"Your Mileage May Vary" for the Tony Zaret "TV trope" webpage for "guys"! Here's where things that are "subjective" can be "listed".
- Discredited Meme:
- Invoked as part of the "clueless old guy" aesthetic: he released a song called "Big Chungus Ooh Nah Nah" in 2021; and frequently brings up "epic bacon" and Chuck Norris memes in the same decade.
- This tweet
makes fun of the concept.
- Humor Dissonance: In the Zaretverse, what's "funny" is treated like an objective ranking system rather than subjective based on taste. Saying "based", "amogus", and showing off pictures of Big Chungus are so funny they can be lethal. Impersonations of Bruce Springsteen are the breaking point in a "try not to laugh" challenge.
- Memetic Mutation:
- On Tumblr, it's become common to end fake stories with THERE WAS A SEWER MAN!
- "Because of Poe's Law, it is impossible to tell if anyone is joking or not".
- The fake posts Jonathan Commentar makes are commonly used to mock users who fall for obvious bait posts.
- On Tumblr, it's become common to end fake stories with THERE WAS A SEWER MAN!
- Moment of Awesome: In The Big Chungus Community Has A Gatekeeping Problem, Big Chungus (who's obsessed with gatekeeping) won't let SmockaWaga out of the bathroom until he names three things outside of the bathroom. SmockaWaga names the moon, the sun, and after a long pause and Big Chungus criticizing his answers... "MYSELF!" as he runs out.
- Shallow Parody: His parodies of various media are intentionally shallow to add to the Stylistic Suck of his videos. Many of his parodies are based on works he's clearly never seen, so they often have little to do with the subject from the work and are often just referencing a single line from its Wikipedia page and basing the parody on that.
- So Bad, It's Good: One of the best at pulling this off.
- Tear Jerker: Harambe being left alone when Tony goes to Regular Heaven in "I Died (Not clickbait)".
- The Woobie:
- Bunguloj just wants to hang out with his dad, but Tony is too busy trying to meme. Later abandoned because Tony was indoctrinated by r/childfree. Makes you wanna give the poor kid a hug.
- SmockaWaga's Uncle when his nephew makes fun of him. It's heinous enough to land SmockaWaga in H*ll.
- Harambe the gorilla still reenacts his death with Warhammer models and cries when Tony leaves him to go to Regular Heaven. The whole thing's a ridiculous shitpost, but there's actually some genuine Pathos there.
- What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic?: A Tumblr user mistook the aforementioned Sewer Man post for a genuine attempt at a Creepypasta, and then critiqued it for "priming its audience for emotional manipulation" and for its "pro-authority" message. Naturally, this just led to more mockery by Tony's fans, and it probably inspired his videos on Poe's Law. (She later admitted to being high when she wrote her post)
