YMMV / Jenny Nicholson

• Adorkable: Especially when she goes off on impromptu tangents.
• Aluminum Christmas Trees: In the "Church Play Cinematic Universe" video, she mentions how one song was obviously rewritten to insert the name "Captain Jack" into it over and over. The song is actually by late Eurodance musician Captain Jack, and actually does repeat his name that many times as the center of its call-and-repeat pattern. Cue a flood of DanceDanceRevolution players in the comments pointing this out.
• Awesome Music: The end credits song to her Evermore video, a parody of the Taylor Swift song of the same name, manages to work the Troubled Production of the theme park into a convincing lilting melody with beautiful vocals.
• Crosses the Line Twice: Her analysis of the Connor Project Kickstarter in her Dear Evan Hansen review snarks that, given the stakes the film puts on raising $100,000 to reopen an orchard, every teenager will kill themself if they don't make their goal. She adds that, if they went with a flexible funding plan, at least then only a fraction of those teens would commit suicide.
• Fan Nickname: When she wears her First Order hat, she's been called "Ginny Hux" by fans. Which is a joke about her Harry Potter fandom, red hair, and a Casting Gag about Domhnall Gleeson.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • In her video discussing D23 2019, she briefly discussed the Day One Disney+ release The World According to Jeff Goldblum and her dislike of the phenomenon of certain celebrities in their 60s-70s (Goldblum was 66 at the time) becoming memetically beloved until he/she "says something that upsets people and then they turn on them so, so viciously". She recommended that fans be neutral about people they haven't met (and thus avoid Broken Pedestal situations), and wished him well despite her own lack of interest in the show. A few months later, in the week leading up to the Disney+ launch Goldblum stated in an interview that he would work with Woody Allen again^note he had a One-Scene Wonder role in Annie Hall and had more recently played a gig with his jazz band given the opportunity, which resulted in just such a backlash on Twitter. On November 7, she acknowledged this on Twitter with the post "Sorry about Goldblum I really didn't mean it so literally in the video" (though fortunately for him, his reputation wasn't significantly damaged by it, and show still did well enough to get a second season renewal).
  • Her visible excitement leading up to The Rise of Skywalker — especially her bingo video, where she included an intentionally and especially innocuous expectation of "I'll like it" — makes it really painful when it came out and she left very disappointed. Her review was entitled "Oh no! The Rise of Skywalker was real bad :(" and its video thumbnail picture includes the blurb "I'LL NEVER BE HAPPY AGAIN!"
    • "If Rey is a Skywalker" is a little awkward as it breaks down all the reasons it would have been incredibly stupid and irresponsible for someone to hide her on Jakku under the care of a cruel junk trader, especially when The Last Jedi seemingly debunked it, only for The Rise of Skywalker to reveal her parents did exactly that.
  • One of the running jokes about Paranormal Home Inspectors was how "psychic" Maydine claimed to be having a hard time breathing as part of every reading. Then several people in the comments pointed out that she had since died of lung cancer, which she almost certainly already had at the time of the show.
  • Her video on the Church of Rock's yearly Easter plays, which were all based off various popular movies, had her implore the audience not to go after the church or snitch to the copyright holders of these movies. Not long after the video released, a totally different church went viral for putting on an unlicensed production of Hamilton to lead into a controversial sermon, which resulted in online backlash and a cease-and-desist from the Hamilton copyright holders. While the Hamilton production had far fewer alterations compared to the Church of Rock productions, many pointed to Jenny's video to put the history of church plays into context.
• He Panned It, Now He Sucks!:
  • Jenny often makes clear her low opinions on certain works, which occasionally results in a sizeable amount of backlash and more skewed like/dislike ratios on her videos, including Rogue One, The Greatest Showman, and films in the DC Extended Universe.
  • Ironically, likely the biggest flack she ever gets (especially in conjunction with her Rogue One example above) is her praise of The Last Jedi, though granted, it's already an infamously polarizing film to begin with.
  • "Well, I didn’t like Joker" not only brought about detractors in the comments, but was infamously featured as one of the discussion topics by the podcast Every Frame a Pause.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Due to the popularity of The Greatest Showman, an album full of celebrity covers of the soundtrack was later released, which created two of these in Jenny's review:
    • She describes the opening number as a Fall Out Boy knock-off. Later, the song in question was covered by Panic! at the Disco, who is often confused with Fall Out Boy by people outside of their respective fans.
    • The Signature Song "This Is Me" is described as a song that sounds like the songs P!nk made after becoming a mother. P!nk would feature on the album like Panic! at the Disco, but Kesha sang "This Is Me" instead.
  • She jokes about the creation of a cinematic universe based on the Christmas Prince. Then it actually happens when The Knight Before Christmas comes out and includes a mention of Aldovia.
  • A mixture of this and Harsher in Hindsight from her video on Solo: after going through her disappointment with it, she ended remarking "I know Star Wars movies inevitably make money, but I hope it underperforms just enough so they don't waste resources on a sequel, and maybe they'll stop doing prequels and we'll get a good anthology movie." These expectations ended up overshooting — Solo didn't just underperform; it lost millions in the box office, resulting in the entire Anthology series to be either iceboxed or outright cancelled, including prequel films on Boba Fett and Obi-Wan Kenobi (though these projects were reworked as The Mandalorian and Obi-Wan Kenobi).
• Memetic Mutation:
  • "There make be snakes!" ^Explanation From Trapped in a Island With Josh Hutcherson when Kate (with a broken leg) becomes paranoid when Josh Hutcherson decides to look for food deep into the woods, and begs him not to leave her, shouting this at him. (She most likely meant, "There may be snakes!")
  • "I laugh at my mom ... WHEN SHE CHOKES!" ^Explanation A paraphrased sentence said by Naomi when she talks about laughing at other people's pain in Insanity, a Creepypasta self-published fanfiction about the origins of Jeff the Killer.
  • Trapped in [a/an] [Noun beginning with incorrect letter for the indefinite article] with [celebrity]. ^Explanation Before the review, Jenny points out that Trapped in a Island with Josh Hutcherson is grammatically incorrect, but ever since the review, commenters often Call-Back to the name of the fanfic in other fanfic reviews. A popular one was in Jenny's review of One Direction/The Purge crossover fics in which a commenter wrote, "Trapped in an Purge with Niall Horan", whilst another wrote: "Stuck in an Suicide Forest with Team 10". This even became notorious enough to inspire spin-off Wattpad fics attempting to emulate the original story's style. Some even starred Jenny!
  • Big Man! ^Explanation In Trigger Warning, veteran-turned-college student Jake Rivers' 6 foot 4 frame is only described as "big" and/or referred to as "big man" by both the story and the characters he interacts with, whereas everything else is written in clunky Purple Prose. Jenny latches onto it pretty quickly as an unintentional Running Gag.
  • 30 dollar plastic wands ^Explanation A suspiciously specific detail that the creator of Escape from Tomorrow mentioned in every interview when describing what he doesn't like about the Disney Parks, to the point that Jenny speculates his own daughters just really wanted a 30 dollar plastic wand and he's still bitter about it.
  • During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, this tweet became very popular, as a criticism of many people's casual attitudes toward the virus.
    We're gonna have to retire the expression "avoid it like the plague" because it turns out humans do not do that
  • Jenny's video on The Vampire Diaries spawned several:
    • "Noooo! Jenna!"
    • "The series that brought women to the frontline..." ^Explanation While binge watching the series on the CW’s website, ads for the DVD box set of China Beach would play incessantly. Jenny mocked this by playing the first line of the commercial intermittently during her video analysis.
    • Through the mirror of my mind...^Explanation The first line of the song "Reflections" by The Supremes, the theme tune to China Beach.
• Mis-blamed: Jenny blames Bronies for making the My Little Pony toyline focus on just the Main Characters, as well blind bag figures and other figures with plastic hair. In reality, both of these had happened earlier in G3, meaning Hasbro was just continuing on with an already successful strategy.
• Older Than They Think: In ''The Last Bronycon: a fandom autopsy'', Jenny stated that Hasbro was mainly making toys of just the The Mane Six over and over, in order to please Bronies. In reality, this idea predates Bronies and My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic by a few years, as this had already been done earlier with the Core 7 retool of G3; Hasbro ignored almost every pony aside from seven of them and only produced toys for them. The Core 7 era was a Short-Runner, however, so this mistake is understandable. She also claims that the Blind Bag pony figures with plastic hair only came out in G4. There were blind bag ponies and ponies with plastic hair in Generation Three.
• Squick: In "The Last Bronycon: a fandom autopsy", she takes the time to single out Bronies who created sexually suggestive fan art of the child characters in the show - and even sold it at conventions. The video has a brief clip from a con showing body pillows displaying Apple Bloom and Scootaloo^note elementary-age child ponies with bedroom eyes. Quite a few of the con clips also have the body pillow displays blurred out...

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