YourMileageMayVary, or YMMV, is a generic warning that the person giving an opinion recognises that not everyone agrees with them. It is commonly used in two types of cases concerning an expressed opinion on a work of fiction:

* An opinion that does not reflect consensus might be thus qualified to prevent the triggering of InternetBackdraft. For example, someone might say "I thought the ''LordOfTheRings'' movies were pretty good, but ''your mileage may vary''" or "''YMMV'', but I can't stand ''ArrestedDevelopment''."

* A second opinion that contrasts with a previously stated one may be prefixed with ''Your mileage may vary'', as a retroactive disclaimer, acknowledging ''stated opinions are not comprehensive of all points of view''. Example:
-->'''From ManOfAThousandVoices'''\\
'''#1:''' ...he has taken uncounted characters...and given them each unique, appropriate voices.\\
'''#2:''' ''Your Mileage May Vary'', while he is very funny and does a lot of characters, he only has about three or four voices between them.\\

Use caution when adding commentary worthy of this warning. There is, at all times and on every subject imaginable, always someone who disagrees with you on the internet. No matter how popular it may be, there is someone ''somewhere'' who didn't like it. What you are saying may be [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment redundant]], [[CaptainObvious obvious]] or representative of a sparse (if not singular) minority. General use of this phrase is an observation of [[FanDumb mostly agreed upon]] fandom trends ({{Transformers}} fans are probably the most self-aware of their tendency to scream [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks Trukk Not Munky]]), not simply because the individual editor has a bone to pick.

If your opinion is in the vast minority it will likely be deleted. This is also to cut down on {{Natter}}.

The title of this trope comes from US car ads in the 1970s and 1980s which was stuck in to indicate that the customer might not get as much fuel efficiency as the ad claimed. The phrase has since been adopted to mean 'you may not get the same thing out of this as me'. The kids' show ''BeakmansWorld'' made the actual phrase into a mini-CatchPhrase as well.

Compare LoveItOrHateIt, where the mileage is broken into two separate chunks and are measured on different dials. Also compare BrokenBase, where the fandom can't even agree on what kind of car to buy. EightPointEight is a directly related trope, where the reviewers and fandom disagree on the car's mileage.

As a rule of thumb, if a topic's WallBanger and various CrowningMoment entries contain the same items (which is frequent in more popular works) you probably have all three.

Contrast OpinionMyopia.
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