Line #4 YMMV/SoThisIsBasically


1	* SugarWiki/AwesomeArt:
2	** The ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' video reaches a new level of artwork, which, outside of Jello's usual style, nails Creator/HirohikoAraki's realistic and expressive style nicely.
3	** The ''VideoGame/Persona5'' video goes out of its way to emulate the game's very slick UI in places, including replicating the moving text bubbles, the tendency to invert random letters, and the star pattern that frames each cutscene.
4	** The Prosecutor Ducky segment in the ''VideoGame/AceAttorney'' video introduces a OriginalCharacter Prosecutor. While it's not pixelated as the original game, the animation almost perfectly emulates the limited but high-spirited animation of its origin, making Professor Ducky not feel out of place in comparison to how the other prosecutors in the actual game reacts to the attorneys' argument.
5	* BrokenBase:
6	** Naturally bringing up BaseBreakingCharacter Mabel in the ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' video resulted in a huge divide in the comments between those who agree that [[TheScrappy they hate Mabel]] and fans of Mabel that were outraged by Jello's disliking of her.
7	** The audience of the ''RWBY'' video either agrees with Jello on its various flaws and still likes the show ''and'' the video, holds this up as gospel as to why ''RWBY'' sucks, or are outraged at Jello for what they consider to be another case of a [=YouTube=] personality attacking the series for cheap views. The fact that Brendan does not hold back in admitting he does not like ''RWBY'' doesn't help.
8	** His ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' video also got some division between people who liked the video the same as the others, people who loved it for brutally deconstructing the show's flaws, and people who didn't enjoy it either for not having the same kind of light-hearted pokes of the others or for not effectively poking at Adventure Time's flaws (like citing gross-out humor as something the show does prominently when it's really been done pretty sparingly, or criticizing it for not finishing arcs despite the show not being finished at the time the video was released). It doesn't help that he admitted to not watching past season 5, meaning a lot of his criticisms could be explained by him not finishing the show and seeing how things wrapped up.
9	** His ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel'' video insisting the first two games were pointless is ''very'' contentious within the ''Trails'' fandom. You have fans who agree and think the ArcFatigue and {{Padding}} of the ''Cold Steel'' games deserves the criticism, but the first two games have a lot of fans and some very well-liked moments. But the real kicker is the video being sponsored by NISA, who localized the second and third games but don't have the rights to the first two (localized by [=XSEED=] Games), which has led some fans to speculate the sponsors may have had an agenda. The [=XSEED=] vs. NISA debate over localization quality was already very heated among ''Trails'' fans, and to some the video only exasperated it.
10	* CrossesTheLineTwice:
11	** From the ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' video, Jello says that the show could probably win an Emmy if they kill off [[AlphaBitch Chloé]] onscreen. The visuals accompanying this statement? Ladybug and Chat Noir looking over their Emmy while Chloé ''goes through a wood chipper right behind them''.
12	** This bit from the ''[=RWBY=]'' video:
13	---> '''Jello:''' ''(referring to Blake not having a tail)'' How would ''you'' feel if humans randomly changed how many arms they have?\
14	''Yang's [[BlackComedy arm falls off]], to her embarrassment and Blake's horror''\
15	'''Jello:''' Oops.
16	* FridgeHorror: The "Rebreather" ghost ([[ApprovalOfGod which was designed]] ''[[ApprovalOfGod and]]'' [[ApprovalOfGod voiced by]] Creator/ButchHartman) used to depict an average fight scene in ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' has what at first just seems like your average ghost diver design, not really much to it. ''But'', once you let it [[{{Pun}} sink in]] for a while that his fishing net cape is actually tangled to his backpack and that his air hose is snapped, you get a ''very'' clear idea of exactly ''[[NoOSHACompliance how]]'' he ended up as a ghost. This is easier to notice if actually you see Butch Hartman's concept art of the character at the end of the video.
17	* HarsherInHindsight:
18	** In his video for ''Star vs.'' which was made shortly after the season 3 premiere, he expresses some optimism for the future of the show, and begs it to "please don't go back to the bad stuff". Many ''Star'' fans consider season 4 (the final season) to be the worst season of the series with an underwhelming finale, and Jello himself [[https://jelloapocalypse.tumblr.com/post/188938837462/did-you-ever-finish-watching-star-vs-do-u-think dropped the show]] prior to the finale.
19	** A moment in his ''So This Is Basically WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' video has him joke that Chloé is the real villain and that Ladybug should just let her die. The video was posted between seasons 1 and 2, but feels eerily prophetic of how she'd be treated from the season 3 finale onward [[labelnote:explanation (spoilers)]]the finale saw her pull a full FaceHeelTurn and side with [[BigBad Hawk Moth]], and in the following seasons she would undergo {{flanderization}} and have all her good traits removed, coinciding with Hawk Moth himself getting his FreudianExcuse and sympathetic moments more played up[[/labelnote]], to the point that some fans on the "hate" side of the BrokenBase surrounding her have unironically called for her death.
20	** The joke in ''So This Is Basically Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' about Sonic losing all his rings (and potentially losing a life) over a stubbed toe takes a darker twist in ''WebAnimation/EpithetErased'', an animated series developed by Jello, where [[spoiler:Mera actually ''breaks'' a toe when she stubs it, and could have easily shattered her whole foot, due to having [[BlessedWithSuck a superpower that also makes her whole body extremely fragile]].]]
21	** In ''So This is Basically WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'', he muses that the best character in RWBY is the one who doesn't talk, referring to Neo, but laments that the writers will find a way to ruin that. The very same Volume he ends up joins the show as a voice actor, [[spoiler:Neo becomes voiced... Albeit [[VoicesAreMental not by her]] [[DemonicPossession own volition]].]]
22	** In the Fire Emblem video, there's a joke where the psychopathic character says that he's "way more fucked up in the Japanese dub", alluding to the localization scandal behind several Fire Emblem games [[{{Bowdlerization}} toning down the characters]] due to issues expressed during the localization process. In early February 2024, Jello brings up in a Patreon post that he wanted to localize the dub to the ''Manga/LovelyComplex'' anime and do the exact same thing that he poked fun at the Fire Emblem games for, only for that to cause a controversy that saw him fired from the project for trying to make changes in a script for less understandable reasons.
23	* SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct: His Ruby and Qrow voices in the ''RWBY'' episode were almost so on point many think that he had somehow recruited Lindsay Jones and/or Creator/VicMignogna[[note]]The video was uploaded after Vic was fired, but before [[Creator/JasonLiebrecht his replacement]] was cast[[/note]] or even suggest that Jello ''replace'' Vic. A few years later, he ''did'' end up doing a voice for a Rooster Teeth series, ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'', before eventually joining the ''RWBY'' cast in Volume 9.
24	* HePannedItNowHeSucks: Comes up often, but especially ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' and ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' due to the entire videos ranting about the whole series.[[note]]Despite the ranting on RWBY, he does suggest watching the first three volumes and even mentioned on his Twitter that Volume 6 was much better than Volumes 4 and 5, and would later express that he enjoyed Volume 7 overall. In addition, [[https://twitter.com/KimboSlasher Kim Newman]] - a former lead animator on ''RWBY'' - used to have a screenshot from the video as her Twitter banner.[[/note]]
25	* HilariousInHindsight:
26	** In the ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'' video, Jello jokes that the game has no diversity because there's no girl robots, then questions if girl robots even exist. Around eight months after the video was made, Orisa, a female Omnic, was added to the roster.
27	** In the ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' video, Jello jokes about the series' tendency to have MoodWhiplash and end episodes on a somber tone with an obscure song as background music. Jello further snarks in the captions how fans will [[EpilepticTrees find a way to relate this back to Evil Morty]]. This is exactly what wound up happening [[Recap/RickAndMortyS3E7TheRicklantisMixup three weeks after the video.]]
28	** Jello mentioned in his ''VideoGame/AceAttorney'' video that he hadn't gotten around to playing the second ''[[VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth Investigations]]'' game, but that he'd heard it was supposed to be good. He went on to play through it on his Twitch channel and encountered most of his complaints from the video in ''spades''.
29	*** The judge declares Phoenix's client guilty when Phoenix fails to counteract some InsaneTrollLogic theorizing that the defendant dropped the bullet from a skyscraper, and it fell on the victim's head. In ''[[VisualNovel/TheGreatAceAttorney The Great Ace Attorney: Adventures]]'', which wouldn't reach America for another three years, the fourth Adventure declares Ryunosuke's client innocent after [[spoiler:he proves that a juror threw the knife out of a window, and it landed in the victim's back]].
30	** In the ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' video, Qrow shouting and singing as a crow was a small running gag in the video. The DC comic that was written half a year after featured his sister Raven doing the [[https://yt3.ggpht.com/ho7jOP8ZUnsdjpRUzlDvSl9g-0awqadagZ4DA9hlIjvG29jT1odji9OgUPcz9Akmob4Nj4WxYq4QRQ=s640-nd exact same thing]].
31	*** Also in the ''RWBY'' video, Penny appears in a fictional cover of Volume 7. When Volume 7 finally aired, Penny did return to the series... though Brendan admitted on Youtube that he already knew this as he'd auditioned for the series and Penny's return was spoiled in some audition packets.
32	*** The overall [[AccentuateTheNegative negative review]] of ''RWBY'' ends up becoming rather amusing when Jello would eventually become a voice actor on the actual show, in the form of the Jinxy Peddler from Volume 9.
33	** In the ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' video, he says every type has a gym except Dark, which finally got its own gym in ''VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield''.
34	*** Additionally, his hypothetical Pokémon games are named "Mustard and Ketchup". The Isle of Armor expansion pass would end up introducing a major character named Mustard.
35	** In the ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'' video, he states that the next game will be the same as ''New Leaf'' with a few changes. The next game, ''New Horizons'', revealed that it will be making several changes to the series formula.
36	*** Adding to this, some of Jello's commentary of things that could be improved on[[note]]Updating the museum's infrastructure, better menu layouts and more inventory space.[[/note]] were addressed in ''New Horizons".
37	** In the ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' video, Sonic mocks [[Film/SonicTheHedgehog2020 Movie Sonic]], saying he isn't even good enough to be his fake. This video was released before [[WinBackTheCrowd the official redesign]] was revealed, and when the movie actually came out, plenty of people stated that they liked it more than the actual series as of late. In short, Movie Sonic ''did'' make Sonic eat those words!
38	** In the ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' video, Jello jokes that the show could probably win an Emmy if they killed off major antagonist Chloe. Then, in 2020, [[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse another show that the series covered]] got nominated for a Primetime Emmy for [[Recap/StevenUniverseFutureS1E16Fragments an episode]] that saw [[spoiler:the (temporary) death of a major antagonist.]]
39	** In ''So This Is Basically Fire Emblem'', the enemy has 4 major generals: "the fun crazy one", "the boring one", "the one that dies offscreen", and "the noble one". This wasn't accurate to most of the games at the time of the video, but is fairly close to the Four Hounds of ''VideoGame/FireEmblemEngage''. ("the fun crazy one" and "the noble one" sum up Griss and Mauvier perfectly, while one of the others [[spoiler: dies ''on''-screen, but not by your army's hand]]).
40	* MemeticMutation:
41	** "Do not weep for cheese boy." from the ''[=JoJo=]'' video has gotten popular. It's hard to find a conversation about Fugo that doesn't mention this.
42	** Similarly, the fake names he gives for each part:
43	--->'''[[Manga/FistOFTheNorthStar Fist Of The North]] [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventurePhantomBlood Joestar]]'''\
44	'''[[Franchise/IndianaJones Indiana JoJe]] [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency And The Friendliest Nazis]]'''\
45	'''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders The Worst Vacation Ever]]'''\
46	'''Music/DavidBowie [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable Murder Mystery]]'''\
47	'''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind (King Crimson Noise)]]'''\
48	'''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean Florida Man Has No Idea How Weather Works]]'''\
49	'''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun Horse Race With Jesus]]'''\
50	'''Music/DavidBowie [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureJojolion Memory Mystery]]'''
51	** Referring to "darkness" in ''Kingdom Hearts'' as "bees" instead, partly because of how hilarious it was, and partly because of how much it was used.
52	** RWBY fans have really seemed to take a shine to both Qrow's exclamation of '''''[[MyNaymeIs "WHY IS MY NAME SPELLED WITH A Q!?"]]''''' and referring to Salem as Mommy Salami.
53	* {{Moe}}: From the ''Fire Emblem'' episode: The [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Cute Mage]] and the [[ShrinkingViolet Cleric]] are [[IntendedAudienceReaction intentionally designed to get a reaction]] like that. [[PluckyGirl The Lord]] however, who looks like the daughter of [[VideoGame/FireEmblemPathOfRadiance Ike]] and VideoGame/{{Shantae}}, presumably wasn't intentional.
54	* ShallowParody: One of the biggest criticisms of his video series is the fact that some videos seem like he only did five minutes of research into the series. The worst offenders people often cite are his ''Adventure Time'', ''RWBY'', and ''Kingdom Hearts'' videos (which he's admitted several times are series he dislikes). Even outside that, the parodies often just aren't necessarily even correct at times: "So This Is Basically Fire Emblem'' for example seems to treat it as though every single game has the same basic mechanics and characters (such as a time traveling mechanic to undo choices, something only one game in the series ever used when the video was released), call axes bad (generally axes are as okay as the others), or making general statements about characters/classes that isn't true for every game.

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