Line #41 WebVideo/LifeOfBoris


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3	->''"IIIIIIIS BORIS!"''
4	-->-- ''Boris at the start of every video''
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6	[[https://www.youtube.com/user/NocturnoPlays/featured Life of Boris]] is a [=YouTube=] channel owned and operated by the self styled "Slav Superstar" Boris to spread a wide variety of videos from video game showcases to delicious Slavic dishes prepared by the Shashlik King himself. Boris occupies a comfortable niche in the [=YouTube=] community as ''the'' channel for all your [[GangBangers Gopnik]] lifestyle needs.
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8	He also occasionally uploads more in depth gaming content on his side channel [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcBT8-Rtq7FRJTFKX8NYCzA Gopnik Gaming.]] At least, he did before he officially discontinued use of the channel.
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10	He is also the proprietor of the [[https://www.weslav.com/ WESLAV]] shop which sells official Boris merchandise and other Slavic/Gopnik inspired attire.
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12	In 2022, he took a hiatus for a large chunk of the year, starting in July,[[labelnote:*]]While he cited several reasons for what he thought was his permanent retirement, in the [[https://youtu.be/eB-A1Y0Dswc announcement video]] he most primarily stated his reasoning was because he had "done or said everything [he] had wanted to do or say" and that the Youtube Algorithm seems to have caused a downward trend in his watcher and follower count, despite his best efforts to appeal to a wider audience.[[/labelnote]] but in November, he put out a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwF__POGprY Q & A Video]] in which he announced his return, though Boris has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB0aV8ENSXc clarified]] that he will be going forward with a hopefully new mindset on making his videos, which will make them more enjoyable both for himself and his viewers.
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15	!! Cheeki Breeki Tropes:
16	* TheAlcoholic: Well yeah, did you expect anything different from a proper Slav? This comes out the most during his cooking videos where he has ready access to various types of booze.
17	-->'''Top 7 Slav Hangover Cures video:''' Milk starts pouring from heavens, some bread appears, some minced meat lands into a bowl and gets covered by eggs and of course [[TrademarkFavoriteFood Polish mayonez]]. Onions start sizzling in pan in distance, and the overall smell should calm you down, and remind you not to drink so much next ti... [[LiterallyLaughableQuestion crazy laugh]] Ay blyat, there are some things you just cannot say as a Slav.
18	* TheAllegedCar: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmGHmKohMvU Lada]] is pretty clearly one of these, with the humor coming from him trying to sell its flaws as features.
19	* BagOfHolding: Played for laughs in his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5FwtI0G49A What's in my gopnik bag \| Boris Slav edition]] video. as one commentor puts it:
20	-->'''Andrew Hubbard:''' Boris owns that most sought after of magical items, the "gopnik bag of holding"
21	* BatterUp: Sometimes pulls out a baseball bat, he uses it in his celebration of One million subscribers and gives it to Anatoli to test out real-life [[RunningGag Toilet destructibility]].
22	* BayonetYa: While he usually doesn't put it in his Kalashnikov (if he even has one) his favorite knife out of them all is the Kalashnikov Bayonet (specifically, a [[https://www.szco.com/productdetails.aspx?pid=1935 Szco Supplies AK bayonet]], which ironically doesn't fit on most, if any, AK-pattern rifles).
23	* BigEater:
24	** Boris never cooks in moderate servings. Almost anytime he presents a recipe for a large meal, it's either to feed many people at once, or one very hungry Boris. And considering the fact that he lives alone, well...
25	** The neighbor's cat, who Boris has started referring to as "Kasha", is this.
26	* BigFun: Definitely fun, but downplayed on the "big" part, although Boris ''is'' rather chunky underneath his jacket, all things considered, if his closet tour video is to be believed. His BigEater tendencies no doubt played a big part in this.
27	* BigNo:
28	** He's not pleased with the idea that his Babushka could be an Italian spy, [[InsaneTrollLogic though he came to that conclusion due to her using Italian jars]] and not jars from a [[PatrioticFervor Slavic country.]]
29	** He starts to let out an utterly hilarious one [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpkLb7Qu76Q&t=382s here]] while playing ''VideoGame/KerbalSpaceProgram'', when yet another attempted launch goes kablooey.
30	* BladeEnthusiast: Owns a lot of knives, the most often seen being a bunch of combat knives similar to ones from [[VideoGame/CounterStrike CS:GO]] and a Kalashnikov Bayonet. He also makes use of a lot of them in his cooking videos, with a RunningGag of him disregarding normal kitchen knives and just grabbing one of his own.
31	* TheBusCameBack: Kasha, the neighbor's cat, returned for an official appearance in Boris' "Cats try 42 snacks" episode after showing up in his ushanka-making video several months earlier.
32	* {{Catchphrase}}: Quite a few.
33	** "Blin it is good!" - after sampling his own handiwork.
34	** "Vadim blyat!"
35	** "Oy pizdec!"
36	** "Boom!"[[note]]Almost always when either applying an excessive amount of an ingredient while cooking, or doing so aggressively and spraying flour or something else messy everywhere[[/note]]
37	* ChainsawGood: Used for [[https://youtu.be/pyj8Qa79bWY cooking]].
38	* CompanionCube: Kakadu, his ushanka-wearing teddy bear.
39	* CoolCar: His tricked-out[[note]]or rather cheaply decorated; he couldn't afford a pinstripe paint job so he used ''masking tape'' instead[[/note]] Volkswagen Golf, known affectionately as "The Blin Machine". It has since been sold off and replaced with a used Mercedes Benz C200 Kompressor, similarly tricked-out and dubbed ''The Chernomobil''.
40	* CoolMask: Always wears a face obscuring balaclava and has worn different kinds of designs over the years. Occasionally he adds a Gas Mask to the mix, and he owns many kinds of them as well, with one being a customized Israeli Gas Mask that a fan sent him.
41	* CoolShades: A crucial part of Boris' face concealing headgear. Anatoli and Vadim also wear these whenever they appear on-screen.
42	** [[spoiler:In 2024, Boris finally took them off [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBUOCB4M02U on camera.]]]]
43	* CloudCuckooLander: Boris himself from time to time, but his cousin Anatoli near ''all'' the time.
44	* CuteKitten: November 2018 marked the first appearance of Komrade Kat. After soliciting fan suggestions, he was named Artyom, after the protagonist from the ''Metro'' series.
45	* DoesNotLikeSpam:
46	** Margarine. Boris seems to have a pronounced dislike for substitute butter, and whenever it is mentioned, margarine is often the butt of jokes. Which sort of begs the question why he has it in his fridge to begin with...
47	** While he generally loves mayonez, he's expressed a distaste for the American and Japanese stuff.
48	* DrivesLikeCrazy: In his gaming videos at least, most notably his early [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto GTA]] taxi driver videos and his later ''Cheeki Breeki Airlines'' series wherein he, among other things, dips a fighter jet in ocean water for a split second [[ItMakesSenseInContext merely to demonstrate its lack of submarine capabilities]]. In real life he's actually a competent driver, unless he's in the countryside--in which case he has a tendency to let loose. Lampshaded by himself whenever he refers to the emergency brake as the lever for "initiating Drift Mode".
49	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness:
50	** Boris used to speak much less clearly in his earlier videos due to his lack of experience with English, along with the absence of several of his trademark slang terms and jokes like the tried and true "pelmeninator". His earlier content also relied a lot on RapidFireComedy, with constant jump cuts and ''no subtitles'', instead of the slower, more condensed style of humor he employs now, which can make his pre-2018 videos seem incomprehensible to newer viewers due to his thick accent.
51	** In-video subtitles were only implemented as of late 2017. Earlier videos had to be subbed by fans, in order to make out what the hell Boris is saying at times due to his thick accent.
52	* ExtremeOmnivore: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_KFePq8qO0 This video]] reveals Kasha the Neighbor's Cat is very open to anything that she can put in her mouth, contrasting with Artyom [[PickyEater being dubious about most things served to him]].
53	* TheFaceless: Boris and Anatoli both wear very concealing headgear that makes seeing their faces impossible. "Vadim" also [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9WAfwWnWzU dresses like this]].
54	* ForeignCussWord: Boris' first language isn't English, so he's prone to dropping these quite frequently. In fact, in most of his videos concerning both his and other Eastern European or Slavic languages, he usually teaches different cuss words or insults from those same languages.
55	* FreezeFrameBonus: Sometimes a sound will be accompanied by a humorous subtitle that pops up for a fraction of a second before quickly disappearing.
56	* FromMyOwnPersonalGarden: Well, his grandma's garden, at least. A lot of his cooking videos (especially the PovertyFood episodes) involve getting onions from "Babushka" at the End of the Month.
57	* FunWithSubtitles:
58	** Due to his heavy accent he uses subtitles a lot in earlier videos, before he stopped using them, and then began using them again; he explained that he uses subtitles not only due to his heavy accent, but because he wants to give those that might be hard of hearing as full a Boris experience as he can. He also uses them to add gags to his videos, such as subtitling his snores as Bear Noise or his Cousin coughing loudly and it being subtitled as Slavic Thunder.
59	** Boris clearly had way too much fun subtitling Artyom and Kasha in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_KFePq8qO0 this video]], giving them lots of YouNoTakeCandle-heavy dialogue.
60	* TheGhost:
61	** [[SitcomArchNemesis Neighbor Vadim]] is often mentioned, but rarely actually seen. Subverted in the mobile game, where an animated version of him appears. "Vadim" finally appears in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9WAfwWnWzU this here video]], where he's just as faceless as our protagonist.
62	** Boris occasionally speaks of Masha, an alleged past LoveInterest.
63	* TheGlassesComeOff: Boris pulls this near the end of [[https://youtu.be/lBUOCB4M02U?si=_bYOrH7TNDTlHIj3 this video]].
64	* GoshdangItToHeck: Boris would frequently censor himself by saying "Blin" (which means Pancake) instead of "Blyat", essentially the Slavic equivalent of using "Fudge" instead of "Fuck". According to him, saying "Blyat" in front of his family is a quick way to get clocked in the head with a RollingPinOfDoom, courtesy of either his babushka or his mother.
65	* GrandmasRecipe: In his cooking videos, Boris almost always talks on and on about his "Babushka" and the different recipes, cooking tips and etc. That she taught him to be the [[SupremeChef Supreme Slav Chef]] he is today.
66	* GunNut: Not as prevalent as his knife-wielding tendencies (as detailed below) but he will on rare occasions show some sort of gun in his videos, the most prominent of which is a scopeless Dragunov. Unlike his knife collection it's not clear if they're real or if he just has replicas.
67	* HiddenDepths: Despite usually portraying himself as the most gopnik of gopniks, and as such not necessarily the most educated of people, he's actually completed post-secondary, specifically in computer programming. Boris is also surprisingly skilled at hat-making, and designed his merchandise himself. And let's not forget about his cooking for a second. Despite his lowbrow persona, he is also quite insightful with regards to things like how traditions affect culture and relationships, as well as providing words of wisdom to those who would be prospective Youtubers themselves.
68	* HypocriticalHumor: Whenever Boris chastises Anatoli for doing something wrong, expect him to do the same repeatedly immediately after for comedic effects.
69	** In his potato salad video, Boris yells at Anatoli for throwing a potato at him, asking "what kind of debil throws food [blyat]?", and then immediately proceeds to toss said potato into the boiling pot right next to him. Not twenty seconds later, he throws an egg into another pot, which predictably causes big pizdec because it's not even filled with water.
70	* ICallItVera: Boris has a habit of naming his cooking implements, such as Ilona the meat grinder and Svetlana, a sledgehammer for tenderizing meat.
71	--> ''"She not much to look at, but she get job done."''
72	* IconicItem: For the longest time, Boris' signature yellow Adidas tracksuit was this. However, legal troubles with Adidas as well as water damage from [[ItMakesSenseInContext the time he fell into a lake during a fanmail video]] meant that his old tracksuit became unusable for the purposes of the channel. It has since been replaced with Boris' custom yellow WESLAV tracksuit, or Boris' WESLAV tracksuits in general.
73	* IMeantToDoThat: In his "Cooking with Chainsaw" video, Boris scuffed the tree stump he's using as the cutting board when he tried chopping up some potatoes. He then claimed it's intentional, to stop other potatoes from rolling off of the stump afterwards. And props to him, because it did work like he said it would, albeit not very cleanly.
74	* InsaneTrollLogic: ''Frequently''.
75	--> '''Boris:''' "If the mix is too liquid, add some flour. if the mix is too solid, remove some flour."
76	* InsistentTerminology: Boris has a funny vocabulary.
77	** He exclusively refers to the skimmer spatula as a "Pelmeninator", mainly because he only knows it's used for making pelmeni, doesn't really know what it's supposed to be called and refuses to learn.
78	** Boris almost always refers to 200°C specifically as ~473°K. He even labels that one notch on his oven as such.
79	** Cooking ingredients are always referred to as "components". Also, it is "mayonez", not "mayonnaise". Other produce also have their own nicknames, like eggs being referred to as "chicken produce", or milk being consistently dubbed "cow juice".
80	* {{Jerkass}}: Vadim is a noisy neighbour as he's constantly annoying Boris with very loud [=D.I.Y=] work and complaining whenever Boris makes noise himself; however it's shown in his debut appearance on the channel that his so called [=D.I.Y=] that he's not actually doing anything productive at all. He wakes up in the morning (to a loud alarm clock) and spends the entire day doing completely random things with the single goal of making annoying noises that his neighbour can hear (during this time he also steals Boris's food for seemingly every meal) and when the day is done he goes back to bed (where its revealed the alarm clock has been ringing all day) [[HypocriticalHumour only to shout at Boris for being noisy]].
81	* KindheartedCatLover: He adopted a kitten from his Babushka which he's named Artyom, and it's ''very'' clear he loves the little guy a lot.
82	* LargeHam: Boris is larger-than-life to the max. He talks loudly, gesticulates a lot and is in general very passionate about everything he does.
83	* LethalChef: Not in the sense that his food tastes bad enough to kill someone or made out of ingridients that are inedible, it's just that they are '''[[NutritionalNightmare spectacularly unhealthy]]'''. Most of his food either has way too much sugar or carbohydrates, or it's [[DeepFriedWhatever deep fried in sunflower seed oil]], leading Boris to joke about how eating what he's made will most likely give you diabetes or other food-related health problems.
84	** His [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jrPg34NekM first attempt]] at making cheese from scratch did not go well, tasting like someone already had a go at ''digesting'' it.
85	* MadeOfIron: Though Boris actively avoids getting hurt during the making of his videos, he surprisingly is this to a realistic extent. He made a video explaining why he had to go to the hospital in 2019, and his entire reaction to the situation could be largely read as such. Having contracted what he assumed to be food poisoning, and spending an entire night puking-up anything solid he tried to eat while being "punched in the stomach constantly" Boris went about his day in fairly normal fashion (albeit in pain and shaking). It wasn't until later that day, after checking to see if he was sick, that he had to go collect a rental car and while stopped at a stop light had the genius of thought: "Blin... Red means stop! I thought they were just random colors popping up.". At which point he decided it was time to go to the hospital. It was then quickly discovered that he had appendicitis. The MadeOfIron comes in during his hospital stay, when the increasingly exasperated staff discover Boris had driven himself to the hospital and, with some minor painkillers, was acting as if nothing was wrong. Of particular note being that he had to use the bathroom, wanted to move around, and was speaking in full sentences.
86	* MilkingTheGiantCow: Boris moves his hands around all the time as he talks. He himself justifies this; due to his highly concealing headgear he can't use facial expressions to convey emotions, therefore he "would just look like debil sitting here making noises without a mouth".
87	* TheMillstone: Anatoli, albeit played for laughs. Nearly every single time Anatoli appears on-screen, he can be seen ''constantly'' engaging in very questionable antics that threaten to mess up the cooking process in some way, which Boris has to loudly yell at him to stop. It's rather miraculous that the final product nearly always comes out as it should, if somewhat messy.
88	* MotherRussiaMakesYouStrong: His much-boasted-about "Slav Power", which can either mean physical strength or the ability to perform difficult Slavic-related activities such as crushing garlic or learning Russian.
89	* MundaneUtility: A [[BayonetYa bayonet]] [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin is what it is]], but it's also a terrific military-grade cutting knife. Boris makes very sure to prove this point in nearly every video.
90	* MysteryMeat: Deconstructed when Boris makes a Doktorskaya Kolbasa sausage (think Bologna, but Russian) entirely from scratch. All he uses to make it is pork, ice water, and seasonings, but the result is identical to the rubbery, uniformly-textured pink stuff you'd find in any grocery store.
91	* TheNightOwl: Boris seems to produce most of his cooking videos in the dead of night, usually at around 1 to 2 o'clock in the morning. This is part of the reason Vadim has such a vendetta against him.
92	* NoodleImplements: Who in their right mind would consider a fire axe and a sledgehammer to be proper cooking utensils?
93	* OlderThanTheyLook: Although hard to tell due to his face being concealed, Boris is supposedly 35 as of 2021, [[https://www.instagram.com/the_life_of_boris/ if his Instagram bio is to be believed]]. Despite this, his relatively squat stature, mannerisms, and active personality can let him pass for a man a decade younger.
94	* {{Omniglot}}: According to his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdSIQcmVnt8 Russian crab salad video]], Boris speaks seven languages, which is believed to be [[WhatTheHellIsThatAccent the reason why his accent is all over the place.]]
95	* OnlyOneName: Both Boris and Anatoli's last names are still currently unknown.
96	* OvenLogic: When cooking a cheesecake using an American recipe, Boris refuses to convert the units and takes all measurements at face value, so when the recipe says to set the recipe to 350 degrees without specifcying Fahrenheit or Celsius, he sets his oven to 350 degrees Celsius. Since he's aware that's ''really'' hot and probably much hotter than the recipe called for, he decides to bake to cheesecake for less time - 20 minutes instead of a whole hour. At the end, to cool it, he also applies the reverse, and cools the cheesecake for an hour in the freezer instead of 12 hours in the refridgerator. Against all odds, it actually works and produces what appears to be a well-made cheesecake.
97	* PovertyFood: Has several videos on how to stretch your grocery budget.
98	* TheQuietOne: His cousin Anatoli doesn't really talk that much, as a contrast to Boris's fast talking dialogue. Anatoli instead focuses on his offbeat antics to express his humor.
99	* RainbowSpeak: Whenever Boris says anything in Russian (with some exceptions, like food names and common swear words), it's written in red in the subtitles.
100	* RedBaron: Boris has a few self styled ones such as "The Slav Superstar", and "The Shashlik King".
101	* RefugeInAudacity: During his tour of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYN_paVXTjk?t=217 Bratislava, Slovakia]], he comes across a guy ''sawing open a bike lock'' in front of the Castle of Bratislava, with a security guard standing ''outside'' the castle ''completely unaware'', ''and'' due the the buildings being in close proximity in front of the ''House Of Parliament''.
102	* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: In 2018, the channel gained a new addition: Artyom, AKA Comrade Cat. An adorable gray kitty. As shown during his debut video and Boris' Piroshki video, not even Boris is immune to Artyom's CutenessProximity.
103	* RollingPinOfDoom: This is Babushka's dreaded weapon whenever Boris misbehaves or refuses to eat her homemade dishes. Or so he says.
104	* RunningGag:
105	** In his traveling videos, he's usually looking for some shashlik, which usually ends in disappointment.
106	** When playing video games that have guns or combat in them, he always makes sure that there's "Toilet Destuctibility" in the game.
107	** "This is no [subject of the video]. This is Boris."
108	** "Focus сука![[note]] "bitch"[[/note]]", whenever his camera loses focus.
109	** Has a huge number unique to his cooking videos:
110	*** He usually throws away or disregards normal kitchen knives for combat knives instead. In one of his early videos, he even used a katana to slice a cabbage.
111	*** He also has a habit of talking about how the food that he's making will either make you fat, less healthy in general, or dead.
112	*** He tends to be very messy when preparing his ingredients, often tossing flour and other ingredients everywhere.
113	*** He constantly jokes about burning down the house via a kitchen mishap.
114	*** "And don't forget... the '''''bay leaf.'''''" [{{Beat}}] "Or maybe 2."
115	*** "Let the dill rain from the heavens" while haphazardly showering his culinary creations in chopped dill.
116	*** If a recipe calls for parsley as garnish, Boris will carefully place it on top of the dish, and then quickly flicks it off-screen.
117	*** When adding extra garlic, he warns that doing so will delay meeting your significant other by a whole day.
118	*** Mayonez
119	* SelfDeprecation: Tends to make jokes about his lack of income, romantic success, how his cooking videos will most likely kill you with the amount of carbs or sugar in them rather than starvation and the like.
120	* ShoutOut: His channel is named after, get this, ''Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian'' of all things.
121	* SirSwearsALot: Both Slavic and English cuss words.
122	* SitcomArchnemesis:
123	** Boris' neighbor Vadim, mostly due to him stealing Boris' mail and food and once mailing him what looked like a huge stack of cash [[YankTheDogsChain but turned out to be novelty napkins.]] It should be noted that Vadim [[FriendlyEnemy did help record]] one of his fan mail videos however. As it turns out, Vadim hates Boris just as much for recording his ''noisy'' cooking videos while Vadim is trying to sleep.
124	** Kolya the Western Spy is another such archnemesis, albeit brought up less frequently than Vadim.
125	** A third one is Igor the incompetent programmer, who tends to make Boris' software development career difficult due to being ''urod''.[[note]]"loser"[[/note]]
126	* SigilSpam: Boris has giant rolls of [=WESLAV=] logo tapes to plaster his properties with. Other than that, he also has the habit of decorating his property with the Adidas tri-stripes pattern, such as his car, table, and laptop.
127	* SmallNameBigEgo: Ask the man himself and he'll tell you that he's a Slavic Superman who was born in Chernobyl Reactor 4 and who is practically the be all end all of everything Slav. This aspect of his character becomes very clear during his travel videos where he tries to make it seem like he's a traveling superstar when he's clearly not given that treatment. Obviously PlayedForLaughs due to his habit of SelfDeprecation.
128	* SongParody: ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6d_e-R-GDLc Slavline Blin]]'', a parody of ''[[{{Music/Drake}} Hotline Bling]]''. The original video however was taken down for copyright reasons [[InsaneTrollLogic despite the video containing nothing of the original except the beat.]]
129	* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''WebVideo/RegularOrdinarySwedishMealTime'' of all things. While Boris specifies on ''anything'' he wishes, the cooking videos are as over the top as something you'd expect of ''[=ROSMT=]'', just without Vikings and with Slavic Badasses. Plus like ''[=ROSMT=]'', Boris has a love of mayo like Niclas Lunberg does.
130	* StoneSoup: Does a version called [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxgWp0J_vbk "Hatchet Soup"]]. It looks like it goes on the ideal scale of things, with the soldier and the elderly babushka having the soup for the rest of their happy lives, but then Boris tells us [[spoiler:that the soldier was actually fooling the poor old woman.]]
131	* SunglassesAtNight: As part of his schtick of always being on screen but never recognizable in public, he wears either aviator or wraparound shades to hide his eyes.
132	* SupremeChef: While supreme may be pushing it, he's definitely good at making Slavic dishes, even having the skill and patience to make his own loaves of black bread which anyone will tell you is a ''very'' involved process. He has also made his own sausage, which is definitely next level cooking. He even managed to make a cheesecake from a recipe using American customary units while refusing to actually convert them to metric, resulting in among other mishaps him setting the oven to 350 degrees Celsius instead of Fahrenheit and somehow made up the difference by baking it for 20 minutes instead of the specified hour, in addition to more or less guessing how much an ounce is and being unaware of what a graham cracker is and still producing a tasty cheesecake. His most impressive feat to date however, is recreating a cake he had in a dream once ''with no real life equivalent or recipe'' and managing to nail the taste and qualities it had ''in the dream.''
133	* TakeThat: His [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkNdyGdOVsk "Top 10 Worst Content of 2018"]] video is essentially a broad one to a good number of Youtuber channels, namely those with annoying gimmicks such as dying their hair, having overly long video intros/outros, or performing cruel pranks on others while trying to pass it off as a joke.
134	* TimTaylorTechnology: Best shown by his VideoGame/KerbalSpaceProgram videos, but if Boris is met with a engineering problem his default answer is ''"Strap more rockets to it"''.
135	* TrademarkFavoriteFood:
136	** ''Mayonez''. Boris absolutely ''adores'' the stuff, even using as a topping when he really shouldn't. He's not particularly fond of the Japanese or American variants though. To a lesser extent, he's quite fond of Shashlik, even becoming vastly disappointed during some of his travel videos if he fails to get any.
137	** Semechki (Sunflower Seeds). The amount of times he talks about Semechki is about equal to or probably even more than the amount of time he talks about Mayonez.
138	** Pickles. Lots of pickles. If a recipe calls for pickles, almost definitely half of that amount will be snack for Boris.
139	** Kvass, while not a food, belongs here too. One of his international travels was even tied together by him reviewing the local kvass.
140	** He also has a Trademark Favorite Aromatic - the bay leaf[[labelnote:*]]...or maybe two[[/labelnote]].
141	* TrashOfTheTitans: Boris tends to leave a big mess (or "pizdec", as he usually calls it) on his kitchen counter whenever he's done cooking, a fact he lampshades frequently.
142	* TropeCodifier: While he didn't outright come up with any of the popular stereotypes associated with Slavs on the internet (squatting gopniks in tracksuits and the like), Boris massively helped to popularize them.
143	* TheUnfavorite: Boris views ''himself'' as this in the eyes of Youtube itself, citing how his channel pulls in views equal to that of some of his Western contemporaries yet he's paid a pittance in comparison due to Youtube's revenue rules.
144	* UnitConfusion: PlayedForLaughs when Boris cooks a cheesecake using an American recipe and refuses to convert units and takes everything at face value. As a result, he puts twice as much butter in the crust (which he makes from condensed milk biscuits and digestives as graham crackers are apparently unknown in Boris's part of the world) as is called for as the recipe calls for "one stick of butter" and his stick of butter is about twice the size of a common American quarter pound stick. He also sets the oven to 350 degrees... Celsius as the recipe did not specify Fahrenheit or Celsius and manages to successfully make up for it [[OvenLogic by baking the cheesecake for 20 minutes instead of an hour]]. In the absence of a standard American measuring cup, he eyeballs filling a coffee mug about a quarter of the way with sugar. On top of these, he reasons from the abbreviation "oz" that the recipe calls for 24 "ohs" of cream cheese and resons that to be about as much as he can fit in his mouth, which is about one heaping tablespoon. This turns out to be an actually pretty reasonable approximation of an ounce (an ounce is two tablespoons, so a heaping tablespoon would actually be fairly close). Despite the unit confusion and substitutions, the end result is against all odds, a successfully executed cheesecake.
145	** Sometime later Boris made an apple pie with a similar approach to units. Clearly, lightning doesn’t strike twice, since now the entire top got charred black. And he couldn’t even set the oven to 350°C this time ([[InsaneTrollLogic in fact, he blamed the pie burning on the oven]] ''[[InsaneTrollLogic not being hot enough]]'').
146	* UnsoundEffect: Numerous examples, such as throwing a slice of bread on a counter with the subtitle GLUTEN
147	* VocalEvolution: His voice has changed over the years as he's grown more used to speaking in front of a mic. Take a listen for yourself, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UOowIxfX88 The Old Voice]] and the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPLJnobY5f4 Current One]].
148	* VodkaDrunkenski: But of course. There are so many vodka-related jokes in his videos it would be impossible to list them all. Exaggerated when he decided to fit a liquid cooling system on his PC... [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYTJfLyo_vE and replaced the usual water-based coolant]] [[RefugeInAudacity with Vodka.]] It surprisingly worked.
149	* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: In his [[https://youtu.be/xsjKBTSuUY8?t=581 Feb. 9, 2020]] upload, Boris explains he grew up in [[spoiler:four different Slavic]] countries and learned their languages ''and'' learned English on top of that. The result is that not even ''he'' is sure what his accent is.
150	* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: For the longest time, what country Boris lives in was one of the fanbase's most burning questions. Based on the occasional interviews, Boris apparently moved around Eastern Europe a lot during his childhood and still does so frequently in present day, having lived in Tallinn, Estonia for some time before moving to Moscow and most recently Saint Petersburg. In addition, on February 4th 2021, under the video of a British travel blogger bald and bankrupt traveling across the CIS countries called "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ltZR9IWXaE Solo In Estonia's East 🇪🇪]]", Boris left a comment in which he invited the blogger to Kopli (a microdistrict in Tallinn) "for instant good friends" hinting at a possible collab, which may indicate that Boris lives in both Russia and Estonia. On October 26th 2021, he reveals in "Where is Boris?" that he relocated to Estonia for a programming job he was offered a while back.
151	* YouNoTakeCandle: Boris ''is'' capable of speaking English perfectly well, he just doesn't bother most of the time. Thus, he often omits a/an/the articles, verbs, conjugation, etc. This may very well be a case of StylisticSuck to further dedicate himself to his Eastern Slav image. Anatoli almost exclusively speaks like this, [[TheQuietOne whenever he feels like doing so anyway]].
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