History YMMV / CrashThompson

** Crash's scathing review of Music/LinkinPark's 2017 album ''One More Light'' had a new light cast upon it after the suicidal death of the band's frontman Chester Bennington. Crash went on to pay his respects to Bennington both on social media and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybL-sZhTv7o in video form]], and has said while he stands by the review as far as his opinion on the album goes, he holds no true ill will towards Bennington or the members of the band and has said on Twitter that he would take the review down if its presence made too many people uncomfortable. The review is still up as of now, and you can view it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhHR6zynrxQ here]]. He added this to the video's description:

** An example that Crash himself owned up to was the line in one of his ''Rise and Fall of Weezer'' videos that said, "It's like saying eating an entire bowl of powdered chalk is better than, say...sex with Music/{{Kesha}}. While technically true, I wouldn't wanna end up doing either". Crash devotes the first minute or so of his ''High Road'' review to how awful that line sounds now that the awful situation between Kesha and her management is public knowledge.

-->'''Present Crash:''' Those who have been watching my show for a long time may remember me mentioning a little band called Letlive. In fact, you may remember this little clip from my Best of 2016 list:
-->'''Past Crash:''' And these guys are sure as hell going to be a voice to be paying attention to over the next few years.
-->'''Present Crash:''' Yeah, and then the fuckers went and broke up! GAAAAHHHH!

--> NOTE (7/21/17): This video was made around the time of the original release date of this album. Several weeks before the tragic suicide of Chester Bennington.
--> While I stand by my original thoughts on the album here--it was honestly how I felt about it with the information we had available at the time--Chester's passing was an absolute tragedy. I wish nothing but the best for his fans, friends, family and band mates during this dark time.
--> RIP Chester. We'll miss you.

* HilariousInHindsight: When he named the self-titled album by Antemasque as one of his favourite albums of that year, he suggested it as a means of making the most of things, since a reunion of Music/AtTheDriveIn seemed like it was never going to happen. Fast-forward much later, and ''Inter Alia'' drops, with Crash making a CallBack to that exact moment during his review of the album.

--> [[Main/WhamLine "Why the hell do I like this album so much?"]]

* NightmareFuel: '''Any''' time he gets ''incredibly'' angry, whether the comedic Super Saiyan mode or ''actual'' anger is [[BewareTheNiceOnes is pretty disturbing]]. A pretty big example was in his Top Best/Worst Albums of 2016 video where he goes into a very, ''very'' TranquilFury rant about how much he despised King 810's ''La Petite Mort or a Conversation with God'' due to the fact the band leader ''[[OvershadowedByControversy wants to be known for infamy]]'' than content.

* FanNickname: Twice in ''How To Get Into {{Music/Tool}}'', Crash shows up dressed in a loud outfit, brandishing [[CallBack the pimp cup]], being showered in money and laughing maniacally while [[SellOut "Hooker With A Penis"]] plays in the background. Fans have taken to naming this gag, [[JustForPun "Cash Thompson"]].

*** And, to an even greater extent, when he retired both the Quickies and the [=FIMIs=] after the extreme CreatorBreakdown he experienced in 2021, many fans who were relying on him for new music recommendations were upset to hear how he'd no longer be sharing his thoughts on new albums on his channel until the end of the year. Tho, it might change now that the solo album reviews seem to be back as a regular fixture [[spoiler:as well as the surprise return of the FIMI, announced during Main/AprilFoolsDay, of all days.]]

*** And, to an even greater extent, when he retired both the Quickies and the [=FIMIs=] after the extreme CreatorBreakdown he experienced in 2021, many fans who were relying on him for new music recommendations were upset to hear how he'd no longer be sharing his thoughts on new albums on his channel until the end of the year.

* BrokenBase: Game & Crash. At least, the reveal of it. Some people felt that Crash put too much mystery into something as relatively simple as a gaming channel. Others will point to poor foreshadowing in the One Hot Minute review as he kept on making video game references and promptly lampshading it, despite the fact that he had been no stranger to them before. Another group will point to the fact that G&C is responsible for Lil D.Va, a BaseBreakingCharacter. He later on ''did'' retire the ''Game & Crash'' channel due to Youtube's new rules about a channel needing to have a certain amount of watch time to be eligible for monetization, with the ''Game & Crash'' stuff now planned to appear on the main channel.

** Crash is bewildered by how the lead single from ''[[{{Music/GreenDay}} Uno!]]'' was the album's closing track and says that while releasing closing tracks as singles is nothing new, he finds it odd that the ''first'' single would be a closing track and wonders if any other bands did it. Just over a year after that video, "Cyboogie" by Music/KingGizzardAndTheLizardWizard would be an example of exactly that.

** The brutal rant of how meh and boring ''[[Music/GreenDay Uno!, Dos! and Tre!]]'' are and the sheer vitriol and fury he releases and mocking of those who'd probably give him hell for hating the albums. Unlike times where Crash's mocking of the haters comes off as funny, here it comes off as ''unnerving'' and encapsulates his disappointment and disgust towards the trilogy when he '''''praises [[Music/{{Weezer}} Raditude]]'''''.

* AcceptablePoliticalTargets:
** As controversial as it is, Crash takes pot-shots at UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump, his presidency, Republicans, and anybody who's a supporter of him.
** The NRA, usually whenever a band he's reviewing discusses the topic of US gun violence, and like the above mention Donald Trump comments, he'll swiftly always say "Don't @ Me!".
** A huge amount of his videos tend to focus on mocking and criticizing right-wing politics, and by an extent, consveratives, reasons of it stemming from his experience with them during his upbringing in Indiana.

** Some fans were disapointed in Crash's style change after dropping the "Rock Critic" moniker. While a lot of fans were happy to see Crash tackling other music genres outside of rock and metal, the discontinuation of "Quickies" was a real letdown to a lot of fans, as was Crash later discontinuing solo album reviews altogether and only talking about albums through [=FIMIs=] and year-end lists, with longer gaps between videos.

** Crash's tendency to put certain albums at #1 on his "Worst of" lists that others felt weren't nearly as deserving of the spot as others. Many were surprised that Doug Walker's Wall parody album was even included on the list at all considering very few people even cared about it and many saw the segment as little more then an excuse for Crash to vent about his own disillusionment with Channel Awesome (which he applied to in the past), likewise in the "Worst of 2020" list some thought Crash was stretching by calling the "Living the Dream" music video for Five Finger Death Punch as being "anti-masker", and him trying to use a select few Youtube comments as an excuse to condemn the whole band as being rather unfair, not to mention Crash's repeated insults towards the band's own fans over the years in his reviews of their albums has led some to believe that he just wanted an excuse to rant about the band again and that accusing them of causing deaths was going too far, not to mention impossible to factually prove (plus seeing blaming a band for something that a few of their fans do as rather unfair), not to mention Crash slagging the band for their views (or at least what he thought they were) and penalizing them for it by putting them at #1 came off as hugely hypocritical to some considering he put Music/{{Deftones}} "Ohms" on his "best" list despite one of their members (guitarist Stephen Carpenter) outright revealing himself to be not only an anti-vaxxer/anti-masker but a flat-earther as well (in addition to a whole bunch of other crazy conspiracy theory nonsense), yet Crash didn't penalize their album in the same way. For what it's worth, Crash himself later admitted in one of the "Rock Coliseum" videos that he regretted going as hard on both albums as he did, admitting that even if they were bad they weren't really worth all the anger he directed at them.
** Some fans were dissapointed in Crash's style change after dropping the "Rock Critic" moniker. While a lot of fans were happy to see Crash tackling other music genres outside of rock and metal, the discontinuation of "Quickies" was a real letdown to a lot of fans, as was Crash later discontinuing solo album reviews altogether and only talking about albums through [=FIMIs=] and year-end lists, with longer gaps between videos.

** The playful jokes of the [[Music/{{Rush}} "Garden Road" Guy]] and how he hates Neil Peart for being [[HypeBacklash "overrated"]] became this when Neil passed away in 2020 due to brain cancer.

** The jab Crash threw towards the band Frightened Rabbit (when making fun of indie folk bands hipsters like) eerily becomes this considering Frightened Rabbit ended in 2018 after front man Scott Hutchinson disappeared and was later on found dead.

** On the upside to the HarsherInHindsight involving Frightened Rabbit, his jab at Fleet Foxes becomes this considering Crash would become a fan of the Foxes's former drummer Josh Tillman, otherwise known as Father John Misty.

** As...''polarizing'' as it is, ''many'' fans have gotten tired of Crash's constant shove-ins with political discourse as well as his own left-leaning ideologies coming into his reviews. Some feel it's fine as Crash as a right to do whatever he pleases with his channel, but some feel said topics tend to distract from what the videos are about (something that fellow associated reviewers such as [[WebVideo/RockedReviews Luke Spencer]] or [[WebVideo/SpectrumPulse Mark Grondin]] also tend to do).

* FriendlyFandoms: With [[WebVideo/RockedReviews Luke Spencer]], [[WebVideo/{{ARTV}} ARTV]] , and [[WebVideo/SpectrumPulse Spectrum Pulse]] to the point where they've done several "Rock Coliseum" videos together.

*** And, to an even greater extent, when he retired both the Quickies and the FIMIs after the extreme CreatorBreakdown he experienced in 2021, many fans who were relying on him for new music recommendations were upset to hear how he'd no longer be sharing his thoughts on new albums on his channel until the end of the year.

** A minor but somewhat polarizing one: Crash was rather ''brutal'' when calling out Creator/ToddPhillips in regards to his infamous DearNegativeReader tirade about how he left comedy due to PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad and it being the reason he went off to direct ''Film/Joker2019''. Cue the movie not only being a critical success with movie-goers, but it making a big Box Office hit of ''billions''. Suprisingly enough, Crash never made a comment about ''Joker'' or Phillips afterwards aside from a retweet here and there.

** Crash's tendency to put certain albums at #1 on his "Worst of" lists that others felt weren't nearly as deserving of the spot as others. Many were surprised that Doug Walker's Wall parody album was even included on the list at all considering very few people even cared about it and many saw the segment as little more then an excuse for Crash to vent about his own disillusionment with Channel Awesome (which he applied to in the past), likewise in the "Worst of 2020" list some thought Crash was stretching by calling the "Living the Dream" music video for Five Finger Death Punch as being "anti-masker", and him trying to use a select few Youtube comments as an excuse to condemn the whole band as being rather unfair, not to mention Crash's repeated insults towards the band's own fans over the years in his reviews of their albums has led some to believe that he just wanted an excuse to rant about the band again and that accusing them of causing deaths was going too far, not to mention impossible to factually prove (plus seeing blaming a band for something that a few of their fans do as rather unfair), not to mention Crash slagging the band for their views (or at least what he thought they were) and penalizing them for it by putting them at #1 came off as hugely hypocritical to some considering he put Music/{{Deftones}} "Ohms" on his "best" list despite one of their members(guitarist Stephen Carpenter) outright revealing himself to be not only an anti-vaxxer/anti-masker but a flat-earther as well (in addition to a whole bunch of other crazy conspiracy theory nonsense), yet Crash didn't penalize their album in the same way. For what it's worth, Crash himself later admitted in one of the "Rock Coliseum" videos that he regretted going as hard on both albums as he did, admitting that even if they were bad they weren't really worth all the anger he directed at them.