Trivia / videogamedunkey

• Acting for Two:
  • The main theme in his Draven video, where he voiced the 2 commentators named "Bobby Tortilla" and "Dyrone Tonk". The video ends with them screaming at each other.
  • In "Did He Ryzed?" he voices both himself and a few annoying kids in the background.
• Author's Saving Throw:
  • Some have criticized Dunkey for giving takes on traditional RPGs and games with Japanese storytelling, since he has publicly stated that he generally dislikes their various traits, but reviews them anyway. In particular, his review of Octopath Traveler received such backlash. His videos on Pokémon Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!, in particular the Pikachu video, can be seen as caricatured exaggerations of Dunkey's criticisms of JRPGs, as it reflects much of the criticism towards his points in the more serious Octopath video. In 2019, Dunkey also gave a mixed but overall positive review of Dragon Quest XI. In his "Best of 2019" video, he lists several JRPGs he played that year, most of which he enjoyed, and one of which (EarthBound) even made it onto the list. The aforementioned Dragon Quest XI would go on to be named his 3rd favorite game he played in 2021.
  • "Discussing Last of Us 2 with Youtube Comments" largely consists of rebuttals and Take That, Critics! responses to various YouTube comments, but he also addresses controversial points and acknowledges some criticisms of the game as valid (such as characters being Made of Iron and other contrivances).
  • He received backlash for his withering review of Death Stranding. He later made a video revisiting the game, in which he admits he had fun on follow-up playthroughs, and gives the game a more even-handed critique. He would go on to name it his seventh favorite game he played in 2021.
• Colbert Bump: Occasionally. Comments expressed interest in buying Rust and Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons after he made videos for them. Additionally, after his LISA video was uploaded, the game quickly made it to the top sellers list on Steam.
  • Hardcore Hip-Hop group Naughty By Nature saw an increase in traffic on their YouTube channel thanks to Dunkey's use of "Here Comes the Money" in some of his videos, most famously those related to Knack.
  • Steam user "IKON Co-Leader - Les Lions" saw a massive influx of comments on his steam page after he showed up in "Rocket League: Dunk House." The clan also suddenly turned into a mini-meme, and all of its Discussion threads are dunkey-related things. Even in-game, Dunkey fans will constantly troll IKON members (especially if they are losing) about Dunkey being the real leader, and how [unfortunate thing] wouldn't have happened if Les Lions was here."
  • After he covered ZeroRanger, it resulted in the game (up to this point mainly known in shmup circles) to get a lot of attention from people with people citing Dunkey introduced to the game.
  • In an example of Tropes Are Not Good Youtuber AnimalJayson received much more attention after Dunkey featured a clip of his video "Dunkey is a Bad Critic" in the video "Game Critics (Part 2)"... which resulted in his videos getting dislike bombed and spammed with comments decrying Jayson for criticizing Dunkey. In spite of the fact Dunkey specifically asking his fans NOT to do this.
  • Plenty of people who wouldn't be interested in a film like Playtime were intrigued by Dunkey's video on the movie, and search rates for ways to watch the film went up exponentially. While the film was already popular in film circles before then, Dunkey's audience isn't the type to watch arthouse movies, so it was a massive boost to a new audience.
  • While Cruelty Squad was already slowly gaining traction for a few months before then, Dunkey's video on it helped explode in gaming circles, way more than it ever could've expected to with it's insane game design choices.
• Corpsing: In Karaoke Dunkey, when he sings a song by Michael Bublé, he interprets it as "Michael Bubble" and starts cracking up.
• Creator Backlash: Dunkey is not fond of some of his earlier reviews, citing them as blowing surface-level stuff way out of proportion without really engaging with the game itself. Prominent examples of this include his old The Last of Us review where he pans the game as a generic zombie story (he would later join the more-or-less-universal consensus that it's one of the best video game stories ever made) and especially his video on Uncharted 4: A Thief's End where he essentially gives the game a 3 out of 5 because the climbing is boring in some sections. He would make in-depth rebuttal and follow-up videos for both games pointing out his previously flawed logic and questioning what the heck he was even thinking, as well as heaping praise that he feels he denied both games onto them, especially for subtler things he originally missed.
• Follow the Leader: Ever since Dunkey garnered hundreds of thousands of subscribers, many Let's Players have attempted to clone his balls-to-the-wall style of humor for better or for worse. Interestingly, he has quite a number of high-profile fans from the Dark Souls community, some of which not only sneak in a few of his Catch Phrases in their own videos on occasion but have also taken to emulating his unique manner of speech and bizarre in-game antics.
• Milestone Celebration:
  • Dunkey made a dance party video for each 10,000 subs he received up until 60,000.
  • He then made 100k and 200k videos.
  • "Escape from Hell" was his 500k video.
  • He also made 600k and 700k videos.
  • He then made another dance party for when he hit the big million.
• Writer Revolt:
  • Microsoft apparently paid Dunkey $700 as part of a deal to review four Microsoft games for the Xbox Live Summer of Arcade, starting with Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons. When Dunkey asked what the guidelines were, he was told he could do whatever he wanted. Microsoft clearly did not know a thing about Dunkey, as he proceeded to make an absolute mockery of the game and even spoil the ending without warning.^note "The little kid dies. The end." This lead to the video becoming unlisted, and eventually it got removed entirely. Fortunately, this channel managed to reupload the video for all to see. This eventually culminated into an entire video where Dunkey explains why Microsoft sucks, for more reasons than just the Brothers video removal.
  • After he got suspended/banned from League of Legends on the grounds of being toxic, he made this video detailing his issues with the game, Riot as a company, and why he won't be making any more League vids.