History YMMV / NickBertke

* OvershadowedByControversy: Around the mid-to-late [=2010s=], to go against a prevailing culture he described as overly reliant on safe spaces and trigger warnings and "swinging too far to the left", he made several deliberately offensive public statements. He released a video in 2015 deriding feminism, and in 2018, [[https://www.dailydot.com/upstream/pogo-homophobic-rant/ mass-scale attention was drawn to a leaked 2016 livestream]] of him voicing explicit hatred of the gay community to the point of fist pumping about the Pulse nightclub shooting. While the former got him in a fair share of hot water, the latter made for a ''massive'' controversy, with the various rationales he gave[[note]]His statements in the livestream were intended as a satire of the far right and separate from his actual beliefs, the livestream was never meant for public release, he has a "muddled" sense of humor and empathy due to having Asperger's syndrome and bipolar disorder, and he himself identifies as bicurious[[/note]] not mitigating the backlash much. While he still has a steady following, his chances of working with a company again seem slim, not to mention the [[NeverLiveItDown blow his reputation has taken]] such that bringing him up in a popular online space at all will likely incur ''some'' people convinced that he's a homophobe.

* OvershadowedByControversy: Around the mid-to-late [=2010s=], to go against a prevailing culture he described as overly reliant on safe spaces and trigger warnings and "swinging too far to the left", he made several deliberately offensive public statements. He released a video in 2015 deriding feminism, and in 2018 [[https://www.dailydot.com/upstream/pogo-homophobic-rant/ mass-scale attention was drawn to a leaked 2016 livestream]] of him voicing explicit hatred of the gay community to the point of fist pumping about the Pulse nightclub shooting. While the former got him in a fair share of hot water, the latter made for a ''massive'' controversy, with his dismissal of what he said on the grounds of his statements being a satire of the far right and separate from his actual beliefs not quelling the backlash much. While he still has a steady following, his chances of working with a company again seem slim, not to mention the [[NeverLiveItDown blow his reputation has taken]] such that bringing him up in a popular online space at all will likely incur ''some'' people convinced that he's a homophobe.
* SignatureSong: "Alice" is his most viewed video of all time with 29M views, and has remained popular throughout the years since its release.