History Trivia / TheCynicalBrit

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YvrFZAykEI This cat video]] had next to zero attention when TB linked it during a livestream of ''VideoGame/KingdomsOfAmalurReckoning'', as a result of TB's influence, it is now covered in artichoke-facts, and the {{Wiki/Wikipedia}} site for artichokes is mauled beyond recognition as of time of writing.

** He has actually hit the "like" button on a few {{WebVideo/Retsupurae}} videos, which has lead to spikes in their popularity.

* AuthorExistenceFailure: TB passed away on May 24th, 2018 following a four year battle with bowel cancer.

* WhyTheFandomCantHaveNiceThings: In 2016, TB retired from social media because he felt it was negatively impacting his health. His Twitter has since been taken over by a staffer. Thankfully this was later averted as TB opened a brand-new official subreddit in June and has been pretty good at interacting with fans on there(and even promising to do AMAs).

* OneOfUs:
** Mentions that he reads TV Tropes in his February 15th 2012 Mailbox video, and is aware of his and Jesse Cox's pages. He's given many a ShoutOut to various tropes over the years.
** TB is a fan of several other things unrelated to video games, which he will occasionally talk about in great detail. For instance, he is a huge fan of Creator/TerryPratchett (If [[Discworld/CarpeJugulum the source of the name "Total Biscuit"]] wasn't enough of an indicator) and has openly admitted to being a [[{{TabletopGame/Warhammer40000}} Warhammer 40k]] fanboy (during a video of his where he [[{{Squee}} squee'd]] all over [[VideoGame/Warhammer40000SpaceMarine a WH40K game]], no less). He demonstrated his fanboyishness in a Warhammer 40k Roleplay wherein he (playing as a Mechanicus Acolyte) managed to out-nerd the GM.
** Music-wise, he's a huge Music/IronMaiden fan.

* LongRunner: Between his humble beginnings playing metal music on Live365 (said by TB himself to have been around the turn of the century), and university radio, being a long-standing mainstay of WoWRadio before forming his own ''Cynical Brit'' brand on Youtube and Twitch, his online presence and career spanned almost ''twenty years''; just under two thirds of his life.

* RoleEndingMisdemeanor: He publicly ended his association with the LetsPlay/{{Yogscast}}'s "Big Three" (LetsPlay/LewisBrindley, LetsPlay/SimonLane and CEO [[LetsPlay/Turpster Mark Turpin]]) after falling out over Yogdiscovery, Lewis falsely accusing TB of doing non-disclosed sponsored content and Simon calling him a "crying pissbabby" over a ''comic book'' of all things. He later clarified that he doesn't have a beef with everyone in the network, as shown by his interactions with LetsPlay/{{Strippin}} and LetsPlay/{{Sips}}, plus his picking LetsPlay/{{Sjin}} for the Polaris Civil War crossover.

* RoleEndingMisdemeanor: He publicly ended his association with the LetsPlay/{{Yogscast}}'s "Big Three" (LetsPlay/LewisBrindley, LetsPlay/SimonLane and CEO Mark Turpin) after falling out over Yogdiscovery, Lewis falsely accusing TB of doing non-disclosed sponsored content and Simon calling him a "crying pissbabby" over a ''comic book'' of all things. He later clarified that he doesn't have a beef with everyone in the network, as shown by his interactions with LetsPlay/{{Strippin}} and LetsPlay/{{Sips}}, plus his picking LetsPlay/{{Sjin}} for the Polaris Civil War crossover.

* ApprovalOfGod: He's aware of the [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPze-Hckg3ayKQHZS706R0A Unofficial TotalBiscuit Livestream VoD channel]], and he outright pointed to it when it comes to watching Stream [=VoD=]s.

** Without saying the trope name, he admitted that this is the basic point of "WTF is...?". It was made as a way of advertising good games and denouncing bad ones (based on first impressions only).

** This has led to a bit of a RunningGag - if TB draws attention to a video, game, project, whatever, when his fans get there they will announce "The Cynical Fleet has arrived." He would go on to consider this a DiscreditedMeme.

** TB has stated that he despised his ''Terraria'' series, seeing as it spawned {{forced meme}}s and the viewership is highest when nothing was accomplished at all.

** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YvrFZAykEI This cat video]] had next to zero attention when TB linked it during a livestream of ''VideoGame/KingdomsOfAmalurReckoning'', as a result of TB's influence, it is now covered in artichoke-facts, and the [[TheOtherWiki wikipedia site for artichokes]] is mauled beyond recognition as of time of writing.

** His review of VideoGame/RenownedExplorers got the developer, abbey games, out of bad weather. Two months after the releasing RE:IS, abbey games almost had to take loans in order to stay afloat, [[http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/AdriaanJansen/20160905/266289/Post_Mortem_Renowned_Explorers.php then totalbiscuit happened]]

** His coverage of the tactical card game ''VideoGame/Faeria'' in March 2017 led to an amusing incident where so many people credited him as their recruiter (an in-game feature that gives both the recruiter and recruitee a loot box) that it quite literally made the game unplayable for him, because he was getting so many rewards. The game developer actually had to rush a patch out ''just'' to fix this issue so TB could play.

* ApprovalOfGod: He's aware of the [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPze-Hckg3ayKQHZS706R0A Unnoficial TotalBiscuit Livestream VoD channel]], and he outright pointed to it when it comes to watching Stream [=VoD=]s.

* ApprovalOfGod: He's aware of the [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPze-Hckg3ayKQHZS706R0A Unnoficial TotalBiscuit Livestream VoD channel]], and he outright pointed to it when it comes to watching Stream VoDs.

** Ditto for his "WTF is..." on ''FrozenSynapse'', which received such a ColbertBump that the game servers couldn't take the amount of players they got.
** His review for ''{{Proun}}'' received such high traffic that the developer's site crashed from the volume of traffic. This was the only place where the game could be bought.

** His "WTF is..." on ''StellarImpact'' once again crashed the servers with the publicity his community brought. [[HilariousInHindsight Funny enough]], he had warned the indie developers that his community tended to crash websites before, and one of them said "[[TemptingFate Feel free to can crash my servers any time]]." [sic]

* WhyTheFandomCantHaveNiceThings: In 2016, TB retired from social media because he felt it was negatively impacting his health. His Twitter has since been taken over by a staffer.

* AuthorExistenceFailure: He isn't dead as of the time of writing, but has been diagnosed with inoperable cancer and it is sadly expected that he only has a couple of years to live.

* RoleEndingMisdemeanor: He publicly ended his association with the LetsPlay/{{Yogscast}}'s "Big Three" (LetsPlay/LewisBrindley, LetsPlay/SimonLane and an unspecified third member) after falling out over Yogdiscovery, Lewis falsely accusing TB of doing non-disclosed sponsored content and Simon calling him a "crying pissbabby" over a ''comic book'' of all things. He later clarified that he doesn't have a beef with everyone in the network, as shown by his interactions with LetsPlay/{{Strippin}} and LetsPlay/{{Sips}}, plus his picking LetsPlay/{{Sjin}} for the Polaris Civil War crossover.

* CowboyBebopAtHisComputer: During his VerySpecialEpisode [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uwAo8lcAC4 "Tragedy and Video Game Violence"]], which was about mass murders, the media and video games being used as a scapegoat, TB used a clip from ''Series/{{Newswipe}}'' that showed prior coverage of other shootings, and pointed out that the footage he'd opted to show had been purely from the BBC. This wasn't entirely correct; ''Newswipe'' was a BBC programme and the full segment does feature elements of BBC News, but from the footage he ''had'' used, the news reports were from ITV and Sky News, not the Beeb.