Actor Shipping: Shipping in the community toys the line as the analyzers use pony avatars but generally don't use exaggerated personas. One of the more prominent ships was Beatrice the Golden Witch (known as Digibrony at the time) and BronyCurious (now known Tommy Oliver).
Halfway through Tommy Oliver's review of "Equestria Games", the video suddenly cuts to Beatrice rambling (seemingly drunkenly) in an Australian accent. This goes on for two-and-a-half minutes before it cuts back to Tommy, who picks right back up where he left off. If Beatrice's later videos are any indication, she apparently gets drunk easily.
Voice of Reason begins ranting on "Dragon Quest" in his review of it with Buc Brony and they're suddenly hamsters! After those few seconds, it's not brought up again save for a blink-and-you-miss-it message saying, "Just kidding! We love you Aisu!"
Broken Base: The below-mentioned complaints about the Equestria Games episode. To some fans, these complaints were a sign of entitlement. To others, asking for a plot point that had been foreshadowed since the previous season to be the focus of it's own advertised episode seemed a perfectly reasonable request. It did not help that the episode in question focused on Spike, who was himself a Base-Breaking Character.
Fan Nickname: Bronycurious occasionally calls Fluttershy "Cheesy Gordita", named after a food item on Taco Bell's menu. The reason he calls her that is, despite being his least favorite character on the show, he doesn't dislike her. Alluding to the fact that even though the cheesy gordita is to him the worst food from Taco Bell, it still oozes quality. Whether or not this is a good comparison is up to you.
TheAnYPony's video on how one can achieve success on YouTube. In it, he used Beatrice as an example of how one rises to become a successful YouTube celebrity. Cut to season four a few months later, where Beatrice had grown more harsher and critical in her videos, to the point where her opinions on season four of MLP and as well as her new irate and mean-spirited personality had really made people grow to dislike her.
In Nightmare Night 2014, we see Baron Tall Tales, an expy of Tommy Oliver's OC who is called the zombified remains of a "long dead" critic. Less than a year later, Tommy would leave the community.
ANY heartwarming moment between them and former analyst ToonKriticY2K has become cringeworthy to revisit now after Zak was exposed as a sex offender and pedophile, thus they cut all ties with him.
The videos with both Josh Scorcher and Lily Orchard are rather hard to look at after the two of them broke off their friendship in a rather public falling-out.
One of Zaid Magenta's note He was previously called MisAnthroPony, he changed his name during September 2022. confession videos is called "Fandom", but it comes harder to watch after watching his tirade that he went on in the very next video, "Drama". All because some members from this very Fandom sent Amy Keating Rogers... death threats, simply for not liking how Pinkie Pie was written in "Filli Vanilli"!
Similarly Zaid’s anger and disappointment at the fandom for sending death threats rings ironically hollow as in September 2023 it was revealed Zaid had been going on sprees doing exactly that to those who he felt wronged him in the past. With Zaid’s inability to control his anger leading to Zaid being banished from the senate and deleting his own channel.
He Panned It, Now He Sucks!: They all get a lot of this. The entire Analysis Community has often been criticized for being overwhelmingly negative; however, the majority of reviews for most episodes by most analysts tend to air on the positive side. It's actually extremely rare for any episode to receive highly negative reviews, and even when it does it will often only be a few analysts doing so.
Tommy Oliver has made it no secret that he considers Fluttershy to be his least favorite of the Mane Six. He expresses this by calling her "Cheesy Gordita".Explanation According to Tommy, the Cheesy Gordita is the worst thing on Taco Bell's menu, but it's still pretty good. Considering that a Hub poll in 2013 resulted in Fluttershy being declared the "fan-favorite pony", it's no shock that Tommy's opinion is not taken well by many. He also got a lot of flak for panning the episode "Equestria Games", simply because it focused on Spike and not the games themselves as he thought they'd be promised.
Voice Of Reason's undying loathing of Friendship is Witchcraft. His opinion was not taken well by the legions of FIW fans, who banded together to make his video the only MLP Analysis video to date to have a net negative rating. (The fact that his initial review contained several factual errors didn't help either; his followup video where he addresses his errors is net-positive, but just barely.)
Beatrice detests "Boast Busters," which doesn't sit well with all the Trixie lovers in the fandom. Her overall dislike of Season 4 has also rubbed a lot of fans, and even some Analysts, the wrong way, to the point that when she announced at the end of her "Twilight's Kingdom" video that she was retiring from MLP reviewing, more than a few fans responded with variations of "good riddance".
Brawny Buck received backlash after his review of "A Flurry of Emotions", by stating that the moral of the episode was sending a poor message of disciplinary practice towards misbehavior in children by having Twilight apologize to Flurry after scolding her for levitating everyone in the hospital room, and that she was well within her right to yell at her. Multiple critics have pointed that while that logic can apply for toddlers or older children, Flurry Heart is a baby and is incapable of comprehending advanced concepts such as consequences or cause and effect in spite of her unique intelligence. It also noted she was well-behaved throughout most of the episode, with her tantrum being a result of Twilight's constant negligence in favor of maintaining her schedule and losing her toy.
Robin's scathing review of "Bats!" also left many fans to be pissed at her. This was later humorously recalled in her review of "Rarity Takes Manhattan" in which all of the other analysts form an angry mob and attack her.
GoldenFox infamously got a lot of flak for his review of "Filli Vanilli," not because he despised the episode, but because of how he took his anger of the episode on Pinkie's behavior, which resulted with a huge fan backdraft that is considered the catalyst for why the Analysis Community is so divisive.
While "Do Princesses Dream of Magic Sheep?" is already a fairly divisive episode among the fanbase, with haters (such as Silver Quill, Voice of Reason, and Lily Orchard) and defenders (including Keyframe, GoldenFox, and Dr. Wolf) everywhere, Joshscorcher got flak for his criticism of the episode and its portrayal of Luna's character. Many fans accused him of being a Bias Steamroller, especially since Josh has openly never liked Luna's Ensemble Dark Horse status and always favored Princess Celestia more.
In a somewhat non-MLP related example, Zaid Magenta received notable amounts of backlash after he released a video criticizing the Nostalgia Critic's review for Norm of the North. It is currently the first video by MAP since the end of his rant videos to have a net negative rating, and it received some responsecriticism. MisAnthro actually made this a Running Gag of sorts following the "Change The Channel" fiasco, but even fans of MAP wish he'd drop the subject, especially since it's clear it's just a Bias Steamroller against Doug Walker (if MAP's endless statements on Doug's non-working behavior on the drama give indication).
Zaid Magenta actually invoked this around 2018 with his Star Wars reviews. MAP endlessly ranted and Rage Quit in regards to The Last Jedi. Like with his criticisms of Channel Awesome, even fans of MAP wish for him to stop complaining about the movie after he made a two-hour-long rant about how the movie "sucked".
Zaid Magenta hit this again and then some in 2020 with his utter rage over The Last of Us Part II, regularly going on about how it was an insult to the original, not helped by his attitude to anyone who says something even remotely positive about the game, to the point of blocking anyone who did so one his twitter page. While it seemed that things would die down when he made a public apology saying he was getting too worked up on the game and even if he didn't like it was wrong to insult people who did and repeatedly going on about it wasn't the best for his health, it instead only got worse when he ended up going back on it and doubling down on his comments and fan-hating on the game less than a month after making the statement, which has again made people who watch him sick of his constant trashing it similar to his Doug Walker and Star Wars attitudes, as well as caused many detractors of his to accuse him of being a liar and a hypocrite making a false apology.
To say fans are sick and tired of Sketchy the Changeling's endless tirades and wank fests on Pinkie Pie would be an understatement.
Many also have gotten annoyed with Thespio's rants against Starlight in later videos. While he argues a lot that she got off too easy for her actions, many have countered that the show and even Starlight are aware of that and have gone out of it's way to show that her redemption hasn't been easy and that she is doing all she can to be better. Likewise whatever Mary Sue argument he keeps making hold little water when it's shown she just contributes to help solving problems with the group, not being the end all solution to them.
One of Josh Scorcher's first complaints of "Appleloosa's Most Wanted" is that he wanted to see the Crusaders get their cutie marks already, and by that point, the fact they haven't done so yet felt like the writers were stalling. Later developments aside, that video was uploaded only two days before the episode aired.
In the react for Legend of Everfree, Voice of Reason makes some jokes that make fun of the similarities to Power Rangers once the girls go all out with their powers. In 2019, Hasbro would go on to purchase the right from Saban.
GoldenFox as well, although less so compared to AnY Pony. While he's shipped with his real life girlfriend Keyframe, he's bunched up with AnY Pony and Keyframe ala One True Threesome. And then there's Zaid Magenta with Golden and Zaid Magenta due to their friendship.
Moral Event Horizon: Lethal Aurora crosses it from the beginning by being the first villain to commit on-screen murder, in a manner that is NOT Played for Laughs.
The surreal nature of Beatrice's review of "The Return of Harmony" was more than a little creepy.
In Josh's review of the Cutie Re-Mark, Ink Rose's expressions at several points are really unsettling. There are moments where she stares at the audience/Josh with eyes that are looking directly into your soul. The cute background music doesn't help these moments either. Ink, stop staring at me! Also, Ink Rose's headcanon on why the last alternate future in that episode was a lifeless wasteland? "Every villain was released, and everything in Equestria is dead!" The implication was already there, but the way she says it sells this quote.
Flight of Blight. Thunder Blight herself manages to be pretty menacing and has a genuinely unnerving Leitmotif, but the realNightmare Fuel is that Lightning Bliss spends most of it fading away into nonexistence and her screaming in pain from it is terrifying. According to Word of God, Blight was originally much worse in the original script to the point some of the things were too uncomfortable for her to go through with.
GoldenFox's breakdown in his "Do Princesses Dream of Magic Sheep" review is both this and a massive Tearjerker.
Golden's dark side Crimson Fang invokes this as well. Unlike others with dark sides, such as Thunder Blight, Crimson acts like a surprisingly calm professional with an undertone that can give a sense of something amiss with him. This is made apparent in his introduction episode when criticizing Golden over his behavior with recent episodes.
DigiCurious (Beatrice (known as Digibrony at the time) X Bronycurious).
ILoveAntonyCALot (ILoveKimPossibleAlot X Antony C).
JoshRose or FireRose (Josh Scorcher / Commander Firebrand X Ink Rose).
FireMau (Josh Scorcher / Commander Firebrand X Aramau / the Fiery Secretary).
StormBeats (Storm Analysis X Clifford Beats).
PostPal (Postscript X Rosepal)
GoldenKey (GoldenFox X Keyframe)
As mentioned above, Golden's kinda of a Launcher of a Thousand Ships, which consists of GoldenKeyAnY (GoldenFox X Keyframe X AnY Pony) and MisAnthroFox (GoldenFox X Zaid Magenta).
They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: In Winter of 2013, Beatrice revamped her whole image on her YouTube videos where she smokes all the time, even indoors, and even in her redesigned OC. The reality is that she's been smoking since way before becoming a reviewernote She points out that the seven cans of Mountain Dew she drinks per day are probably much worse for her health than the one or two cigarettes she smokes during that same time-span, and thought she should simply embrace who she is publicly. A vocal group were not pleased. Beatrice's new style of reviewing episodes also came under attack. Beginning with "Twilight Time", she began giving brief explorations of the episodes' themes and relating them to her personal life rather than thoroughly explaining why she thinks an episode is good or bad, like how she did previously and how the majority of her peers do. All of this was largely the result of a combination of Artist Disillusionment, as she had grown tired of the majority of YouTube comments she received focusing on her opinion of an episode rather than the analytical points she brought up and the fact that she doesn't like the majority of the episodes in season 4. She later indicated that she would only be doing this for season 4, and that reviews of other episodes would be done with the same style and OC as before. After season 4 concluded, Beatrice retired from MLP analysis and began focusing on anime.
Viewer Gender Confusion: Before his voice deepened, Storm Analysis had been mistaken for a female quite a couple of times.
! After those few seconds, it's not brought up again save for a blink-and-you-miss-it message saying, "Just kidding! We love you Aisu!"
Mary Sue argument he keeps making hold little water when it's shown she just contributes to help solving problems with the group, not being the end all solution to them.