History YMMV / WoolieVersus

* ArchiveBinge: In 2019, Woolie experimented with uploading a whole batch of episodes for one series at once, Creator/{{Netflix}}-style, to see if his audience engaged better with binge-watching versus serial uploads. Specifically: on March 10, Minh uploaded ''18 parts'' of the ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry5'' LP--every video that had been recorded and edited up to that point--a full episode every 30 minutes. (Woolie implied that he was also partly motivated by wanting to [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor shut up the fans who complained he was putting out new episodes of their favorite series too slowly.]]) Apparently, the results were disappointing because Woolie's never repeated that stunt. Though later there was a change in format to live streaming the channel's LP recording sessions to Twitch, so fans can now watch live (or watch the unedited stream archives) if they don't want to wait for the edited [=LPs=] to be uploaded to [=YouTube=].
* FridgeBrilliance: During the LP of ''Jet Set Radio'', Woolie theorizes that the reason there's so few spray cans in the late game is due to the Rokkaku Group buying up and shutting down all the suppliers in town, causing a shortage. Likewise, the reason the few remaining cans are grouped together in out of the way nooks and crannies is from the Rudies gathering whatever's left into caches and stockpiles.
* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: The intro to ''Get Into Fighting Games'' is pretty awesome, transitioning from musical style to musical style as the intro follows different games... but as the intro winds down, [[VideoGame/CapcomvsSNK2MarkoftheMillennium a familiar song]] starts to FadeIn, making itself known in full as the title card pops up, along with some old words of welcome:
-->'''Woolie:''' [[WebVideo/TwoBestFriendsPlay Eyy, what's going on, man? Come in! You ready to play?]]

** Even as a SinkOrSwimMentor, there's something rather heartwarming about Woolie coaching Reggie through the ''Souls'' franchise, the same way Pat had done for Woolie years before. Probably the sweetest moment is when Reggie reaches the Iron Golem boss in ''Dark Souls'', which sees Woolie eagerly [[ContinuityNod call back]] to the older LP by echoing Pat's chant for Black Iron Tarkus -- And when Tarkus doesn't recreate the famous ledge kill, Woolie is quick to bring up a fan upload of the moment just so Reggie can experience it too.

** 「Bring Me To Life」[[labelnote:Explanation]]Much as fans of [[WebVideo/PatStaresAt Pat]] turned his tendency to be InstantlyProvenWrong into a meme stand named 「Crazy Talk」, fans gave Woolie his own fan stand with powers opposite to 「Crazy Talk」. As it's based around things going Woolie's way, its powers are centered around {{Defictionalization}} of Woolie-centric AuthorAppeal, such as AmazonianBeauty characters and RuleOfCool. The name also has a double meaning due to Music/{{Evanescence}} having been a GuiltyPleasure of Woolie's. [[/labelnote]]
*** 「Bring Me To Life Requiem」[[labelnote:Explanation]]Towards the end of the 2010's several fighting games announced new characters [[ComicBookFantasyCasting who strongly resembled Woolie]] (in order: [[VideoGame/SamuraiShodown Darli Dagger]], [[VideoGame/{{Tekken}} Leroy Smith]], [[VideoGame/GuiltyGear Nagoriyuki]], Woolie making an actual cameo appearance as a GuestFighter in ''[[https://twitter.com/hero_versus/status/1238252449628065792 Hero Versus]]''), leading to fans joking that 「Bring Me To Life」 developed a Requiem form enabling Woolie to ''literally'' [[https://twitter.com/wooliewoolz/status/1158192976905981954 get into fighting games]].[[/labelnote]]
** [[BigShutUp Shut the fuck up]][[note]]A scene of Woolie giving a BigShutUp in the context of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqwP6uuYOWo advice for video game fangame developers to avoid getting taken down by copyright holders]] became viral as a popular reaction image for general use.[[/note]]
** The Woolie Way[[note]]Used to make fun of Woolie's decision-making skills, ComplexityAddiction and tendency to suffer from tunnel vision when a notion about gameplay or story gets into his head.[[/note]]
** From the Franchise/MassEffect playthroughs:
*** Red Shepherd chasing asari[[note]]Reggie's obvious attraction to the setting's {{Blue Skinned Space Babe}}s, along with romancing (by default) Liara and bedding the Consort, has led to jokes of Red Shepherd being utterly obsessed with asari. Fans suspect that, in an alternate timeline where Reggie continued to hold the controller for the second game, Red Shepherd would've recruited [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Morinth]] and [[OutWithABang gotten himself killed trying to have sex with her]].[[/note]]
*** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC_D6CtI-W4 THIS IS MY KILL!]]"[[note]]During Garrus's personal mission in ''1'', Red Shepard guns down Dr. Saleon after saying this phrase in the most chilling way possible, giving birth to a psychopathic side of Shepard that is ready to ruin his companions' personal growths if it means he gets to kill somebody.[[/note]]
*** Blue Shepherd killing batarians[[note]]Fans like to joke that Woolie and his character are ''genocidally'' bigoted towards the batarian race, actively seeking out opportunities to kill them, thanks to how ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' seemingly goes out of its way to portray [[PlanetOfHats their entire species]] as huge scumbags and TheUsualAdversaries.[[/note]]

** Woolie's [=VaatiVidya=] style ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'' lore videos, though spawned from a joke, can be genuinely creepy because of his consistent even tone throughout and the way a simple perspective flip can make the saccharine Kirby series into a CosmicHorrorStory. The ending of his video on [[AfterTheEnd Shiver Star]] paints a frightening possibility of [[spoiler: who he thinks the destroyer of Earth and a great deal of Humanity is.]]
--->'''Woolie:''' Snowy and cold, Shiver Star is a winter wonderland- a wonderland full of monsters and... ''[[WhamLine Dark Matter.]]'' (0[[superscript:2]] appears on screen for half a second)
*** The Main/{{Spoiler}} warning preceding the lore videos is pretty creepy; It's a clip of the Hyper Zone from ''VideoGame/KirbysDreamLand3'' [[AStormIsComing pulsing ominously]] before the video [[NothingIsScarier suddenly and soundlessly]] [[SmashToBlack smashes to black,]] with the video proper starting seconds later.

** During the ''KOTOR 2'' LP, at one point Little V starts remarking on how surreal it feels to be working with Woolie on the game since he was a fan of his work during the "old days" with [[WebVideo/TwoBestFriendsPlay the Zaibatsu]], only to awkwardly stop as Woolie becomes audibly uncomfortable. Old wounds run deep after all.
** Woolie [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vm_jPYHl3M4 making it emphatically clear]] during the ''Thousand Year Door'' streams that a Two Best Friends reunion is '''never going to happen.'''

** The Woolie Way[[note]]Used to make fun of Woolie's odd decision-making skills, ComplexityAddiction and tendency to stubbornly adhere to (or pass over) certain strategies and techniques.[[/note]]

* FanCommunityNickname: "Manga readers" for the fans who watch the live recording sessions, "Anime watchers" for the fans that wait to watch the edited [=YouTube=] [=LPs=].
** Twitch chat is often referred to as "The Universe" or "[[VideoGame/DiscoElysium Shivers]]".

* NightmareFuel: Season 4 of ''Gon In 60 Seconds'' is ''quickly'' shaping up to be the scariest thing posted on Woolie's channel. While the first three seasons were about WebVideo/SuperEyepatchWolf going to goofier and wilder extremes to get Woolie to like an anime, Season 4 has a deeply unsettling cult-like atmosphere that just makes everything, even mundane conversation, feel stressful and worrying.

** Twitch chat is often referred to as "The Universe".

* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: The intro to ''Get Into Fighting Games'' is pretty awesome, transitioning from musical style to musical style as the intro follows different games... but as the intro winds down, [[VideoGame/CapcomvsSNK2MarkoftheMillennium a familiar song]] starts to fade in, making itself known in full as the title card pops up, along with some old words of welcome:

*** Blue Shepherd killing batarians[[note]]Fans like to joke that Woolie and his character are ''genocidally'' bigoted towards the bartarian race, actively seeking out opportunities to kill them, thanks to how ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' seemingly goes out of its way to portray [[PlanetOfHats their entire species]] as huge scumbags and TheUsualAdversaries.[[/note]]

*** Red Shepherd chasing asari[[note]]Reggie's obvious attraction to the setting's {{Blue Skinned Space Babe}}s, along with romancing (by [[YourCheatingHeart default]]) Liara and bedding the Consort, has led to jokes of Red Shepherd being utterly obsessed with asari. Fans suspect that, in an alternate timeline where Reggie continued to hold the controller for the second game, Red Shepherd would've recruited [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Morinth]] and [[OutWithABang gotten himself killed trying to have sex with her]].[[/note]]

*** Red Shepherd chasing asari[[note]]Reggie's obvious attraction to the setting's {{Blue Skinned Space Babe}}s, along with romancing (by [[YourCheatingHeart default]]) Liara and bedding the Consort, has led to jokes of Red Shepherd being utterly obsessed with asari. Fans suspect that, in an alternate timeline where Reggie continued to hold the controller for the second game, Red Shepherd would've recruited [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Morinth]] and [[DeathBySex gotten himself killed trying to have sex with her]].[[/note]]

*** 「Bring Me To Life Requiem」[[labelnote:Explanation]]Towards the end of the 2010's several fighting games announced new characters [[ComicBookFantasyCasting who strongly resembled Woolie]] (in order: [[VideoGame/SamuraiShodown Darli Dagger]], [[VideoGame/{{Tekken}} Leroy Smith]], [[VideoGame/GuiltyGear Nagoriyuki]], Woolie making a literal appearance as a GuestFighter in ''[[https://twitter.com/hero_versus/status/1238252449628065792 Hero Versus]]''), leading to fans joking that 「Bring Me To Life」 developed a Requiem form capable of putting Woolie ''himself'' [[https://twitter.com/wooliewoolz/status/1158192976905981954 into fighting games]].[[/labelnote]]

** The Woolie Way[[note]]Used to make fun of Woolie's ComplexityAddiction, thanks to his tendency to waste time over-thinking decisions, or adopting {{Game Mod}}s and unwieldy hardware, in pursuit of "the best possible experience". Frequently Woolie will refuse or fail to realize [[StatingTheSimpleSolution a simpler solution]] because he's dead set on doing things his own way.[[/note]]

* FanNickname: "Manga readers" for the fans who watch the live recording sessions, "Anime watchers" for the fans that wait to watch the edited [=YouTube=] [=LPs=].

* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''[[WebVideo/TwoBestFriendsPlay Super Best Friends Play]]'', with Woolie himself having been a former member of that group. While originally Woolie's solo outing, over time ''Woolie Versus'' has grown in scope to adopt a distinctly ''Best Friends'' style of group commentary and humor, centered on the recurring trio of Woolie, Reggie and Minh, with Little V later becoming an on-again-off-again fourth member.
** The ''Castle Super Beast'' podcast is a direct sequel to the ''Super Best Friendcast'', though Woolie and [[WebVideo/PatStaresAt Pat]] are the only hosts this time around.
** His two playthroughs with Pat on ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2Remake'' and ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry5'' (moreso the latter due to its pre-recorded format) serve as the closest either of them have gone to make videos similar to the ''Best Friends'' channel.
** The ''Salt Party'' videos feature Woolie, Reggie and Minh playing [[MeleeATrois competitive free-for-alls]] in a variety of multiplayer/party games, much like ''Super Best Friends Brawl''.
** The ''Get Into Fighting Games'' streams are this for ''Friday Night Fisticuffs'', to the point of incorporating part of the audio from ''[=FNF=]'''s intro into its own as a MythologyGag. The subset of GIFG named "For Fuck's Sake" (FFS) is this to ''Saturday Morning Scrublords''.

** The Woolie Way[[note]]Used to make fun of Woolie's ComplexityAddiction, thanks to his tendency to waste time over-thinking decisions, or adopting {{Game Mod}}s and unwieldy hardware, in pursuit of "the best possible experience".[[/note]]

** The Woolie Way[[note]]Used to make fun of Woolie's ComplexityAddiction, thanks to his tendency to over-think decisions, rely on counter-intuitive or incorrect strategies, or use {{Game Mod}}s and unwieldy hardware in pursuit of "the best possible experience".[[/note]]

** The Woolie Way[[note]]Used to make fun of Woolie's ComplexityAddiction, particularly his tendency to adopt sub-optimal playstyles, unwieldy gaming hardware or {{Game Mod}}s in pursuit of "the best possible experience".[[/note]]

** The Woolie Way[[note]]Used to make fun of Woolie's ComplexityAddiction, particularly his tendency to adopt sub-optimal playstyles or unwieldy gaming hardware in pursuit of an "ideal experience".[[/note]]