He anticipates this reaction with every negative "Top X" video by saying "And if you like these [subjects], that's fine. It's just my silly personal opinion, and I'm glad you can get some enjoyment out of something that I cannot.''
- He got a lot of flak for naming every entry in the Scooby-Doo franchise as the worst cartoon remake, regardless of individual quality. The backlash cooled down to some extent when he explained his thoughts better in his first Top 5 Cartoons I Hate That Everyone Likes list, saying that he found the franchise getting too formulaic with every installment and that while he found Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated had introduced some great new ideas, there still aren't too many being used.
- He got flak when he panned Winx Club. The main criticisms were that his complaints were all about how skinny the characters are and that he only seemed to be talking about season 5 onward when the series was widely considered to have gone through significant Seasonal Rot. Strider himself admitted in a comment that he should have gone into more detail.
- Naturally, his two
lists showing the cartoons that he hates but everyone else likes garnered a lot of flak, though in the first one's case it was mostly due to him making bad comparisons, coming off rather contradictory, and missing the point of certain aspects of each show, as another YouTube user who responded to it in this video pointed out. As Strider himself points out in his commentary for the former video, the entry on that list that got the most flak was Ed, Edd n Eddy at #1, which he personally loathes and doesn't understand its massive popularity. Most of the flak that Strider got for his thoughts on the show was that he criticized parts of it that were intentional such as the characters having squiggly moving outlines and not having real big characterizations since the show is just basically a slapstick driven comedy series with no real big story behind it. He also got backlash for his statement that every episode has the exact same plot with the Eds trying to get money for jawbreakers by scamming their neighbors, which is also the point since its the show's synopsis, and it also not being true that every episode is the same since plenty of episodes don't even feature the Eds coming up with scams and instead focus on everyday childhood problems. - He got flak from fans of TUGS for putting it in the #4 spot of his "Top 5 Worst British Cartoons" video, claiming it to be dull, ugly, and filled with bickering. As many fans of TUGS pointed out in the comments, the footage used in the video was only from the first three minutes of the first episode, giving the impression he barely watched the series before putting it on the list. He was also criticized for giving little attention to the show's strong elements such as the stories, voice acting, music, and model sets, particularly in episodes like "Munitions" and "High Tide".
- Oggy and the Cockroaches being in the #2 spot of his "Top 5 Worst French Cartoons" video did not go down well with the show's fans. Reasons include the fact that he ranked it worse than a cartoon that, in his words, "looks like it was slapped together in Microsoft Paint over the process of six minutes" and the fact he only included season 4 episodes in the video, implying that he didn't even watch any of the better received older episodes.
- While putting Barbie: A Fairy Secret on his "Worst Cartoons for Girls" list went without much fanfare since the movie is generally seen as when the Barbie movies started to decline in quality, him claiming that "everyone knows" how Barbie movies are of "abysmal quality" caused this reaction since the films have a huge fanbase and most of the earlier movies are viewed as being surprisingly good for being made just to sell toys.
- Not a panning example, but one that ruffled feathers regardless — he put Animaniacs, Tiny Toon Adventures, and Daria on his "Top 5 Forgotten Cartoons" list, with the backlash being fueled by bafflement more than anything else. All three are some of the most well-regarded American cartoons to air during the 1990s, lasted for years on-air, and maintained strong fanbases in the decades after they ended. A lot of the comments on the video call him out for this, and the video was made even more Hilarious in Hindsight when two of the shows would get revivals and continuations announced within the following four years.
