History YMMV / FakingIt

* ActorShipping: Yes, Volkevens is a thing. Even though both Creator/RitaVolk and Katie Stevens seem to be straight in real life.

* ActorShipping: Yes, Volkevens is a thing. Even though both Rita Volk and Katie Stevens seem to be straight in real life.

* SophomoreSlump: Definitely arguable, but there has been some vocal dislike about the second season's direction from the fandom, especially the turn from the sharper and more satirical style of the first season to rather over-the-top, melodramatic plotting, the perceived Flanderization (see Shane) of its main characters or subjugating them into a [[StrawCharacter Straw Villain]] (see Reagan), and the drawn-out baiting of the main Karma/Amy ship. Ratings have also declined rather steeply. The "mid-season break" that lasted a whole year ''really'' didn't help.

* FanPreferredCouple: The show seems to be trying to sell Karma/Liam as much as Karma/Amy. Pretty much no one is rooting for the first ship. So far every single fanfic is Karmy and Katie Stevens and Rita Volk seem to ship it themselves. Those that do sometimes [[PairTheSpares pair Liam with Shane]]. The writers were moving Liam away from Karma...and possibly on to Lauren...when the series was cancelled.

* FoeYay: Shane and Lauren, to a certain extent.

** Karmy now has a new enemy in [[spoiler: Reamy, due to Amy getting a girlfriend of her own in season 2]].
* WhatAnIdiot: A case of TruthInTelevision with Liam hoping to score a threesome with the lesbians-[[NoBisexuals when if they were willing to sleep with them, they wouldn't strictly be lesbians]].
** It does seem odd he wouldn't be suspicious of Karma being straight or at the least [[NoBisexuals bisexual]] when she spends a lot of energy either explicitly flirting or even trying to sleep with him... Liam definitely doesn't seem to be the sharpest tool in the shed. However, even Shane, who's gay, seems to forget (or in the case of men, deny) that bisexuals even ''exist''.

* SophomoreSlump: Definitely arguable, but there has been some vocal dislike about the second season's direction from the fandom, especially the turn from the sharper and more satirical style of the first season to rather over-the-top, melodramatic plotting, the perceived Flanderization (see Shane) of its main characters or subjugating them into a [[StrawCharacter Straw Villain]] (see Reagan), and the drawn-out baiting of the main Karma/Amy ship. Ratings have also declined rather steeply.

** Reagan got a lot of hate after breaking up with Amy because she wouldn't commit to being a lesbian rather than maybe still have feelings for guys...but there's sitll a small chunk of the fandom that prefers Reamy over Karmy. A few of these are the fans that were firmly on the side of wanting Amy to be fully lesbian, making Reagan a bit of an AudienceSurrogate for them.

* FlameWar: Debate over Amy's sexual identity have, to a certain extent, magnified some of the divisions and negative stereotypes within the LGBT community.

* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: Shane (reluctantly) allows Duke to keep quiet about his relationship with him while he searches for MMA sponsors. However, when Duke ends up striking a deal with Cluck-n-go (an obvious {{expy}} of the religious fast food chain Chick-fil-a), despite their notoriously homophobic leanings, Shane refuses to go along with it and [[spoiler: ultimately severs his relationship with Duke]].
** This anvil is dropped on Shane's head later when he secretly outed Duke, causing him to lose his Cluck 'n Go sponsorship (though he picked up Sqwerkel) and confess his love for Shane...until Shane carelessly blabbed about it in anger in front of him, at which point he broke up with Shane. Shane's last apology to Duke falls flat.
-->'''Duke''': I said I accepted your apology. I didn't say I forgave you.

* JerkassWoobie: Yes, Lauren isn't the nicest of persons, but she simply hasn't caught many breaks and she's right in that at another school, she'd be a queen. She acts out, yes, but people forget that she's been uprooted from her home, she has no real friends, there's no one at her high school that she can connect with (save Shane, and she's pointed out that [[NotSoDifferent neither of them are very nice people]]). Still, she's amazing at helping with Farrah's wedding, she empathizes with Amy after their mutual breakups, she manages to maintain a friendship with Pablo (who she actually attempts to protect from Shane's dating style), and she never told their parents about Amy & Karma's entire scheme. (Yes, she tried to bust them at school, but it wasn't personal.) On top of everything, [[spoiler: she was born intersexed]]. Basically, the only person she consistently has the upper hand on is Principal Penelope.

** The Premise, as stated above
** They divided fans more during the series finale, when [[spoiler: Liam and Amy have sex]], which many thought drudged back up a terrible lesbian cliche.
*** Given Amy has not, as of the season 1 finale, identified herself as a lesbian, so the argument can still be made she's figuring things out or that it was simply an act of revenge against Karma. In season 2 she does experience some desitre for a guy from Brazil but seems to prefer women overall.
** Liam, both for shipping reasons and for those who are divided as interpreting him as a JerkWithAHeartOfGold or simply a SatelliteCharacter who brings up some sexist cliches about women always scheming to get The Guy Everybody Wants.

* NeverLiveItDown: No matter how much Karma jerks Liam around regarding what the hell relationship they have, whenever Liam calls her out on her bullshit, Karma always brings up that [[spoiler: Liam slept with Amy]], which Liam eventually calls her out on for using as a trump card whenever she wants to feel like a victim.

* FlameWar: Debate over Amy's sexual identity have, to a certain extent, magnified some of the divisions and negative sterotypes within the LGBT community.
* FoeYay: Shane and Lauren, to a certain extent

* JerkassWoobie: Yes, Lauren isn't the nicest of persons, but she simply hasn't caught many breaks and she's right in that another school, she'd be a queen. She acts out, yes, but people forget that shes been uprooted from her home, she has no real friends, there's no one at her high school that she can connect with (save Shane, and she's pointed out that [[NotSoDifferent neither of them are very nice people]]). Still, she's amazing at helping with Farrah's wedding, she empathizes with Amy after their mutual breakups, she manages to maintain a friendship with Pablo (who she actually attempts to protect from Shane's dating style), and she never told their parents about Amy & Karma's entire scheme. (Yes, she tried to bust them at school, but it wasn't personal.) On top of everything, [[spoiler: she was born intersexed]]. Basically, the only person she consistently has the upper hand on is Principal Penelope.
* LesYay: This eads to Karma and Amy being mistaken for lesbians in the first place.

* NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity: The criticism from LGBT websites is one of the main reasons people know about it. Many of the LGBTs who watched the show to see what the fuss was about ended up falling in love with the show and Amy in particular.

* SophomoreSlump: Definitely arguable, but there has been some vocal dislike about the second season's direction from the fandom, especially the turn from the sharper and more satirical style of the first season to rather over-the-top, melodramatic plotting, the perceived Flanderization (see, Shane) of it's main characters or subjagating them into a [[StrawCharacter Straw Villain]] (see, Reagan), and the drawn-out baiting of the main Karma/Amy ship. Ratings have also declined rather steeply.

* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: Shane (reluctantly) allows Duke to keep quiet about his relationship with him while he searchs for MMA sponsors. However, when Duke ends up striking a deal with Cluck-n-go (an obvious {{expy}} of the religious fast food chain Chick-fil-a), despite their notoriously homophobic leanings, Shane refuses to go along with it and [[spoiler: ultimately severs his relationship with Duke]].
** This anvil dropped on Shane's head later when he secretly outed Duke, causing him to lose his Cluck 'n Go sponsorship (though he picked up Sqwerkel) and confess his love for Shane...until Shane carelessly blabbed about it in anger in front of him, at which point he broke up with Shane. Shane's last apology to Duke falls flat.

* WhatAnIdiot: A case of TruthInTelevision with Liam hoping to score a threesome with the lesbians-[[NoBisexuals when if they were willing to sleep with them they wouldn't strictly be lesbians]].

* BaseBreaker:

* ManipulativeBastard: Shane. [[spoiler:It comes back to bite him in a major way in season 2B]].

* AudienceAlienatingPremise: Two straight girls pretending to be gay for popularity? Never mind that the pilot was written by a gay guy, one of the leads is gay, and one of the guest stars was a major player in [[MySoCalledLife one of the seminal coming-out stories in television history]]...that fact alone has brought heavy criticism from some parts of the LBGT community (though it has garnered support from GLAAD and the Trevor Project).

* FanPreferredCouple: The show seems to be trying to sell Karma/Liam as much as Karma/Amy. Pretty much no one is rooting for the first ship. So far every single fanfic is Karmy and Katie Stevens and Rita Volk seem to ship it themselves. Those that do sometimes [[PairTheSpares pair Liam with Shane]].

** It does seem odd he wouldn't be suspicious of Karma being straight or at the least [[NoBisexuals bisexual]] when she spends a lot of energy either explicitly flirting or even trying to sleep with him... Liam definitely doesn't seem to be the sharpest tool in the shed. However, even Shane, who's gay, seems to forget (or in the case of men, deny) that bisexuals even ''exist''.
* JustForFun/XMeetsY: SouthOfNowhere meets Series/{{Awkward}}.

* XMeetsY: SouthOfNowhere meets Series/{{Awkward}}.

* FridgeBrilliance: Bruce seems much more accepting of Amy being gay than Farrah. It makes sense in Season 2 when it's revealed that Lauren [[spoiler: is intersexed]]

** Unconcerned with her appearance, yes. Plain, no. When she goes to the lesbian bar, all the girls she flirts seem very receptive to her advances - until she screws it up by being obnoxious or running away.
** May we add that Amy's actress, Rita Volk, played a parody {{Expy}} of Creator/JenniferLawrence's character from ''Film/TheHungerGames'' in a previous movie? And she did so ''convincingly''?
* JerkassWoobie: Yes, Lauren isn't the nicest of persons, but she simply hasn't caught many breaks and she's right in that another school, she'd be a queen. She acts out, yes, but people forget that shes been uprooted from her home, she has no real friends, there's no one at her high school that she can connect with (save Shane, and she's pointed out that [[NotSoDifferent neither of them are very nice people]]). Still, she's amazing at helping with Farrah's wedding, she empathizes with Amy after their mutual breakups, she manages to maintain a friendship with Pablo (who she actually attempts to protects from Shane's dating style), and she never told their parents about Amy & Karma's entire scheme. (Yes, she tried to bust them at school, but it wasn't personal.) On top of everything, [[spoiler: she was born intersexed]]. Basically, the only person she consistently has the upper hand on is Principal Penelope.
* LesYay: Leads to Karma and Amy being mistaken for lesbians in the first place.

** Reagan became a big one after [[spoiler: her and Amy's breakup]] in season 2B, mainly for her reluctance to keep dating Amy for not identifying as a lesbian and a portion of the fanbase's general anger that it was re-inforcing a very ugly stereotype about the LGBTQ community.
* SophomoreSlump: Definitely arguable, but there has been some vocal dislike about the second season's direction from the fandom, especially the turn from the sharper and more satirical style of the first season to rather over-the-top, melodramatic plotting, the percieved Flanderization (see, Shane) of it's main characters or subjagating them into a [[StrawCharacter Straw Villain]] (see, Reagan), and the drawn-out baiting of the main Karma/Amy ship. Ratings have also declined rather steeply.

* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: Shane (reluctantly) allows Duke to keep quiet about his relationship with him while he searchs for MMA sponsers. However, when Duke ends up striking a deal with Cluck-n-go (an obvious {{expy}} of the religious fast food chain Chick-fil-a), despite their notoriously homophobic leanings, Shane refuses to go along with it and [[spoiler: ultimately severs his relationship with Duke]].

* WhatAnIdiot: A case of TruthInTelevision with Liam hoping to score a threesome with the lesbians- [[NoBisexuals when if they were willing to sleep with them they wouldn't strictly be lesbians]].
** It does seem odd he wouldn't be suspicious of Karma being straight or at the least [[NoBisexuals bisexual]] when she spends a lot of energy either explicitly flirting or even trying to sleep with him... Liam definitely doesn't seem to be the sharpest tool in the shed.
* XMeetsY: SouthOfNowhere meets Series/{{Awkward}}

** Amy's sexuality itself has become a huge lightning rod within the fanbase: for those that think it's biphobic or a form of bi-erasure for Amy to identify as lesbian, and not liking the writer's supposed reluctance to refer to her as bi/pansexual despite some canon attraction to men as well as women and the use of the cop-out "she's confused". Then there are others want a strong lesbian protagonist who fully comes to term with her sexuality and doesn't have to keep get involved with the opposite sex (which some find a terrible lesbian media clique), noting that it is also incredibly rare to even have a canon lesbian character shown in a positive light- and some have noted that she only showed blatant signs of attraction towards other men after her alcohol-fueled hook-up with Liam, which in itself brings up some UnfortunateImplications. And that does bring up the issue if she were to get romantically linked with another man throughout the rest of the show (or just other men from now on), which would likely only fan the flames surrounding the show's already controversial premise, whether the show would lose a lot of interest if the main female characters were all in hetero-normative relationships, or if they continued to tease the main Karma/Amy ship while they both have opposite sex partners would be a rather nasty bit of queer-baiting.

** Amy's sexuality itself has become a huge lightning rod within the fanbase: for those that think it's biphobic or a form of bi-erasure for Amy to identify as lesbian, and not liking the writer's supposed reluctance to refer to her as bi/pansexual despite some canon attraction to men as well as women and the use of the cop-out "she's confused". Then there are others want a strong lesbian protagonist who fully comes to term with her sexuality and doesn't have to keep get involved with the opposite sex (which some find a terrible lesbian media clique), noting that it is also incredibly rare to even have a canon lesbian character to only be involved with other women- and some have noted that she only showed blatant signs of attraction towards other men after her alcohol-fueled hook-up with Liam, which in itself brings up some UnfortunateImplications. And that does bring up the issue if she were to get romantically linked with another man throughout the rest of the show (or just other men from now on), which would likely only fan the flames surrounding the show's already controversial premise, whether the show would lose a lot of interest if the main female characters were all in hetero-normative relationships, or if they continued to tease the main Karma/Amy ship while they both have opposite sex partners would be a rather nasty bit of queer-baiting.

* SecondSeasonDownfall: Definitely arguable, but there has been some vocal dislike about the second season's direction from the fandom, especially the turn from the sharper, satirical style of the first season to more over-the-top, melodramatic plotting, the handling of Amy's continuing discovery of her sexuality and the supposedly drawn-out baiting of the main Karma/Amy ship. Ratings have also declined rather steeply.

** Amy's sexuality itself has become a huge lightning rod within the fanbase: for those that think it's biphobic or a form of bi-erasure for Amy to identify as lesbian, and not liking the writer's supposed reluctance to refer to her as bi/pansexual despite some canon attraction to men as well as women and the use of the cop-out "she's confused". Then there are others want a strong lesbian protagonist who fully comes to term with her sexuality and doesn't have to keep get involved with the opposite sex (which some find a terrible lesbian media clique), noting that it is also incredibly rare to even have a canon lesbian character to only be involved with other women- and some have noted that she only showed blatant signs of attraction towards other men after her alcohol-fueled hook-up with Liam, which in itself brings up some UnfortunateImplications. And that does bring up the issue if she were to get romantically linked with another man throughout the rest of the show (or just other men from now on), which would likely only fan the flames surronding the show's controversial premise and bring up some rather negative stereotypes about bisexual women, whether the show would lose a lot of interest if the main female characters were all in hetero-normative relationships, or if they continued to tease the main Karma/Amy ship while they both have opposite sex partners would be a rather nasty bit of queer-baiting.

* SecondSeasonDownfall: Definitely arguable, but there has been some vocal dislike about the second season's direction from the fandom, especially the turn from the sharper, satirical style of the first season to more over-the-top, melodramatic plotting, the handling of Amy's continued discovery of her sexuality and the supposedly drawn-out baiting of the main Karma/Amy ship. Ratings have also declined rather steeply.

** Amy's sexuality itself has become a huge lightning rod within the fanbase: for those that think it's biphobic or a form of bi-erasure for Amy to identify as lesbian since there have been signs of slight attraction to other men, or those who want a strong lesbian protagonist who fully comes to term with her sexuality and doesn't have to keep get involved with the opposite sex (which some find a terrible lesbian media clique). And that does bring up the issue if she were to get romantically linked with another man throughout the rest of the show (or just other men from now on), which would likely only fan the flames surronding the nature of it's already-very-controversial premise and enforcing negative stigmas specific to bi/pansexual women.