Line #58 WebVideo/IHateEverything


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5	THIS IS MY OPINION.\
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9	"I Hate Everything" (real name Alex Beltman) is a British Platform/YouTube user who, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin hates everything]]. He posts 3 types of videos:
10	* "I HATE (subject of the video)", where he talks about something he doesn't like or what makes him angry, managing to avoid [[CausticCritic yelling in his videos]], and talks about his viewpoints in a calm and collected manner.
11	* "Comment Comeback": When one makes videos titled "I HATE X", there's bound to be a lot of backlash, and he highlights the more interesting of these comments.
12	* "The Search for the Worst": Every once in a while, he reviews a video from the bottom 100 on [=IMDb=] in search of the worst movie ever (though he occasionally reviews movies out of the bottom on [=IMDb=]). Was briefly on hiatus as a result of a Copyright Claim from Derek Savage for his review of Film/CoolCatSavesTheKids, but is now resolved and continuing the series. An ongoing list of his efforts and what he considers to be the worst can be found [[https://letterboxd.com/ihe/list/the-search-for-the-worst/ here]].
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14	His [=YouTube=] channel is located [[https://www.youtube.com/user/IHEOfficial here]].
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16	!![=!!! DON'T GET YOUR TROPES IN A TWIST !!!=]
17	* AccentuateTheNegative: As the name suggests, the subject matter of the videos tends to be things that Alex doesn't really like all that much. It's not pure negativity, however; he's perfectly willing to offer balanced critiques by pointing out things he likes in what he's discussing. And in spite of what the title implies, he doesn't literally hate ''everything''.
18	* ActorAllusion: In his review for ''Film/FTheProm'', instead of calling [[Creator/JoelCourtney Cole]] and [[Creator/DanielleCampbell Maddy]] by their real names, Alex refers to them as "Film/Super8" and "Series/PrisonBreak" throughout the video.
19	* ActuallyPrettyFunny:
20	** One of the reasons why ''Fred 3: Camp Fred'' is so dire is because the first two did get a few laughs out of Alex. The third... not so much.
21	** When he reviewed the parody channels in his video [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJb-fk6LYYE I HATE WEIRD PARODY CHANNELS]], some of them he genuinely thought were good parodies.
22	* AirQuotes: There is often an animation of hands making air quotes, or a blank screen with a word with loads of quotation marks around it. For example: """"""""[--comedy--]""""""""
23	* AntiNihilist: Inverted in the Oogiloves review; he points out how [[TheWorldIsJustAwesome the world is amazing, full of wonder and mystery,]] and he just sat there for an hour and a half watching the Oogieloves.
24	** Also, he doesn't 'really' hate '''EVERYTHING'''.
25	* ArchEnemy: Apparently considers Brightspark Productions his mortal enemy, due to blatant plagiarism and content stealing as well as false advertising.
26	** Minions could also be considered this.
27	* ArtifactTitle: "The Search for the Worst" made perfect sense when it first started out, as the series originally revolved around him going through the top 100 bottom films list on [=IMDb=] to search for well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the worst]]. This premise was slowly dropped as the series progressed however, with it becoming a more general bad movie review series instead. The title still remains however.
28	* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: In the Trying To Watch for ''Laserblast'', Alex mentions the pterodon attack in ''Film/JurassicPark3'' and Reuben comments that Alex knows his dinosaur names well. The problem is, "pterodon" is actually a type of plant, not a type of pterosaur (it's likely Alex was getting confused with the similarly-named pteranodon). He also refers to the pteranodons as dinosaurs, which is incorrect as they are actually pterosaurs.
29	* BerserkButton: As demonstrated in ''Shark Exorcist'', he actually gets really, really mad after seeing a character playing with a slide improperly and makes a rant about the scene itself.
30	** He gets ''super pissed'' at ''Left Behind'' when the film implies that dogs don't have souls.
31	* BigOlEyebrows: His avatar has some very prominent brows. Exaggerated when he gets angry at Cool Cat in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzXSQ5f08sA this video]], when each brow grows to be bigger than his head!
32	* BlandNameProduct: Refers to "Damn Daniel" as "Crikey Cameron" after some copyright troubles.
33	* ButtMonkey: Aqua Man, and Kite-Man to a lesser extent.
34	* CatchPhrase: "I'll see you next time, '''''bye'''''!"
35	* ChekhovsGun: [[ConversationalTroping Conversed]] in the ''Film/{{Laserblast}}'' video, quoting even Creator/AntonChekhov himself. Ironically, it's to point out how the movie actually averts it.
36	* ClickbaitGag: One of his videos is titled "5 Epic Ways to Be a [=YouTube=] Celebrity!" It even has a check-mark in the title. The thumbnail has LetsPlay/PewDiePie, WebVideo/{{Markiplier}}, a hot chick's face, and another hot chick's [[MaleGaze booty surrounded by a red circle with an arrow pointed at it.]] In the video, Alex discusses clickbait and various tactics that some [=YouTube=] channels use to garner clicks, such as everything in the title of his video as well as what he put in his own thumbnail.
37	* ComedicSociopathy: There's a few times where IHE steps into this, like at the start of the Valentine's Day episode where he threatens to kill Aquaman if he sends him another Valentine. Or at the end of the Christmas episode, where he burns his friend alive while he's trapped inside a box.
38	* CouchGag: At the beginning of every "I HATE" video, the first image is a warning that says "WARNING! SURPRISINGLY ENOUGH THIS IS MY OPINION. DON'T GET YOUR X IN A TWIST", where X represents a different word relevant to the topic of the video. For example, the word at the beginning of his "I HATE [[WesternAnimation/Frozen2013 FROZEN]] is "snowman", and the word at the beginning of his "I HATE [=YOUTUBE=] video is "Sandstorm".
39	* CoversAlwaysLie: During the (NOT DISNEY) Collection, he comes across ''three'' instances of this:
40	** ''Braver'', rather than a ''WesternAnimation/{{Brave}}'' [[TheMockbuster Mockbuster]], was a Canadian TV Christmas special called ''A Fairy Tale Christmas''.
41	** ''Frozen Land'', rather than a Mockbuster of ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen\|2013}}'', was ''The Legend of Sarila'', a film about Inuits trying to save their tribe.
42	** ''Tangled Up'', rather than a Mockbuster of ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'', was a couple of episodes of ''WesternAnimation/BritannicasTalesAroundTheWorld'', a collection of educational fairy tale shorts originally produced and aired in 1990. At least this one was somewhat relevant to what it's ripping off... a sixth of the time.[[note]]''Britannica's Tales Around the World'' is about similarities between fairy tales in different cultures - one well-known fairy tale, two more obscure tales with similar themes. The first episode covered Literature/HanselAndGretel and other stories of people being fattened up to be eaten, and the second covered Literature/{{Rapunzel}} (the story ''Tangled'' is based on) and other stories of [[GirlInTheTower Girls in the Tower]] finding true love. This means out of ''six'' stories, ''only three have anything to do with Rapunzel, and of those three, '''only one ACTUALLY IS Rapunzel'''''.[[/note]]
43	* CrapsaccharineWorld: In "I HATE GAME/DVD COVERS", I Hate Everything goes to an AlternateUniverse where all media covers are unique and his counterpart is I Love Everything. It is also an universe where [[spoiler:Aquaman]] is a tyrant who rules the world and [[spoiler:kills I Love Everything]].
44	* {{Crossover}}:
45	** He did a crossover with Creator/ThatCreepyReading in his video "I HATE CREEPYPASTAS". He later did one with Webvideo/ADoseOfBuckley in the ironically named "I HATE COLLABORATION VIDEOS" as part of Buckley's 2016 AprilFools video.
46	** He makes a guest appearance with WebVideo/{{Caddicarus}} to review the Creator/PhoenixGames' ''Peter Pan''.
47	** ralphthemoviemaker appears in the ''WebVideo/{{Fred}}'' Search For The Worst episode, where he covers the second movie after IHE [[HeroicBSOD doesn't take the first one so well]].
48	* DeadpanSnarker: When reading hate comments in the most delicious way possible.
49	* {{Dissimile}}: In his review of ''Superbabies: Film/BabyGeniuses 2'':
50	-->'''IHE:''' It's like making a movie about one of those pots of Crazy Slime. It seems like a great idea on paper, but then you take the lid off, and it's nothing but a weird, smelly tub with some slime in. And finally you start to question why this is a thing that exists, [[LampshadeHanging and why I'm comparing]] ''[[LampshadeHanging Superbabies]]'' [[LampshadeHanging to a pot of Crazy Slime.]]
51	* DramaticReading: Did one for a Platform/DeviantArt story called "Hope" in 5 parts [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjTRUQNgNnI here]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0dfhAN7NEU here]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IALjNLB3GPA here]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-am4HAHRTw here]], and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwMacD6ZuCA here]].
52	* ElephantInTheLivingRoom: This is why he hates WebVideo/YouTubeRewind 2016. While he doesn't mind the video rehashing the memes of the past year, he's disappointed how it overlooks the more significant moments of the year: Creator/TheFineBrothers attempting to trademark the "WebVideo/{{React}}" label; WebVideo/{{H3H3Productions}} being sued by Matt "Bold Guy" Hoss, leading to the creation of the Fair Use Protection Agency; and [=Youtube=] CEO Susan Wojcicki's misguided attempt to implement the self-policing Youtube Heroes program.
53	* TheFaceless: He has never shown his real face in his (IHE) videos, because he doesn't think it would add anything to them. He's stated in a couple of his videos that it should be about what he says, not how he looks while he's saying it. He has, however, revealed his face on Twitter ([[TrollingCreator though on someone else's profile, whose face reveal he in turn posted as if it were his own]]).
54	** His face is, however, seen briefly in the second "I Hate Minions" video. At the part where he shows off a large minion statue in an arcade, you can see his face reflected in the wall mirror, though it's quite obscured.
55	** Averted if you watch him on JAR media. He shows his face all the time to the point where fans express confusion given his rule of being the faceless on his main show.
56	* FieryRedhead: His old avatar has red hair, and he is quite critical on every topic he hates and can get rather angry at some stages. However, his new avatar has blond hair, and Alex has stated that he is in fact a blond.
57	* FlatWhat: Alex's reaction to the DVD of "Tangled Up", an apparent rip-off of ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'', beginning with an animated version of [[spoiler:Hansel and Gretel]].
58	* FreezeFrameBonus: The 'OI, GOVERNMENT' video reveals that he lives in North Wiltshire.
59	* HeroicBSOD: He suffers one while watching the first ''WebVideo/{{Fred}}'' movie, prompting ralphthemoviemaker to watch the second movie while he recovers. He in turn suffers one himself afterwards, just in time for IHE to recover.
60	* HypocrisyNod: Often employed as of late, when Alex criticizes a [=YouTube=] trend, since by his own admission he uses the same tactics.
61	* HypocriticalHumor: In [[https://youtu.be/PjYieeQofR4&ab_channel=IHateEverything I HATE REVIEW SCORES]] he says that people who jokingly give bad movies good scores are a bunch of losers with nothing better to do. 50 seconds later he tells everyone watching to go to the Website/IMDb page for ''Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip'' and give it a 10/10.
62	* ItsPopularNowItSucks: Invoked as the reason why he hates ''Frozen'', ''Five Nights At Freddy's'', ''Minecraft'', and ''Minions''. He hates the last one ''so much'' that they earned a two-parter "I HATE" video.
63	* LampshadeHanging: Frequently used when Alex says something rather cynical, such as in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC0UrEHtlFU&t=12m08s I HATE YOUTUBE DRAMA]]:
64	-->'''Alex:''' It's fucking obvious that a monetizable platform as lucrative as [=YouTube=] would be ripe for contemptuous exploitation. It was fucking inevitable. [[LampshadeHanging Hang on, sorry, my head's kinda stuck up my ass there, let me just pull it out.]] ''[[StockSoundEffect [wheeoop[=]=]]]'' Ah, that's better.
65	* MaliciousMisnaming: Keeps calling Pip "Poop" throughout his review of ''Life's a Jungle: Africa's Most Wanted''. Though he does it because a character pronounces it close to this way.
66	* MerchandiseDriven: He coined the term "dibby" (plural "dibbies") to describe {{Ridiculously Cute Critter}}s (though he's more likely to consider them {{Sidekick Creature Nuisance}}s) whose design is meant to maximize future merchandise sales. Examples he cites include the WesternAnimation/{{Minions}}, the VideoGame/RavingRabbids, the [[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi Ewoks]], and [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Pikachu]].
67	* MyGreatestFailure: The fact that "DURR PLANT" became a meme, especially considering how much he hates memes, and the fact that he was poking fun at Damn Daniel and wasn't intentionally trying to create a meme.
68	* NavelGazing: Did a video on the 100 Worst [=YouTube=] videos, looking for himself. He was disappointed he only ranked 80th.
69	* NiceGuy: While IHE's persona hates nearly everything, his real personality in his Trying to Watch and live streams shows him to be very soft spoken, patient, and polite, and he's admitted to having taken a stab at writing a children's book in the past.
70	* NoNameGiven: IHE thus far has only revealed his first name, Alex, presumably due to the same privacy reasons behind hiding his face in his IHE videos, although JAR Media has his face shown all the time. There are other sources around the internet that list various vaguely similar-sounding surnames for him, and it could also reasonably be presumed that he shares his last name with his brother Jamie, but none of these surnames have ever been endorsed by Alex himself.
71	* NonIndicativeName:
72	** He ''doesn't'' hate everything, but that also applies for some of his videos as well, for example, his ''I HATE MINECRAFT'' video is about he hates the overexposure of ''Minecraft'', not that he actually hates the game and the ''I HATE PEWDIEPIE'' video is directed to his rabid fans than LetsPlay/PewDiePie himself (though he did later rename the video to "I HATE PEWDIE'S RABID FANS").
73	** In ''I HATE [[Series/LoveIsland LOVE ISLAND]]'', he considers the title of the show itself to be this, since he believes neither of the two words match what the show is about, noting that instead of love, it is about vapidity and playground drama, and an "island" sounds more like an remote, isolated pile of sand with a palm tree on it than an idyllic villa where the contestants waddle around drinking cocktails and fondling each other.
74	* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: Whenever he shows a truly bizarre clip of a film during "Search for the Worst," the text "I did not edit this" appears on screen.
75	* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: A particular scene in ''Shark Exorcist'' causes him to drop his usual "deadpan angry" persona to a genuinely angry one.
76	* PerpetualFrowner: His avatar.
77	* PoesLaw: Fell victim to this after "DURR PLANT", made out of satire with no intents of becoming a real meme, ended up becoming an actual meme.
78	* PrecisionFStrike: After seeing ''WesternAnimation/TheEmojiMovie'', Alex mumbles, "Fucking hell."
79	* PrettyBoy: Those who are so used to not seeing his face may be surprised to find out he's actually [[https://www.instagram.com/p/BOaG9Ufjm5_/ quite]] [[https://www.instagram.com/p/BOaGtmXjVUY/ handsome]]. For those that like it, he shows his face in the JAR Media videos constantly alongside his friends, the inverse of being TheFaceless on IHE.
80	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Gives a HUGE one to Youtube themselves in his "I HATE BEING DELETED OFF YOUTUBE" video. Also to Rashad the Reactor in his reaction to IHE's I HATE REACTION VIDEOS video.
81	* RedAndWhiteComedyPoster: Mentioned in the ''Film/NotCool'' review as an example of things done by modern comedies that he hates.
82	* RunningGag:
83	** Depicting the ''WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}}'' ComicBook/{{Aquaman}} as a {{Pollyanna}} and MemeticLoser.
84	** "If you hate everything, does that mean you hate yourself?"
85	** "Make an 'I HATE MARS BARS'."
86	* {{Sampling}}: In his review of ''Film/TheOogielovesInTheBigBalloonAdventure'', he makes a dance mix out of "Goofy Toofie, Pick Up Your Pants!"
87	* SanitySlippage:
88	** The second "I HATE MINIONS" video where he visits places selling minions merchandise, as well as ''The Amazing Bulk'', drove him off the deep end.
89	** His video [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xg6KXAfCbE "Keemstar Is Going Down (Pewdipie & Leafy?)"]] opens with him crawling around on the floor while rambling about Keemstar and him going down. It doesn't get better from there.
90	-->"[sic]These socks are not going down anytime soon, not like Keemstar. 'Cause he's going down. I'm gonna lie on the floor and go to sleep now. The, over to my Chinese correspondent! Three, two, one-"
91	* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: He decided not to include ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Bionicle}} Bionicle: Mask of Light]]'' in his ranking for the Search for the Worst due to finding it not as bad as he expected it to be, and because it wasn't technically part of the [=IMDb=] bottom 100.
92	** Also applies to a few other films not part of the bottom 100 but still included in the search, such as ''Film/TheOogielovesInTheBigBalloonAdventure'' and ''Film/TheLastAirbender''.
93	* SensoryAbuse: He likes to randomly jack up the volume and speed up or slow down things at complete random.
94	* SoBadItsGood:[[invoked]] His opinion on ''Life's a Jungle: Africa's Most Wanted'', that he puts in his top favorite (NOT DREAMWORKS) collection.
95	* SpiritualAntithesis: In his "I HATE TUMBLR" video, he contrasts the misguided desire for social reform of tumblr to the audacious irreverence of [=4Chan=], and admires the latter for its starkness.
96	* SpringtimeForHitler: The purpose of IHE's "I Hate Damn Daniel" video was to explain why "Damn Daniel" and memes in general aren't funny to him in the slightest. But thanks to "DURR PLANT", said video ends up ''[[PoesLaw creating a new meme]]'' instead, [[CreatorBacklash much to his chagrin.]]
97	* StockScream: Uses the "Howie Long" scream whenever he's particularly upset by something.
98	* SuddenlyShouting: During the post-credits scene of ''Shark Exorcist'':
99	-->'''Alex:''' "After the credits play, there's this scene in an aquarium... where nothing happens. And also the weirdest fucking shit you've ever seen. And this shit right here. This shit...
100	-->{{Beat}}
101	--> '''IT GOES ON FOR NEARLY SEVEN FUCKING MINUTES!!'''"
102	* TheStoic: For the most part, he manages to stay very calm in his videos. It takes great strengths to put him over the top (most notably, ''Shark Exorcist'').
103	* StylisticSuck: All of the songs on the 'Up Down Album' are this.
104	* TakeThat: A lot of his "I HATE" videos are these, especially when directed towards subjects with large followings, such as Videogame/FiveNightsAtFreddys and VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog.
105	* TakeThatAudience: In "I HATE MINECRAFT", Alex finishes the video with a summary played in reverse. When played backwards, it gives us this:
106	-->'''Alex:''' [[Music/MichaelJackson Billie Jean is not my lover. She's just a girl who claims that I am the one,]] [[WaxingLyrical but the kid is not my son. She says I am the one, the kid is not my son.]] Seriously, find something better to do with your time instead of figuring out what I said backwards. Geez, Louise.
107	* ThinChinOfSin: Invoked. His avatar is an angry man with a pointy chin. While not villainous, he is cynical, negative, and hates, well, almost everything.
108	* TitleDrop: Mentioned above, but he actually doesn't hate ''everything'', but his topics and subjects vary from a certain fandom to an entire website, so the word 'everything' is metaphorical than anything. But in his '5 EPIC Ways To Be a [=YouTube=] Celebrity! ✔' video, he does drop his [=YouTube=] name literally.
109	--> "Fucking majestic. What a message. What a statement. '''I really do fucking hate everything.'''"
110	* TheUnseen: Alex has taken great care to hide his real face on IHE content, sometimes superimposing the Alex logo over his head. Defied in JAR media podcasts however where you see his face chronically, given the videos tend to show him and his mates live.
111	* VisualPun: In "I HATE POKÉMON", the image Alex shows for Seel is instead that of [[Music/{{Seal}} the singer]].
112	* VocalDissonance: If you've watched Alex on Jar Media where he's quite the PrettyBoy of the group, you wouldn't expect such a deep voice to emanate from him.
113	* WaxingLyrical: In the ''WebVideo/{{Fred}}: The Movie'' Trilogy Search for the Worst, he mentions at one point the title character arrives at the house of a character named Susan, "because [[Music/{{Eels}} he can't be alone tonight.]]"
114	* WhileRomeBurns: His summary of WebVideo/YouTubeRewind 2016:
115	--> "Wasn't the last year so great for everybody? Wasn't 2016 such a fun, family-friendly time for the whole family? It totally hasn't been one of the worst years in ages... no way!"

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