Creator Backlash: Antoine has grown much more critical towards the show, where he feels he was too mean and borderline bullying towards people in the reviewed videos.
Creator Breakdown: Now much more interested by making comedic movies than What The Cut, he's yet well aware he cannot stop working on his money maker in order to focus on his passion. He admitted he went back and forth with that idea for two whole years until he couldn't bear it anymore and confessed his breakdown on Youtube, being utterly dissatisfied with what little content he managed to produce. At this point, he simply cannot work on this show anymore and moved on to other projects.
Old Shame: Antoine isn't fond of the Caustic Critic tone of the show and progressively grew more and more unconfortable with the concept of bashing other people's works (summarized in a July 2021 interview: "Who am I, to say what is good or not?"), feeling like he was a bully in those older videos. All of this contributed to his decision to stop the show.
Schedule Slip: Each episode got progressively longer to release thanks to Antoine's perfectionism. Episodes 35 onwards took especially long, to the point that several fans feared the series would come to an abrupt stop. Shortly after episodes 35 and 36 were released, Antoine released other videos, where he explained why these episodes took so much longer to finish, and apologized for not giving fans any kind of news (Though he did admit that an upside to not giving news is that it prevented the episode from suffering from Hype Backlash). His schedule slip has become infamous in the latter years and went under Memetic Mutation.
Screwed by the Lawyers: His Indian video episode was flagged and he had to reupload it with some clips removed, which makes the timing/editing less smooth and a bit more awkward.
Trolling Creator: From time to time, in "Le 29 avec Antoine Daniel".
In #3:
Question: If your Youtube career ended, what would you do to earn money?
Antoine Daniel: Prostitution is obviously what I would do. [He then seriously answers]
Question: Why did you choose Richard the Dog in your videos?
Antoine Daniel: I didn’t, he forced himself in my videos, that son of a b-
Question: Do your relatives know you make videos?
Antoine Daniel: No, they don’t, I do this in secret, I'm ashamed of those videos, they are crap, I think that if they learned the existence of this Youtube channel, they’ll reject me and I’ll end under a bridge with nothing left… Of course, my family knows my videos, my parents love them, my grandparents know I do it but don’t really understand because it isn’t their generation, but there’s also my cousins, everyone in my family knows What The Cut, and I think that everyone likes it.
Question: Is Benjamin Daniel, aka Benzaie, your brother?
Antoine Daniel: No, we’re husband and wife!
In #4, one of the questions asked him if he has a girlfriend and to show a photograph. He answered by showing the photograph of a goat. Also in #4:
Question: What is the most What the fuck thing you lived/saw IRL?
Antoine Daniel: When I put a bomb in a kindergarten, then when it exploded I said: "Wow, what the fuck!"
In #6, he explains with a falsely serious tone that being photographed with himself during a upcoming French convention cost 500 euros.
In #7:
Question: If you could have only one job during your whole life, what would you do?
Antoine Daniel: Dwarf tosser. It’s a long time since I want to do it.
Question: How can I call my female kitten?
Antoine Daniel: Jean-Pierrenote This is a purely masculine name in French.
What Could Have Been: Antoine has said that he'd do a 38th episode of What The Cut as a Series Finale and even joked by "promising" he'd keep his word if France won the Soccer World Cup in 2018 (in reality, he intended to make the episode anyway by that time). However, he couldn't find a satisfactory script that would reach his standards and the pressure was too much for him, so he decided to cancel the project entirely when he realised that he simply didn't want to do it anymore.
Misc. trivias:
The banner for the secondary channel "La Mezzanine" as well as the Freeze-Frame Bonus-ridden map from episode 37 were drawn by Nadine Saint-Pol; aka Nadou, one of the artists behind the comic Les Légendaires.
