YMMV / Every Frame a Pause

• Archive Panic: There are multiple days, if not weeks, worth of episodes by this point. And even individual episodes can be multiple hours long. Good luck getting through it all.
• Common Knowledge: The podcast is best known among detractors for its twelve-hour long video critiquing Jenny Nicholson. This is in spite of the fact that the members of EFAP only spent roughly four hours of their video doing just that, with the rest of the video spent on covering other topics and creators. The obvious problem being that most people aren't going to start watching a video longer than the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy to be able to find that out.
• Crosses the Line Twice: In EFAP #36, the interpretations of The Don as a nicer guy than made out to be in the film quickly turn for the dark as a man whose bike was the only memory of his dead wife and gets worse from there.
• Discredited Meme: After helping him gain popularity, the EFAP crew asked people to stop using Jared Genesis in memes and that they would stop referencing him after they learned that Jared had threatened his father during a livestream, alongside threatening to hunt down and kill a chat member who was trolling. Not wanting to egg on bad behavior, they cut any ties to him and since Jared is no longer referenced in memes.
• Fandom Rivalry:
  • This occurs with nearly every content creator they cover on the show but some of the more prevalent ones include Cinema Wins, The Cosmonaut Variety Hour, and Quinton Reviews due to their frequency of coverage on EFAP and/or how popular those individual creators are. Fans of these creators are naturally upset, finding EFAP's methods to be poor conduct, while fans of EFAP accuse these creators and their fans of being unable to take criticism.
  • In terms of the works themselves the groups criticize the fans that have taken the most ire are fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe since Phase 4, and Disney's handling of the Star Wars series. Fans of these series find that EFAP is criticizing these works too much for what they aren't, rather than what they are and that the group is biased against the franchises' current direction, as they go into many works expecting them to suck. Fans of EFAP, in turn, argue that fans of these franchises are putting up with lower-quality writing for the sake of nostalgia and are unwilling to look at shows and movies being put out by Disney with a critical lense.
• Fountain of Memes: Downward Thrust; his demeanor combined with his takes on media led to many quotes referenced on the EFAP podcast, such as "Tonald" (along with all it's variations), "Little Clown Boy", and "Intellectual Gaming community", to name some examples.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • It can be really hard to go back and watch pervious EFAP's where everyone is laughing and having a good time if it involves someone the crew is no longer friends with.
    • The coverage Jared Genesis and his subsequent appearance on #24 quickly became hard to watch after his bad behavior came to light (see Discredited Meme for details).
    • Anomaly Inc's appearances on #84 and #88 aren't fondly remembered after he infamously told Wolf to kill himself.
    • Smudboy's contributions to the show tend to be ignored after his falling out with MauLer.
    • Southpaw is a real sore spot for the EFAP community after a very messy a falling out between him and MauLer, Wolf, and Fringy. This extend to S.K., Evan Monroe, and Madvocate who sided with Southpaw and publicly ended their friendships with the EFAP crew and disowned any connection to them... until S.K. had a falling out with Southpaw, disowned the video he made supporting him, and stated that he now believes that Southpaw wasn't being honest, even going so far as to patch things up with Meme Repository.
    • It will probably be awkward for fans going back to any EFAP involving Chaseface considering the bridges between the EFAP crew and him have been thoroughly burnt.
    • Fans of EFAP don't think highly of Doomermedia's time on the show after his infamous rant about stories in video games in EFAP 220 and subsequent ending of his friendships with everyone on EFAP and leaving the internet.
  • Some early EFAP content is difficult to watch after Wolf left the show. In particular, Rags drunkenly mocking Wolf by saying that he should die alone and sad in the third episode of EFAP Gaming is very painful to listen to knowing the latter's very real struggle with depression and suicidal thoughts.
• He Panned It, Now He Sucks!:
  • While EFAP viewers generally have no beef with the podcast taking potshots at a Sacred Cow, the same could not be said for Avatar: The Last Airbender. One of the main reasons was that the MauLer and Rags's criticisms could easily be applied to media such as the Lord of the Rings and the original Star Wars trilogies which they gave a pass. While MauLer received less flack because he admitted to judging the show based on a few episodes he watched and that fans should not take his opinions to heart, Rags especially got a lot of flak due to his extremely confrontational stance which can come off as just hating the show for the sake of it, even going as far as to attack fans of the show without backing up his reasoning as to why.
  • Their episode discussing Elden Ring, while not universally criticized since they did admit to liking it a lot and actually opened the discussion largely getting the negative stuff out of the way first, earned criticism for coming across as a bit overly critical towards the game, especially when they seemed to focus on comparing to the past games without judging the game on its own terms, such as how critical they were of the generally popular General Radhan fight, or how much they spent focusing on the reused bosses. While they do have valid points that most agreed with, their overly critical view of the game came across as nit-picky to some. Theo in particular earned some criticism from chat for being the most generally negative, and some felt Rags being in the conversation despite not having played it, didn't help either since he just criticized it from what little info he had.
• Memetic Badass: “The Don”, the biker beaten up by Captain Marvel has been celebrated in an ironic fashion as the true hero of the film on EFAP, with memes such as #istandwithdon and #dusktothedon.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • Downward Thrust is basically EFAP's Fountain of Memes considering how much of his content has been covered (at least 15 videos)
    • Tonald, his Fan Nickname given to him as a guess to what "Tone Loke" could be short for, along with it's variations such as Dadold (The nickname for his dad), and Slownald (When his videos are watched in half speed)
  • Massive ^Explanation  After Rags and Wolf jokingly called Joseph Anderson a "massive faggot", they claimed it was offensive due to calling him "Massive". Thus it's used as both an insult and a friendly nickname for fellow guests.
  • Rhino's Milk ^Explanation  A meme crossing over from Jay Exci after Jay brought it up as a counter to Black Panther: An Unbridled Rage. Jay and MauLer take it in stride.
  • The Toxic Brood ^Explanation  In a video covered on EFAP #29 ("Star Wars: The Fandom Menace"), the video's creator labels the more vocal section of critics of The Last Jedi as the "toxic brood" poisoning the Star Wars fandom. MauLer, Wolf, Rags, and guests Jeremy of Geeks and Gamers and Jeff of WorldClassBullshitters run with it, and so does the chat. It has become a sort of in-fandom nickname among EFAP fans.
  • "You get to look at WOMEN!" ^Explanation  When covering Maj0r Lee's video, "The Last Jedi is amazing and you're all insane", one of the arguments Lee presents is the above quote. It has often been used as a sarcastic remark in defense of a film with women in it's cast. It eventually became somewhat of an Ascended Meme, becoming the title of EFAP #69 (Which guest starred ThatStarWarsGirl, JLongb0ne, and Aydin Paladin)
  • "A suspicious amount of X" ^Explanation  While going through No Bullshit's "SJW Moments in Avengers: Infinity War", NBS calls out Black Panther (2018) as having "A suspicious amount of female characters", causing everyone to lose their shit at the sheer absurdity of trying to make this a point.
  • What makes good rat? ^Explanation  From Browntable's "What makes good art?" video. Due to the stylized font used for the titular question, MauLer mistook it for "What makes good rat?", resulting in various photoshops of Ratatouille or depicting guides to "good rat".
  • Bigideas ^Explanation  From EFAP #50: The crew was critiquing Just Write's video essay "What Writers Should Learn From The Legend of Korra" when a header, written in Papyrus font, meant as "BIG IDEAS" gave birth to a new philosopher.
  • Jeb! ^Explanation Failed presidential candidate Jeb Bush quickly became a running joke on EFAP after the group started discussing his disastrous campaign, leading to a slew of Jeb Bush puns being spammed through the chat
  • Diabeto^note Not to be confused with the Spanish maid's "prematurely overweight" son from that one episode of Family Guy ^Explanation  One of the many nicknames used for Bob Chipman on EFAP, often depicting him as Magneto controlling sugar and desserts.
  • "Is this guy supposed to be Alfred?" ^Explanation  In Ralph the Moviemaker's Joker video, he sarcastically questions if the Waynes' Butler is supposed to be Alfred while lambasting the Batman links and references throughout the film. The abrupt presentation and quick skip over the line, both for not explaining why it's a negative and the joke failing since it obviously is Alfred, led the crew and chat to jokingly question if everything from Arthur to buildings to Ralph himself is Alfred.
  • McMuffin ^Explanation  In episode #60, while reading a post with The Rise of Skywalker's leaked plot, Dasboschitt accidentally mispronounces McGuffin as "McMuffin", promoting every participant to collectively lose their shit laughing at the concept of a random alien walking up to Rey and offering her a fast food idiom. As well as referring to McGuffins as that from that point on.
  • Has E;R spoken yet? ^Explanation  A joke towards E;R, who, in spite of being a popular request for EFAP, rarely ever speaks unless directly asked questions or the video being responded to involves something he’s passionate about (Usually Korra).
  • NOUGH ^Explanation  The EFAP chat have picked up on Australian guest Fringy's way of pronouncing the word NO during the Batwoman episode viewings.
  • Joel killing everybody ^Explanation  After Just Write made the insane claim that every death after The Last of Us was Joel's fault, various memes of Joel committing various acts of killing others started to surface, such as Joel executing Order 66, blowing up Alderaan, snapping away half the universe, and killing Joel with a golf club
  • SPIDERMAN!!!/Incorrect Green Goblin quotes ^Explanation  A meme that spawned in one of MetalCommander's streams in which a person says something ridiculous while imitating Willem Dafoe as the Green Goblin, always ending the statement with "SPIDERMAN!!!" (example: "I'm involuntarily celibate, SPIDERMAN!!!")
  • Insert the word Noom in any movie title. ^Explanation  On the Third Anniversary of EFAP, the crew and guests cover FilmSpeak's video on Black Widow (2021). The sponsor of the video was a subscription-based app called Noom. When the crew did some research, they discovered that Noom received thousands of complaints for its poor customer service, and they are quick to mock it by inserting the word 'Noom' in various movie titles like "Spiderman: Far From Noom" or "Noomanji", to name a few.
  • "Kick Jay" ^Explanation A quote originating in EFAP's chat and MauLer's subreddit that is taken to mean either kicking Jay off a livestream or literally kicking her.
  • If [character] did/didn't do [X], they would've been melted. ^Explanation In a discussion about Loki's first episode, many in EFAP chat had fun making jokes about how if anything in the MCU went in any way other than the way it did, the TVA would have arrived and "melted" the offending character. It didn't take long for the jokes to spread to media outside of the MCU (i.e if Holdo had told Poe the plan she would've been melted, if Peter's landlord had fixed the damn door he would've been melted, etc.)
• Memetic Psychopath: Joel. Ever since Just Write said that every death after the first game was Joel's fault, Joel has been portrayed in EFAP memes as an Omnicidal Maniac responsible for all death in the universe.
• Padding: One point of criticism to their podcast is that it can go on for much too long since some of their podcasts even last for 12 hours, as in half a day! Whether it's justified for going "in depth" or if most of it ends up as just filler is Broken Base even amongst fans. Thankfully, some fans have included timestamps in the comment sections that outline the stream and give viewers a way to get to their needed info. Though even with the timestamps, fans argue there are many instances of rambling that could be cut, or that there should be a "highlight reel" that focuses on specific topics.
• Sacred Cow: Former host Dishonored Wolf has gained this reputation among the EFAP fans. While there are those who disliked him then and disliked him now, post him leaving the show and the internet at large due to his struggle with depression, Wolf's time as a host and his few subsequent appearances are have become somewhat legendary among fans and he is viciously defended from all criticism by them. Attempting to do so will get you dog piled.