YMMV / Reviewing a Reviewer

• Continuity Lock-Out: Asalieri has a long history of drama and commentary to which he often refers to. It isn't helped by how often he deletes his older videos.
• Genius Bonus: A parody of himself appeared in a video where he is called "MRavel2". Asalieri is named after Antonio Salieri. This MRavel2 is named after Maurice Ravel, who is also a classical music composer.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • His "Steel Beth" parody of Iron Liz can be seen as this, as Liz would later reveal that she is actually transgender.
  • Asa's video about Arcadeic (RAR #24) was flagged by the latter. He revealed that it was because he was harassed in real life by a stalker and thought that the RAR gave him negative exposure. Asa then did a comedy skit video where he plays a deranged stalker harassing a parody of Arcadeic "The Budweiser Gamer" - played by Asa's friend Kyle - because "MRavel2" reviewed him. Later in real life, Kyle and Asa had a falling out; Kyle refused any contact with Asa, and Asa aggressively tried to join him to discuss, in a way that has been described as stalkerish.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: In the Frog, Alligator, Television episode, Asalieri questions Seidelman's gender, and is quickly corrected by DrunkenPunk800, who tells him about Cindy's transwoman status. DrunkenPunk would come out as trans years later.
• Iconic Character, Forgotten Title: Asalieri himself is now more famous than his show.
• Nausea Fuel: In RAR #40, Asa compares the sounds JoeysWorldTour makes as he eats food to the sounds a pig makes when giving birth, followed by showing live footage of a pig engaging in reproduction... all the way through.
• Overshadowed by Controversy: Asa is more infamous for his personal feuds and "dram" with other videomakers (even among those once part of his circle of friends) rather than his actual video output, including his flagship series. These include:
  • Claiming that Elisa on the set of Kickassia was "crucified upside-down"... an incident which was ironically used as an argument against Channel Awesome years later in the "Not So Awesome"/"Change The Channel" controversy.
  • Being jealous of the success of Channel Awesome's reviewers in general, and which is what drove him to "review reviewers". When the website's "Change The Channel/Not So Awesome" controversy happened, he gloated about how he "told you so".
  • Transphobic comments towards Iron Liz. To wit, when Liz came out as transgender, He openly claimed in the comments that Iron Liz and Linkara had lied in the past about getting upset with the earlier comment, and called Linkara gay for dating a transgender woman.

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