YMMV / Night Mind

• Crosses the Line Twice: "Mono" is a bubblegum pop music video that ends with the cat girl skinning her crush's body and wearing it. Then during the stock dancing cuts, we see the rabbit still dancing while bloody from head to toe.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • Nick's complete genuine love and praise of Poppy became this once he publicly denounced his support of Poppy and Titanic Sinclair following the 2018 lawsuit between Sinclair's old partner/ex girlfriend Mars Argo, who revealed that not only did Sinclair and Poppy steal ideas planned for Mars, but that Sinclair had psychologically and emotionally abused her. This got exponentially more awkward in a different way in 2020 when Poppy herself would terminate her relationship with Sinclair, confirming the accusations of his psychological abuse and revealing that she too was on the receiving end of it.
  • Nick's friendship with Nyx Fears becomes this when the two had a massive falling out following Nyx confirming on a tumblr post that Nick made her uncomfortable during her visit to see him (see Tear Jerker below.) Nick has made it clear he regrets the decision, but most people (Nyx especially and Slimebeast) saw it more as Nick attempting to save face. Fortunately this has since abated somewhat, with Nyx releasing a Tumblr post confirming that she and Nick have since reconciled at least somewhat.
  • The videos where Nick covers and / or praises Tribe Twelve are much more uncomfortable to watch after series creator Adam Rosner was revealed to be a serial sexual assailant who committed acts against minors in early September 2020. In a statement made in January 2021, Nick revealed that Rosner also abused and held him hostage over the phone in an attempt to get him to defend and deal with the consequences of his actions.
• Heartwarming in Hindsight:
  • When covering Don't Hug Me I'm Scared, Nick reaffirms that if we fight the critics in our life, green can be a creative color, referencing a cruel line in the first video. The video on "Creativity" in ''How to Make a Webseries" is called "The Green Path".
  • After his Dare to Be Badass speech in the Lasagna Cat video, telling people to aim to do something better than the original, Nick has reviewed two pieces that fit the bill: Petscop and CatGhost.
• Heartwarming Moments:
  • In Nick's Black Mirror video, after going in-depth into the utterly bleak and cynical implications of technology the series provides, his final discussed episode, Breather Episode "San Junipero," is all about the most hopeful and optimistic ones. After spending nearly an hour discussing how cruel and hopeless Black Mirror can be, just hearing Nick describe how that same show can make something so "nice", and how it's one of his favorite episodes is just adorable.
  • In the Lasagna Cat video, despite making his distaste for lazy, uninspired Creepypasta about how already-existing works like SpongeBob SquarePants or Rugrats really have pointlessly dark and edgy secrets underneath them very clear, by the end after explaining all the crazy intricacies of Lasagna Cat that actually make it work, Nick explains how he's gotten asked by viewers if it's okay to pursue making derivative works like Ben Drowned despite falling under this category, and offers this very inspiring and hopeful advice for any creator:
    Nick: Be as original, unique, creative, intelligent, and entertaining as possible. Do something that means something, that has a message, that actually qualifies as art, that says "Hey, I can be just as creative and maybe even more creative than the property I'm standing on for my project." (...) Originality is hard, but the pain is worth it. Nothing in this world that's worth doing is easy. Don't ask how you can copy Ben Drowned, ask how you can do something even better that was inspired by what the project did.
    • Which becomes Heartwarming in Hindsight once Nick discovered Petscop.
  • In the intro to "SIMULACRA: Superior Sequel to Sara is Missing", Nick relays how he got a direct email from Kaigen Games about how they saw his video of Sara is Missing and took much of his criticism to heart, offering him a Steam Key of its Creator-Driven Successor and even specifically asked him to "please apply the same critical thought you did for our last game." Sure enough, despite some criticisms, Nick considered SIMULACRA a very welcome and enjoyable improvement, and thanked Kaigen Games for their positive reception and acceptance of his critique.
  • Nick on January 30, 2018 came out as bisexual, and posted that he has a boyfriend. Doubles as a Funny Moment since he says he can't wait to see his boyfriend's reaction to seeing the announcement.
• Memetic Mutation: "That's a damn good margarita." ^note During his analysis of My Dad's Tapes, Nick had trouble containing his amusement and sarcasm when the protagonist and the serial killer sat down together for strawberry margaritas. Since then it has become a running joke with his fans.
• Most Wonderful Sound: Many fans find Nick's voice to be very calming to listen to, with some viewers admitting they watch his videos primarily to hear him speak. To their credit, it's probably exactly the voice you'd want to hear if you were to go into great detail regarding Nightmare Fuel.
• Narm:
  • His thoughts on the later parts of My Dad's Tapes. Early on he felt it was derivative yet intriguing enough to keep going. But when "donotcontinue" revealed himself, the series became laughable.
    That's a damn good margarita.
  • While he thinks The Human Pet is largely solid with a legitimately intriguing plot line, he considers the last upload to be this on account of pulling out several clichés in one video, namely a Creepy Child who laughs evilly during an poorly set-up Jumpscare. This isn't helped by the fact that the series likely won't be updated soon.
  • He had these thoughts about Just Acquaintances, so much so he gave a "You Used to Be Better" Speech at the end of part 2 of his analysis. When it devolved into being melodramatic, the series's quality took a nosedive, despite how good earlier parts were.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • Many of the works looked at contain healthy doses of this, but one coming directly from Night Mind itself comes from "Don't Hug Me I'm Scared: Explained," where true to the series' fashion, Mikey the Microphone starts pushing Nick's Berserk Buttons through insults; by the time Nick gets to Episode 5, he sounds genuinely pissed. Considering said insults are based on real criticisms Nick was worried about receiving for making the video, many viewers became genuinely worried for Nick's well being.
  • The opening to the video on Ben Drowned.
  • The trailer for his "Cabin Fever Dreams" April event puts heavy emphasis on Cabin Fever. He switches on a dime from being less composed than normal but still relatively calm and relaxed, to ranting angrily at the repetition of fan suggestions in a voice that suggests his mind and his body are becoming unstable as a result of it.
  • The Jack Torrance ARG:
    • How Nick himself, as well as his viewers, ended up becoming integral parts of the experience. Special mention must go to the final USB folder, which includes a series of screenshots from Google Street View showing the street addresses of everyone who sent Jack Torrance mail as part of the ARG. As Nick himself says in his recap video, "He knows where you live."
    • During in-person investigations of some locations featured in the videos, Nick and his team encountered sounds of... something in a building that was in a fairly remote area, and since the creator of Jack Torrence didn't know they were in Texas, it couldn't have been them just messing around. They finally left in a hurry when one of the team saw a box in an empty doorway suddenly move.
• Tear Jerker:
  • During a livestream chat about The Cry of Mann, Nick mentions that he had to walk out of seeing the movie mother! due to the climax being so intense that it gave him a panic attack. It quickly becomes a heartwarming moment when his fellow chatters say that it's healthy to know your limits when watching movies.
  • Nick's statement on what happened with Midnight Marinara. Whatever one may think of what started the feud, how it played out was Disproportionate Retribution.
  • Nick's falling out with Nyx Fears. The two were arguably good friends, especially when they collabed twice and because Nyx went out to visit Nick, but their friendship ended hard after a livestream they made together. Nick, appearing as a hand puppet of his cat fursona, inappropriately touched areas of Nyx like her thighs in what appeared to some viewers as a visual gag. He also pressured Nyx to take off her hat, which at the time was being used to assist with her gender dysphoria as she was not yet an out trans person, even when Nyx had made clear that this was a boundary that she did not want crossed. The livestream ended abruptly after an attempt to remove her hat. While Nick has attempted to apologize for the situation, most people (Nyx especially) have made it clear the damage is done. It is a bit mediated when you later on find Nyx's tumblr post explaining that she and Nick did make peace with one another, but have not publicly mentioned or worked with each other since.
• Unintentional Uncanny Valley: While many viewers find Nick's voice pleasing to listen to, there's also a significant amount of others who find it somewhat off and unnerving, as if coming from a text-to-speech program. It doesn't really help that in earlier videos, his voice tended to slightly warp and distort at times. Although the reason it did that is actually somewhat funny: he was afraid the videos would be too long for anyone to bother watching, so he sped up the recording of his voice to save on time, causing the distortion.

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