In February 2016, Caddy announced he would be doing a major cutback on the amount of shows on his channel due to feeling way too overwhelmed with the amount of different shows, and feeling he strayed too far from his channel's roots (in particular lamenting it had been months since last covering a PS1 title). Retrospectives, Tinker Time, Drive-Thru Reviews, and Puppicarus were all axed, with Caddy now only focusing on doing regular Caddicarus episodes on Sundays and film reviews on Fridays and leaving it at that. The Spyro retrospective is still on the cards but as one huge video instead of three. It happened again in 2017, retiring Current Quickies and replacing it with a much longer version entitled Caddy.
Caddy has gone on record that he can't stand to look at his old videos anymore, considering them nowhere near his standards. He's labeled such videos as [OLD] in their video titles, and it's a personal Berserk Button for him whenever a fan brings them up to him. He even has a video titled "The Dreadful World of My First 24 Videos", where he takes a look at some of his old work, all while bashing his past self's writing and acting.
Apparently, Kirbopher has taken this attitude towards TVTome Adventures, as he has been known to call it hokey on his Facebook page and has stated that "It's what [he] would expect from a 15-year-old." Still, Kirbopher was OK with it enough to make a remake.
Lucas Cruikshank, creator and star of Fred, said in an an article in Variety that he ended production because he wanted to do something else and not be forever typecast as Fred.
McMaNGOS, creator of the "This Video Contains Win" YouTubeMemetic Mutation, has apparently now come to despise it, to the point of irreversibly replacing the audio with some random song that nobody knows of. This may have something to do with all the imitations it has spawned, and the fact that the fad was forced by McMaNGOS making sequels and demanding that people follow in his footsteps (although some of them were pretty funny).
This tends to occur to a lot of YTP videos. Most poopers despise the "PINGAS", stating that it is overused and not funny anymore, and Stegblob has said that he only keeps the "Hotel Mario (nouns replaced with PINGAS)" video up because his fans love it so much. Lots of people have incredibly popular poops that they just made as a test or one of their older videos that are filled with things such as unoriginal humour, memes and poor editing. Often, they edit the video title to be something like, "THIS VIDEO SUCKS, STOP WATCHING IT" and block it with annotations. Ironically audioswapping a video and plastering annotations over it became a small fad too, although in 2019 YouTube permanently dropped annotations.
Serris, the creator of the Darwin's Soldiers universe hates the rebooted Furtopia RP and he seems very loath to discuss the original RP, which originated on Furtopia. In fact he has this to say:
Serris: One of the characters is a Fur-dragon in a diaper! Scenes of diaper changing and baby care do not fucking belong in a dark high octane RP! And of course, it under-emphasized the role that the terrorists played in the invasion and gave too much spotlight to the rogue scientists.
That American Slacker has said that he began to hate making Pwnies because not only was it the only thing most people were subscribing for, but they also threatened to unsubscribe if he stopped making it. In April 2014 Slacker announced that the remake of Episode 26 was finished and he would not be returning due to a larger focus on more original projects.
John Solomon, the webmaster of the "Your Webcomic Is Bad And You Should Feel Bad" blog, came to loathe his own creation. He made it perfectly clear that he loathed fanboyism, even when it was his own, and was bothered by fans parroting his opinions. He finally deleted the blog entirely. When he learned that The Bad Webcomics Wiki had archived his reviews, he got a little peeved.
Troy Wagner and Joseph DeLage, the creators of Marble Hornets - better known as 'the guys who play J and Alex Kraile' - absolutely HATE the 'Gimme 20 Dollars' meme that spawned from a parody of one of their entires. It's now impossible to go into a Slender Man video without seeing at least one reference to that song in the comments. Troy and Joseph have said they refuse to acknowledge the meme in their videos, and have asked fans to stop referencing the joke to them in emails and responses.
The boys from Everyman HYBRID, however, don't seem to mind, and in fact referenced the meme in the episode One step forward, two steps back. (Although Jeff, the writer of the series, said this scene was written a lot earlier in the series and didn't know it would become so hated.)
The Marble Hornets guys have finally come to terms with the meme enough to finally acknowledge it... but only in Slender: The Arrival. Put your textures up to maximum quality and look to the right when you enter the cave filled with scribbles in the level "The Arrival."
DON'T GIVE HIM TWENTY DOLLARS
According to Troy, they actually had no idea that text was in the game.◊ The MH crew has also made a couple of vague jabs towards the experience of working on the game on Tumblr and Reddit, claiming that Blue Isle studios are a nightmare to work with and used only a small portion of their plot ideas.
It is not uncommon for creators of Abridged Series to grow dissatisfied with early episodes as their series progresses and they become better writers/editors/etc. Often they will remake their old episodes with updated voice acting and visuals, and sometimes the old episodes are completely rewritten.
Chuggaaconroy to Steve, and to his early Lets Plays, as he revealed in his Fifth Anniversary-video, stating that they suck pretty bad because, back then, he was so afraid to be himself.
Joel Vitch of rathergood.com, creator of the "Viking Kittens sing 'The Immigrant Song' by Led Zeppelin" flash video, became annoyed by the way the viking kittens became so much more famous than everything else he did put together. The original Viking Kittens/Immigrant Song video has been taken down from his website, and the video he made for Electrix Six's "Gay Bar" had the viking kittens removed and replaced with a hippo and a gorilla.
Pan Pizza stated several times on his tumblr that he hated all of his videos that came before his MLP:FiM review.
Youtuber Filthy Frankresents the Harlem Shake fad, which he started in this video. It probably has something to do with how the fad became so inexplicably massive, which resulted in it getting tired and unfunnyextremely quickly.
MoBrosStudios regretted making his top 20 worst SpongeBob episodes videos due to how miserable they made him, how the videos attracted flamers and trolls, and how people started labeling him as a "Ranter". He even went as far as taking down his countdowns, his Atlantis SquarePantis review, and canceled his top ten best SpongeBob episodes video.
Youtuber ilove1994 was attacked so much and had a lot of his commentaries on his 90s nostalgia videos that for a period, ilove1994 completely disowned everything that he made, before his own revival of his Dubs. The Creator Backlash got so severe that he completely deleted the majority of his videos from back then. However in recent times, he has come to love and appreciate them in a way, though he still hates his rants.
A mild example with James Rolfe on The Angry Video Game Nerd: James has gone on record that the first few videos (especially the reviews he did when he was still known as "The Angry Nintendo Nerd") were made when James was still unsure of what to do with the Nerd character and was still trying to establish himself as a filmmaker. When he got picked up by ScrewAttack, he later gave more thorough reviews to the games he covered before in the "Nintendo Days Revisited" series, talking about things he didn't before with more time and better writing and editing.
Evan Burse from the YouTube drawing tutorial channel "cartoonblock" has admitted that his first tutorial, How to Draw Timmy Turner, wasn't the best work he had ever done.
YouTuber and walkthrough creator PhantomDarkness135's first and most viewed video is his 2009 walkthrough of "Causality", with over 500,000 views; however, he has made the video private due to disliking his immaturity, particularly a joke he makes about the Canadian Army.
Achievement Hunter has a few incidents that are considered Old Shames by them:
During the height of the fad, Ray Narvaez, Jr. had gone around spouting out "YOLO!". He's since stopped it and regrets doing so.
The "Connect the Hots" incident is this for Geoff and Gavin in which one of their "Let's Build" episodes had them discussing a game they did involving driving and hot women. However, people got quite pissed off about it, comparing the game to out and out stalking and forcing the two to admit they messed up and they removed all videos referencing the "game".
Their Let's Play for Magic: The Gathering was so boring, they deleted the videos and promised it would never see the light of day again.
Their Let's Play for Fuel is also this to some of the group, seeing as it was a major case of Leave the Camera Running.
Ryan Haywood isn't too proud of his brief stint as a professional teen model. He's also prone to saying things during Lets Plays that he later regrets. It doesn't help that whenever he does this, Rooster Teeth makes a shirt out of it that his fellow Achievement Hunters promote heavily.
He very quickly became annoyed by his exclamation of "I'm still in the air!". He softened to it for some time, but went back to loathing it when it was clear how versatile and enduring it had become.
Speaking of Ryan, the rest of Achievement Hunter regard their entire time with him to be an Old Shame after Ryan's sexual misconduct was exposed in October 2020. Both Jack and Michael announced that they would edit and delete videos in order to erase Ryan entirely.
Eric "CBoyardee" Shumaker (Better known as that guy who created the So Bad, It's Good Dilbert trilogy, among others) has grown ashamed of the videos that he created for his YouTube channel to the point where he eventually took them all down. When asked for a statement as to why he did this, he responded with "fuck you is my official statement". Eventually, he ended up with a whole other backlash towards the crowds of people coming up to him and asking about his videos that caused him to scrub clean his Twitter, Tumblr, and a few other social media profiles. Very few of his videos are still available today, and he has even filed copyright claims against some reuploads of them.
Recently however, his statement has changed on this. According to him on a comment he left on this video, his channel got banned and he didn't know why, leaving him depressed for a while. He's also insinuated that the copyright claims weren't by him. Whether this was just a change of heart or not is another story, though he has been much happier to discuss his older videos lately.
Nathan Rabinhas now regrettednaming the trope for Manic Pixie Dream Girl, saying "I'd like to take this opportunity to apologize to pop culture: I'm sorry for creating this unstoppable monster. Seven years after I typed that fateful phrase, I'd like to join Kazan and Green in calling for the death of the "Patriarchal Lie" of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl trope."
Before Jeopardy! clues were archived on the J! Archive fansite, a prior Jeopardy! archive existed on an AOL site known as the Jeoparchive in the early 2000s. It was taken down in 2004 when its lone archivist grew disillusioned with the show once Ken Jennings started winning game after game.
Joel Heyman of Rooster Teeth went on record to say that he doesn't look fondly on his time filming Past Cast, since he had to play Adolf Hitler.
Rooster Teeth as a whole hates The Strangerhood because, unlike Red vs. Blue using easy-to-control games like Halo, trying to get the characters to work with their script in The Sims was a total and complete chore. When a second season was made, one of the end credits has a credit directing their ire at the person who let season two get greenlit.
None of the Yogscast members (specifically Lewis, Simon Lane, Sips, Sjin and Duncan Jones) who worked on the Jaffa Factory series are really fond of the bee breeding and power supply part of it. In part 7 of MoonQuest, Simon explicitly says that once the Jaffa Cakes started being shipped onto the truck, the series after that got "really boring". They've said that if they can find a way to breathe life back into the series and freshen it up, they will, but tell us not to hold our breath. They go back to the factory in Episode 96 of Moonquest.
Lewis Brindley has gone on record saying that he was not fond of GameChap and Bertie's time in the Yogscast, explicitly calling them "assholes" during a 2014 livestream. Other members have spoken out against them, too, but Lewis has been more vocal.
Christopher "Trottimus" Trott of Hat Films has a bit of a love/hate relationship with his Minecraft walrus skin; the walrus has become a beloved Mascot amongst their fans, the "Hatters", but Trott has admitted in several episodes that he's tired of being compared to the animal and fed up of various bad jokes.
If a fan of Zoey Proasheck complains that they've been seriously offended by her comments on something, such as fat jokes, she has a tendency to look unfavourably on works of hers containing them.
Due to the editing of the Minecraft series Trials of Derpulies, both Hannah Rutherford and Smith and Ross of Hat Films criticised the editing for the series, which gave Sips, Lewis and Sjin considerably more screentime than the others and made Team Hat Films look much more grumpy and bitter than they actually were.
Sjin ultimately decided to wrap up Cornerstone because he felt that the show was running out of steam, in no small part reflected by the declining number of views for all channels bar Strippin and Hat Films.
Turpster is not a fan of the old "Turpstervision" song (a parody of the Chuckle Brothers' introduction, "Chucklevision") that he did for an old show of his. This is in no small part because the other members of the Yogscast, Sips and Hat Films in particular, find it hilarious, to the point that they added it as a taunt on their custom Prop Hunt server. The video was initially viewable by all, but was later made private (though it was far too late to stop reuploads, and by now the fanbase is well aware of it; they've grown to love it for being So Bad, It's Good).
In this video, Lewis Brindley admits that he is not a fan of the "Wizard Gandy" map that he and Simon Lane did as part of the Yogscast Minecraft Series. They both found the map frustrating, badly-written, filled with poor The Lord of the Rings references, and just generally unplayable to the point that Sparkles* (himself not a fan of the miniseries) had to edit out over an hour of the duo raging; this was his first editing job to boot, so he understandably wasn't that happy. In an ironic twist, people started flooding in to watch the episode again shortly after.
"Duncan's Park" was apparently the topic of much good-natured teasing among the Yogscast. The series was based on a very buggy mod and got mediocre views, and Duncan abandoned it mid-way. The embarrassment hung on because they had printed a lot of t-shirts for fans of the series, and wound up trying to sell them at every convention. Apparently as of 2015, on-camera ribbing by Kim and Sjin has led to the shirts finally selling out.
Hat Films are somewhat loath to admit that there used to be four members of Hat Films originally, hence the name HAAT Films. Whereas Smiffy later replaced Nathan Asheman after he left (who the group are on good terms with and talk about positively), there is another unnamed member that they don't talk about. Given the fact that the anonymous person was inspiration for the "Director Trott" video, it seems that they had a bad falling out.
Youtuber Mr Aspiring Actor is not fond of his first series, Mr Aspiring Actor Presents. He feels that the first few episodes were very amateurish in quality plus, after he started actually having a lot of acting experience in short films himself, he regrets doing a web series making fun of acting performances because, seeing as he has now experienced how hard it is to make a film, he is a lot more sympathetic towards actors, which makes him regret doing a show where all he did was make fun of them in the first place. He has since deleted every episode off of his channel. He also dislikes the series because, at the time he was making it, he thought that nitpicking was a good way to criticize films but, after becoming more analytical and less nitpicky, he realized that it wasn't, so the fact that he pretty much criticized their performances by nitpicking the actors' performances doesn't help make his opinion of his old show any stronger.
That being said, he feels that the episode where he criticized Brenda Song's performance in The Social Network was the absolute worst. At the time, he thought that her performance was pretty much the same performance she gave in The Suite Life of Zack & Cody and made that the whole focus in his video without watching the film again. After watching the clips, he realized he was wrong about that but, because he had filmed the footage, he decided to make the video anyway. Needless to say, he had no problem deleting it later on.
He's also not fond of his Snow Day review, as he was editing that review using his new Macbook, which made the editing of the review a bit wonky as he was still learning how to use iMovie. Not only that but he feels that there were things he wish he talked about but, because he spent some of the review nitpicking really little things or talking about some trivia about the movie that didn't matter, he didn't have the time to do so, as it would have made the review even longer. Funnily enough, this review actually had the most views on his channel, before it was taken down by Viacom.
YouTube music critic The Double Agent, being an absolute master of Self-Deprecation, has disowned many of his previous videos, both older and more recent. His least-favorite is his list of the worst love songs of the 1960s, which suffered from poor editing and a bad script; he put it at #1 on his list of videos he hated and subsequently made it private.
According to the commentary of Episode 20 of The Music Video Show, Kiara Strings says that said episode is "the worst episode of the show".
During the third season of the show, she jokes about how bad season 2 was. It was rather blatant in the last two minutes of Episode 75 when she is talking to her season one self, who brings up a dead body that was right in front of her, which is her season 2 self, which was possibly there for the entire third season of the show and denies that there is anything in front of her, despite saying, "What body? There is no body in front of me!" and spraying something to cover the smell of the rotting body. That being said, she doesn't thinkhighly of season 2.
Overtime, however, she has softened up to the season, saying in her apology video that seasons five, six and seven make her look back at season two and stated it's not a great season but at least she tried different things. With that being said, in a commentary video for the 31st episode, she says it's a VERY bad episode, mostly due to the fact that she did several music videos in one episode and a few of them could have been their own episodes.
If the speech given to her from her season 2 self is any indication, she regrets her Linkin Park episode, for obvious reasons.
Her movie reviews have become this for her. She says that no one watches her new show and flat out pisses her off since her movie reviews rip off The Nostalgia Critic. Her commentary for her Shark Tale review references this trope, complete with Cluster F-Bombs. It seems her had a change of heart since their movie review character came back for TMVS 's 300th episode.
During a livestream, she has apologized for ALL of seasons five through seven due to Creator Breakdown, with the exception of a Paula Abdul episode. She even made an apology video for those seasons. Something she didn't even do for season two. She apologized once more during the beginning of an episode and said she would extend the ninth season because of how badly she dropped the ball.
She said that the 200th episode was "rushed", especially compared to the 100th episode.
The 10th season premiere reveals that she hates doing the ENTIRE show due to a rejection from Channel Awesome. Whether this is a joke or this trope is unknown.
Downplayed with season five through ten, as of 2020. She states that she made a few decent episodes, the drive to create the show was disappearing after season four and wonders why she kept going.
Sherrod DeGrippo created Encyclopedia Dramatica as an offshoot of LJDrama, initially as a serious attempt to create a wiki devoted to chronicling internet drama, originally LiveJournal drama. Then 4chan discovered it, and ED became the wiki for trolls. DeGrippo came to hate the new direction of the site and the culture that had developed around it so much that, in 2011, she nuked the entire thing and relaunched it as Oh Internet, a safe-for-work site which was closer to her original intention. The ED community responded furiously, with mirrors of the site soon sprawling across the internet, while Oh Internet mostly failed to take off and folded after a few years.
LPerProtonJon expressed regret, anger, and annoyance over his Superman 64 lets play where he's been the butt of jokes that made fun of his Schedule Slip in regards to the project. In the March 1st 2017 Twitch stream, a viewer asks Jon when he was going to upload the next part of the project. Jon exploded and proceeded to go on a huge rant on why the jokes and requests were annoying and how the project itself wasn't fun anymore while he was now doing said project to shut up the people that said he would never finish it.
TomSka has clarified that he doesn't hate ASDF Movie itself, however he disapproves of any ASDF jokes where the punchline is a lazy Literal Metaphor, and he's exasperated by how many people suggested those kind of jokes for a fan-made ASDF episode.
Takahata101 does not take it well when Attack on Titan Abridged is mentioned in a past Twitch livestream. This isn't him disliking the work itself and more getting angry that it got Screwed by the Lawyers and cancelled. He keeps getting annoyed because people keep bringing it up, even after he and the rest of his crew have explained over and over why it was cancelled and why it wasn't coming back.
They have expressed regret over some of the decisions made for Hellsing Ultimate Abridged, including depicting Rip Van Winkle as a Straw Feminist spouting memes in almost every line; a rape joke in the first episode; referring to Epic Meal Time in episode two; and opening the series with a jab at The Twilight Saga (with a line of dialogue in the finale about "hating on a book series aimed at teenaged girls being stupid").
During a list of their favorite Dragon Ball movies, they listed Bojack Unbound at number 8, musing that they probably put it too high. This came back to bite them when they prepared to put it through the Dragon Ball Z Abridged treatment. The script proved too unfunny, and the frustration with the movie shined through too much for them to go through that. So, they opted to scrap the video.
They've commented on their dissatisfaction with their older episodes of Dragon Ball Z Abridged. During the 57th episode of their official podcast, they stated that they would gladly redo the early episodes to fit in with the series's current style if they got the chance.
The whole team (specifically KaiserNeko) has expressed frustration over their fans treating DBZA as better than the original, claiming they put "Please support the official release" in the Once per Episode disclaimer for a reason. After The Mary Sue called this series the definitive dub for Dragon Ball Z, the team publicly spoke out against them, and when asked on Reddit if they should watch the original, Kaiser hit his Rage Breaking Point.
KaiserNeko: YES YOU SHOULD WATCH THE ACTUAL FUCKING SHOW, OURS IS NOWHERE CLOSE TO AS GOOD AS THE ACTUAL SHOW, GODDAMNIT!
This, ultimately, was what lead to DBZA being cancelled. Team Four Star faced way too many hurdles to keep going and they didn't want to end up in the same vein as series such as The Simpsons, Dexter and Scrubs. In a video explaining why things were going to end, they also mentioned that they had occasionally had shouting matches with each other about jokes or directions for the show, and that it simply wasn't fun anymore.
Springhole: Syera's early work was mainly about how to avoid writing Mary Sues. More recently, they've stated they no longer support calling characters Mary Sues because of how the term has been overused. They've left their past writings on the subject up to keep it archived.
In an update from November 5, 2020, xe said this.
Also removed a few old articles with outdated, oversimplistic, and sometimes honestly pretty badly-done advice regarding writing minorities. (The useful stuff has made it into other articles, don't worry.) And I do apologize for that lousy content, and I will do my best to write better going forward.
The inventor of the "Hatsune Miku created Minecraft" joke disavowed it◊ when people started using it to justify still supporting a series even when (unlike with Minecraft) the creator with problematic views was still actively involved with the series and receiving money from people supporting it, rather than reevaluating their relationship with the series more critically in light of the author's views.
This is part of the reason why What the Cut was cancelled by its creator after the 37th episode. A combination of burnout, pressure to live up to expectations and Schedule Slip were present, but Antoine Daniel has numerous times adressed that he also felt like his series' premise (making fun of weird Internet videos with a Caustic Critic character) was needlessly cruel and mean, comparing it to bullying, towards people whose only "mistake" was to be enthusastic about their unusual passions or have unfortunate failures that were caught on camera.
While Lewis Lovhaug is generally proud of Winter of '83, even he conceded that the line "LOOK AT HIS ARMS; THEY'RE MADE OF SNOW!" is rather narmy and it was removed when he uploaded it as a whole.
Parody V-Tuber Tonkatsu Sinclair creator Absolute Unit has completely disowned his old channel and the series My Little Pony: Totally Legit Recap episodes. Even after his return with the new channel after a year and a half, he refuses to return to his old content and openly despises being asked to do so.
After getting banned, senior member Fishmonger asked the site to remove all of the articles, stories, and materials he had ever written for the site. Barring his reputation for rude behavior, some site members theorized that Fishmonger was afraid potential employers would stumble across the site.
Celestial Fang (Zhange) did not like being a site member, having later said she experienced various forms of sexual misconduct, and is decidedly not a fan of the Foundation, getting upset when the site is brought up in her presence.
Jonathan Ian Mathers of Ill Will Press, producer of Neurotically Yours has, for quite some time, consistently denounced and attempted to suppress much of his earliest work; typically citing the heavily Fanservice-oriented nature of it. However, much of his more recent work pushes the fanservice envelope much farther; the only difference being that it's now done "ironically" instead of straight.
Subverted with Chakra-X with his Sonic the Hedgehog Fan animation Nazo Unleashed. Despite the use of rotoscoping off certain scenes from the likes of Sonic X and Dragon Ball which he considers lazy and crude, he says he's still proud of it in the HD Director's Cut, stating that he considers it a milestone in his animation projects, and uses the movie as a benchmark for his future original projects.
David Firth has stated he has come to regret making Spoilsbury Toast Boy -2, in particular the infamous scene where the main character's grandmother is rather brutually and graphically raped by a giant beetle, feeling that it added nothing but shock value, and one of the reasons he's been put off from continuing the series. He's (understandebly) not too fond of the animations he made in his teens, such as the Jim's Story and Fat-Pie series.
Alvin-Earthworm, the creator of Super Mario Bros. Z, has said he's not proud of Episode 7 of the original series.
Ellie Spectacular, creator of the YouTube Poop channel DaThings, began scrutinizing some of her older Poops in 2021. Some were taken down entirely, while others such as "Arby's serves some Goog Moom Foof" had slightly edited versions uploaded to her backup channel CleanYTP.
Many longtime tropers are ashamed of the former Troper Tales and Fetish Fuel sections of the site, and for good reason. The entries there were so... uh, off-color, giving wayToo Much Information about the tropers who posted there, that they damn near dragged this site's reputation down to the level of 4chan. Thankfully, they were removed, and since the site now strives to be Family Friendly, they will never be coming back.
Some tropes, while otherwise perfectly innocuous, used to have names that are generally considered stupid now. Most can be found on the Renamed Tropes and Permanent Red Link Club pages, but there are four that stand out:
There once was a time that Boisterous Bruiser was called The Toblerone, after an obscure gag from an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 that was so obtuse that almost nobody got the reference, and the trope page had far fewer wicks and examples than it deserved. As a result, the trope was renamed many years before the purge of character-named tropes, and the site has a Darth Wiki page mocking the original name to this day (which is about the chocolate bar).
And the most shameful of all: the trope Pædo Hunt was first launched with the name All Pedophiles Are Child Molesters. This caused actual pedophiles to discover the wiki and mistakenly think that it was a haven for them, dramatically increasing the amount of Squick on the pages (especially those that heavily mention children) and ultimately leading to The Second Google Incident, which changed the culture of the wiki ever since.
The first Google incident was inspired by an entire index: Sexual Harassment and Rape Tropes. The tropes themselves were fine, but people objected to the names that were of the formula "Rape is Okaynote or "funny", for one of them if it's X on Y", even though these were obviously sarcastic. These were all changed to "Double Standard: Rape: X on Y" and the original names purged. These also included "Rape as Redemption" which is now Rape Portrayed as Redemption, "Rape as Comedy" (now Black Comedy Rape) and "It's Not Rape if You Enjoyed It" (now "Not If They Enjoyed It" Rationalization), all to better indicate that only the twisted narrative actually believes these are okay, and "Rape is Love", which was changed to "Loving Force" and then Romanticized Abuse, broadening the definition in the process.
The old name for "Not Making This Up" Disclaimer, I Am Not Making This Up, is one of the oldest and most infamous members of the Permanent Red Link Club, and wound up being widely used as a grating catchphrase which made members of the wiki seem like idiots with extremely low thresholds of disbelief. At its peak, it appeared on over 2500 pages at a time when this was a high percentage of the entire wiki, and the hate against it was so severe that when it was deleted, so was every link to the page, leaving blank spots where it used to be. While it has since been eclipsed in size and scope by other large scale deletions (it would barely qualify for Overdosed Tropes by today's standards), it left a lasting legacy among longtime tropers and remains one of the most infamous former pages on the site.
As explained in their official history, after the dot-com bubble burst in the early '00s, Newgrounds had to resort to running ads for porn sites in order to keep the lights on. They are not proud of this, mainly due to the poor image it gave to the site.
Reddit used to have several small subreddits like /r/creepshots that were, essentially, creepy threads used by scumbags to distribute every thing from stalkerish photos of women to child porn. The users were appropriately horrified and demanded that the staff purge those threads. The mods refused for the reason that doing so would break their own rules regarding freedom of speech. After media attention forced them to purge the threads, the site's management is deeply embarrassed over their failure to properly deal with them, especially because it gave the site and its users a poor reputation that Reddit is still struggling to move past, which in turn led to the site and its users frequently being insulted and harassed by communities like Something Awful. Because of this, the site's moderation is much stricter than it used to be, in order to prevent illegal threads like that from cropping up again. Reddit has also disowned violentacrez, a once well-liked, popular, and trusted Redditor who turned out to be a creepy jerkass who participated in the above-mentioned creepthreads.
Joe Garden, a former writer for The Onion, regrets having helped craft the site's satirical portrayal of Joe Biden, namely the "Diamond Joe" persona of the cool uncle who owns a Trans Am and a Harley and eagerly partakes in the "finer" things in life (Hair Metal, sexy barbarian women, good weed). He felt that it went soft on his actual politics, and that the first red flag that The Onion's Biden parody wasn't cutting deep enough was him finding out that people in the White House, Biden included, were huge fans of it.
Pitchfork published an article of the nineteen review scores they wish they could change. Of note, Liz Phair's Self-Titled Album, which received a thrashing from the original reviewer. The reviewer has since called the review "condescending and cringey" and referred to himself as a "smug 19-year-old Pitchfork writer."
Fredrick Brennan is the creator of the website 8chan - a fact he despises. He started the imageboard in 2013 as a hands-off website where users can do what they want, but he later left in 2016 due to the stress of managing it. In the aftermath of the 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings, when the killer uploaded his manifesto to 8chan, Brennan began to deeply regret starting the website. He is currently working to get the website taken down and is a harsh critic of Ron Watkins (the current owner of the website and a QAnonConspiracy Theorist).
In an interview Skawo revealed that he considers Another Super Mario 3d to be a poorly designed hack. It was initially just a test for making 3d models, but it was eventually made into a full 73-star game, a game that Skawo does not look back fondly on.
Whenever the older lets plays are mentioned, it’s in a negative light, especially the fact that they had barely any commentary, and were low quality.
Rocco Botte, while he doesn't completely disown or hate Mega64 Version 1, has shown to be embarrassed and apologetic for a lot of the episodes' shortcomings. This is painfully apparent in the Special Edition Commentary.
The crew at Incognito Cinema Warriors XP stopped selling copies of their first episode, Bride of The Gorilla (and never released it to RiffTrax), citing the low quality relative to subsequent episodes, elements that flat out didn't work (like a jarringly out-of-place Laugh Track) and a lack of interest in redoing the episode to bring it up to par. It's a Missing Episode now and it's staying that way. (You can't even find clips of the thing on YouTube).
AnimalGuy001, now known as Fawful's Minion, got a lot of hate for his top 10 most overrated Pokémon, which was one of his first works. In a video he decided that fans could choose which video (or series of videos) was the worst video he ever made. It turned out to be his top 10 most overrated Pokemon video. When he was talking about this video he said:
I really hate this video. Out of all of the works I made, this is the one I simply can't stand.
Nickon Aqua Magna isn't fond of his review of Sonic Unleashed mostly because the only reason he did it was to attack the game and the people who liked it.
Jon Jafari deleted one of his videos on YouTube, "Top 10 Overrated Games", because of all the whopping backdraft he caught for it. He lampshades this during his Mighty Max review. And for some reason, he decide to privatize "Apples and BREAKS", which consisted of him simply mourning his accidentally broken Nintendo DS console.
Daniel Sulzbach, AKA MrRepzion, used to be pro-life, and once made a video promoting this view. Now that he is pro-choice, that video is an Old Shame of his.
Mike Matei made a video in 2012 in which he plays Minecraft with an animated Inspector Gadget. Suffice to say, the video was poorly received, so much in fact that it was taken off both the Cinemassacre website and their YouTube channel. Years later, after Siiva Gunner made some high-quality rips featuring the video, Mike admitted that he himself was unhappy with the video and that it took him a long time to come to terms with it.
videogamedunkey looks back on the Newgrounds animations he made as a 12 year old with a combination of this and Bile Fascination. The introduction to "Old Dunkey and Cuphead" is basically just him slamming a bunch of stuff he made back in 2005 or so.
Dunkey [dying of cringe]: (sigh) this a, uh, parody of a song by The Village People except I swapped out the letters "YMCA" for..."fuck". If anyone has the technology, I am willing to go back in time and assassinate myself before this was uploaded.
He said in Episode 29 of the Game GrumpsSuper Mario 64 walkthrough that he did several Gag Dub videos of Yu-Gi-Oh! before comedy dubs were a popular thing, which he didn't feel proud of and then took down from YouTube.
He has said that when he posted the first episode of Metal Gear Awesome on Newgrounds, he thought it would get blammed (deleted for sucking).
Again A Fanfic Critic opinion of his readings eventually progressed to viewing all of his riffings of bad fanfiction as this. He first thought all of his videos prior to the reading of Curse of the Demon Pony weren't very good and had a playlist with the episodes saying 'Early Stuff That's Not Very Good', but not for the same reasons as he came to view all of his riffings - he felt he was being petty by criticising inexperienced authors and so was attacking low hanging fruit. A specific example would be a reading of a fanfic An Old Friends Homecoming, where he left a note in 2017 saying he was not proud of it. New videos ceased at the end of 2016 and in September 2019 he eventually deleted his channel.
WatchMojo.com seems to regret putting Gravity Falls, which is generally considered Disney Channel's best cartoon on its "Top 10 Hated Disney Animated Shows" list with the flimsy reasoning of the show's Black Comedy. Many viewers and fans cried foul and called WatchMojo hypocrites for using that as the only reason why while simultaneously praising Invader Zim despite the latter's far more twisted sense of humor. Lampshaded in the ''Top 10 Cartoon Shows of the 2010s" video where the narrator says: "Let's pretend this never made WatchMojo's "Top 10 Hated Disney Animated Shows List"...".
The SuperMarioLogan episode "Jeffy's Bad Word!" quickly became this for Logan Thirtyacre, due to the massive backlash it received. The episode received its backlash for having Mario being cruelly and harshly tortured beyond his usual Butt-Monkey status, to the point where he gets arrested despite trying to tell the truth, is considered a felon, and has Rosalina, of all people, tell him off. What Mario did to receive all this was spankJeffy due to the latter repeatedly saying the F-word (no, not that F-word) after hearing it from him. About a day after the video was uploaded, Logan stated on Facebook that he was making a video to make up for the episode, which ended up being "Chef Pee Pee's Birthday Surprise!", a video where Bowser Junior and his friends throw Chef Pee Pee a surprise birthday party. He also asked in the comments of "Bad Word" if he should delete it.
Randy from Shoegazer Productions has, in a way disowned 2Beats+, his music review show. Once Trey quit, he basically tried to bury it, which angered quite a few fans who actually thought it was clever and well-written. It doesn't help that the overall tone of the sketch-review series clashes with the documentary-like feel of his other 2 shows. With the better reception of Adventures in Vinyl-Land, his replacement review show, it's unlikely he'll ever bring it back (though he's hinted a few times he might if he can find another co-host).
EverythingJon Graham has made that is not Arby 'n' the Chief. Even then, he's ashamed of a lot of the earlier seasons as well.
Logan Paul and his incredibly infamous Japanese suicide forest vlog at the beginning of 2018, which featured a real dead body of a suicide victim, which drew so much backlash that he spent the next few days desperately apologizing for it.
Mike and Jay of RedLetterMedia aren’t at all happy about one of their earlier films “The Recovered”. Mike even called it “A big, big, boring pile of shit.”
"The Golden Fanbois induction is deleted and won't be returning to the site anytime soon. It was a terrible induction in poor taste and I fully regret it. I need to build bridges rather than burn them."
He is dissatisfied with many of his older MLP reviews, most notably "Bridle Gossip", because he felt like he didn't take the time to properly elaborate what he was trying to say.
His old feud with Byter over the status of MLP's quality.
He has expressed regret for attacking Charlotte Fullerton and Merriweather Williams in his "Putting Your Hoof Down" review, as he learned after making the video that Fullerton was forced to stop working on the script and hand it off to Williams after the death of her husband. He doesn't like the episode any more than he did, but felt that he went too far in personally calling out the writers, especially given the circumstances.
Averted with a novel he was working on in high school, called Little Cassie, which he thinks it was a bit pretentious, but overall pretty good. Ironically, thecompleteopposite of his game Epic! The Humorous RPG, which he genuinely does consider an Old Shame but believes it does have potential.
Mr. Enter tends to be disappointed by reviews that clock in less than five minutes. His least favorite Animated Atrocity review is "It's A Wishful Life" because he was rushing to get something out and should have torn into the episode more. His least favorite Admirable Animation is the "Helga on the Couch" review for similar reasons.
As stated in several modern post-rebrand reviews, such as "Fame and Misfortune," he openly regrets his former over-the-top tone and most of his controversial decisions, such as his 12 Oz Mouse review. Some of his older, infamously angrier reviews were redone even before his rebrand because of his shame, such as "Pet Sitter Pat" where he attacked the writers and inadvertently brought harassment unto their Twitter pages.
In his review of "Going Bananas", he expresses his shame at his previous Rocket Monkeys review, noting that it was more of a rant against people who request him to review certain works than a true review, and that the episode came during a stretch of reviews that he now hates due to him feeling burnt out at the time of making them.
Enter has stated that his review of "Lights Out" is one of the worst edited videos in his career, to the point that he fired the editor of said video for consistently poor editing (among other reasons detailed in this video).
This is his reaction to his review of Turning Red, as he not only put the episode in his updated biggest mistakes video, but he eventually did a new review where he said that he really enjoyed the film now; it had just taken several watches for the film to click with him. Also, he created quite the storm in the teacup when he criticized the film for not referencing the cultural impact of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks because the film was set in 2002. This not only led to a lot of viral backlash against Mr. Enter, but he came to admit that the criticism was unjustified and that he won't defend how bad a take it was.
Early Petscop videos would make multiple references to the Candace Newmaker case, but after a while they would disappear. Petscop's creator, Tony Domenico would admit they were intentional and a "bad idea".
Jenny Nicholson doesn't believe that Friendship is Witchcraft holds up very well. Her biggest concern is the frequent usage of the word "gypsy" in reference to Pinkie Pie, which Jenny and Griffin didn't realize was a slur for Romani people (it was used as a stealthy reference to a certain horse breed and more obviously in Shout Outs to The Hunchback of Notre Dame). When "Gypsy Bard" found a new audience with TikTok users in 2020, Jenny was pretty baffled and embarrassed.
Most of the earliest creators of Let's Plays feel this about their oldest works. The Dark Id admits that he was an angry homophobic asshole when he made his Resident Evil 4 LP, and while Chorocojo isn't quite as embarrassed about his Pokémon Emerald LP (Both in 2006), he still doesn't like it very much.
Zac Goold eventually took Gold Standard off YouTube, and is ashamed of how amateurish it was (particularly one instance of Special Effects Failure when a picture was badly photoshopped into a shot). It was the start of a dark period for him that he didn't come out of until What I Stand For.
Bobby Calloway towards his first short Aaron. While he's not too ashamed of the production quality, admitting it was simply a learning experience, he has nothing good to say about his own acting. On his Better With Bob? channel, he took down his first video on Flower Drum Song over embarrassment at the audio quality.
Most of The Nutters cast would rather move on from it, given it was made when they were sixteen and inexperienced. While they're grateful for it getting them their starts in the industry, and admit there are good parts to it, most would rather move on from it.
She mentions a couple times in the Once-ler video that she actually was in the fandom for a couple months. That said, while she acknowledges it was stupid, she defends it as having been basically harmless nonsense that actually did make sense if you were on the ground at the time, even if the final result was kind of idiotic.
She's also not too proud of her earlier nitpicky complaining videos - usually titled "Why X is terrible" - although they did help her acquire her initial audience. She lampshaded in her video on the Supernatural finale and the 'Destiel' ship that she's far more interested in people and how they act/react to things rather than complaining about a work's flaws.
Anthony O'Reilly Jr (also known as Tonto) loves to make fun of his first attempts at a web series - Dead or Alive, which was just shot on a camcorder with his friends when he was only sixteen.
Js Reviews has redone several of his earliest videos (In the case of the original Sly cooper trilogy, he did it twice) because of this. In most cases it was because of his own admitted inexperience in his earliest years, but in other cases it was because he felt like the video was too pretentious, or was trying to be too much of a Caustic Critic to give a satisfiying evaluation of the subject matter on said video. The most notable cases of this are his reviews of Megaman X 3 and especiallySly Cooper: Thieves in Time
Markiplier is not fond of the video where he showed how to twerk, to the point where in an interview with WIRED, he said that it's one of the biggest regrets he's done on the channel.
Alex of I Hate Everything isn't fond of his review of The Last Jedi, as he brings up in his The Rise of Skywalker review—not because his opinions on the movie have changed, but because he focused the video more on fan reaction to the film rather than the film itself, which caused some people to think he was saying it wasn't OK to dislike the movie.
Michael Stevens of Vsauceisn't especially proud of the channel's early videos, which were full of clickbait and Vulgar Humor, though he has left them all up for posterity.
Rank10YGO does not care for several of his "Legacy of the Worthless" videos, as he feels they're "simple, uninformed banter at best" and he is not fond of his editing and scripting from this time period. In particular:
Worms: A case of Cowboy BeBop at His Computer on his part led to him not realizing that the deck was at one time competent enough to see success at tournaments, which alone put it head and shoulders over pretty much everything else in the series. When he organized his War of the Worthless tournament (in which each player represented a different deck from the series), Worms were the only deck not represented for this exact reason.
Genex: Rata regrets not highlighting how the archetype is tied to the other Duel Terminal decks lore-wise, as well as completely missing the synergy it has with Machine Duplication that allows the deck to make formidable (if inconsistent) plays until the Genex player in the aforementioned War of the Worthless showed it off during the tournament.
Neos: Despite having a disproportionately high amount of views, Rata has commented on the video saying it is "old and not very good" and telling viewers to just watch his Archetype Archive series instead.
Ojama: On a stream of him playing Duelists of the Roses, Rata revealed that Jimbles had written most of the jokes in that video and not him. Between that, an uninspired intro skit, him not liking how his voice sounded in it, and giving birth to Ojama Lime, it is his new least favorite video.
He devotes an entire video to making fun of material from his previous channel - made before his transition. He spends the whole video laughing and cringing at his behavior ("why did I feel I had to do the ghetto hands?"), as well as making fun of the old videos' overexposure.
In 2018, he starred in a web series called Teen Life, and devoted a video to how excited he was to be part of an upcoming Teen Drama. Then it came out and was quickly destroyed for its laughably bad writing, with a heavy-handed Anvilicious tone.
JoCat isn't fond of the original "A Crap Guide to D&D - Cleric" video because he got so many things wrong about the class. The first version became unlisted, with it being replaced by a second edition that had an entirely new, more accurate script that includes a partial potshot at himself for assuming the class is solely based around healing rather than being a jack-of-all-trades. Said potshot includes his avatar, JoCrap, picking up JoCat and repeatedly punching him in the face over the narration "some think they're not strong; those people are wrong".
Miles Jai seems to regard most of his earlier work as this, as several of his older videos, which were rougher quality, have been deleted. Only some of his older videos, particularly the one that made him famous, are still up.
The first two Chaos Fighters installments are set for rewrite because of this trope, namely being lower quality compared to the rest of the series.
The first installment of The Massive Multi-Fandom RPG (now gone from the Internet, unfortunately) was considered this by at least a few GM's and players, in part due to its silliness compared to the later seasons, and the lack of strict standards which resulted e.g. in several highly overpowered characters.
Early in her career, Ellie Kemper starred in the Derrick Comedy sketch "Blowjob Girl", where her character offers an offscreen man oral sex, but turns out to have a rather painfully incorrect idea of what the act entails. The sketch proved unexpectedly popular, so she had to deal with things like being introduced to live sketch comedy audiences as having been featured in "that blowjob video". In a later AV Club interview she said "I really don’t like that video, and I wish that I hadn’t done it, even though I know that it’s a joke"
Mike Richards regretted comments he made on The Randumb Show, a podcast he made while executive producer of The Price Is Right. Reports surfaced that he made derogatory comments towards women (particularly the models on Price), Haitians, Asians and Jews on top of saying elitist remarks. Mike scrubbed all references to The Randumb Show on his website soon after. It would not only cost him his job succeeding Alex Trebek as host of Jeopardy!, but also his position as executive producer of that show and Wheel of Fortune.
NorthaDawn, most known for his Anthropomorphic Personification of the RMS Titanic, has voiced out regret over his old work and their decision to start their art career doing personifications of the Titanic numerous times to this day despite trying their absolute best to not do any disservice to the victims of the tragedy unlike other artists who have done the same.
WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK.: There were some videos TapeWorm made that she eventually made private and declared non-canon because she did not like how they turned out. A notable exception to this was "Nick On-Demand Error (2005)", as while that video is still canon to the series, she later said in a tweet that she heavily regretted the jumpscare she added at the end.
LYON S.P.D., a Gmod animator well known for creating the "Pizza Tower Screaming" meme, had his channel targeted with a copyright strike campaign by users who disliked the meme and how widespread it got, which caused his channel to become suspended. Once LYON was able to get his original channel back, he removed the video where the meme originated from and made a community post wherein he renounced the meme, blaming it for all of the stress he had gone through over the past several months and announcing that he would never re-upload it.
Lily Orchard delisted a few videos in January 2024 which she felt were both unjust in their criticisms and were causing too much trouble to be worth remaining up.
Orchard came to regret her video "Steven Universe is Garbage and Here's Why" because of how vitriolic it was, and because of the Internet Counterattack against her that it spawned. In a follow-up video on both the show and her criticisms, Orchard attributes the initial video's spiteful tone and ad hominem attacks against showrunner Rebecca Sugar to the severe abuse that Orchard was suffering from at the time. Looking back on it, Orchard now views such attacks as "taking out [her] anger at many other things in [her] own personal life onto something that flat-out cannot be hurt" by her words. She initially delisted the video as she felt that it only fueled harassment towards herself, her friends, and her family, while also enabling a parasocial hatred towards the series as a whole. However, Orchard relisted the video a day after taking it down, citing continued harassment over the video whether the video was up or not, and no longer feeling the need to placate the Steven Universe fandom as her primary reason for removing the video.
Orchard made two videos covering ContraPoints, but Orchard took them down because of the drama across YouTube being something that Orchard didn't want to be involved in. Orchard made a YouTube community post where she said that "the only acceptable way to handle a creator going in a direction you find distasteful is to stop watching their content" instead of making videos about them. As such, Orchard came to "despise the way even mild criticism of creators gets fed into the YouTube Drama ecosystem" while adding that she doesn't want to be a part of it in any way, and that she despises the videos she made for contributing to the drama. Unlike the video on Steven Universe, the ContraPoints videos were not relisted and appear to be gone for good.
A minor example with Jonathan Edelstein, the creator of the AlternateHistory.com story Malê Rising. While he still loves the story overall, he believes that, looking back on the history of the 2010s, he "may have invokedMary Sued this universe a bit" when he started writing it in 2012, particularly with regards to how its social, cultural, and political changes often went unchallenged in-story and faced little pushback once they were implemented. He said that, had he written it today, it wouldn't have been outright dystopian and would've ended in much the same optimistic place that the finished timeline did, but it would've taken a far more difficult and strife-filled path to get there, with more emphasis on the conservative and reactionary opposition to the changes brought. Stylistically, he also would've written more narrative vignettes and fewer history book-style excerpts, on the grounds of Show, Don't Tell.
Obviously this was created over a year before Bruce Willis made his condition public, and as such there are a few comments here that I do regret with hindsight, even if I obviously didn't know so at the time. In subsequent Willis reviews, I began to suspect that his health may have been declining, and decided to soften my tone accordingly. I apologize if any comments seem insensitive, and hope viewers won't judge as harshly as I did, sorry.
KrisRix, creator of Sailor Moon Abridged, has stated that he finds a lot of the humor dated, unfunny, and offensive just for the sake of it.
Rebecca Parham of Let Me Explain Studios states in this Q&A video that she does not look fondly at any of her old vlogs because she doesn't like how she presented herself in those videos, copying the behavior of popular vloggers from the early 2010s that she grew up with instead of just being herself.
", where he takes a look at some of his old work, all while bashing his past self's writing and acting.
Mary Sues, will sometimes use Sues that they once wrote.
