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• The Spoony One did a review of Final Fantasy VIII. After Zell is informed he passed the SeeD exam, Zell struts off, with Spoony making chanting things like "gay, gay, sissy, gay" along with the Can Can as backing music. Later, in the first episode of Spoony's review of Final Fantasy XIII, Spoony admitted that the gay joke was in bad taste, and said that he deserved all the mockery and backlash he got for making the aforesaid joke. Spoony was also more critical of the writing, character motivations, and themes of Final Fantasy XIII instead of making that kind of cheap joke at the expense of the fanbase or the characters' personalities.
  Spoony: I still feel humiliated and sincerely apologize for that "gay gay sissy gay" thing I did in the first episode. I really don't know what in the hell I was thinking. I deserve every single rebuke you can give me over that one.
• The The Nostalgia Chick team were getting a lot of flack over the "Nella abuse", which some took way too seriously and thought it was happening in real life. So Lindsay made a "Thanks For Your Feedback", detailing that the Nostalgia Chick had sinfully low self-esteem and was paying Nella to make her look better. This seems to have also influenced "the Dark Nella Saga," where the evil entity possessing Nella gets revenge on the Chick for all the hell she put her through. (Note that the "Nella abuse" has pretty much stopped since the Saga ended.)
• Atop the Fourth Wall: Fans claimed The Entity storyline from "Pokémon: The Electric Tale of Pikachu" didn't explain why Missingno was afraid of Lord Vyce, when it was built it up as an unstoppable universe-devouring Lovecraftian demon. So the writer Lewis Lovhaug explained in the commentary that Vyce's attacks were able to hurt it but not kill it, at least according to Missingno, and it found getting rid of him to be enough of an inconvenience that it hid in our world so Linkara would defeat Vyce. Lewis also comments that Vyce not being able to kill it was only claimed by Missingno, who is full of itself even for a god.
• The Fire Never Dies: Originally, update 89 had General Guy Carleton ordering the massacre of blacks in Kentucky and Tennessee after one of his subordinates was killed, making him responsible for some of the worst atrocities of the Second American Revolution. After Meshakhad received criticism that this was out-of-character for him, she changed it to Carleton himself being killed and succeeded by the KKK leader Joe Huffington, making him responsible for the massacres.
• The Onion attracted a bit of controversy in February 2016 when it published an uncharacteristically charitable article about Hillary Rodham Clinton ("Female Presidential Candidate Who Was United States Senator, Secretary Of State Told To Be More Inspiring") shortly after the website was bought by Univision chairman Haim Saban, one of Clinton's most prominent financial backers. Several readers accused the website of "selling out", implying that their new owner had pressured the writers into making the Clintons look good—particularly since they had previously written several articles openly mocking her and her bitter rivalry with Bernie Sanders. Shortly after, the writers showed that they were quite aware of the criticism, and went right back to unabashedly thumbing their noses at Clinton with several better-received articles, showing that they were still equal-opportunity satirists committed to making fun of everyone.
• DeviantArt reviewer The Media Man ruffled a lot of feathers in the "Boys of Bummer" entry of his Top 11 Worst Simpsons Episode List, where he said Bart deserved what he went through in that episode. He considered Bart The Scrappy, in contrast to his Ensemble Dark Horse status to Simpsons fans, and as his least, later second-least, favorite character in all media (his new least favorite being the more justifiable Damian Wayne). An interpretation of the entry is that his hatred of the character led him to misinterpret the massive Disproportionate Retribution that Bart experienced from the entire town of Springfield as a Take That, Scrappy! that copped out at the end due to Status Quo Is God. One of the parts that really turned off readers was the part where he believed Marge was wrong to stand up for Bart, her own son, against Springfield. In response, he later rewrote his list to make it less controversial and acknowledged how bad the town's Disproportionate Retribution really was (comparing it to "One Coarse Meal" from SpongeBob SquarePants), even saying that, as bad as he believed Bart to be, even he didn't deserve to be treated so cruelly and that he didn't mean to say Marge shouldn't stand up for Bart.
• Enforced by The Angry Video Game Nerd in his Ikari Warriors review. He resurrects Kyle Justin to help him play the game, but Kyle berates the Nerd for only bringing him around when he needs a favor (as his iconic theme song hadn't been used in quite a while). This exchange occurs:
  Kyle: I'm not helping you! Besides, you never play my theme song anymore.
  Nerd: Yeah... the theme song... I thought people were getting tired of that.
  Kyle: You thought wrong.
  Nerd: Yeah. (Looks right at camera) I know.
• The Music Video Show had this in a way. Season five through seven were released in three different days and there would be no content for months inbetween seasons. This caused the channel to become stagnant for a while. Season eight was released five episodes a day for a week, scaling back the 25-30 episodes in a day. Then, season 9 went back to one episode a week, like the first 4 seasons.
  • Speaking of season 9, it was extended for a while longer as an apology for seasons 5-7.
  • She has put out a video, stating that she had to take a break from making videos in order to avoid another Creator Breakdown, learning from what happened during season five.
  • In season two, there were two episodes that had multiple music videos looked at, leading to some music videos being shortchanged and somewhat glanced over. Kiara herself has stated that they were both weak episodes. In season four, she made a week dedicated to Fall Out Boy, where she made six videos (seven later on), all of which got equal attention in terms of jokes.
• Dragon Ball Z Abridged:
  • Fans weren't thrilled with the sex scene in Episode 55 because it sounded an awful lot like Chi-Chi was raping Goku. The next episode clarifies that Goku is indeed consenting to the sex, he's just getting exhausted from doing it so much (they were trying for another baby at the time).
  • The Krillin Owned Count was a Running Gag that some felt was getting too old and especially too cruel, since the count kept going up at inappropiate moments (such as when he was trying to defend 18 from Cell). Fans were quite happy when Krillin and 18's Glad-to-Be-Alive Sex lowered and then DESTROYED the K.O.C.
  • The Garlic Jr. Saga was passed over and finished in five minutes due to it being filler content. This disappointed fans, who thought there was still potential for good jokes about it. Team Four Star would later do a proper abridging of the saga as Dragon Ball Z Kai Abridged Episode 2.9 (the April Fool's episode), complete with a lampshade on how it got skipped.
  Krillin: Man, I'm glad we skipped this the first time.
  • When in the main series it was revealed that Dodoria was female, the jokes about it honestly came off as quite transphobic. The creators would go on to regret taking this course of action. In spinoff HFIL Dodoria is acknowledged as female from the beginning and shown the respect she is due.
  • Also in HFIL, fans pointed out an obvious plot hole that Cell is capable of regenerating limbs, so what is stopping him from chopping off the leg with the ankle monitor and regenerating it? The next episode addresses this first thing: apparently souls are invulnerable in HFIL so Cell can't lob off his foot.
• In one r/AmITheAsshole episode, rSlash made the mistake of giving a bridezilla 0/5 buttholes for not wanting her nephew-to-be at her wedding because of a connection with her ex, reasoning that she has a right to invite/uninvite whoever to her wedding. The comments ripped him to shreds for ignoring the fact that she was taking out a petty grudge on a child, and one that's about to be part of her family at that. He agreed with this and revised the rating in a pinned comment to 2/5 buttholes, while jokingly giving himself 5/5 buttholes for daring to be wrong on the internet.
• In 2024, TCNick3 of the Party Crashers started livestreaming on YouTube, allowing viewers to watch his VODs whenever they wanted without having to worry about the VODs getting removed after 3 months unlike Twitch. This was unfortunately short-lived, as Nick states in this community post that he would go back to livestreaming on Twitch in April of that same year because of YouTube giving him trouble. Thankfully, he made a new channel for archiving his VODs.

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