History YMMV / Digibro

* ReviewsAreTheGospel: Explained in detail by Pedantic Romantic in his series "How Digibro Killed an Anime". PR believes Digibro played a pivotal role in the shift in public opinion in regards to ''Sword Art Online'' with his original review video. Digi argued all his points well enough to make sensible conclusions and point out logical flaws. The haters now had ammo for their views and those who enjoyed the show had no counters. Digi even released a video on how to criticize Sword Art Online that took off so now ''everyone'' is hating on SAO.

** His video criticizing Crunchyroll for many practices they do also include [[DubNameChange changing the names of characters and stands]] in the animated adaptations of ''Anime/JojosBizarreAdventure''. This is conveniently ignoring that this isn't an exclusive issue with ''Crunchyroll'', but with Creator/{{Funimation}}, Creator/BandaiNamcoEntertainment and any media that wants to license the series due to the [[OurLawyersAdviseThisTrope copyright infringements the musical names would cause]] and [[NoExportForYou why Jojo's was never exported outside Japan]] beyond part 3 ([[OlderThanTheyThink and even then, Part 3 was subject]] to many changes in the English release of both [[VideoGame/JojosBizarreAdventureHeritageForTheFuture the videogame]] and OVAS (like Music/VanillaIce being renamed "Cool Ice"). So yeah, even if the characters state the name outright in the Japanese dub, Crunchyroll still needs to change the name to avoid a lawsuit.

* CriticalResearchFailure: Digi is well known for being vocal about why he doesn't think Anime Piracy is wrong, often arguing that sites like Creator/{{Funimation}} and Website/{{Crunchyroll}} don't actually help the industry and instead the revenue they make goes into their pockets. While it was debatable how much truth there was in arguing this, an [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/answerman/2018-08-29/.136030 article written]] by Justin Sevakis on ''Anime News Network'' goes into detail on how sites like Crunchyroll actually do help the anime industry, by doing things such as licensing shows by purchasing them, which itself can cover any expenses an anime has during production. Digi himself acknowledged that he was wrong. He claims, however, that misunderstandings like this are at least partly the fault of anime industry insiders like Justin for sticking to the old-school medium of text articles on websites like ANN that aren't frequented by the new generation of anime neophytes. Meanwhile he sees them as leaving the more rapidly growing platform of [=YouTube=] in the hands of independent amateurs like Digi who often lack insider knowledge of the business, and faults them for declining to collaborate or share information with [=YouTubers=] such as himself. YMMV on whether this is a valid criticism or just attempting to shift the blame.

* {{Misblamed}}: Seeing as how Digi gives praise to their production efforts and has sang praises for ''Manga/KOn'', ''Anime/TamakoMarket'', ''Manga/LuckyStar'', ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'', ''Novel/SoundEuphonium'' a lot of his viewers think he is a fan of Creator/KyotoAnimation. However he admits that with few exceptions he's only really a fan of the Naoko Yamada directed shows and not many of the Tatsuya Ishihara directed shows.

* CriticalResearchFailure: Digi is well known for being vocal about why he doesn't think Anime Piracy is wrong, often arguing that sites like Creator/{{Funimation}} and Creator/{{Crunchyroll}} don't actually help the industry and instead the revenue they make goes into their pockets. While it was debatable how much truth there was in arguing this, an [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/answerman/2018-08-29/.136030 article written]] by Justin Sevakis on ''Anime News Network'' goes into detail on how sites like Crunchyroll actually do help the anime industry, by doing things such as licensing shows by purchasing them, which itself can cover any expenses an anime has during production. Digi himself acknowledged that he was wrong; he claims, however, that misunderstandings like this are at least partly the fault of anime industry insiders like Justin for sticking to the old-school medium of text articles on websites like ANN that aren't frequented by the new generation of anime neophytes, thus leaving the more rapidly growing platform of [=YouTube=] in the hands of independent amateurs like Digi who often lack insider knowledge of the business. YMMV on whether this is a valid criticism or just attempting to shift the blame.

* CriticalResearchFailure: Digi is well known for being vocal about why he doesn't think Anime Piracy is wrong, often arguing that sites like Creator/Funimation and Creator/Crunchyroll don't actually help the industry and instead the revenue they make goes into their pockets. While it was debatable how much truth there was in arguing this, an [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/answerman/2018-08-29/.136030 article written]] by Justin Sevakis on ''Anime News Network'' goes into detail on how sites like Crunchyroll actually do help the anime industry, by doing things such as licensing shows by purchasing them, which itself can cover any expenses an anime has during production. Digi himself acknowledged that he was wrong, [[NeverMyFault before switching the blame onto people like Justin for not being around to correct him]].

** A literal example as he let his beard grow out really long as seen in many of his early to mid 2016 videos but ended up shaving it in the summer of 2016.

** Did it again with ''[[Literature/FromTheNewWorld ShinSekai Yori]]'', doing a video on the anime with the title stating it is ''worse'' than ''Sword Art Online''. Which says a lot coming from the person who spoke negatively about SAO to the point of being seen as having been a catalyst for people to start critiquing it similarly. In the case of [=ShinSekai=] Yori, a lot of people disliked the way he criticised the story elements, often trying to correct him on mistakes he made or point out faults in his reasonings. Basically, he was supposedly looking at it from the wrong angle. The result was that he couldn't provide some solid arguments here, which was strongly disapproved by those who like the fact that he can usually do this very well. Some have admitted however that a couple of his other complaints were pretty valid and/or reasonable, such as the ones about the art, sound and characters, with occasionally a few small ones about the story.

** While he never reviewed the show, a lot of people often mention the fact that he dropped ''Novel/FromTheNewWorld'' in the first four episodes because he disliked it. This especially caused a stir among his viewers because that is often considered to be one of the best shows that Creator/A1Pictures has produced. Many fans of that show often feel as if he didn't give it a fair enough chance, or only disliked it because he didn't like how it looks when he has '''openly stated''' he hated other aspects of the show aside from visuals.

** In his "We Have Accepted Mediocrity" video, he proposes that Kyoto Animation should open a Patreon to rescue themselves from the failing profit margins of the modern anime industry. He had the right idea, but the[[Creator/StudioTrigger wrong studio]].

%%->'''Digibro:''' ''Gen Urobuchi had enough hype at the time that people actually ''did'' watch this bizarre, CG, ugly-ass, weird fucking thing that he wrote, that is the polar opposite of what I'm saying should have happened.''

* JustHereForGodzilla: Discussed in "We Have Accepted Mediocrity", in which he states that people would watch the anime ''Anime/{{Expelled from Paradise}}'' because Creator/{{Gen Urobuchi}} wrote it. To give some context: he doesn't think Gen Urobuchi should waste his skills on things like this.
->'''Digibro:''' ''Gen Urobuchi had enough hype at the time that people actually ''did'' watch this bizarre, CG, ugly-ass, weird fucking thing that he wrote, that is the polar opposite of what I'm saying should have happened.''

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Radcon 2016, in which he got many of his friends from Website/YouTube together at his house.. and even recorded an entire album while they were there.
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: His hour and a half long thesis on why ''Manga/KOn'' is his favorite anime of all time. Its very relieving to see him spend a long period of time talking about a show that he likes and its nice to hear about his personal attachment towards the show and characters.

* FunnyMoments
** Asking his friend who works in a hospital about Kirito managing to get his hands on a classified drug. His friend who has never seen ''Sword Art Online'' calling out the scene is one thing but Digi's exchanges with her and the attempts at typing rebuttals in the top are funny as well.
** In his vlogs he'll sometimes remark about random things in his house completely interrupting the subject at hand for a second. Noteworthy examples include the cat strolling into his room in his Q&A, and randomly commenting about a laundry basket in his room.
** Digi's impression of That Anime Snob in his rant on him which sounds scarily close to his actual voice. Also from the same video Digi's over the top reactions to how farfetched many of Snob's statements were.

* HilariousInHindsight: In the video on ''Sword Art Online II'', he briefly discusses the treatment of in-game international money transfers as a 'legal grey area', and how in reality it would lead to a government crackdown. Two years later, and ''[[VideoGame/CounterStrike Counter Strike: Global Offensive]]'' was subject to a very similar controversy regarding the treatment of in-game skins as a currency.

** His video "just shittalking other anime youtubers for like half an hour, oh god what have i done" has caused a huge split in the Youtube anime community. While most agree that many of his points about how the anime community's way of analyzing anime could use some work, the way in which he did it involved [[ReasonYouSuckSpeech trashing everyone who is remotely popular as an "anime analysis"]]. Some think Digi was right for calling out the people he did, while some see Digibro as being a {{Jerkass}} about it.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Radcon 2016, in which he got many of his friends from YouTube together at his house.. and even recorded an entire album while they were there.

* InternetBackdraft: Many of his viewers turned on him when he [[https://twitter.com/TheTropeMaster/status/978498919427690496 said he lost respect for Patreon banning illustrated incest, bestiality, and lolicon]].

* AcceptableTargets: ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'', ''LightNovel/TheAsteriskWar'', and the vast majority of Creator/A1Pictures and Creator/BeeTrain shows.

* MemeticMutation: Referring to Creator/A1Pictures as the "UsefulNotes/McDonalds of anime" after he made the comparison in one of his ''LightNovel/TheAsteriskWar'' videos.

* ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch: Generally averts this trope as more often than not he drops shows he doesn't like very early on and usually has no interest in talking about shows he has no intention on completing. The only time he makes negative videos on anime is in the rare event that a a show is significantly bad he feels the need to talk about it as seen with ''LightNovel/TheAsteriskWar'', and ''[[Anime/PsychoPass Psycho-Pass 2]]'', or he loves to hate it like ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline''.
** His video discussing how you can judge an anime based on the first episode generally comes across this way however. In it he uses hindsight to justify how good some shows first episodes can while others aren't and that by extension you can tell the quality of the show. However many of the shows he complains out, excluding ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'' and ''LightNovel/TheAsteriskWar'', are ones he dropped after one episode, meaning he's watched only a tiny percent of it. This means he quite often ends up ignoring shows that [[ItGetsBetter improve]] [[GrowingTheBeard as they go on]].

* FlameWar: Although Digibro admits to his own biases, his well made reviews are often used as fuel for various flame wars on the internet. Videos such as "How to Recognize a Terrible Anime (in just one episode)" [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G30xZxJLR8U]], have got so chaotic that he had to disable comments. Many misinterpret the ideology of his videos [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCxWqIOKjro]]. According to the video he likes to engage in discussion and debate, but more often than not his videos (like many critics) end up being means to "validate" ones opinion as the superior one.

** Digi has made it very clear that he doesn't care much for the shows that the anime fandom hypes up each season and has always been more interested in more obscure media. He usually goes into each anime season expecting that his favorite show will usually be one that no one cares about or has created very divided reactions in the anime community. Because of this some see Digi as an "anime hipster"[[note]]Even though he has stated that he isn't[[/note]] and often find his choices for anime of the year to be weird. Others see this as the edge that Digi has over other anime reviewers. A lot of his fans praise him for being able to try everything and putting his focus or giving a different perspective on shows that other anime reviewers aren't or have given attention to.

* His video "just shittalking other anime youtubers for like half an hour, oh god what have i done" has caused a huge split in the Youtube anime community. While most agree that many of his points about how the anime community's way of analyzing anime could use some work, the way in which he did it involved [[ReasonYouSuckSpeech trashing everyone who is remotely popular as an "anime analysis"]]. Some think Digi was right for calling out the people he did, while some see Digibro as being a {{Jerkass}} about it.

* {{Misblamed}}: Seeing as how Digi gives praise to their production efforts and has sang praises for ''Manga/KOn'', ''Anime/TamakoMarket'', ''Manga/LuckyStar'', ''LightNovel/TheMelancholyOfHaruhiSuzumiya'', ''Novel/SoundEuphonium'' a lot of his viewers think he is a fan of Creator/KyotoAnimation. However he admits that with few exceptions he's only really a fan of the Naoko Yamada directed shows and not many of the Tatsuya Ishihara directed shows.

* MorePopularSpinOff: Digibro initially started off making videos about ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' and his anime videos were something he did after the fact. As of 2016, Digi has garnered many new fans from his anime videos most of which have no clue of his origins.
** His anime videos as a whole qualify as initially he started with a series called "Useless Anime Knowledge" that provided quick factual information about studios and shows while analytical diatribes were something he did every now and then. Nowadays Digi is more known for doing analytical diatribes rather than quick factual videos.
* FandomRivalry: Digi has made note of the fact that there is a rather strong one between his fans and fans of That Anime Snob.

** Can even happen to shows he doesn't make big videos on be it shows he watches on his After Dark channel or talked about in his Weebcast appearances. Usually when watching random shows in bulk he's guaranteed to come across ones that are popular that he doesn't like or ends up dropping which sometimes leads to comments in defense of those shows.

* FriendlyRival: Most of the people he's done videos with are friends of his, most notable Geoff Thew at Mothers Basement.