YMMV / BETADCIU

• Awesome Moments:
  • The "Nerves" BETADCIU is currently the record holder for most views on YouTube for anything related to Friday Night Funkin', period.
  • Blantad sending everyone into space during the "Hands" BETADCIU using his powers. Hits harder with the theory that it represents Blantados conquering his real-life art block and burnout, and ripping it all to shreds to put out the very BETADCIU this happens in despite those challenges.
  • The first hidden "Deathmatch" cover ditches the home mod's Adaptational Sympathy in favor of letting Daddy Dearest's Karma Houdini Warranty run out, with Senpai escaping Hating Simulator with Tankman and immediately flipping the script, sealing Daddy Dearest inside the game while the two run free in the real world.
• Awesome Music: "Kawaru" is an original Majin Sonic song made to test a new chromatic for Aloe^note The original is taken from her speaking voice, while this one uses her actual singing voice.. For an experimental piece, it nonetheless excels at capturing the feel of the Genesis-era Sonic OST while blending in the new tuning of Aloe's voice.
• Best Level Ever: The "Hands" BETADCIU, with its modified chart and visuals and use of modded characters from all ranges of popularity, elevates the song from merely being emotionally charged in the context of hololive to an astonishingly heartfelt love letter to the entire modding community.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Mano Aloe is the one character (besides Blantad) most commonly associated with Blantados's unique assets created for his videos, even rocketing to prominence in certain parts of the fandom without properly overlapping with (what was supposed to be) her work of origin.
• Fridge Brilliance: The "Context" cover with Sky and Aloe becomes a lot more fitting when you realize both of the characters' original online presences were deleted because of scandals involving, in Broad Strokes, rabid internet users.
• Fridge Sadness: The end of "SpookEDD" shows Skid and Pump either knocked out or dead from a missle by Tord. One can only wonder how their families would react to this...
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • "Synthesize" becomes a little bitter with the release of The Dragon's Pizzeria for the canon HoloFunk story, revealing that Kenji/Boyfriend is Aloe's coworker and a Devil's Friend himself but will likely never be able to sing with her before the two go on their respective journeys because of her fake identity creating palpable levels of Dramatic Irony between the two. Thankfully, the deprecation of the mod's lore after the release of both removes that burden.
  • Similarly, the "Lore" BETADCIU features Aloe, Coco, and Bandu together, a fitting pair given all three belong to mods with unusually deep stories, not to mention the mod's version of Aloe has several story details that play off Bandu's own. This would be rendered moot in a rather bitter fashion when the lore of the former mod was axed citing massive production troubles caused by it and its writer.
• Heartwarming in Hindsight:
  • It took five months, but the Character Development between Pico & Botan really does prove "Love Conquers All" is more than just a silly April Fools' Day gag to some.
  • With HoloFunk proper revealing that Botan used to be Pico's babysitter and teacher (albeit only for shits and giggles in the case of the latter), their interactions in BETADCIU are easily reframed in retrospect as a sudden reunion and finding that old habits die hard.
• Heartwarming Moments: The Pico & Guns arc gives Pico, a very troubled person shell-shocked by a school shooting, something that's clearly been missing from his life for over 20 years: a normal friend who genuinely cares about him while still sharing his interests and isn't completely neurotic unlike Darnell and (his) Nene. And to top it all off, said friend is a Badass Adorable lioness girl, and she is getting through to him. Whether you believe it's a true ship or not, it's a very sweet moment in the craziness that is the modded universe.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • The Bob Mixup makes the Bob from Vs Bob And Bosip switch places with the Bob from literally every fnf mod ever, so human Bob sings "Sunshine" with Bosip while the Eldritch Abomination Bob sings "Jump In" with Opheebop. About a week later, Bob and Bosip updated to include a week with the exact same premise of human Bob being replaced by the other Bob, right down to including a modified version of "Jump In."
  • An old communication channel for HoloFunk once simply replied "no" to a question asking if it would cross over with Friday Night Funkin': Corruption. No points for guessing what the final secret of BETADCIU Update 8 involves.
  • Related to the above, part of the reason both of HoloFunk's owners throughout the mod's history have always given crossover content with Corruption the cold shoulder is because it simply just doesn't hold water in a World of Badass. Pico's second week in the original mod, however, reveals the existence of the Nexus forms, created when the Corruption changes priorities and fights to kill instead of spreading its influence. While the Hololive girls would be excellent at stopping its spread, nothing in both canon and HoloFunk indicates they're immune. With this in mind, they are bar none the perfect candidates to benefit from a Nexus form in a world where the Corruption would need it the most, making "Deathmatch-Holo" retroactively an unlikely fit for a Weird Crossover.
  • On another related note, the lore for Holostars' English branch, TEMPUS, mentions an antagonistic force called the Records Corruption the guild has to fight. Banzoin Hakka's character design reveals that this corruption is also black and purple. So even if the Nexus forms weren't a thing, "Deathmatch-Holo" could still be taken as something else more lore-friendly.
  • Blantad has a "Dark" form in which he goes black with a blue outline, along with glowing blue eyes and flaming hands. The form doesn't look to far off from the "Nightmare" forms of Cuphead, Sans and Ink Bendy from Indie Cross.
  • Additionally, the "Lore D-Side" BETADCIU's YouTube thumbnail shows Blantados's adoration of Aloe has now transferred into Blantad the character, as he now has a plush of her on his shoulder. A blue-haired Manotomo with inhuman abilities... seems like Kenji lives on, somehow.
• It Was His Sled: There's a "Deathmatch" cover (later a "Deathmatch Project" cover) hidden in the playable version, and it's a crossover with HoloFunk.
• No Yay: Though this hasn't deterred Blantados from continuing to put in Ship Tease moments, viewing Pico and Botan's friendship as something romantic consistently raises eyebrows from a portion of viewers. While this isn't the fault of their lore or dynamic, there are still several extenuating circumstances that render it questionable in spite of their compatibilities to the point where the HoloFunk developer team has publicly condemned the ship.^why? 1) Botan is already "taken" in hololive proper with Yukihana Lamy, and this seemingly extends to the mod's lore as Lamy is present in Week 4's background. 2) Botan is a Virtual YouTuber, meaning that technically a real person is being paired to a fictional character. 3) Despite everything, the ship was started as an intentionally awful joke that was never meant to be serious. While a counterargument existed which said that the mod's version of Botan is sufficiently disconnected from the real deal to do whatever, the developers have repeatedly put their foot down regardless due to the risk of Pop-Cultural Osmosis muddying the divide regardless. Blantados has since confirmed that he stopped making use of the ship after being asked to stop doing so.
• Periphery Demographic: The "Context" cover has an unusually high level of traction in the Gacha Life community, with no overlap with hololive fans whatsoever. Notably, HoloFunk's ex-lead was less-than-thrilled to learn of this, given the game's reputation.
• Platonic Writing, Romantic Reading: Pico and Botan's relationship was intended to be strictly platonic as evidenced by a Couch Gag, but the "Hands" BETADCIU and the "Shinkyoku" BETADCIU have moments that end up elevating the subtext between them into Ship Tease moments. As mentioned in No Yay above, despite there being no issues with their compatibility or dynamic otherwise, this has become deeply uncomfortable for those familiar with hololive due to various out-of-universe moral objections (and one more later introduced in-universe.)
• Player Punch: As a reward for completing Update 8's secrets, the game gives you "Deathmatch-Holo," which puts the HoloFunk cast into the same roles that the vanilla cast has in Corruption... right down to the graduated Coco returning to push Calli over the Despair Event Horizon in the place of the Dearests. While the cover itself is a solid take on the Corruption soundtrack, hololive fans will be unlikely to find playing it a particularly pleasant experience, given the blending of both the original scene's emotional weight and that of events in hololive.
• Shocking Moments: Tord successfully manages to hurt Skid and Pump, the two children with immensely thick Plot Armor in their home series, in the climax of "SpookEDD". Even Edd and Matt are completely taken aback by this, with Matt yelling at Edd to help them once Tord is dealt with.
• Tear Jerker: The revised "Fading" cover, where Tankman discovers his new best friend Senpai has been living on borrowed time since escaping into the real world, borrowed time that has finally ran out. The latter's request for The Last Dance finally breaks the ever-laid-back captain, who now looks like he's about to burst into tears throughout the whole ordeal. Finally, Aloe and Nenechi, who themselves have been put through the wringer by the Dearests as well, are watching the whole thing with mournful expressions, Senpai wishing he could've gotten to spend more time with them. Once more, even if only for a moment, the Dearests get the last laugh in prying an innocent soul away from their closest friends.
• Unexpected Character: Being a joke character that exists only as a minor gag in "Little Man" from Bob's Onslaught and that Blantados had never used before, CalebCity/"Ayo the pizza here" appearing in the "Killer Scream" BETADCIU was an unexpected move. What was even less expected was his own equivalent to appear at the same point, specifically a clip of Woody laughing, complete with screaming sprites.
• Visual Effects of Awesome: The halfway point in the "Hands" BETADCIU, where Blantad hoists everyone into the sky and holds them there, owing to the suddenness of it and the attention to detail in the background (Nene and Kanata get shocked looks, Polka droops because of the sudden lift and drop in lateral speed, and everything has a blue shimmer because they're still being held in place by telekinesis that deliberately evokes the visuals of Silver's own powers.)

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