YMMV / Emma Blackery

• Awesome Music: In addition to "The Promise", we also have "Sucks To Be You", the song she wrote for the Pigs Can Fly tour. Badass doesn't even begin to describe it, and it's quite a nice take on the "revenge song" dynamic.
• Harsher in Hindsight: The butternut gnocchi episode of Cooking Like a Sim ends with a thoroughly drunken Emma jokingly saying "I'll catch you later, if I don't fucking die." The main Running Gag of the series is that Emma will begin drinking vodka halfway through an episode. However, as "The Rise and Fall of Emma Blackery" revealed, after she finished recording for that episode, she drank even further, had an emotional breakdown, spent the night either crying or vomiting, and — from the way Emma describes — all but gave herself alcohol poisoning.
• Signature Song: "The Promise". So much so that when she shaved her head, the Summer in the City audience sang it at her to cheer her on.

• Tear Jerker:
  • Emma made a video of playing her Distance EP acoustically, with clips of the music videos. And then it gets to the song she wrote about Luke...
  • The ending of her Life Is Strange playthrough, with Emma deciding to sacrifice Chloe only to near-immediately regret it and progressively turn into a sobbing mess, running through many tissues during the ending and credits. Seeing her so incredibly broken up over it is disheartening.
  • Her video "The Rise and Fall of Emma Blackery", in which she details how she has come to full awareness about how her prioritizing music over YouTube (and the way she went about it) alienated her followers and essentially killed her channel views. It came to a head in April 2018, when she had the emotional breakdown mentioned in Harsher in Hindsight — and got it on camera, the footage of which is included in the video with a Content Warning for being so intense. In it, she laughs about wanting to delete her main channel, states that she wishes she could stay constantly inebriated, and breaks down sobbing over how she has to think about her loneliness and how people see her life as an exhibit.

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