Web Video / Uniquenameosaurus

Only $2000 for porn of his avatar? He's practically giving it away!

"Now, if you're new to me you might be ready for me to say "yep, everything is subjective", because that's like the commonly accepted belief; but if you know me, you know I talk like I believe there is an objective good."

— Uniquenameosaurus, "What IS Good?"

Uniquenameosaurus is a Youtuber who primarily makes comedic anime analysis videos but occasionally covers other media or broader aspects of internet culture. His humor combines an extreme willingness to violate social taboos with a sweetness that his fans find endearing, and his work tends to be packed with meta-jokes and subversive moments. He also has a tendency to dismiss subjectivity which is atypical of Youtube's anime community.

Uniquenameosaurus made his first analytical video, "RWBY VS TOME", in August of 2013. He posted sporadically over the next three years, primarily doing comparisons of similar shows or ranking his favorite antagonists. In March of 2017, he returned from a hiatus and explained that he had stopped making videos in a (failed) attempt to treat severe joint pain, declaring that he was going to take control of his life and push forward despite his medical issues.

Despite starting a Patreon in July of 2017, Uniquenameosaurus struggled to earn money from his (increasingly popular) videos and suffered financially. In May 2018 he posted a video describing his money problems and announcing a new line of (NSFW) merchandise based on one of his most popular jokes. This caused a spike in donors which he responded to by assuring fans that the shirts were covering his expenses, so it seems that his near-term future is secure.

Tropes come pre-lubed!

• Adaptational Context Change: In his Game of Thrones rewrite, the infamous Mad Queen scene still happens, but rather than Daenerys being driven to insanity, it's her doing after realizing she never had a home to begin with.
• Armor-Piercing Question: In the Game of Thrones rewrite, Daenerys asks Jon Snow "What would you do if you didn't have a home?" This gives him pause since the solution is to make one and just realized that without the Night King, the land beyond the wall is free for the taking.
• Berserk Button:
  • Stealing from artists.
  • Deliberately attempting to stymy debate and discourse on a topic, see "The Reason You Suck" Speech below.
• Blatant Lies: Will sometimes put ridiculous falsehoods into his videos to mess with viewers. The truth rarely stays hidden for long.
• Book Dumb: Claims to have an IQ in the mid 80's and has joked about getting scolded when he was in school.
• Catchphrase: Not one of his own, but he will borrow "JUST WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK I AM!?" for the purpose of yelling at people.
• Character Development: Discussed, he argues that people underestimate the degree to which this can be fulfilled by physical transformations.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Idiosyncratic and prone to going on weird tangents.
• Determinator: Became this after returning from his health-related hiatus.
• Fanservice: Was originally fine with it, but noticing the dignity of shows like Hunter × Hunter has somewhat turned him against it.
• Foreshadowing:
  • Ominously zoomed in on Tsuyu in the video which preceded his merch announcement.
  • Implied that he was working on a Fairy Tail video over a year ago which has yet to surface.
• Hypocrite:
  • Zigagged during his "You SHOULD pirate anime" pair of videos. In the first, he makes a point of using legitimate streaming services to prevent accusations that his views on piracy are just an excuse to avoid paying for content. Comments in this video accused of hypocrisy anyway by saying he isn't practicing what he preaches. So in the second one, he says that he cancelled his subscriptions to legal streaming sites and donated the money that he would have spent on those subscriptions to the Animator Dormitory Project.
  • He also made a preemptive distinction when criticizing art thieves.
• I'm a Humanitarian: Kind of, he teased Asui Tsuyu fans by seasoning frog legs to sensual music.
• Kick the Dog: He took the infamous literal example from Elfen Lied and looped it over the music to Super Mario Bros.
• Kind Hearted Cat Lover: His cat makes occasional appearances.

• Laser-Guided Karma: A lot of these moments happened throughout the Game of Thrones rewrite, though the two major ones are Bronn being killed by Brienne after he tried to call her out on killing him dishonorably and Petyr being Devoured by the Horde that, as Varys points out, is now mostly comprised of corpses made by the war he caused, all as he is Out-Gambitted by Varys willing to sacrifice the entire kingdom just to ensure Littlefinger doesn't rule over it.
• Mood Whiplash: Will often put lighthearted quips, pitch black humor, and wistful sentimentality in the same video.
• Nice Guy: Strives to support struggling creators and very patient with his critics.
• Pun: "Canonballism", among others.
• Purposely Overpowered: Thinks this trope is underrated, as incredible strength lends itself to a likable character.
• Refuge in Audacity: There doesn't seem to be anything he won't laugh at. Reacting to Hisoka's apparent pedophilia as if it's an endearing quirk of his character.
• Rule 34: Invoked word-for-word in his Patreon's stretch goals. If someone pledges $2000, he will commission high-quality porn of his avatar.

• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Several, although the other party is generally unaware of it.
  • "Why you SHOULD Pirate Anime" is a huge one to the streaming industry and their defenders.
  • His criticism of how extreme the Sword Art Online hate has gotten.
  • Mocking the company which tried to have him advertise merch using stolen art.
  • Delivered an absolutely scathing one to Mother's Basement in his "You SHOULD Pirate Anime 2" video.
    "Now I don't blame you for missing this, as it's an obscure video with 200 views. In fact you couldn't have seen it because it came out after your video. Some might say that the actual issue is with the confidence that you just declare 'Oh it just turned out to be an attempt to improve encoding', as if there wasn't even the slightest chance in the world that this could be wrong, when in fact the thing you're assumably sourcing here (since you don't give one) is Crunchyroll's press release after the controversy. Real reliable, the word of the company in question! But you just claim it as fact when you should have said allegedly. The thing is though, you always fucking do this. You're always so sure of yourself about everything. Like, even I had my doubts about bringing up this video as evidence since it's so jargony and, hell, maybe I missed something between the lines - I know I'm not infalliable, I know I can be wrong. But you are so unbelievably arrogant that the thought that you could be wrong hasn't even crossed your mind. you're so happy to just assert that you're right and just dismiss anyone as a child or entitled or some other bullshit emotive argument that cannot be grounded. I'm sorry, I debated being civil like usual but I'm naturally reckless at heart so I'm going to cut loose for once. The thing is none of that truly bothers me, but that arrogance is what lead you to do the thing that genuinely pissed me off. I've seen loads of detractors of mine in the past year, none of them have bothered me - even when throwing out the nastiest insults - I don't care, I just zone out. It's doesn't hurt my argument. When Crunchyroll employee Miles posted [a tweet calling me the 'dumbest anime youtuber'] I thought it was funny. Literally the night of the piracy video I printed it out and stuck it next to my desk. People getting angry is, like, part of the process. I just want discourse and debate to continue. But you, you, before you posted this video admitted on Twitter that you wanted to make a response but didn't want to 'give it any exposure', and when you came to actually make the video you didn't tell anyone where you where getting the arguments from. And on Twitter, when someone asked you if you were responding to me, you just said 'Not giving direct promotion, but it does address the videos arguments'. Oh, oh but wait a second, oh I'm sorry, you did direct viewers to the original argument. In the fucking tags! But that's not the point. Look, look, you are not infalliable. I don't care how bad you think someone's idea is, there is always the chance you could be strawmanning or wrong or any number of other things. And to intentionally minimize how much of your audience gets to see - and let me put emphasis on this - both sides of the argument is downright disgusting. And I don't need you for views, I already gained a great understanding of the [Youtube algorithms] by the time I made that video. I already knew that eventually it would get a lot, and I knew yours would fail to get anywhere close because the majority of people who watched your video probably saw mine at some stage. So I don't think there was much harm done. But if 'You Should Pirate Anime' wasn't as successful as it was, people would - by your intention - be experiencing my argument from you alone, with none of the evidence and none of the logic. It was the principle that mattered. If I was anyone else, a video with a 98% approval rating well above my peers, that clearly brought something new and interesting and convincing to the table would have died without anyone seeing it and you would've gladly sat there and let it happen. No, no, you would've celebrated it. You're poison to the open market place of ideas."
• Took a Level in Badass: Made a decision to pursue his dreams and start taking risks when he came back from hiatus. So far it's paid off.
• Wham Line: Almost all of his rewrites has a single line that the rewrite is based around.
  • The one spell that Voldemort uses that solidifies him as a worse evil than Umbridge? "Obliviate.", on Hermoine.
  • Rey's origin in the rewrite of The Last Jedi is summed up neatly by Kylo: "Do you want to know what I saw in you the night we dueled? I didn't see nobody. I saw something worse than that: an anomaly. An anomaly so latently powerful in the Force, I felt you trying to influence my mind, even if you weren't consciously trying to."
  • Amber's reason for leaving Mark in his rewrite of Invincible (2021)? Because her father was killed. When Mark inquires what she means, she reveals that "Darkwing was my dad."
  • Thanos has a completely reworked story for the rewrite of Avengers: Endgame, though the major shift is his new motivation is what he says once he finds out about the multiverse. "The work wasn't done."
  • Three of them come up in the Game of Thrones rewrite. The first comes in how The Reveal of Jon Snow's true origins is redone (although there isn't an actual line that's said, the context is that Jon announces he's really Aegon Targaryen to his Northmen as per his gambit to bait out Dany. The second comes when Sansa notices the raven she got from the Night's Watch looks oddly familiar, to which someone says "Night's Watch? But that Raven came from the south." The third and final line comes from when Bran, backed into a corner, uses the Weirwood tree to go back into the past and wargs into Aerys II to which he gives him the following instructions: "The dead are coming! He's building an army! You have to... burn them all..."