History YMMV / TerribleWritingAdvice

*** This was part of the reason he made a second video on Urban Fantasy, as most of the original video was too focused in ''Twilight'' -style romantic fantasy and didn't cover the rest of the genre.

** This was part of the reason he made a second video on Urban Fantasy, as most of the original video was too focused in ''Twilight'' -style romantic fantasy and didn't cover the rest of the genre.

* AcceptableTargets:
** J.P. ''really'' hates [[LoveTriangle love triangles]] and [[PluckyComicRelief comic relief characters]].
** The Main/{{Isekai}} genre and all its infamous tropes are another of J.P.'s personal punching bags, as well as other anime, manga and light novels that take influence from them.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: [[{{Foil}} JP's Inner Critic]] was introduced as a character to who could give good writing advice in-character. But his arrogance was [[{{Flanderization}} Flanderized]] in ''Traditional vs Self-Publishing,'' presumably out of a need to have a second writer character to show all the pitfalls of traditional publishing, making him just another moron in the cast, and his name and appearance an ArtifactTitle. WordOfGod was that this was intentional to show how people's real inner critic can be wrong by being too critical or valuing originality too much, but most of the dumb things I.C. says in said episode seem more born of [[SmallNameBigEgo arrogance]] (that J.P. already has in spades) than originality, and this characterization can cause jokes based on the inner critic being useful (like J.P. killing him or blocking him out with alchohol) to fall flat.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Much of the ''Isekai'' episode is spent criticizing tropes more related to general Harem anime than the Isekai genre itself [[FridgeLogic (what would a class president or the protagonist's older non-related sister be doing in the magical world?)]] The criticisms given are still perfectly valid, but this takes time away from harping on real problems and cliches of the genre, and JP will be unable to do a video about actual harem anime without retreading many of the same points.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: [[{{Foil}} JP's Inner Critic]] was introduced as a character to who could give good writing advice in-character. But his arrogance was [[{{Flanderization}} Flanderized]] in ''Traditional vs Self-Publishing,'' presumably out of a need to have a second writer character to show all the pitfalls of traditional publishing, making him just another moron in the cast, and his name and appearance an ArtifactTitle. Although that's if don't like J.P.'s explanation about wanting the Inner Critic to also be a flawed character who can be wrong, just like a real inner critic, and instead is allowed to go too far in the opposite direction by being critical and valuing originality too much.

* CriticalResearchFailure:
** In "Noble Houses", J.P. notes that the scenario where the PraetorianGuard launches a coup against the emperor happened once in real life. Viewers were quick to note that this scenario actually happened at least a ''dozen'' times, and that is just counting the Roman Empire alone!![[note]]In context, J.P.'s point was about the Praetorian Guard auctioning off the position of emperor, not the coup ''specifically''... Which, funnily enough, did happen in the Year of the Five Emperors, when Didius Julianus bought the position.[[/note]]
** In ''Isekai'', JP (unironically) describes historical harems as collections of sex slaves, which is DatedHistory largely based on western stereotypes and mis-understandings. Most of the women in harems were workers of some sort, choosing the Sultan's bedmate usually fell to his mother, and the positions were largely voluntary.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: [[{{Foil}} JP's Inner Critic]] was introduced as a character to who could give good writing advice in-character. But his arrogance was [[{{Flanderization}} Flanderized]] in ''Traditional vs Self-Publishing,'' presumably out of a need to have a second writer character to show all the pitfalls of traditional publishing, making him just another moron in the cast, and his name and appearance an ArtifactTitle.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Much of the ''Iseaki'' episode is spent criticizing tropes more related to general Harem anime than the Iseaki genre itself [[FridgeLogic (what would a class president or the protagonist's older non-related sister be doing in the magical world?)]] The criticisms given are still perfectly valid, but this takes time away from harping on real problems and cliches of the genre, and JP will be unable to do a video about actual harem animes without retreading many of the same points.

** His "Cosmic Horror" video points out that Lovecraft had some serious racist UnfortunateImplications, and invoking them is a good way to ruin your career; even in-character, he doesn't try to defend them.
* AuthorsSavingThrow: One of the things that annoyed viewers about his videos was the gratuitous ProductPlacement, usually involving him starting or ending an episode with "This episode was brought to you by X." The way he handled ProductPlacement from "Steampunk" onwards has been praised as a unique and interesting form of ProductPlacement that fits the tone of his videos (His sample characters, such as the Dark Lord, praise the products he is advertising in his place, and try to make the product seem useful for their goals like world domination).