YMMV / Echo Chamber

• Adorkable:
  • Tom, any time he lets the Jerkass thing go and is honest about how he feels.
  • Dana, any time she lets go of the snark to be honest.
• Alternative Character Interpretation: Tom getting involved with his ex Shaanon. Is this the first time, or has is happened before? Did she pressure him into resuming there relationship due to not being able to let go, or is Tom getting involved with Shannon the very reason she refuses to believe the relationship is over?
• Awesome Music: The revamped theme music for the Noir Episode.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • Gaelyn
  • Mr. Administrator
• Genius Bonus: The cat that Tom talks about (in the box that may be dead or alive) is a reference to Schrödinger's Cat.
• Hollywood Pudgy: Everyone calls Zack fat, but he clearly isn't.
• Ho Yay: In episode 8, though it was unintentional on the characters' part:
  Dana: Tom, find someone else. Date... someone else. Sleep with anyone else.
  Zack: Not it!
  • Also, from an in-character interview:
    Zack: The Tom puppet is one of my favorite puppets, I put my hand in him all the time.
• Hype Backlash: The wiki's treatment of the show as some universally loved event everyone has to know about. Many that wouldn't have cared about the show's concept itself have begun to hate the thing en masse since every announcement relating to it gets posted all over the wiki with no way to disable it. The hype the wiki administrators give to the show seems disproportionately high compared with its actual fanbase.
• Launcher of a Thousand Ships: Pretty much every male character on the show has feelings for Dana.
  • Except the adults, of course, and as of episode 2.11, Zack.
• Rewatch Bonus: After Mr. Administrator's true intentions were revealed, it can clearly be seen that it was what he was trying to do the whole two seasons.
• Unintentional Period Piece: It's truly a time capsule of internet humor at the very start of the 2010s. This is in part due to its insistence on very directly naming each trope it referenced, even the ones used in passing, resulting it pretty heavily reflecting the policies and culture of TV Tropes as it was at that exact moment in time. This was a time when One of Us was used as an actual trope, Troper Tales ran rampant, "This Troper" and similar Word Cruft permeated the site, and being Proud to Be a Geek was in contrast to Geek's (then continued) use as a pejorative term. Even then, nerd culture had been gradually breaking into the mainstream. Combined with certain dialogue, characterizations, and gags that can be held today as fairly unfunny or even uncomfortable, Echo Chamber remains a relic of its time.
• The Un-Twist: Oh, shock. Surprise. Mr. Administrator also admins for The Other Wiki.
  • Which is a leadup to the actual reveal in the Mind Screw finale: He has the Voice of the Legion because they really are legion.
• The Woobie: Pretty much the entire main cast.
  • Zack.
    "I come in here sometimes to cry."
    • And his revelation that he feels that pretty girls he likes won't like him.
  • Tom is a Jerkass Woobie. While he is an ass to everyone, and his excuse for being so is... weak, when he actually admits why he struggles, he shows a scared side. Especially obvious in Romantic False Lead when Tom's reasons for loving Porn Girl is that she doesn't threaten, scare or hurt him.
  • Gaelyn. She has a crush on Zack, and he completely misses the point and thinks they should be best friends. You can tell she's a bit disappointed.
  • Dave at the end of S2E2. He thought Gaelyn's message for Zack was for him. Cut to him standing outside, waiting for her with flowers, looking very disappointed. Aww.
  • Dana counts as a Jerkass Woobie due to the Forgotten Birthday episode. Poor girl couldn't catch a break.
  • 2x12: Mind Screw reveals our Mr. Administrator to be a Jerkass Woobie. He pushes Tom and the others so hard to make the videos right so Administrator Prime won't kill him.

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