So This Is Basically... / YMMV

Awesome Art:
- The JoJo's Bizarre Adventure video reaches a new level of artwork, which, outside of Jello's usual style, nails Hirohiko Araki's realistic and expressive style nicely.
- The Persona 5 video goes out of its way to emulate the game's very slick UI in places, including replicating the moving text bubbles, the tendency to invert random letters, and the star pattern that frames each cutscene.
- The Prosecutor Ducky segment in the Ace Attorney video introduces a Original Character Prosecutor. While it's not pixelated as the original game, the animation almost perfectly emulates the limited but high-spirited animation of its origin, making Professor Ducky not feel out of place in comparison to how the other prosecutors in the actual game reacts to the attorneys' argument.
Broken Base:
- Naturally bringing up Base-Breaking Character Mabel in the Gravity Falls video resulted in a huge divide in the comments between those who agree that they hate Mabel and fans of Mabel that were outraged by Jello's disliking of her.
- The audience of the RWBY video either agrees with Jello on its various flaws and still likes the show and the video, holds this up as gospel as to why RWBY sucks, or are outraged at Jello for what they consider to be another case of a YouTube personality attacking the series for cheap views. The fact that Brendan does not hold back in admitting he does not like RWBY doesn't help.
- His Adventure Time video also got some division between people who liked the video the same as the others, people who loved it for brutally deconstructing the show's flaws, and people who didn't enjoy it either for not having the same kind of light-hearted pokes of the others or for not effectively poking at Adventure Time's flaws (like citing gross-out humor as something the show does prominently when it's really been done pretty sparingly, or criticizing it for not finishing arcs despite the show not being finished at the time the video was released). It doesn't help that he admitted to not watching past season 5, meaning a lot of his criticisms could be explained by him not finishing the show and seeing how things wrapped up.
- His The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel video insisting the first two games were pointless is very contentious within the Trails fandom. You have fans who agree and think the Arc Fatigue and Padding of the Cold Steel games deserves the criticism, but the first two games have a lot of fans and some very well-liked moments. But the real kicker is the video being sponsored by NISA, who localized the second and third games but don't have the rights to the first two (localized by XSEED Games), which has led some fans to speculate the sponsors may have had an agenda. The XSEED vs. NISA debate over localization quality was already very heated among Trails fans, and to some the video only exasperated it.
Crosses the Line Twice:
- From the Miraculous Ladybug video, Jello says that the show could probably win an Emmy if they kill off Chloé onscreen. The visuals accompanying this statement? Ladybug and Chat Noir looking over their Emmy while Chloé goes through a wood chipper right behind them.
- This bit from the RWBY video:
  Jello: (referring to Blake not having a tail) How would you feel if humans randomly changed how many arms they have?
  *Yang's arm falls off, to her embarrassment and Blake's horror*
  Jello: Oops.
Fridge Horror: The "Rebreather" ghost (which was designed and voiced by Butch Hartman) used to depict an average fight scene in Danny Phantom has what at first just seems like your average ghost diver design, not really much to it. But, once you let it sink in for a while that his fishing net cape is actually tangled to his backpack and that his air hose is snapped, you get a very clear idea of exactly how he ended up as a ghost. This is easier to notice if actually you see Butch Hartman's concept art of the character at the end of the video.
Harsher in Hindsight:
- In his video for Star vs. which was made shortly after the season 3 premiere, he expresses some optimism for the future of the show, and begs it to "please don't go back to the bad stuff". Many Star fans consider season 4 (the final season) to be the worst season of the series with an underwhelming finale, and Jello himself dropped the show prior to the finale.
- A moment in his So This Is Basically Miraculous Ladybug video has him joke that Chloé is the real villain and that Ladybug should just let her die. The video was posted between seasons 1 and 2, but feels eerily prophetic of how she'd be treated from the season 3 finale onward ^{explanation (spoilers)}, to the point that some fans on the "hate" side of the Broken Base surrounding her have unironically called for her death.
- The joke in So This Is Basically Sonic the Hedgehog about Sonic losing all his rings (and potentially losing a life) over a stubbed toe takes a darker twist in Epithet Erased, an animated series developed by Jello, where Mera actually breaks a toe when she stubs it, and could have easily shattered her whole foot, due to having a superpower that also makes her whole body extremely fragile.
- In So This is Basically RWBY, he muses that the best character in RWBY is the one who doesn't talk, referring to Neo, but laments that the writers will find a way to ruin that. The very same Volume he ends up joins the show as a voice actor, Neo becomes voiced... Albeit not by her own volition.
- In the Fire Emblem video, there's a joke where the psychopathic character says that he's "way more fucked up in the Japanese dub", alluding to the localization scandal behind several Fire Emblem games toning down the characters due to issues expressed during the localization process. In early February 2024, Jello brings up in a Patreon post that he wanted to localize the dub to the Lovely★Complex anime and do the exact same thing that he poked fun at the Fire Emblem games for, only for that to cause a controversy that saw him fired from the project for trying to make changes in a script for less understandable reasons.
He Really Can Act: His Ruby and Qrow voices in the RWBY episode were almost so on point many think that he had somehow recruited Lindsay Jones and/or Vic Mignogna^note or even suggest that Jello replace Vic. A few years later, he did end up doing a voice for a Rooster Teeth series, DEATH BATTLE!, before eventually joining the RWBY cast in Volume 9.
He Panned It, Now He Sucks!: Comes up often, but especially Adventure Time and RWBY due to the entire videos ranting about the whole series.^note
Hilarious in Hindsight:
- In the Overwatch video, Jello jokes that the game has no diversity because there's no girl robots, then questions if girl robots even exist. Around eight months after the video was made, Orisa, a female Omnic, was added to the roster.
- In the Rick and Morty video, Jello jokes about the series' tendency to have Mood Whiplash and end episodes on a somber tone with an obscure song as background music. Jello further snarks in the captions how fans will find a way to relate this back to Evil Morty. This is exactly what wound up happening three weeks after the video.
- Jello mentioned in his Ace Attorney video that he hadn't gotten around to playing the second Investigations game, but that he'd heard it was supposed to be good. He went on to play through it on his Twitch channel and encountered most of his complaints from the video in spades.
  - The judge declares Phoenix's client guilty when Phoenix fails to counteract some Insane Troll Logic theorizing that the defendant dropped the bullet from a skyscraper, and it fell on the victim's head. In The Great Ace Attorney: Adventures, which wouldn't reach America for another three years, the fourth Adventure declares Ryunosuke's client innocent after he proves that a juror threw the knife out of a window, and it landed in the victim's back.
- In the RWBY video, Qrow shouting and singing as a crow was a small running gag in the video. The DC comic that was written half a year after featured his sister Raven doing the exact same thing.
  - Also in the RWBY video, Penny appears in a fictional cover of Volume 7. When Volume 7 finally aired, Penny did return to the series... though Brendan admitted on Youtube that he already knew this as he'd auditioned for the series and Penny's return was spoiled in some audition packets.
  - The overall negative review of RWBY ends up becoming rather amusing when Jello would eventually become a voice actor on the actual show, in the form of the Jinxy Peddler from Volume 9.
- In the Pokémon video, he says every type has a gym except Dark, which finally got its own gym in Pokémon Sword and Shield.
  - Additionally, his hypothetical Pokémon games are named "Mustard and Ketchup". The Isle of Armor expansion pass would end up introducing a major character named Mustard.
- In the Animal Crossing video, he states that the next game will be the same as New Leaf with a few changes. The next game, New Horizons, revealed that it will be making several changes to the series formula.
  - Adding to this, some of Jello's commentary of things that could be improved on^note were addressed in ''New Horizons".
- In the Sonic the Hedgehog video, Sonic mocks Movie Sonic, saying he isn't even good enough to be his fake. This video was released before the official redesign was revealed, and when the movie actually came out, plenty of people stated that they liked it more than the actual series as of late. In short, Movie Sonic did make Sonic eat those words!
- In the Miraculous Ladybug video, Jello jokes that the show could probably win an Emmy if they killed off major antagonist Chloe. Then, in 2020, another show that the series covered got nominated for a Primetime Emmy for an episode that saw the (temporary) death of a major antagonist.
- In So This Is Basically Fire Emblem, the enemy has 4 major generals: "the fun crazy one", "the boring one", "the one that dies offscreen", and "the noble one". This wasn't accurate to most of the games at the time of the video, but is fairly close to the Four Hounds of Fire Emblem Engage. ("the fun crazy one" and "the noble one" sum up Griss and Mauvier perfectly, while one of the others dies on-screen, but not by your army's hand).
Memetic Mutation:
- "Do not weep for cheese boy." from the JoJo video has gotten popular. It's hard to find a conversation about Fugo that doesn't mention this.
- Similarly, the fake names he gives for each part:
  Fist Of The North Joestar
  Indiana JoJe And The Friendliest Nazis
  The Worst Vacation Ever
  David Bowie Murder Mystery
  (King Crimson Noise)
  Florida Man Has No Idea How Weather Works
  Horse Race With Jesus
  David Bowie Memory Mystery
- Referring to "darkness" in Kingdom Hearts as "bees" instead, partly because of how hilarious it was, and partly because of how much it was used.
- RWBY fans have really seemed to take a shine to both Qrow's exclamation of "WHY IS MY NAME SPELLED WITH A Q!?" and referring to Salem as Mommy Salami.
Moe: From the Fire Emblem episode: The Cute Mage and the Cleric are intentionally designed to get a reaction like that. The Lord however, who looks like the daughter of Ike and Shantae, presumably wasn't intentional.
Shallow Parody: One of the biggest criticisms of his video series is the fact that some videos seem like he only did five minutes of research into the series. The worst offenders people often cite are his Adventure Time, RWBY, and Kingdom Hearts videos (which he's admitted several times are series he dislikes). Even outside that, the parodies often just aren't necessarily even correct at times: "So This Is Basically Fire Emblem'' for example seems to treat it as though every single game has the same basic mechanics and characters (such as a time traveling mechanic to undo choices, something only one game in the series ever used when the video was released), call axes bad (generally axes are as okay as the others), or making general statements about characters/classes that isn't true for every game.

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