YMMV / Hannah Rutherford

• Archive Panic: As shown by this graph, Hannah's channel has well over 2,200+ videos uploaded. While some of these were likely from back in the day when her channel was the secondary one where Lewis Brindley and Simon Lane uploaded any extras, even with these videos taken out that's still a lot.
• Broken Base:
  • Her publicly posting hate mail to her Tumblr has split the base. While most people agree that the former fan in question was in the wrong for making baseless accusations, stalking her social media platforms and basically harassing her, a few called her out for not editing out the individual's name, including some that otherwise agreed the comments were rude and uncalled for. Others were less sympathetic and said the user had it coming, a sentiment that only intensified after they started bullying her fans and accused Katie (Trott's girlfriend) of being insecure after calling out a blog for making assumptions and giving out totally unwanted relationship advice.
  • Any horror game she and Kim played following their Let's Play of Outlast got this, as some fans felt the girls weren't taking the other games seriously. The two actually addressed the criticism in one video, saying that the reason was that they had just been so absolutely terrified and traumatized by Outlast that it was hard for them to summon up the same levels of energy for any other horror game.
    • As well, Hannah's solo playthrough of Resident Evil 2 (Remake), as some fans felt Hannah spent entirely too much time sarcastically mocking the characters, complaining about the game's mechanics and generally being overly negative about the game. Hannah replied to fans reminding them that if they didn't like her playthrough, they were welcome to go and find someone else who was more to their taste.
  • Hannah's sharing some fan ships negatively split the base. While the general consensus was that she shouldn't have shared them, some fans felt that it was unfair to blame here for stumbling across them when Tumblr is constantly changing its mechanics with little warning. This led to a reblog war between Kirin Dave and a detractor blog. For what it's worth, Hannah apologised unreservedly after learning that she'd made a serious mistake.
  • Her hinting that she might be leaving the Yogscast◊ following several months worth of unrest regarding her problems with Maker (a content creator) causing several of her past videos to be taken down due to music copyright issues caused quite a bit of strife in the fanbase, but she wound up staying on for a bit longer.
  • Her doxxing a fan who sent transphobic abuse to Laura K Dale, a friend of Hannah's. While the general consensus was that Hannah was in the wrong and overreacted, some felt she had a point.
    • She also doxxed someone who didn't pay for an item that she was selling on eBay, something that even Rythian called her out for◊. For the record, she has since acknowledged that she was in the wrong on both occasions and deeply regrets doing it.
  • Her collaborations with Caff. At the time, Caff was a very polarizing figure in playthroughs because of his tendency to be a backseat gamer (ie, being loud, bossy, overly talkative, condescending and trying to make Hannah do what he wanted), and it got to the point that people simply stopped watching series featuring him, and didn't shy away from showing their frustration. Hannah's reactions to said frustration (steadfastly defending Caff and publicly snapping at people who were complaining) broke things even further. Definitely Harsher in Hindsight following the whole incident with Caff shortly thereafter, as elaborated in the next point.
  • Her suddenly speaking up◊ after Sjin was removed from the Yogscast and saying that he was a "prolific sexual predator" who once told her that he "respected Lewis too much to try it on with [her]" as well as also referring to Caff and Turps as predators◊ was this, with people wondering why she had waited until then to say anything, and how she had even previously stated that she'd never seen "that side" of Sjin in the past◊.
• Heartwarming Moments:
  • Hannah encouraged a fan to stay in uni after it appeared their entire year had been ruined due to a damaged laptop. Said fan eventually wrote back to say they'd passed the year, with Hannah eagerly congratulating them on their success.
  • After a group of well-meaning but misguided fans announced their plan to all meet Zoey Proasheck at a gay pride parade, Zoey quite understandably panicked slightly and begged fans not to do this as it would worsen her social anxiety. Hannah reblogged her post to try and back her up. She's also defended Zoey many times since, particularly when a group of so-called "fans" have told her to exclude Fiona from videos or break up with her.
  • Backing up Katie (Trott's girlfriend) after she got abused during a stream.
  • Apologising to a fan blog after she accidentally accused them of putting slash in the main tag.
  • Her playthrough of Detroit: Become Human is full of these, but the clearest example comes when, after not finding a certain clue and ending up getting Connor killed, as well as making the wrong choice and getting Luther killed, she goes against her normal playthrough rules and replays those parts to save them, ending in her getting almost the best ending. It all comes down to her two last words in the playthrough, spoken through happy, emotional tears as Hank pulls Connor in for a hug:
  Hannah: ...Hank friend.

  • Even her sacrificing Jerry to save Kara, Luther and Alice is one of these. While she was mistaken about what would happen if she made a certain other choice (she insists that if you don't sacrifice anyone or yourself you end up in a recycling plant, which is partially incorrect - her playthrough had Markus protesting peacefully, which means everyone could have gotten through safely and survived if she picked "sacrifice nobody"), but she is very conflicted about it and says that she will keep the character in her heart and memory because of it. She actually keeps her word, too, naming her first dinosaur in Jurassic World: Evolution after him!
• Iron Woobie:
  • The stuff some of the fandom puts her through is awful - they sent her very explicit drawings of herself and Lewis in sexual positions, wrote graphic fanfiction which had her being sexually assaulted, threatened Kim because they (mistakenly) thought Kim was trying to steal Lewis from Hannah, attacked her over the whole Kaeyi incident (one Tumblr user wrote a long and nasty letter to her telling her how horrible she was), falsely accused her of trying to manipulate game footage in sponsored content and yet somehow she keeps going with a big smile on her face.
  • A while back she reblogged a Buffy the Vampire Slayer image post depicting Buffy beating up sexist idiots. Cue someone coming after her (actually the same person who accused her of manipulating footage) and attacking her for the post, and then, about a month later, returning to her inbox to make wildly untrue claims and generally harass her.
• Misaimed Fandom: In response to her doxxing incidents, Twitter users, without a hint of irony or perspective, sent Hannah death and rape threats, completely ignoring the hypocrisy.
• Mis-blamed:
  • Hannah has on many occasions been accused of covering up bugs and being sponsored for doing so in videos. This is not the case whatsoever.
  • Hannah has also been falsely accused of trying to cover up Reddit posts that relate to allegations against Sjin, after a screenshot emerged that supposedly depicted an admin writing this. It later transpired, due to an admin from /r/Yogscast intervening and giving evidence, that the image had been doctored to make her and the moderators look bad. To the credit of the blog that originally posted this, they quickly apologised to the admin team (but not her) for their mistake.
  • Despite explaining at considerable and painful length what happened with Pixels, there are still people accusing her of not knowing what she is talking about, or accusing her of maliciously lying to try and cover the company's tracks.
  • After a few angry tweets about people lurking outside their offices (which she then pulled), Hannah came under fire for supposedly being angry, bitchy and unappreciative of the fandom. It later turned out that a fan had pretended they'd been abandoned by their parents outside the office and used this excuse to get a photo from at least four members of the company, while threatening to blackmail them by leaking the office's location. While she apologised for the judgemental tweets and conceded that it had been harsh, people still think she is entirely in the wrong.
  • After being accused of abusing fans, Hannah pointed out the so-called 'target' was actually a real life close friend of hers. Despite this explanation, there are still fans that think she is somehow in the wrong for correcting the 'fan' blog on this issue.
  • In a case where Hannah was guilty of this, she blamed some shippers for including some Slash Fic in the main tags (specifically "Lomadia" in this case). It turned out that thanks to Tumblr's constantly changing its mechanics searching no longer brings up tags, but instead can link to any post so much as containing the word. Hannah eventually apologised for the mistake.
• Tear Jerker: Taking a hiatus from YouTube because of Maker's Executive Meddling. The video which she posted had her almost on the verge of tears.
  • In 2020 she created a Patreon page and wrote that she had essentially stopped using YouTube for anything beyond an archive for her old videos, saying "In part, this was because it's harder to make a sustainable living from just ad revenue alone, but also because of algorithmic changes meaning that the site was no longer showcasing long form let's play content."

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