YMMV / Your Favorite Martian

• Accidental Aesop: In Date Myself, Puff dates himself and begins to hate the relationship a couple months into dating. This could be taken as "don't date someone with your own toxic and flawed personality. Find someone you can bounce off of to be happier and healthier."
• Covered Up: At one point, the Your Favorite Martian cover of "Just a Friend" had over twice the views of the original. To be fair, the original's from long before the times of YouTube. Ray may have actually increased awareness of the song with his cover.
• Crossover Ship: Benatar and Zoey.
• Crosses the Line Twice:
  • "The Stereotypes Song", as you might expect from a song cheerfully singing about National Stereotypes.
  • The group's later songs once the series underwent an Art Evolution fall under this. Topic matter includes violently beating kids for anything slightly annoying, opening a new store dedicated to selling sexy ass cheeks, getting drunk so ugly girls will look hot, and dumping an otherwise-okay girl because of her smell (it's not even her). Even compared to earlier edgy songs, there are more harsh lyrics that seem to exist only to be more vulgar.
  • Toned down with "Friend Zone" and "Complicated", which are far more heartfelt than the ones released around it, with relatively little vulgarity.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • Bill Cosby's appearance in "Orphan Tears", where he is the first thing DeeJay sees when he wakes up from a hangover, can be this in light of the sexual abuse cases that have permanently damaged his reputation, including accusations of slipping roofies into women's drinks. Cosby later reappears in "Orphan Tears Part 2", where he turns out to be Real After All and wasn't a hallucination that DeeJay had seen, and is revealed to be the person behind capturing orphans to make "Orphan Tears".
  • The ending of "Nerd Rage", where Wilton (the Nerd) lambasts another nerd for not knowing who Joss Whedon is, calling him "one of the greatest writer/directors of our time", stings hard now that he's become a rather problematic figure in the nerd community for accusations of infidelity, sexual misconduct, and repeated workplace harassment.
  • The part of "Robot Bar Fight" where WALL•E snaps, grabs RoboCop's gun and guns down the rest of the patrons can be very difficult to watch in light of the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting.
• Heartwarming Moments:
  • The Unofficial Smithers Love Song can also be something of Tear Jerker at the end, with Smithers and Mr. Burns holding hands.
    All he ever wanted to do was spend a little time with you. Hey, Mr. Burns. Hey, Mr. Burns. You know you're worth more to him than all the money you spend. Hey, Mr. Burns. Hey, Mr. Burns.
  • After a whole song of abuse, the Alien manages to get a girl.
    • In the Unplugged Version of the song, the same alien kid is in the audience smiling. He even claps at the end of the video.
  • Orphan Tears Part 2 as meta example. After being gone for nearly 10 years, fans rejoiced seeing YFM release a new video, even better, their first new video was a sequel to one of their most popular songs (with a part three stated to come out in mid-June, completing the story).
    • Within the Orphan Tears Part 2 video itself. Puff Puff, Wax, and Deejay, after their drunken bender, accidentally come across a warehouse with children in cages and realize that the Orphan Tears drink actually comes from literal orphan tears. Puff Puff attempts to break them out (before Bill Cosby catches the gang and the video ends on a cliffhanger), saying "we gotta help these kids". Considering he was shown to have a jerkish personality in earlier videos, especially prominent in YFMTS, it's really sweet to see he's also got a good heart and attempted to rescue the children. He certainly came a long way from Whip Your Kids.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • "Verified" is literally all about the respect and adoration Puff receives after being awarded an official Twitter blue check. The song came out in late June of 2022—in November of the same (not even five months later), Elon Musk's changes to policy meant that anyone with a verified phone number and $8 could just buy a verified check. As a status symbol, it quickly became useless and even reviled due to controversies surrounding fake verifications, making Puff's honour at being verified laughable.
• Ho Yay: The music video for "Somebody that I Used to Know" has Puff singing Kimbra's part from the original. If you know the context of the song, it could possibly appear that he's singing it to Benatar.
  • The music video for 'The Trauma Song' features Benatar repeatedly staring at Puff then repeatedly looking away at the end, even when Puff stops singing. Note that the entire time Dee Jay, Axel and even Puff stare at the viewer instead.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • The song "Mr. Douchebag" became a meme sometime in early 2021, where it features fictional characters wearing Mr. Douchebag's attire and the song's instrumental playing in the background.
  • To a much smaller extent, Rich People $hit" became a meme in 2024, more specifically in recontextualized TikTok'' edits, mostly about "if (currency) didn't exist" or "if me and bro didn't spend (x) on (y)"
• Mexicans Love Speedy Gonzales: The comment section of "Transphobic Techno" is full of transgender people saying they love the song. It helps that the song is intended to make fun of EDM producers rather than trans people, and that the video portrays the character's Unsettling Gender-Reveal reaction as majorly exaggerated and not justified (especially since the ending reveals that the bitches didn't actually have a penis).
• Misattributed Song: "Doin' Your Mom" is often incorrectly thought of as being a Your Favorite Martian song, when it is actually a song from Ray William Johnson's earlier group Fatty Spins.
• Tear Jerker:
  • "Friend Zone" is difficult to listen to for anyone who has ever been in a similar position.
  • "Alien", which depicts an alien being bullied to the brink. Thankfully, he meets a girl alien at the end.
  • "Text Me Back" is hard to listen to if you've ever been in a relationship with a manipulative or possessive partner.
  • "This Is Why I'm Single" can be pretty bittersweet for people with bad love-lives. The song is about Puff, Wax and Shuba explaining their faults that make them remain single, and why they feel contempt about it, even if it does sting having to stay single.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: When the animation style got a bit of a redo, there were several comments on the "Whip Yo Kids" video complaining about how they liked the old animation better.
  • The new animation style for the 2022 videos onward got a mixed reaction from fans, the most notable change being that Deejay's, Axel's, and Benatar's hair doesn't cover their eyes anymore, and Axel is shown to be more muscular. Ray, who came up with the new character designs himself, even acknowledges this, telling fans that "if you're gonna be mad at anyone (for redesigning the characters), be mad at me because I designed them myself".
• Unexpected Character: Stevi the Demon, a character from Ray's other animated band project The Upside Downs, has a guest singing part in Orphan Tears Part 2 and 3, also sporting a redesign. Ray later revealed that he's going to redesign the rest of The Upside Downs eventually, and that both them and YFM are in the same shared universe.
• Unintentional Period Piece:
  • A number of interests of Wilton (the Nerd) from the song "Nerd Rage", such as Star Wars and comic book heroes, would receive such massive mainstream success just a few years after the song was released (thanks to the sequel trilogy and the Marvel Cinematic Universe especially) that considering it nerdy instead of a given for liking these things dates the video to early 2010's and before.
  • The premise of "Grandma Got a Facebook" would be lost on new viewers, as the two core ideas behind it no longer make sense. The first idea is the thought of a grandmother getting a Facebook account being weird. Nowadays, Facebook is seen as the "old people" social network, with people under their 30's rejecting it in favor of places such as Instagram and TikTok. If anything, the grandma would be the most likely person to get a Facebook account today. The second idea is that she would use it to hook up with guys. While this still occurred when the song released in 2011, the push away from its college student roots towards a general audience severely declined its use for this a few short years later, with Instagram DMs and dating apps such as Tinder and Bumble taking its place.

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