YMMV / Gigguk

• Fountain of Memes: Some of his more memorable jokes tend to stick with the anime that applies with that joke. So don't be surprised when a meme or a youtube comment references a joke from his.
• Growing the Beard: Pre-comeback, many of his viewers felt his Fate/Zero review was when he began to grow as both a critic and a video maker. However, many of his fans feel that his comeback material starting in 2016 is some of his best material yet, mixing in both critical analysis and witty humor.
• He Panned It, Now He Sucks!:
  • His Fate/Zero earned negative feedback from a number of fans, not because of his review of Zero itself, he liked the show and sang its praises for about ninety percent of the video, but for his out of nowhere ranting about Fate/stay night. His pain point seemed to be that Zero was such a good show, that having the more "generic" high-school drama setting for the next one made it much worse, but this earned criticism from fans as many felt it was out of place and seemed to just be taking an unfair jab at the game.
  • His 'Fall of Mecha Anime' video caused a stir amongst Humongous Mecha fandom, who thought that Gigguk just barely scratched the surface of mecha anime in general and only basing the 'fall' on some Broken Base-filled shows (some with controversial elements) like Valvrave the Liberator, Cross Ange, Aldnoah.Zero and DARLING in the FRANXX. But especially when he stated that the mecha anime were based on 'hard to get into' hobby of Gunpla building, to which some mecha fandom happily showcased that non-mecha fans like PewDiePie bought a Gunpla model, successfully built on it and enjoyed it despite not being a mecha fan. Regardless, ever since that video aired, Gigguk's reputation kinda soured to some mecha anime fans; though, that has since been dampened a bit upon his praise of 86 EIGHTY-SIX in 2021, and Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury in 2022.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • In 2019 he put out a video about "Anime Fans vs Manga Readers" that included a hypothetical conversation between the two that ended with the Manga Reader claiming "nothing you say will hurt me", only for the Anime Fan to declare "Komi-san is never getting an anime!" which enrages the Manga Reader. Two years later, Komi Can't Communicate would indeed get an anime adaptation for the Fall 2021 Season.
  • "If Anime Studios Were People" characterizes the personfications of Crunchyroll and Funimation as Sickeningly Sweethearts, a reference to their partnership at the time. And then it was announced that Funimation's parent company Sony Pictures would acquire Crunchyroll. The following March, it was announced that Funimation would undergo a rebrand as Crunchyroll, LLC and their content would move over to Crunchyroll.
• I Knew It!: In early 2016, after he uploaded the second part of his 2015 recap he uploaded a few more videos to YouTube around the same time. This lead a lot of his viewers to believe that he was going to make videos regularly again. A while later he makes an announcement that he quit his job at the BBC and has decided to go back to making videos full time again.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • "MOTHERFUCKIN' TEA!"
  • "Hentai Games..."
  • "IT'S SHIT!"
  • "TOOOOOURNAMENT AAAAAAAARC!!!"
  • "Happy New Years!"^note Starting in 2013, Gigguk starting making yearly anime recaps that are split into two parts. From 2013 through 2015 the second part would usually come out after the New Year ended the most notable example being the second part of the 2015 recap coming out in March 2016. Though now that Gigguk has gone back to making regular videos the 2016 recap had both parts come out on time.
  • "Anime is trash...and so am I"^Explanation From his video on Eromanga Sensei, where he's come to full acceptance of the Guilty Pleasure show. This line now gets quoted whenever someone decides to admit to enjoying any "trash" series without worrying about being shamed for it.
  • "DOES SHOUTING REALLY LOUD SOLVE MY PROBLEMS?!"
  • "I will protect this smile..."^Explanation Gigguk gushing about Tsumugi Inuzuka in his Summer Anime 2016 Abridged video has often been used for other moe characters.
  • "RAID: SHADOW LEGENDS!" ^Explanation The customary sponsorship advertisement that interrupts the flow of a review-type video.
  • "Sometimes, it takes a real man to become best girl." ^Explanation During his review of spending $1000 on gacha games, he defends his decision to selectively roll for Mordred and Astolfo from Fate/Apocrypha, noting that rolling for the latter wasn't just for memes, but because Astolfo is cute. This humorous statement has since then mutated into an appreciation term for other popular male crossdressing characters.
  • "It's not because Marin looks like Sydney!"^Explanation Upon the anime release of My Dress-Up Darling for the Winter 2022 season, fans have immediately drawn comparisons of the show's female lead to Gigguk's fiance Sydney. A fact that he has vehemently denied, despite the fact that she has actually embraced the comparison.
  • "Everyone's favourite Genshin Streamer." ^Explanation Crosses this with Never Live It Down but every since Garnt got back to Genshin in the middle of 2022, he has quickly garnered this reputation as being hopelessly addicted to it. Which he admits multiple times in his Twitch streams. The fact that he is one of the most watched Genshin Twitch streamers doesn't help at all.
  • "Gay Girls, innit?"^Explanation How he described the evident Les Yay subtext in an anime series involving two female main characters with the obvious dynamic. Saw use since his "Best of Anime 2022" video.
  • VA-Grant^Explanation It was revealed during Gigguk's cross-streaming session with Amanda Lee that, apart from being a content creator for Genshin Impact, he was also hired as Voice actor for a few random NPC's for Honkai: Star Rail. The chat stream immediately took notice of this and made the said pun (despite the fact that that is NOT how his real name is spelt ("Garnt" instead of "Grant".)

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