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Authors

• Richard Brittain: A one-time Countdown champion and author of The World Rose, now mostly well-known for stalking an university student and physically assaulting a negative reviewer of The World Rose.
• David Gonterman: One of the earliest known "lolcows" on the internet, Gonterman is known for his poor-quality fanfics and comics. The most notorious of his works happens to be Sailor Moon: American Kitsune, which infamously features an Author Tract which, even by the standards of the mid-to-late 1990s, was considered homophobic and hateful. He's since fallen out of the public eye, but is still active on the internet, creating Dungeons & Dragons-related content while eschewing mainstream forms of social media (Twitter, Facebook, etc.) in favor of using sites and apps utilized by the alt-right userbase (Gab, Dissenter, Parler, etc.).
• Gloria Tesch / Maradonia Saga: Gloria wrote the Maradonia Saga at a young age. Her family Vanity Published it, used lots of Sock Puppets to promote the books, and silenced criticism. They even made a Film of the Book despite the lack of a genuine fanbase. After the film unsurprisingly flopped (which appears to have bankrupted Gloria's now-deceased father), she gave up on the series and released an unrelated book under a new name/pseudonym.
  • Unlikely since he's watched the movie and talked about it on Jabroni Mike's channel.
• Nancy Stouffer / The Legend of Rah and the Muggles: An American author who lost an infamous Frivolous Lawsuit against J. K. Rowling over the latter's use of the term "muggle" in the Harry Potter series. Stouffer's book is itself considered by the few who have read it to be one of the worst stories ever published.
• Nicolas Sequeira: A cartoonist who since late 2018 has posted one ad per day to Reddit, shares his address publicly, and makes bizarre videos to promote his "comics".
• Robert Stanek: An author who's infamous in certain circles for his questionable promotional tactics and poor reactions to criticism.
• Tara Gilesbie and My Immortal: One of the most well-known fanfics ever due to being fascinatingly bad, the story also has a complex metanarrative, with many conflicting claims of people either being or knowing Tara, such as the "Under the Same Stars" scandal, as well as the debate as to whether or not the story was a serious attempt at writing or the work of a troll.

Filmmakers

• Derek Savage: A creator who came to the Internet's attention after the discovery of an anti-bullying movie he made called Cool Cat Saves the Kids. While his movie and the man himself initially garnered a semi-ironic fandom, Savage's crusade against people who panned or mocked it turned public opinion against him and his work, especially after further antics of his, unsavory facts about his past coming to light, and allegations of extremely petty, creepy and even outright criminal behavior on his part.
• Richard Dutcher: Often regarded as the "father of Mormon Cinema", he caused quite a stir within the community when he left the LDS Church in 2007 though his films would later receive a Popularity Polynomial. Still, Dutcher has quite a bit of baggage on his back due to his non-LDS ventures not panning out well (if they even did), a Frivolous Lawsuit over the makers of Nightcrawler for alleged plagiarism of his film Falling, getting a restraining order from a past girlfriend, and not delivering on two Kickstarter campaigns.

Video Games — Players (not streamers, Let's Players, etc.)

• Billy Mitchell: A gamer who has appeared in The King of Kong and is notorious for his alleged cheating and willingness to sue his critics. He was caught up in the cheating scandal when someone discovered evidence that his Donkey Kong records were set on an emulator and not actual hardware. His scores were thrown out of Twin Galaxies, Guinness World Records got rid of them as well, and the affair was discussed by YouTuber Apollo Legend. Then he decided to sue them. Guinness eventually decided to reinstate Mitchell's scores, which led to YouTuber Karl Jobst criticizing them for it... and also getting sued by Mitchell. Later, Apollo Legend made a deal with Mitchell, which included taking down all of his videos about Mitchell. As of October 2020, Karl Jobst and Twin Galaxies have not backed down, so Fred would probably wait and see what happens with the lawsuit(s) before making a video on Mitchell.
• Todd Rogers: He was the first professional gamer. Unfortunately, it was later revealed that several of his "scores" were literally impossible to achieve in normal play, and others lacked proof. As a result, he was stripped of all his records.

Video Games — Games, Creators and Others

• Demonophobia and 237: An infamous ero-guro game originating from a Japanese file-sharing site filled with literal Gorn, created by an anonymous developer who abruptly vanished shortly after releasing it and was subsequently rumored to have died in the 2011 Tohoku earthquakes.
• The Fazbear Fanverse Initiative: A 2020 project kickstarted by Five Nights at Freddy's creator Scott Cawthon to provide support to Fan Games, only for a sizable majority of the games to collapse in the wake of development struggles and/or career-ending scandals.
• Friday Night Funkin' and The Funkin' Crew Inc: A widely popular Newgrounds Rhythm Game that has become well known for its massive modding scene — and the numerous controversies surrounding both popular mod creators and official developers The Funkin' Crew Inc, particularly ninjamuffin99.
• Hareraiser and Dugald Thompson: Having exploited connections to cheat his way into "solving" the puzzle of Masquerade, Dugald Thompson used the publicity to found a company called "Haresoft" and release Hareraiser, allegedly promising £30,000 to whoever managed to solve its puzzle, but widely believed to have been a scam.
• Indie Game Battle and Felix Kjolner: The game started off with the high ambition of becoming the indie scene's equivalent of Super Smash Bros., only for it to crash and burn due to the lead developer's hubris and inability to take criticism.
• Jack Thompson: A Florida attorney who became infamous in the 2000's for his Frivolous Lawsuits to many game creators over his beliefs that video games were Murder Simulators, leading to his lawyer license being revoked in the 2010's after he thought it would be a good idea to try and use gay pornography as evidence.
• Sad Satan and Obscure Horror Corner: A controversial video game infamous for containing disturbing imagery and pictures of celebrities who have become disgraced due to being exposed as sex offenders (and the proclaimed "real" version of the game containing malware, images of a violent nature and child pornography). Obscure Horror Corner, the person who made the game public knowledge, has notoriously been believed to have created the game himself, to the extent that he eventually abandoned his YouTube channel to avoid addressing the rumors.
• Yandere Simulator and YandereDev / Alex Mahan: The game was already controversial for its content, and has since become notorious for its constant delays and the controversies surrounding the developer.
  • Yandere Simulator clones: With the Yandere Simulator development taking years, several people have tried to make their own yandere games. None have succeeded, with two of the most notable failures being Watashi no Mono and Love Letter: My True Feelings.

Web Video

• Alinity: This Twitch streamer is infamous for abusing her cat, to the point where she came under investigation by the Saskatoon Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. This had a knock-on effect of souring peoples' perceptions of Twitch itself, who have remained silent about the situation to this day.
• Apollo Legend: He was once popular in the speedrunning community, but the RWhiteGoose controversy had soured his reputation. He was eventually Driven to Suicide, calling out several users he blamed for it shortly before doing so.
• boogie2988: While he was once well-regarded, he has lost many subscribers as a result of various controversies. Boogie has even said he could become the next DarksydePhil or WingsOfRedemption (both of whom have been covered on the show) while talking about the hate he gets.
• Channel Awesome: Fred has already covered former CA member Spoony. We also know that he has read the "Not So Awesome" document and Channel Awesome's response to said document.
• Game Dude / Alexander Badr: A Caustic Critic show that has been overshadowed by Badr's habit of making response videos to any video that criticizes him, tendency to post spam advertising his webshow in the comments sections of other videos, the time he didn't deliver a DVD of his show to a man who paid for it because the sales had stopped and still refused to return the money, and the case in which he stalked his ex-girlfriend.
• The Irate Gamer / Chris Bores: The most famous of the Caustic Critic shows that popped up after The Angry Video Game Nerd became highly popular. There was a notorious Fandom Rivalry between the two shows. The Irate Gamer was polarizing due to accusations of plagiarism, Manipulative Editing and poor research (and quite a few people were simply unimpressed by his comedy and critiques). Its creator Chris Bores also tried various other projects (including a Licensed Game and a ghost hunting book), most of which were unsuccessful. As of 2020, he has fallen into obscurity.
• Lily Orchard (also known as Lily Peet): She's so controversial online that it's impossible to even mention her name without bringing up her radical political views and arrogant behavior. The most noteworthy incidents involving her include her mangled relationship with former friend Josh Scorcher, her virulent anti-conservative political beliefs, and expressing support for a friend of hers who was discovered to have possessed child pornography. There are also her pretty harsh reactions to critiques of her and her work, including the fanfic Stockholm and her entire "(Show X) is Garbage and Here's Why" video series — especially her Steven Universe video where she implies Jewish creator Rebecca Sugar is a Nazi sympathizer.
• LowTierGod: Like DarksydePhil, who has already been covered, he's a highly controversial content creator who focuses on video games.
• Momokun/Mariah Mallad: Often compared to LTG, DSP, and Wings, she is a well known and polarizing cosplayer who has been known to lie to her fanbase often. She attempts to appeal to the "thicc" trend, but ended up gaining more weight and claiming she was losing the weight naturally through dieting, only to reveal later she had simply gotten surgery. Like the other three mentioned, she has a lengthy history of scamming fans, especially on Patreon requests and lets her ego get the better of her.
• The Mysterious Mr. Enter: While he has been a controversial figure in the YouTube animation fan community for quite some time now due to how his past videos were overly serious about cartoons he disliked to the point of exaggeration; he reached new levels of controversy in the later 2010s and 2020 when he began to share more controversial political opinions in his videos, especially in the wake of the coronavirus, when, due to his staunch borderline-radical centrist libertarian beliefs, he openly criticized many of the social distancing and public safety protocols put in place around the world, and attempted to disprove their effectiveness at stopping the spread of the coronavirus using highly questionable analysis of the situations at hand.
  • Alternately his Growing Around and it's entire history could easily be it's own video. Various things mentioned in the theoretical video would include the Party Panic book and it's negative reception from fan and detractor alike, the failed IndieGogo and the resulting fallout leading up to the Talking About My Online Harrasment video, the behind the scenes with the Growing Around crew and the Development Hell the project itself has been stuck in.
  • Another potential video would about his reputation and how his hatedom would often blow things out of proportion and prove themselves to be hypocrites who were little better than Mr Enter at his worst. While Mr Enter himself has his share of controversies and questionable decisions, his hatedom would be an example of how a small run of the mill cartoon reviewer manages to garner such a bad reputation for things that other cartoon reviewers would be left off the hook for.
• Nikocado Avocado/Nicholas Perry: A former vegan and violinist, his eating disorder had put him on a path of self-destruction, as commenters and other YouTubers alike started begging for him to stop his mukbang career. There's also accusations from fellow mukbanger Stephanie Soo on him harassing her via text messages and taking photos from inside of her house.
• Onision: He is Overshadowed by Controversy due to his views on topics such as vegetarianism and feminism, and especially allegations that he's abused and groomed young girls. This also extends to his husband, who started a relationship with Onision while underage and also is accused of sexual behavior towards young girls.
• Shoenice: A YouTuber who was very popular in the early days of YouTube due to his strange eating challenges. However, his reputation and viewership have plummeted as a result of multiple scandals, as well as his inability to adapt to current YouTube climates. Specific incidents include leaving his wife and son to pursue a YouTube career, begging for money to keep the channel afloat, scamming editors, the attempt to start a beef with H3H3, and accusations of grooming.
• Byron Beaubien/SuperPsyguy/BitPolar: The creator and owner of the once popular, but now defunct webcomic hub Fireball 20XL, who had been accused of sexually grooming many females, including minors. These accusations would wind up forcing him to shut down the Fireball20XL website and delete many, if not all, of his social media profiles. He has since resurfaced as BitPolar, having switched to Let's Plays instead, but his low viewer count as such is a testament to how he'll never live down the controversies surrounding him.
• Verbalase: The creator of Cartoon Beatbox Battles, infamous for going bankrupt after blowing $50,000 dollars on a video where he gets seduced by Charlie Morningstar.

Other

• Steven Universe: A show that was very well respected until Season 4. Its finale is very much known for it's polarizing reception and the sheer amount of Common Knowledge it spawned, in addition to the behind the scenes troubles that caused fans to be robbed of a proper conclusion and the negative effective it's had on internet discourse and outside perception of the show. In addition, due to the finale's negative reception and detractors doing everything in their power to slander the entire show for "fascist apologia", it ended up causing several negative effects such as rival fandoms picking on the show to feel better about Cartoon Network treating their favourite shows poorly, Steven being flanderized to high hell and back through unfunny memes and detractors trying and failing to ruin the reputation of Steven Universe: Future and having to go back and start more discourse about the original show's finale.
• Action Park: An amusement park infamous for its lax approach to safety.
• Andrew Dobson: After a decade and a half of diminishing skill and unpopular opinions, Dobson finally quit the internet for good in 2020. With his worst moments archived and most of his more infamous comics still online somewhere, now is the perfect time for Fred to do a breakdown on him.
• Atlanta Nights: After PublishAmerica, a self-proclaimed "traditionalist publisher" that accepts only the highest quality manuscripts for publication, blatantly dismissed the science-fiction and fantasy genres as not real literature, James D. Mcdonald compiled a group of sci-fi and fantasy authors to retaliate against the publishing company by writing the most unreadable, incomprehensible trainwreck of a book they could conceive under the collective name of "Travis Tea". Not only did PublishAmerica take the bait but it had proved to be a Vanity Publishing it was accused of by many but had vociferously denied. The company withdrew the manuscript when the hoax was exposed and Atlanta Nights was self-published and can be found online.
  • The inspiration behind the book was another similar collaborative hoax novel in the 60s titled Naked Came the Stranger which was published to test the theory of whether Sex Sells no matter the dubious quality of the book itself and sure enough, it sold twenty-thousand copies before the authors went public.
• Francis E. Dec: A lawyer who went crazy after being disbarred in the 1960s, and spent the rest of his life typing up insane rants about an evil supercomputer that sought to control the universe, then mailing copies to random addresses.
• John Todd: A Conspiracy Theorist who alleged to be an occultist who was born into a 'witchcraft family' before converting to Christianity, far more infamous for his conviction for sexual misconduct and his resulting Sanity Slippage.
• Juicero: A high-profile startup failure. It raised $120 million from investors and was priced at $400 per juicer but once the machine was revealed to be a glorified and literal juice presser as in it squeezes a pre-sold, pricey fruit/vegetable juice packet at a given time, the public widely mocked Juicero to be the equivalent of two hands squeezing a juice box and even doing so at a laughably slower rate than just by hand.
• MoviePass: A company that once offered a highly attractive service, but went under due to its dubious business model and increasingly poor service in its last months.
• Quibi: A video streaming service launched in 2020 that attempted to compete with the likes of Netflix with short-form content intended to be consumed on phones and tablets. Despite receiving almost $2 billion in investor backing, and having deals with multiple well-known actors, the service died in less than a year thanks to poor marketing, mismanagement, most of the shows being okay at best, attacks on critics, and the COVID-19 pandemic shutting down the world weeks before the launch, meaning that nobody would be watching the shows on the go.
• Rebecca Spark: An Internet user who was prominent on FANDOM and DeviantART and notorious for deluding herself into believing in non-existent television shows and lashing out on everyone who dared to point out that her fictional television shows were never real, the most noteworthy of the non-existent shows being a 1980's precursor to Nature Cat titled Fred and the Nature Gang, which somehow got a page on the Internet Movie Database that is presently still up.
• Howard Rushmore: A news columnist infamous for a laundry list of controversies, such as his eager promotion of the Red Scare, his often acrimonious departures from his jobs to the extent that the New York Daily News noted that he "didn't merely burn bridges when he left a job. He blew them up.", and especially his Murder-Suicide of his second wife Frances in 1958.
• Spencer Collins: An infamous FANDOM and TV Tropes user who treats his fanon Bob the Builder ideas as real shows, insisting they will get made. He also creates hundreds of sockpuppets to evade IP bans, and to harass, spam messages, and stalk users, including minors, with no intention of stopping anytime soon.
• The Tramp Stamps: An "alternate punk"-pop band trio who had initially gained popularity on TikTok in 2020 but soon were heavily subjected to backlash from all sides for controversial lyrical content, usage of punk culture and queer aesthetics without understanding their meanings and their alleged ties to the commercial music industry. This led to accusations of being "Industry Plants" or at the very least pandering to a non-existent base which is reflected in their music sounding nothing like punk and more of excessive autotune, uninspiring and downright offensive. There's also the way how they handle such criticism, either ignoring the main issue to focus on unrelated topics and/or giving out backhanded, hypocritical apologies which only added fuel to the fire. The Tramp Stamps released their last music at Christmas of 2021 and broke up the following year.
• Chef Pii: A TikTok user and chef who became famous, or rather infamous, in 2022 for her self-marketed product Pink Sauce, which she was making and selling out of her own home. Multiple controversies arose quickly, concerning the poor packaging of the delivered bottles, the dubious edibility of the sauce in question (with the color varying between batches and the sauce containing milk, which could therefore give people botulism as a result of the poor packaging, with more than a few consumers being hospitalized), false information being put on the labels, Chef Pii's poor reaction to the above controversies and then requesting a large amount of money on GoFundMe after claiming that Dave's Gourmet (who she had made a deal with to sell Pink Sauce) had not paid her royalties, a claim Dave's Gourmet strongly disputed to the point that they threatened a defamation lawsuit.
• Murrlogic 1: An anonymous user most active on Deviantart and Twitter/X who quickly became infamous for commissioning a large amount of art from a variety of artists involving his rather bizarre and rather unique fetish. The fetish in question rarely involved anything actually sexual, but often involved women (usually white, blonde, and wealthy) buying large amounts of wonder bread, eating fatty foods such as wonder bread, mayo, bacon, and wonder bread, mayo, and bacon sandwiches, filling their hummers with gasoline, and destroying forests. The man himself, from what little we known of him, mainly from a Tumblr user who claimed to be a former co-worker, is about as weird as you can expect, with a strong obsession and equally positive opinions with and on capitalism, slavery, consumerism, and environmental destruction. The user also claimed that he was possibly disowned by his own family for the above, and was apparently fired from his job for liking to talk about insulting and assaulting, sexually and otherwise, his co-workers based of of their ethnicity and sexualities.

Fredrik will remake some of his early videos

• He's said he's not entirely satisfied with how a few of them came out.
• The early videos are products of their time, and as a result haven't covered later events of their subjects, such as the post-2016 events in the life of Sonichu's creator Chris Chandler, and Star Citizen falling deeper into Development Hell, with many giving up hope on the game seeing a final release.

Fredrik will make a second video about Chris Chandler

• There's quite a bit that's happened in her life since Fredrik made his first video. Much of it horrifying.

Fredrik will become a VTuber

• Confirmed. He used a VTuber avatar in a stream with Jabroni Mike.
  • In 2023 he joined Merryweatherey's VTuber studio "Astraline".

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