YMMV / Outside Xbox

• Accidental Innuendo: Luke seems to be particularly vulnerable to this—Ellen rarely lets it go uncommented-on, except in one or two instances where the results of doing so would have been genuinely offensive.
  • After beating a minigame in Mario 3D World, Luke exclaims that he and Ellen "wrecked 'em!" Unfortunately, that isn't what she hears him say.
  • Asking Ellen to "smash or pass" various Dark Souls bosses was already a little iffy, but insisting that Ornstein and Smough "come as a pair" was what sent her over the edge.
• Adaptation Displacement: The channel is far more popular than that of their parent company Eurogamer, passing 2m subscribers in the summer of 2017 while Eurogamer's subscriber count remains a quarter of that. This is somewhat justified, as in another case of Adaptation Displacement, they weren't initially founded by Eurogamer.
• Adorkable:
  • Ellen and Luke in general, especially during Show of the Weekend when they're off script.
  • Jane, Andy, and Mike all have their moments, although they're not "on" quite as often. In particular, Jane's :D face after describing James Sunderland's memory as "foggy" has reached mildly memetic status. (Spoilers for James' backstory, but this is Silent Hill 2 we're talking about.)
• Cargo Ship: Played with when the show got a new green sofa. Mike starts talking about how great it is, while Andy rolls his eyes and tells them to Get a Room!. At the end of the show, it's revealed Mike was advertising the sofa in hopes of getting paid.
• Crosses the Line Twice:
  • Naming the crematorium Mike's Grille in Cities: Skylines.
  • For a Kingdom Hearts themed challenge, Luke is asked to draw a costume for Donald Duck for a Disney movie that has not found its way into a Kingdom Hearts game. He selects Bambi, and draws Donald as the hunter who shot Bambi's mom.
  • During a game of Gartic Phone, Mike is given the prompt to draw Banjo and Kazooie getting baked. Refusing to draw them smoking marijuana, he instead draws them in an oven.
  • Mike discusses Shazam's Cruel and Unusual Death in Injustice: Gods Among Us in the following manner:
    Now, last time I joked about this, everyone pointed out that I was laughing at the lasering of a 12-year-old boy. To which I say this: yes, a very annoying 12-year-old boy.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • Considering that he's appeared on-screen barely a handful of times in well over a thousand videos across two channels, there's a surprisingly passionate fan-base for James, the channel's cameraman. Lampshaded by the other cast.
    Luke: (when discussing James's love of the Star Wars prequels) James, the fans love you, don't ruin it!
  • To say nothing of Andy's alter ego Bud Fensler, the awesome agent of Star Thrust Agency.
• Harsher in Hindsight: The "5 Games of the Decade That We Will Save from the Coming Apocalypse" video, which was released in... December 2019. Luke's celebration of making it through the year, and the scattered jokes about how the world was going to end in 2020, only make it worse.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: During the "Worst Game Challenge" stream, Jane had Andy and Mike decide for themselves who would go first, rather than getting up and finding a coin to flip. After the "Starfield Nude Mayor Punching Challenge," fans are theorising that she was trying to hide her lack of coin-flipping skill.
  Commenter: We had Ellen's Fear Academy; now we need Jane's Coinflip University
• Ho Yay:
  • Played for Laughs. Jane and Mike get a call from Adam Jensen, parodying a call he takes from David Sarif. Jane sighs and tells Adam to put some clothes on, while Mike cocks an eyebrow and turns the phone to get a better view. Mike also compliments the physique of Geralt and Asura.
  • Mike also tends to chant "Make out!" at sportsmen who celebrate goals/victories a little too physically or affectionately.
  • Similarly, in the Like a Dragon: Ishin! gameplay video, Andy and Mike yell at Sakamoto/Kiryu and Okita/Majima to "kiss already!" as they're sparring.
  • During one of the many "Nude (X) Punching" challenges, Mike and Andy commented that the male Sole Survivor had a remarkably pert and firm rear.
  • Discussed during a game of Among Us when Luke and Eurogamer's Ian Higton stayed together as a pair, and they discussed having a TV show of it. Jane calls it "Non Amorous Space Adventures"
  Aoife: Well, don't rule anything out.
  Luke: We'll have hints of it throughout, then it'll go after Season 6, after the show jumped the shark.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • "FLAMINGOs never say die." It started as a Fun with Acronyms joke, but has been adopted as a general encouragement by the fans.
  • "Normal things! I'm a normal adult!", when one's potentially-embarrassing activities or interests are discovered.
  • The pumpkin puzzle from the Goosebumps: Escape from Horrorland Hallowstream didn't take long to gain this status. Any mention of a remotely related subject during a livestream leads to viewers spamming references to it in the chat.
    MID MID CROW MID CROW
• Squick:
  • Ellen mentions that when she makes a peanut butter and jam sandwich with a leaf of lettuce in the middle. Luke is extremely unnerved, shooting her a look like she admits she just ate a baby seal alive.
  Luke: Is anyone else really freaked out?
  • During a Let's Play of The Technomancer, Jane runs out of fluid and wonders what kind of fluid, leading to this exchange.
  Mike: You put all your romancing into it.
  Jane: *groans in disgust* Mike, why are you like this?
• Values Dissonance: A minor, but somewhat interesting example. American viewers are often surprised that the (British) Oxbox crew operates on a different Swear Scale than they do—for example, bleeping out "bastard hard" but not "THIS. GOD. DAMN. GAME." (Then again, the game in question is the memetically infuriating Mario Party...) Other videos have the word "bastard" unbleeped, or use "gee-dang" for the sake of humor. There are only a few swears that get censored consistently.

For YMMV items relating to the Oxventures, see YMMV.Oxventure