YMMV / MeatCanyon

• Angst Aversion: MeatCanyon's style isn't for everyone. With concepts like Rugrats with a plotline of infidelity and matricide, Bob the Builder breaking up a couple over a leaky roof, Sully and Mike being predatory creeps to Boo, and Jon Arbuckle being a kidnapping psychopath, the morbidity can be too much to handle, especially to those sick of Ron the Death Eater and Delusion Conclusion stories. The ugly art-style and haunting voices may not help.
• Awesome Music: The track for "FOR THE SUN" is an industrial rock score that sounds both horrific and awesome.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: "Breakfast on a Wednesday" features a brief moment where MeatCanyon appears as a live action Tony the Tiger in body paint. This is not referenced in universe, and in the very next shot, Tony goes back to being an animated character with no explanation given for the sudden change. It is also hilarious.
• Crosses the Line Twice:
  • The mother Grimace's newborn babies being taken away from her right before she's beheaded and her body is devoured by frenzied customers in "SCREAMS FROM THE GOLDEN ARCHES"? Horrifying. The employee who helped birth the babies asking for a day off since his grandmother died, then griping when the manager asks to let him know two weeks in advance from now on since he had no way of knowing she would die that far ahead of time? So mundane and relatable that it can come off as hilarious.
  • Robbie's fate in GUTTERBALL is truly a horrible one, but after how he treated Melvin the whole video, not only did he deserve it, it ended being funny due to the wild cheering of the crowd and the fact that his strike animation was a nuke detonating and burning him alive.
• Discredited Meme: The two memetic quotes from "Jawbreaker" take up a sizable portion of the comments on MeatCanyon’s other videos, leading to some people becoming annoyed by them.
• Fandom Rivalry: With the Swifties. After releasing the "Taylor Swift's Breakup" animation, thousands of Swift fans accused and trashed the video and vehemently defended Swift, while MeatCanyon fans laughed at the Swift fans and called them deranged. Needless to say, the two fandoms are not on friendly terms.
• Fanon: Willy Wonka in "I'VE GOT A GOLDEN TICKET" and Ronald McDonald in "JUST BEYOND THE GOLDEN ARCHES" have the same voice actor, speaking style, and implied predatory history. They also have similar facial structures, and Wonka's wall of photos that he shows to Charlie depicts him not only with real-world politicians and actors, but also with McDonald's characters like the Grimace and Hamburglar. The golden ticket is also signed "RM." Thus fans have accepted that they're the same person.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • His video I BOUGHT MY FRIEND HIS DREAM CAR!! #BLESSED depicts Dylan, an Expy of David Dobrik, as a controlling, dominative force who angrily lashes out at one of his friends for daring to not appreciate the role he had as his friend. Come 2020, and several allegations of Dobrik forcing his Vlog crew to do what he said without their consent arose.
  • Sneako actually being amused by "Classic Tate W" and agreeing with its depiction of Andrew Tate as a narcissist did not age well at all considering Sneako would eventually become a notorious Tate follower himself and start a feud with Cr1TiKaL that's been so volatile, it eventually ended up with Sneako receiving a gnarly Take That! in the form of SNEAKO MEETS CHARLIE.
  • His video "Taylor Swift's Breakup", which satirizes the more toxic behaviors of her fandom such as unhealthily obsessing over Taylor as well as their oftentimes hostile responses to her exes, resulted in him enduring a wave of online harassment from the fandom that even included death threats, which many fans saw as proof that MeatCanyon's depiction of them was correct. In response to the hate, however, MeatCanyon laughed at their insults.
• He Really Can Act:
  • Everyone was blown away by the voice-acting in JAWBREAKERS.
  • Many were shocked at how accurate MeatCanyon's Hank Hill voice was in "That Boy Ain't Right".
  • Many find Meat Canyon's voice-acting as the demonic version of Thomas the Tank Engine in RAILROAD to be one of his creepiest voices yet.
  • He also plays the role of Donald Duck in Ethereal Snake's "Mickey's Descent Into Madness, really well. Even if he isn't trying to emulate Donald's iconic voice.
• Jerkass Woobie: The titular protagonist of Melvins Macabre. Despite being prone to violent outbursts (especially when chewing his ear worm out for all the suffering he was going through regardless of the latter loving the former's music taste), he clearly has issues. While Melvin manages to get rid of the said parasite, he's called out by Angela for his cruelty towards the latter before dumping him as she takes the ear worm with her to the concert. In the end, Melvin calmly puts on his earbuds before curling up in a fetal position as the video ends while the vocalist in the background scold him. You can't help but feel sorry for the poor guy.
  • GUTTERBALL expands further on this by revealing that his Father died sometime before the events of the short, and if what Robby says about him throughout the video is true, it's implied he wasn't the greatest guy out there.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • Many of the lines from "Jawbreaker," but the two that stand out are "25 cents is all it takes" and "he's witnessing perfection."
  • Many of Bugs Bunny's quotes like "You've got a tight lil man pussy on ya" and "Lookin' like a double-wide surprise. God Daymn!" from "Wabbit Season" are widely quoted in the comments, even after the video was pulled.
  • Speaking of "Wabbit Season", as mentioned below, since Warner Bros. took down the video and claimed it because of copyright, fans and commentators have mocked them for basically leading the Fridge Horror that Bugs has always been a struggling rapist. This has led to almost every Dark Parody of a children's cartoon having comments saying that if it gets copyright claimed, that means everything in it happened in canon.
  • It is generally accepted among the fandom that if the character is animated faithfully to their show of origin, their chances of survival tank to almost nil.
• Memetic Molester: Bugs Bunny is portrayed in "Wabbit Season" as a tragic rapist struggling to reform and be a better person. The video has since been taken down by Warner Bros, who filed a copyright claim. MeatCanyon disputed it, but YouTube sided with Warner Bros. This effectively means that Warner Bros has claimed the video as their property which, as pointed out in another video, has the unintended side effect of making it canon to Bugs' lore that he was a struggling rapist all along.
• Nausea Fuel: A really big part of his Deranged Animation is how much it can disgust you.
  • Blue vomiting in "BLOO CLOO", which commenters noted how disturbingly realistic her vomit noises sounded. Some viewers even felt nauseous as a result.
  • "Secret Formula" is utterly made of this from the grotesque designs to the Krabby Patty secret formula being revealed to be Spongebob himself to Squidward and Mr. Krabs cannibalizing a willing Spongebob in a way that uncomfortably mirrors using him as a Sex Slave.
• Older Than They Think:
  • Meat Canyon wasn't the first person to portray domestic abuse in Rugrats, the first was Robot Chicken. However, unlike in Meat Canyon's version, where Tommy and Chuckie were 100% oblivious to what was going on around them, in the Robot Chicken version, the two, along with Phil and Lil, know exactly what is going on and are horrified.
  • Nor was he the first to twist Ed, Edd n Eddy into a horror with in the cul-de-sac going vacant due to at least one of the kids killing off everyone else, explaining to the last kid standing that they have met God. That honor goes to Cyber8 with the short "Jimmy Closet", differing in that Jimmy (as the title implies) is the murderer, with Sarah, of all people, as the last victim and only onscreen death.
  • Also, a cannibalistic Pinnochio was depicted in an episode of The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy titled "Nursery Crimes", released a decade and a half before MeatCanyon's "When You Wish Upon A Star".
• The Woobie:
  • Joshua in "Breakfast on a Wednesday" is an obese man suffering from depression and calls himself a failure when Tony the Tiger convinces him to eat Frosted Flakes once more.
  • Nikocado Avocado as depicted in "King of Mukbang". Not only does everything he touches turns into goop, including his lover, but Nick finds himself in another world with no conceivable way of escaping. He sadly accepts his fate and keeps eating.
  • Luke's mother in "MY FIRST SLUMBER PARTY", considering she's a victim of Domestic Abuse inflicted by her husband Mr. Roberts, especially the fact that she's later seen breaking down in tears while doing the dishes.

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