* ApprovalOfGod:
** Max's review of ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance'' was promoted by Konami's Facebook page.
** Katsuhiro Harada, current executive producer of the ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}}'' series, is very fond of Max, getting him early looks at Bandai Namco games and retweeting Max's reaction video for [[VideoGame/FatalFury Geese Howard]] being added to ''Tekken 7''. According to Max, Harada asks for his opinion every time a new character trailer releases for ''Tekken 7''.
** Sometimes, Max's sincerely over-the-top reactions to game franchises that he loves gets the approval of ''entire development teams''.
*** ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry5'' director Hideaki Itsuno caught wind of Max's reaction to the game's reveal trailer in 2018 via Dante's voice actor, Creator/ReubenLangdon. Itsuno once noted that the video was a great morale booster for the dev team under his wing.
*** In a similar fashion, a handful of higher-ups on ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake''[='=]s dev team personally thanked Max at E3 2019 for his reaction videos to their game trailers up until that point, giving the rest of the team the motivation to keep going until the game's released.
* FollowTheLeader: In his "Decade in Review" series, particularly for 2011, Max cites the WebVideo/AngryVideoGameNerd as the inspiration for the WebVideo/AssistMe series's cinematic flair. He also openly admitted that his "Fighting History" series of videos was his take on an AVGN-style show.
* OldShame: Reveals plenty of them in the first [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRqLLX9w2gc two]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1fZD4MGYHA episodes]] of his "Decade in Review" retrospective. He specifically highlights [[https://youtu.be/RRqLLX9w2gc?t=205 his first ever attempt at video editing]] way back in 2008 as something he's not particularly proud of.
* PromotedFanboy: Max was specifically approached by Capcom to create Ultimate WebVideo/AssistMe and Retro Assist Me because employees at Capcom USA were impressed by the series.
** Max became one of ''[[VideoGame/KillerInstinct2013 Killer Instinct (2013)]]'' when they added Max's voice to Glacius's theme ("We are controlling transmission"), made a Sabrewulf skin based on his dog Benny, and put the words "I'll get you, Max!" on one of Sadira's accessories (calling back to Max's hatred of spiders). He was later contracted by Creator/MicrosoftStudios and worked on the story development and promotional material for Seasons 2 and 3, to the point that, when he appears at EVO 2023, he's credited for 'Killer Instinct Trailers/Cinematics' ''instead of'' his Youtube channel.
* ScrewedByTheLawyers:
** As Max explains [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuSCzlbmcdY here]], many episodes of Boss Rage, Assist Me and Fighting History have either gone private or became {{Missing Episode}}s. Between Website/{{Google}} rolling out a new copyright strike algorithm for Website/YouTube and a "large music conglomerate"[[labelnote:*]]Max doesn't name them, but it's probably either Creator/WarnerMusicGroup or Creator/{{Universal}} Music Group as they both signed deals with [=YouTube=] as recently as 2017[[/labelnote]] buying out a majority of Max's formerly "safe for [=YouTube=]" music collection (and then going to town on the enforcement of their copyrights), "screwed" is putting it lightly.
** In January 2019 Max got [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMKZkcBabs0 dropped from his creator network]]; however, this actually ended up being a positive since it lead to his working more directly with [=YouTube=]. A change in YT's copyright policy meant that videos with contentious content could be kept online, albeit demonetized, which is something Max had wanted to do all along. As a result, fan-favorite videos like the ''VideoGame/AsurasWrath'' Evil Ryu and Oni Boss Rage (taken down because it contains [[WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie "Dare" by Stan Bush]]) were restored to the channel.
** [=YouTube=] seems to have something against ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' in general. As Max explains [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLkKshdPyI8 here]], upwards of 90% of his MK-related videos from ''VideoGame/MortalKombat9'' onwards (including ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11'') have been age restricted. Within the United States, his home country, it doesn't mean much other than the roadbump of having to log in to watch said videos, but in other countries, it has the same effect as a DMCA takedown, meaning they're not allowed to watch ''at all''. After some uploading experimentation to test the current automated system, Max believes that ''11'''s {{Gorn}} is so realistic that automated filters actually mistake his videos as ShockSite material. Ironically, videos that he uploaded featuring exclusively AlienBlood don't get hit by the filter at all. Several of the top commenters have also highlighted the hypocrisy of how Google has a thing against fake gore, but real gore somehow gets a free pass.
** His "Decade in Review" retrospective [[https://youtu.be/w1fZD4MGYHA?t=1120 reveals]] that his Wesker vs. Doom WebVideo/EpicRapBattlesOfHistory parody back in 2011 was his first reality check when it came to how litigious [=YouTube=] content creators can get. In his words, "we can't just do whatever we want and have fun anymore".