Despite the many messages put out, what happened in the storylines often makes them fall flat.
- Despite all the messages of how doing bad things leads to consequences, many characters that are threatened and blackmailed by the villain or is a victim of the antagonists somehow end up getting away with any wrongdoings they did or were involved with in the first place. Here's a few examples of this:
- "Delivery Man Caught Eating Customer Food Parts 1 and 2" is an egregious example: While he was being blackmailed by Donny, Alfonso was still technically an accomplice to the crime considering how he drove Donny around for the latter's stealing spree and kept quiet about it. Yet he never gets a consequence or even a little warning at the end of the story.
- In "Scammer Steals From Senior Home", both Dennis and Dorothy did some things that would be considered illegal, but since Chad was either threatening them or stealing from their home respectively, they get away with it. Basically, Dennis was hiding information about criminal activities behind their boss, while Dorothy filmed Chad without his consent and released the footage for everyone to see. The latter deed, in a different context, would be a very creepy thing to do.
- In "Thief Steals From The Wrong Guy", unless he paid for their meal offscreen, Randall should technically be guilty by association as part of Ted's Dine and Dash scheme. Yet since he's the one warning Ted about karma, he's never even acknowledged by the police. Also, he didn't bother to tell the store manager about his friend stealing the gum at the beginning, despite warning Ted not to do so.
- To a lesser extent, in "Kid Sneaks Candy Into The Movies", Mikey was a part of his brother Owen's scheme, but since he kept telling him to stop, he gets to stay and watch the movie anyway. Interestingly, in the same episode, Dhar Mann himself was able to get away with sneaking candy as well. Not as dire as the above examples, but considering how much of a big deal the episode made that theater rule out to be...
- Another non-criminal example is "Employee Fakes Sick to Skip Work." Arturo finds out fairly early in the video that Jacob has been repeatedly lying to get out of work, even claiming that his grandmother died to skip work for a date. Instead of immediately reporting him, Arturo says nothing and even ends up helping cover for Jacob when his date Nicole just so happens to be their boss's daughter. In the end, though, only Jacob gets punished for his lies and Arturo gets rewarded with a promotion, and presumably, the chance to date Nicole.
- In "Boys Vs. Girls In Prank War", Pierson and her friends were also involved in the prank war and also engaged in pranks that hurt and embarrassed her brother and his bandmates. Yet, only her brother and his friends get punished, while Pierson and the girls get away scot-free, with the moms even complimenting one of their pranks, which involved ruining her brother's plans for his band by sabotaging their promotional flyers.
- In “Teen Hits Car And Drives Off” while Edgar did try to warn Gill about the hit and run, food theft, and wallet theft, he was still technically an accomplice in all three of those scenarios, as he was in the car with Gill at the time of the accident and even with him in the other two crime acts. He never bothered to tell the cashier about his friend stealing Anthony’s wallet. Yet the cops and owner of the car don’t even notice him when they arrest Gill for the offense, nor do they give him a stern warning, and he just gets off freely. Even Anthony Brown himself doesn’t get a warning from the officers either for attempting to beat up a (about to be arrested) teen civilian in front of them.
- The videos regarding troublemaker Mikey and his brother Jayden often carry the message of "What happens in the dark always comes to light." However, in almost all those videos, Jayden knows well in advance that his brother is doing something bad, but never tells any adults about it. Thus far, he's never been exposed for lying by omission and has suffered no consequences for it.
- "Protective Bro Spies on Sister" aims to have a message against overprotective siblings. However, it fails since the video end with the titular brother still getting upset after finding out one of his friends was dating his sister (just not the one he thought was dating her) while everyone else laughs off his behavior as a harmless quirk. The same goes for the similarly plotted "Mom Treats Son Better Than Girl."
- In "Girlfriend Has Guy Best Friend, What Boyfriend Does Is Shocking", the Aesop is "having friends of the opposite sex can be complicated, make sure they have the right intentions and that your partner is comfortable." However, the boyfriend is clearly jealous and suspicious of their friendship before he had any real reason to be worried, providing no evidence other than his belief that straight men and women can't be friends, and he even tells her to lie to her friend and pretend she went through a breakup to test his feelings for her. It should be noted that she has been friends with this guy for a long time, at least before she met the boyfriend, and this is a pretty recent relationship. It's only through sheer luck that the boyfriend is correct, so the message comes off as "women in relationships should not have straight male friends (and especially not a best friend), because it will make their boyfriend insecure", and "no man has a platonic friendship with women for good intentions, they will always want something more."
- In "Movie Star Slaps Host at Award Show," the main message, while very flimsy, is that violence doesn't solve problems and makes things worse. However, many recent videos have the main antagonists getting beaten up in the end as a punishment and karma, completely invalidating that past message now. Either that, or giving a pass to certain situations, as if saying that if someone is bad or misbehaved in any way or has hurt someone, then they deserve to get assaulted for it, regardless of how bad their actions were.
- This is especially apparent in videos such as "TEEN CHEATS On Test For An IPHONE 15", where one of Alex's punishments involves him getting very brutally assaulted simply because he lied about being a UFC fighter and for faking an injury (not to mention the fact that he gets left in the parking lot by his own mother of all people).
- Some plotlines tackle the topic of sexual harassment and how it's a bad thing that happens anywhere, whether it's in the workplace, between a coach and student, or in the gym, and how it should be reported and stopped. However, "Fake Trainer Gives Granny a Heart Attack," sets a Double Standard on this message. The Villain Protagonist, Adam, is rightly treated in the wrong for lying to Carla about being a trainer just to get with her and wanting to marry her in the future despite the two barely knowing each other. Yet, in the same episode, Darla, one the grandmas at the gym, does something similar to Adam, going as far as to forcefully grabbing him to kiss his cheek, despite the latter being clearly uncomfortable. Unlike with what Adam does to Carla, Darla's actions towards him were portrayed as both karma and Played for Laughs. Interestingly, in Carla's case, she never seems to notice Adam's crush on her nor did she ever looked uncomfortable, and the girl Adam flirts with near the end seems to not mind as well. This is a contrast to how Adam reacted to Darla's advances. Notably, this episode and other episodes with this message or something similar have women as victims with male perpetrators. As a result the overall message comes off as more like sexual harassment is a bad thing that happens only to women and that if a man goes through it, it's either karma or not that serious.
- In "Shy Kid gets Humiliated at School", the Aesop is "being shy is a superpower." However, the titular kid only becomes a successful YouTube gamer after gaining the confidence to play in front of the camera, and before then, spends all his time playing games without making serious progress to his dream. So a more suitable Aesop would be "you must overcome your shyness to achieve your dreams," which makes his older brother's comments come off as more valid than intended.
- The videos that all have the Recycled Premise of "person doesn't look like their kid(s), gets questioned about it and harassed, only for the person to reveal the heartbreaking story of why they adopted a child of a different race" is meant to be a "don't judge a book by its cover" aesop, which is undermined by the fact that there's always a very specific reason why the person adopted the children which carries the implication that there has to be a specific reason why someone would possibly adopt someone outside their own race.
