watch ANY of the movies on your list. All it would take is for an MMM top tier Patron or a HalloBeans winner to make the move. You have a lot of really good movies on your list so STAY TUNED... maybe you'll be pleasantly surprised someday. :-D

CinWin

The main problem I see with polls is that they pick _popular_ movies, which is not the same thing as _good_ movies. Ashleigh says "older, classic movies", but there are very few on the channel which pre-date 1980. I'd like to see a "decade poll" done, where folks suggest movies in each decade. Including silent films ("The General" is considered the best action movie ever made, and I believe it _still_ holds the top spot for the most expensive stunt ever put on film.) I think she's done Casablanca, but what about "The Big Sleep?" Or "To Have and Have Not", where Bogey and Bacall met, and started the greatest Hollywood romance of all time. Or any movie with Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn. The history of film has so very many great, classic movies. I'd really like Ashleigh to get the chance to see some of them.

N1nth Sh4dow

As much as I enjoy watching "Silent Movie" when I come across it. However a lot of the jokes and gags only work if you know who the actor is and seen some of their movies.

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Julie Dougherty

Not sure that's exactly a fair complaint about this specific channel, at least not in the way it comes across to me in the reading. Ashleigh does seem to respond to audience requests a lot for her polls, and half her movies are MMMember requests, so I don't think it's fair to say she looks at other reactors to see what to put on the polls. Now you can potentially accuse her audience of doing that, in that they see other reactors watching something and go "Oh, I'd like to see Ashleigh react to that!" and start pushing more of the same. Even with that the polls tend to include a couple less common options others have pushed for (Thomas Crown Affair) or that have captured Ashleigh's attention and not won yet (Meatballs). For a channel that started with, and still introduces her videos with "go back and watch your older classics", she does watch a lot of stuff at this point that isn't the big main movies. You can go back and look yourself as I don't feel like typing out a big list. Sequel polls are a whole other issue, but even there the "looking at other channels" is an unfair accusation. All that said, I'd prefer she not do as many polls and simply pick stuff herself by other methods so that we don't always end up with the most common denominator (or sadly often the lowest common denominator). A lot of "your older classics" are not just the ones that were the biggest box office draws. Even with your list, if you gave the option of a random 6 of them it'd likely be easy to say which would win a poll simply based on box office, star, and how recent it is, nothing to do with quality.

Kenton Kruger

There are a couple pretty good movies on this list. However, it is a real shame that reactors keep looking at OTHER reactors' videos to see which are most popular when they decide what movies to put on their polls. This means that polls almost never include movies that no one has yet reacted to. So we get 25 reactions to Police Academy and zero reactions to Stuck on You even though the latter was a much better movie. I suppose when every reactor has reacted to every movie in their small incestuous pool of movies, they'll have to branch out to "risk" reacting to movies that no one has yet done, but frankly I'm finding it harder and harder to find any movie reactions worth watching. I don't need to see a 12th reaction to Star Wars or Harry Potter movies or even a 3rd reaction to Lethal Weapon 2. Sure, I'll admit some movies everyone should react to and I'll watch them (e.g., Edge of Tomorrow, Airplane, Pulp Fiction) but there are a very small number of movies in that category. So, anyway, I suggest you guys do a poll that ONLY consists of movies for which there are no reactions yet. I think you'd be surprised at the traffic it'll drive, too, as I don't think I'm alone among viewers in getting sick of seeing reactors doing all the same movies over and over, and more and more I look for reactions to movies that have not been done yet. If this seems like a good idea, here's my own "short list" of movies that really deserve reaction videos, but inexplicably have been totally passed over by Youtube reactors: Next (Nicolas Cage sci-fi) Limitless (Bradley Cooper sci-fi) Push (Chris Evans / Dakota Fanning sci-fi) Crank (Jason Statham action) About a Boy (brilliant Hugh Grant comedy) Cider House Rules (Oscar-winning and awesome period drama with Tobey McGuire, Michael Caine, & Charlize Theron) Casualties of War (Michael J. Fox, underrated Vietnam war movie) Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (Andy Garcia & all star cast, crime drama) Sense & Sensibility (Hugh Grant / Emma Thompson / Kate Winslet romance period piece) The Legend of 1900 (Tim Roth, sweeping period piece / fable) Human Nature (surreal Charlie Kaufman comedic drama starring Tim Robbins, Patricia Arquette) Real Men (James Belushi, John Ritter comedy thriller) Year One (Jack Black, Michael Cera comedy) Go (brilliant slice of life comedy) I Heart Huckabees (Mark Walberg, Dustin Hoffman, surreal comedy) Sweet and Lowdown (Sean Penn stars in Woody Allen comedy/mockumentary about depression-era jazz guitarist) The Legend of Bagger Vance (Matt Damon / Will Smith / Charlize Theron underrated golf fable / period piece) Diggstown (James Woods boxing thriller) A River Runs Through It (Brad Pitt drama/period piece) Four Rooms (Quentin Tarantino comedy starring Tim Roth; outragous, artsy, funny & a bit horrific, great cameos) The Black Hole (cult classic Disney horror sci-fi) Cat's Eye (Stephen King star-studded horror anthology) Dreamscape (Dennis Quaid sci-fi) Best Seller (James Woods, Brian Dennehy crime/suspense, very cool, very 80s) Sphere (Dustin Hoffman / Samuel L. Jackson / Sharon Stone, based on Michael Crichton novel, underrated sci-fi) FAQ About Time Travel (2009 British sci-fi comedy, underrated) Night of the Comet (80s horror / apocalypse that is surprisingly good, cult classic b-movie) For Love of the Game (Kevin Coster baseball movie) He Said She Said (Kevin Bacon / Elizabeth Perkins in underrated romantic comedy) Bye Bye Love (underrated ensemble romantic dramedy) Stuck on You (Matt Damon / Greg Kinnear buddy comedy) Central Intelligence (Dwayne Johnson / Kevin Hart buddy comedy) Silent Movie (underrated Mel Brooks comedy, one of his top 5 funniest movies) Cheap Detective (Neil Simon ensemble comedy) Twenty Bucks (Brendan Fraser, Steve Buscemi, William H. Macy, Elisabeth Shue and others, artsy/indie) The Number 23 (Jim Carrey thriller/horror) Land of the Lost (Will Ferrell, Danny McBride comedy) Cowboys and Aliens (underrated sci-fi-western with Daniel Craig & Harrison Ford) If Looks Could Kill (underrated spy comedy starring Richard Grieco) Rustler's Rhapsody (Tom Berenger, surprisingly good comedy western) the Boyfriend School (aka Don't Tell Her It's Me) (Steve Guttenberg, underrated romantic comedy) Taps (young Timothy Hutton, Tom Cruise, and Sean Penn; George C. Scott in early 80s military school drama) 200 Cigarettes (Ben Affleck, Dave Chapelle, Paul Rudd, Courtney Love, and more) Heat (1986 action movie starring Burt Reynolds, not to be confused with 1995 movie of same name) Three O'Clock High (underrated high school comedy) The Hard Way (James Woods, Michael J. Fox do novel take on comedic buddy cop genre) Cocoon (iconic Steve Guttenberg sci-fi) The Toy (Richard Pryor comedy vehicle that could NEVER be made today) Virtuosity (Denzel Washington plus young Russell Crowe, sci-fi thriller) Vampire's Kiss (early Nicolas Cage movie, artsy/indie vibe) Stakeout (Richard Dreyfuss, Emilio Estevez, underrated buddy cop movie) Lawnmower Man (Pierce Brosnan & Jeff Fahey in sci-fi horror) Reindeer Games (Ben Affleck heist/action movie, pretty good, underrated) Crazy People (Dudley Moore, underrated comedy) The Man with Two Brains (Steve Martin comedy-horror) The Champ (Jon Voight, Ricky Schroder, Faye Dunaway 1979 drama, at the time considered the ultimate tear jerker) Chances Are (Robert Downey, Jr., Cybil Shepherd Prelude to a Kiss (Alec Baldwin, Meg Ryan offbeat romantic comedy with a supernatural element)

Ken Myers

I think this is the first time I've seen your rig from this perspective. So if I may sidetrick for a moment, have you enjoyed those lights so far? Or do they annoy you in a way that we wouldn't know about?

sk33tr

Will you post a copy of your Twitch Live Streams to your other YouTube channel?

Art By Design

Sad I missed the inaugural official stream but dropped a follow.

I wasn't able to watch live, but I think you handled that chip like a champ! I'm not a huge video game person, but I do love your content girl. I'll try to catch some of another live sometime. Keep being great!

OldBroadWithBaggage (Robin)

Ash, What games do you play? Ever play Dead By Daylight? I think you should need to play DBD if you haven't played it yet.

Powers209

is that audio mixer with the built in screen any good? thinking that could help me with my audio needs

Turtle

That depends on Ashleigh. It's possible to save live streams as VOD. (Edited to add: I was in the middle of typing when an expert on Ashleigh weighed in.)

Michael Butler

It can be! My videos will be available post live stream AND highlights/ play thru will cut and uploaded to my Second Channel!

Ashleigh Burton

Will it show afterwards? Can twitch be watched not live?

Jill Peterson

Thanks. I've never used Twitch, so I was confused when I followed the link.

Jill Peterson

It will be a live stream at 3pm central time.

Michael Butler

It just says you're OFFLINE. How do we watch?

Jill Peterson

Are you able to save the LIVE? would love to watch, but I'm at work. Hugs Good luck!

Rebecca Monk

Girls really DO be eating hot chip and gaming. Love that for us!

Rue

Dang it, I am at work so can't tune in

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