A bibliographic descriptive relationship is the relationship between a bibliographic entity and a description or review of that entity. When it comes to print matter, these are commentaries, critiques, reviews, or annotated editions of books. In YouTube land, it's equivalent to a reaction video.
There's a wide variety of reaction video types. The funniest ones usually feature a glaring disparity between the reactor and the subject being reacted to - like say, watching befuddled elder citizens react to the vocal stylings of Eminem. There's something really compelling about watching people react to things; some say it's mirror neurons in our brains, activating our empathy centres and whatnot. Personally, watching reaction videos feels like hanging out with a friend, sharing a reaction to a thing. Yay, echo chambers! (PSA: Do not overindulge in echo chambers. Multiple perspectives are healthy.)
Unlike professional or scholarly reviews, reaction videos don't necessarily offer coherent, highbrow critique, but that's not the point. What they do best is capture the viewer's knee-jerk reaction when exposed to a thing for the first time, like this YouTuber's reaction to Circles, by Post Malone.
Trash or Pass: @LayedBakDFR on Circles by Post Malone (2019)
Between you and me, the video for Circles isn't what you'd envision when listening to the song and its lyrics. It's all metaphorical Arthurian Galahad ren-faire, but the song is an undeniable earworm from the jump. I definitely agree with the reviewer's eventual conclusion - Circles definitely PASSes muster.
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There can be deeper levels to a descriptive relationship, if you want to get really meta about it. Like say, a published Letter to the Editor, where a subscriber responds to a writer's review of a book/article/movie/thing. So it's a review of a review of a work being reviewed. YouTube land delivers this too - you can watch a video of an artist's reaction to their work being covered, and the reaction of the person covering said work to the reaction of the artist being covered. Here's Alicia Keys reacting to fan covers of her songs, and the fans who did the covers reacting to her reaction. (Layers. It's descriptive Inception.)
You Sang My Song: Alicia Keys Watches Fan Covers (2020)
REFERENCES
Riverside.fm team. (2023, February 12). Best reaction videos (& why they're so popular). Riverside. https://riverside.fm/blog/best-reaction-videos
Tillett, B.B.. (2004). Bibliographic relationships. In Bean, C.A., & Green, R. (Eds.,) Relationships in the organization of knowledge. Libraries Unlimited.
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