YMMV / Woolie Versus

• Archive Binge: In 2019, Woolie experimented with uploading a whole batch of episodes for one series at once, Netflix-style, to see if his audience engaged better with binge-watching versus serial uploads. Specifically: on March 10, Minh uploaded 18 parts of the Devil May Cry 5 LP — every video that had been recorded and edited up to that point — a full episode every 30 minutes. (Woolie implied that he was also partly motivated by wanting to shut up the fans who complained he was putting out new episodes of their favorite series too slowly.) Apparently, the results were disappointing because Woolie's never repeated that stunt. Though later there was a change in format to live streaming the channel's LP recording sessions to Twitch, so fans can now watch live (or watch the unedited stream archives) if they don't want to wait for the edited LPs to be uploaded to YouTube.
• Fridge Brilliance: During the LP of Jet Set Radio, Woolie theorizes that the reason there's so few spray cans in the late game is due to the Rokkaku Group buying up and shutting down all the suppliers in town, causing a shortage. Likewise, the reason the few remaining cans are grouped together in out of the way nooks and crannies is from the Rudies gathering whatever's left into caches and stockpiles.
• Heartwarming Moments:
  • The intro to Get Into Fighting Games is pretty awesome, transitioning from musical style to musical style as the intro follows different games... but as the intro winds down, a familiar song starts to Fade In, making itself known in full as the title card pops up, along with some old words of welcome:
    Woolie: Eyy, what's going on, man? Come in! You ready to play?
  • Episode 39 of the Devil May Cry 5 LP. Woolie and Pat continued their habit from the previous LPs, with Pat playing as Dante and Woolie as Nero and V. As you'd expect, Woolie is somewhat saddened by the fact that Pat gets to fight Vergil in what they assume to be the last mission, but accepts it. Cue the start of the fight, and Pat immediately switches into Royal Guard, his least favorite of Dante's styles and Woolie's favorite, and starts styling on Vergil with it, revealing that he practiced the fight in this manner so that Woolie would get the best first experience that he could with the game's climax, even if he wasn't playing. He has to give it up after a while and return to his usual playstyle due to how tough Vergil is, but Woolie is immensely touched by the gesture.
  • Even as a Sink or Swim Mentor, there's something rather heartwarming about Woolie coaching Reggie through the Souls franchise, the same way Pat had done for Woolie years before. Probably the sweetest moment is when Reggie reaches the Iron Golem boss in Dark Souls, which sees Woolie eagerly call back to the older LP by echoing Pat's chant for Black Iron Tarkus — and when Tarkus doesn't recreate the famous ledge kill, Woolie is quick to bring up a fan upload of the moment just so Reggie can experience it too.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • As soon as Wooloo was announced for Pokémon Sword and Shield people immediately began making Woolie comparisons. Helped by the fact that Wooloo appears to have wool dreadlocks. It got to the point that Woolie changed his Twitter username from "Better Woolie" to "Better Wooloo".
  • 「Bring Me To Life」^Explanation Much as fans of Pat turned his tendency to be Instantly Proven Wrong into a meme stand named 「Crazy Talk」, fans gave Woolie his own fan stand with powers opposite to 「Crazy Talk」. As it's based around things going Woolie's way, its powers are centered around Defictionalization of Woolie-centric Author Appeal, such as Amazonian Beauty characters and Rule of Cool. The name also has a double meaning due to Evanescence having been a Guilty Pleasure of Woolie's.
    • 「Bring Me To Life Requiem」^Explanation Towards the end of the 2010's several fighting games announced new characters who strongly resembled Woolie (in order: Darli Dagger, Leroy Smith, Nagoriyuki, Woolie making an actual cameo appearance as a Guest Fighter in Hero Versus), leading to fans joking that 「Bring Me To Life」 developed a Requiem form enabling Woolie to literally get into fighting games.
  • Shut the fuck up ^Explanation A scene of Woolie giving a Big "SHUT UP!" in the context of advice for video game fangame developers to avoid getting taken down by copyright holders became viral as a popular reaction image for general use.
  • The Woolie Way ^Explanation Used to make fun of Woolie's decision-making skills, Complexity Addiction, and tendency to suffer from tunnel vision when a notion about gameplay or story gets into his head.
  • From the Mass Effect playthroughs:
    • Red Shepherd chasing Asari ^Explanation Reggie's obvious attraction to the setting's Blue-Skinned Space Babes, along with romancing (by default) Liara and bedding the Consort, has led to jokes of Red Shepherd being utterly obsessed with asari. Fans suspect that, in an alternate timeline where Reggie continued to hold the controller for the second game, Red Shepherd would've recruited Morinth and gotten himself killed trying to have sex with her.
    • "THIS IS MY KILL!" ^Explanation During Garrus's personal mission in 1, Red Shepard guns down Dr. Saleon after saying this phrase in the most chilling way possible, giving birth to a psychopathic side of Shepard that is ready to ruin his companions' personal growths if it means he gets to kill somebody.
    • Blue Shepherd killing Batarians ^Explanation Fans like to joke that Woolie and his character are genocidally bigoted towards the batarian race, actively seeking out opportunities to kill them, thanks to how Mass Effect 2 seemingly goes out of its way to portray their entire species as huge scumbags and The Usual Adversaries.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • Season 4 of Gon In 60 Seconds is quickly shaping up to be the scariest thing posted on Woolie's channel. While the first three seasons were about Super Eyepatch Wolf going to goofier and wilder extremes to get Woolie to like an anime, Season 4 has a deeply unsettling cult-like atmosphere that just makes everything, even mundane conversation, feel stressful and worrying.
  • Woolie's VaatiVidya style Kirby lore videos, though spawned from a joke, can be genuinely creepy because of his consistent even tone throughout and the way a simple perspective flip can make the saccharine Kirby series into a Cosmic Horror Story. The ending of his video on Shiver Star paints a frightening possibility of who he thinks the destroyer of Earth and a great deal of Humanity is.
    Woolie: Snowy and cold, Shiver Star is a winter wonderland — a wonderland full of monsters and... Dark Matter. (0² appears on screen for half a second)
    • The Spoiler warning preceding the lore videos is pretty creepy: It's a clip of the Hyper Zone from Kirby's Dream Land 3 pulsing ominously before the video suddenly and soundlessly smashes to black, with the video proper starting seconds later.
    • Some of the art for the lore videos can be quite disturbing as well. Special mention goes to the image of Morpho Knight. Aside from the hellish background it's in, there's something very wrong with its "face".
• Tear Jerker:
  • In the Missing Episode of Kingdom Death: Monster, Earth the Guilty was slain by the Flower Knight. Woolie admits in the recap with Mothman that Earth's death stung, because the character had been so lucky throughout the series — built up with prophecies, epic gear and special abilities — only to abruptly die thanks to some bad luck. This is followed by a semi-animated dramatic reenactment of Earth's death drawn by Mothman, showing GreatBlackOtaku and FistOCuffs' characters looking on in horror and heartbreak as Earth is fatally impaled on the Flower Knight's lance.
    Woolie: Right in the feels, Moth. Right in the feels.
  • During the KOTOR 2 LP, at one point Little V starts remarking on how surreal it feels to be working with Woolie on the game since he was a fan of his work during the "old days" with the Zaibatsu, only to awkwardly stop as Woolie becomes audibly uncomfortable. Old wounds run deep after all.
  • Woolie making it emphatically clear during the Thousand-Year Door streams that a Two Best Friends reunion is never going to happen.