Tear Jerker / Josh Scorcher

• Him admitting that he wasn't always the best big brother and how "Sisterhooves Social" made him realize it. His general demeanor about it is heartwrenching, though how he changed after his realization is heartwarming.
• Josh's speech near the end of Semper Filly. While most of the video was either mocking the incompetence of the Royal Guard, or Silver, Dusty, Doc, and Antony C failing to train them, Josh's speech about what soldiers go through caused more than a few tears to be shed.
  Firebrand: The military exists so you can ignore the harsh reality of the world
  Sweetie Bloom: What reality?
  Firebrand: We're all going to die. Every day we desensitize ourselves with our YouTube, anime, video games, books, all to do our best not to think about the ultimate truth that everyone spends their entire lives trying to ignore. The fact that everyone is suffering and everyone is going to die. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do. You and I have a 100% mortality rate. And war, it makes death happen much earlier than we want which is why we hate it so much. It makes the reality of our limited lives become harder to ignore. No one wants to think about those things, everyone's natural instinct when confronted with danger or suffering is to run away. However, those who join the military, they have to run towards chaos and evil. They have to reject the illusion of safety and put themselves in danger to maintain our wistful fantasies of peace. They are required to embrace these worries and fears so you don't have to. They are forced to leave their families and travel to hostile lands thousands of miles away and fight the worst of humanity just so you can pretend you're safe. That's the reason people in the military get so stressed and depressed, because they have to confront reality on a daily basis. That's why they deserve our respect.
• He and Ink Rose have said that while they may not be dating, their characters are. Then came the TF2 Analysis episode "Emotions on the Battlefield" Part 2. Firebrand proceeds to reveal that he and Ink "never got past the first date".
  Thespio: ...huh. I guess that ship sunk rather quickly.
• While many of his and Aramau's reactions to "Parental Glideance" are sweet, the reason they ended up reviewing it, her absolutely terrible relationship with her parents, is incredibly sad. She references being The Unfavorite of her siblings and being so damaged that her mother has to preface any and all conversations with her with "you're not in trouble" or Aramau will panic about having done something wrong, something that has caused her to have big issues with self-blame in every aspect of her life. Aramau outright can't relate to Dash in this episode because she would have given anything to have parents like Bow and Windy.
• During their review of A Royal Problem where Celestia goes into the Dream World, Nicky V and Firebrand both comment on the Dream Bubbles seen on-screen.
  Nicky: "We have Fluttershy on a giant bunny. Pretty sure that's Rainbow dreaming that she's Daring Do. Either Cadence or Flurry is a party animal. Discord's being silly, Pinkie's being silly, AJ i- (Sees a baby Applejack being held in the hooves of Pear Butter and Bright Mac) ...oh."
  Firebrand: "That... that hurts. Whichever Apple Family member is dreaming that, needs a hug... badly."
• Generally, the LaserActive Meltdown is a compilation of Funny Moments. But on realizing just how high the price tag was, for even playing games at that, Josh went on to regret and apologize for making fun of PlayStation 3's initial price tag of $599. It might have sucked at that time, but compared to just how ludicruous LaserActive's was (even for its time and when converted to current day currency strength), it could have been much worse, stating that in perspective, the Playstation 3 generation was actually quite lucky, they never really know what they have until they saw what other people didn't have, and that initial price tag of $599 and then at most $60 per game was so much better than LaserActive's around $3000 just to play a game where you could play the same game cheaper by buying the consoles separately. Accompanying his speech in the video was a montage of the PS3 price reveal with sad funeral music put in.
• The end of the 2021 Fails video was naturally topped by the Blizzard controversy, but for once, Josh has been including some fails done by the fandom, especially the activism journalists. ...Josh just simply breaks down that all he wanted is just to play the games he likes instead of being dragged around with all these bad company actions, or activists portraying him as bad for liking games that are tied to the aforementioned companies. There is Mood Whiplash in that he continues with the awesomely hilarious music score from throughout the video, but all things considered, it's a very, very relatable reaction and shows that it's not just companies that can do bad things and harm the industry: The fandom and news media can as well.
  Gosh dang it! I just want to play Heroes of the Storm again without any guilt! Can't I just enjoy a freaking video game anymore without all this baggage attached to it?! The price-gouging, the hamfisted politics both in and out of games, design flaws making the game unplayable! I JUST WANT TO PLAY A FREAKING GOOD VIDEO GAME! I just... I just...!
  (starts laughing himself to crying and breaking into the next verse of the song which contains the sad situation the video game industry, in and out, are experiencing)

  Have some angry online posturing surround all games.
  Activists hollering “Don’t play this game!”
  Members in the embers of a war’s forever flame!
  Aiming to do anything but play the game!

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