Youtube but not the videos

[Mass Distraction]

I don't really see the hypocrisy, if you can point it out, I'll comment on my thoughts of it.

Just look at the video I linked... They explain the hypocrisy part way better than I can. It is quite apparent that the Fine Bros' definition of "copying content" is quite ambiguous and could hurt a lot more people than it would help.

Not to say you can't make a new show where you put people on an island and make them hate each other until someone wins.  You just can't call it Survivor, because the show title Survivor is trademarked.

And this is exactly the problem. Seemingly, by their and their lawyers' definition, it seems like everything that has something to do with kids or elders or anything, really, reacting to something is a total copy of their content. Seriously, it's not like they are the first people ever to use the idea. Not even the first ones to make it successfully.

Trademarking specific words is even worse.

That is...literally what trademarking is.  You can't trademark an idea, only a particularly series of words/pictures/techniques.  For instance, let us take a look at my own YouTube stuff.  I can trademark Samurai Gaiden.  So no one else could make videos and use my logo or title their videos "Samurai Gaiden".
But I cannot trademark the broad premise of "A vaguely literate scholar of Japanese history stands in front of a camera and talks about Samurai for 8-12 minutes at a time, every first Friday of the month."
Likewise you can't actually trademark a 'React video', but you can trademark the logos and titles involved with the specific premise of "Kids React to...", "Elders React to...", and "Teens React to..."; which is what they were doing.

In theory you are correct but just look at how King and Sony's endeavor to trademark a simple word or concept ended up. It's way too easily abused and it is clear that the Fine Bros were on this path already.

And yes, Samurai Gaiden is something that could easily be trademarked. But, try to trademark the word "samurai" or the word "gaiden" seperately and you will have a bad time. They could have just gone and trademark the thing as simple phrases as "Kids React" and "Elders React" but no, they had to have to word "react". Not cool.