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• Approval of God:
  • When Adam got to interview Charlie Kaufman (alongside co-director Duke Johnson) around the release of Anomalisa, Kaufman stated that he had seen and was extremely impressed by Adam's unfinished analysis of Synecdoche, New York, even echoing his entire fanbase in wishing for the series to continue.
  • The director of SHAZAM! (2019) was happy that Adam enjoyed the film.
  • Meta examples: Adam has co-signed several fan-run accounts.
    • He has given multiple shout-outs to the YMS Highlights channel, which consists of excerpts from recent livestreams that people can watch to see what he's up to, and is friends with the person who runs the channel.
    • His Letterboxd account has a bio in which he admits that he doesn't use the site, instead redirecting people to an unofficial account that updates every time he logs a film on IMDb.^note He formerly endorsed another account with the URL handle "ymsunofficial", but he rescinded this gesture and publicly endorsed "ymsunoffical" after controversy ensued from "ymsunofficial" insulting him while logging his scores; this original account has since been taken down.
• Colbert Bump:
  • Gave one to the now-infamous Cool Cat series, to the point where he even inspired the creator to recut the first film.
    • Can also be considered an Approval of God, as Savage himself commented on the video and liked the criticisms and thanked Adam for buying his DVD. His only complaints were on how Adam made Cool Cat look like a pedophile. (However, this was before Savage went on a militant streak against other YouTubers for criticizing his film, so his earlier approval probably doesn't count for much anymore.)
  • Let's be honest: he (and RedLetterMedia) helped garner Neil Breen a larger cult fanbase for his So Bad, It's Good movies.
  • His video debunking the arguments stating that The Lion King (1994) was plagiarized from Kimba the White Lion gave a LOT of people their first proper exposure to what the Kimba series actually was. This case is especially notable, as Adam points out at several points in the video that the majority of the arguments he found about Kimba were made by people who had never even seen Kimba media and were going off of the word of other people who were going off of the words of others to the point that most people just assumed Kimba was a singular animated feature rather than a decades-long series of anime, feature films and manga.
• Magnum Opus Dissonance: His multi-part review of The Lion King (2019) is an ongoing project that is one of Adam's most passionate works. While the first part of the Lion King (2019) review has reached millions of views, his video debunking the claim that The Lion King (1994) is a ripoff of Kimba the White Lion, which was originally going to just be a brief segment in the Lion King (2019) review before growing into its own separate video as Adam dug deeper into the controversy and discovered just how wrong the accusations were, quickly rose in popularity until eventually becoming his most popular video (even overtaking the first part of his Cool Cat Saves the Kids review).
• Schedule Slip:
  • His long-form analysis of Synecdoche, New York last updated with a fifth part, and there hasn't been another part for several years. Aside from the legendary status a hypothetical sixth part has now gained among his fans, Charlie Kaufman himself said he was waiting for additional parts when Adam interviewed him for the release of Anomalisa. Adam later clarified that he is purposely delaying the next part to work on other projects.
  • The debut full-length album of An Unkindness was in the works for quite some time, with many release dates coming and going. He did manage to ultimately subvert this, as the album saw release in September 2020.
  • His review of The Lion King (2019) has been constantly pushed back due to the amount of material he kept finding. He's cited in livestreams that one of the big factors was the amount of research he ended up doing on Kimba the White Lion; he had originally wanted to make a throwaway Kimba joke in the review, but quickly discovered how wrong the Common Knowledge was of the same and ended up making a video almost two-and-a-half hours in length just to debunk any claims about it.
• What Could Have Been:
  • In a livestream, Adam explained he was approached to compose the music for Hazbin Hotel, but was too busy and couldn't commit to the project. He notes that he feels the music choices in the finished pilot were fantastic and that his version would have been much different.
  • The Kimba the White Lion video was originally a throwaway gag in the The Lion King (2019) video, but he found so much of the Common Knowledge regarding accusations of The Lion King being a ripoff to be so utterly wrong that he made a separate video to address everything. Additionally, Adam stated on a livestream that he originally expected the video to be about 20 minutes when he spun it off into its own video. Due to Adam falling down the Kimba rabbit hole, it ended up becoming over 2 hours, and he still left stuff out. ^note  Most notably, he was unable to get a copy of the interview where Fred Patten, one of the most influential early advocates of the notion that Kimba ripped off The Lion King, backtracks on claims of similarities. Adam was forced to review this interview after the video was released.
• Why Fandom Can't Have Nice Things: Adam has stated this to be a reason why he hasn't updated his Synecdoche, New York series. He wants to work on other projects between videos, and so anytime someone asks about his video series, Adam flat-out states he is purposely going to delay the series just because he gets asked it so often.

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