History SoYouWantTo / BeACausticCritic

** If you want to play a persona, study Creator/BradJones, who plays the shtick of ''WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob'' as being your typical pretentious film critic to the hilt. According to him, most of his Snob reviews aren't his actual opinions, but the Snob's.

* Website/SFDebris has made numerous "Opinionated Reviews." Note that not everything he looks at is necessarily bad, but he can still make funny comments about it regardless.

* WebVideo/TheIrateGamer is a master class on how to not put together an internet review show based around this kind of style. Not helping matters is his fanbase.

It may be a saturated medium, but you can go from one of the many, many, many drops in the bucket (or downright SnarkBait) to someone people will really pay attention to-hey, you may even end up on Website/ChannelAwesome, BlisteredThumbs or other sites with clout if you know what you're doing.

[[EqualOpportunityOffender shocking]] to say about each one as well.

It may be a saturated medium, but you can go from one of the many, many, many drops in the bucket (or downright SnarkBait) to someone people will really pay attention to-hey, you may even end up on [[Website/ThatGuyWIthTheGlasses Channel Awesome]], BlisteredThumbs or other sites with clout if you know what you're doing.

* WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic and most of Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses applied this same approach to movies, music, more recent games, anime and anything else its members can come up with.

* LetsPlay/{{Tatsudoshi}} and the Multipurpose Spam crew on the whole tend to have a lot of great moments as critics with their "Your Choice Reviews" series on their secondary channel. They've reviewed an extremely broad range of things in an effect-free vlog format and you can bet they have something strong, and [[CrossesTheLineTwice more]] [[RefugeInAudacity than]] [[DeadBabyComedy a bit]] [[EqualOpportunityOffender shocking]] to say about each one as well.

Be very careful about what you review. No, not because you might anger the next TommyWiseau, but because it's very easy to tread on ground someone's already covered. You need to find material nobody has reviewed yet or pick relatively old ground apart in a way nobody else has yet. Some reviewers even have to point out beforehand that they're treading well-beaten ground when they cover some material, and yet they still have at least some original opinions to share. In that same vein, make sure you can make a solid review out of what you're looking at. Nothing is worse than trying to criticize something so bad and/or tedious that you have to stretch for every joke.

The most popular targets of Caustic Critics are movies, video games and television shows. However, there's a niche for everything if you can build convincing reviews and acts around them. Linkara proved review shows about comic books could work beautifully. [[Creator/StuartAshen Dr. Ashen]] reviews strange gadgets and random crap found at Poundland and makes it entertaining. If we're going to include non-video reviews, {{Seanbaby}} writes funny articles making fun of fighting and mixed martial arts among a whole litany of other topics. There's the soul of being a Caustic Critic: the entertainment value of your reviews is what you live and die by.

Don't be afraid to theme several reviews about the same sort of thing every once in a while. Lots of critics do it-Linkara has PSA Hell, [[Creator/FrankMiller Miller Time]] and Secret Origins Month, the Nostalgia Critic had Nostalgiaween, DrAshens has Poundland specials (and a subset of those in [[MasochistsMeal Poundland food specials]]), you name it.

Aside from the obvious of "whatever it is you're reviewing" if you can get your hands on it (people who review movies, television shows and the like make do with the title screen or opening credits), go wild with whatever props you feel should carry the performance along. PlanningWithProps is funny when you're demonstrating something to the audience, so is incorporating NoodleImplements or CowTools. [[TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony]] made one or two funny performances out of acting things out with random dolls strewn around his home.