History YMMV / Recreyo

* SeasonalRot: In their four years of activity, it becomes apparent that their viewership steadily saw a decline around the end of "Season 1". In their first two years, the channel's videos had a stable amount of views, typically no lower than 500k but usually around 1 Million views. While there ''were'' the occasional misses that only hit around 300k views, the channel was still going strong for two straight years. After the departure of [=ChillyPanda=] however, many of their subsequent videos came under greater scrutiny, with view numbers dropping to the point the highest amount was closer to 500k. Numerous {{guest star|PartyMember}}s, some very controversial like the streamer Pokimane, started appearing and led to accusations of being invited ''solely'' to boost views; Ivan's scenarios getting even heavier with {{railroading}} to the point one scenario of his felt more like a script reading the rest could only comment on; a sixth month ARG was done that only the most dedicated fans or those part of the discord could even come close to understanding; being attached to the company ''Creator/RoosterTeeth'' while it was undergoing a lot of controversy; episodes feeling less like ComedicSociopathy and more like they were a podcast; etc. While there were ''some'' things people liked, such as the addition of the fan-favorite K.fel/Kristine to the main group or guests like Kwiteee, the damage was done, and Recreyo's fanbase steadily faded away, to the point that many of their videos in their final year were lucky if they broke 300k views.

** The BigBad of the GrandFinale, [[spoiler:Ao's twin sister Ai]], is built up as being a major threat for the group, causing the multiverse to destabilize and being what will hypothetically cause the channel to ''end''... is defeated relatively easily in the third part, taking only a couple hits from [[spoiler:Ao]] to beat her before the two of them are returned to the point between dimensions and left there for good, the episode ending with the Recreyo crew proceeding as if this was just any other scenario for them before [[spoiler:Ao]] gives a final "Recreyo, out!" to end the series, causing it to not actually ''feel'' like a GrandFinale. This of course isn't helped by everyone but Curt and Ivan, [[RecurringElement yet again]], not taking it seriously, making it another FailedAttemptAtDrama.

* AntiClimaxBoss: Despite being built up for over half a year and making fully clear she wanted to ''kill'' the entire crew, even taking Curt hostage for several episodes, [[spoiler:Recreyo-chan]] ends up feeling like this by her defeat. Despite her ''trying'' to give off the gravitas of a ClimaxBoss and acting like a legitimate threat to the crew, it just becomes a FailedAttemptAtDrama thanks to none of the crew, aside from Curt, taking it ''seriously'', instead just screwing around like normal. As a result, her defeat feels anticlimactic, not helped by the seeming SequelHook turning out to just be a merch push. While it's clear Curt at least wanted her to be a genuine threat and tried building her up to be such, the rest of the crews antics screwed that over.

** The ending to "Can You Survive One Piece?" due to it being painfully obvious Ivan threw it in to justify having future ''One Piece'' scenarios. Curt, acting as a Marine Admiral, was all set to win the game of pseudo-TabletopGame/{{Battleship}} and sink the K-9 pirates. Right before he can fire the last cannonball however, Ivan abruptly declares Curt, [[BlatantLies entirely of his own free will]], chose to randomly desert the Marines and join the K-9 pirates, everyone wondering ''why'' Curt would do that when he was about to ''win''. Ivan then proceeds to throw out three {{handwave}}s to try and justify Curt doing so, all of which having no prior foreshadowing: that Curt is actually "Curtis ''D.'' Richy"[[labelnote:*]]The World Government infamously hates those with the name "D." due to the "Will of D." threatening their rule[[/labelnote]], that he suddenly believed Captain Kristine could become the "Queen of the Pirates", and that he was always meant to be the Nami analogue. The animators themselves {{lampshade|Hanging}} the absurdity of it by having Ivan read from a script labelled "One Piece ''Fanfic''", making clear even they realized Ivan was pretty much writing a bad fanfic at this point.

* GeniusBonus: The episode "Can You Survive The Manananggal?" initially seems to be a NonIndicativeTitle, since it not only doesn't appear at all in the episode, but the title card labels it an SCP despite the scenario being more about general Filipino culture and mythology. The name of the episode ''and'' the SCP number, "SCP-5201", reference an ''actual'' Filipino myth, a shapeshifting monster. These details make it a metaphor for [[spoiler:Recreyo-chan, a shapeshifting being with a grudge against Recreyo who has already successfully kidnapped Curt, and holds a large presence in the SCP scenarios]], making the episode title more a reference to the crew surviving ''them''.