While Dhar Mann always tries to paint his protagonists in a heroic way, a lot of their actions detailed below tend to contest their positive portrayals.
- Damien from "Mom Throws Out Her Son's Xbox." While we're supposed to feel bad for him because his mom won't support his dreams, the fact that Damien used her money to finance his gaming without permission (at a time when the family was already deep in debt, no less) killed some viewers' sympathy for his plight. The fact that he used his prize money from the tournament to pay off his family's debt does help, but still.
- Ironically, in the video "Kid Steals Mom's Card for Roblox, He Instantly Regrets It", had the titular kid doing the exact same thing as Damien, but his Mom and brother come off as unsympathetic. The Mom legitimately comes off as a narcissistic mother, unfairly treating her youngest son as her favorite and manipulating her oldest son for that offense, and her youngest son comes off as a manipulative asshole who only pretends to be against his older brother's trickery, while simultaneously doing nothing to warn his mom. All around, a very loving family indeed.
- Mikey's mother is almost always this whenever she tries to teach her son valuable lessons whenever he misbehaves and punishes him in extreme ways (especially in "Kid Steals Tickets At Fun Center, He Lives To Regret It" when it was just for cheating in an arcade). While she might come across as being a frustrated parent, she seems to get a kick at teaching him those lessons, rather than being serious about them. She even scared him into thinking that he needed surgery when he faked an allergic reaction. While she may be trying to get her son not to lie, cheat, or manipulate, she comes off as being hypocritical due to doing exactly what he's been doing.
- In a way, Mr. Wilson and many of Mikey's other teachers qualify as this too. This is especially apparent in the videos "Student CHEATS On FINAL EXAM" and "Student FAKES As SICK To SKIP TEST". In the former video, while it was wrong of Mikey to cheat on the final exam, Mr. Wilson not only deliberately made a website to expose Mikey's cheating, but also randomly came to his house to expose him when he could have just emailed Mikey's mother which almost makes it seem like he was trying to humiliate Mikey. In the latter video, while not as bad as last time, his postponing of the English test that Mikey was attempting to skip seems almost too coincidental to be an accident, making it seem like he was in on the plan to expose Mikey alongside Mikey's mother. Both of these factors combined has lead some such as critic August The Duck to speculate that Mr. Wilson may be biased against Mikey in some way.
- Mr. Riley and Mikey's math teacher aren't much better either. For starters, Mikey's math teacher deliberately calling on Mikey when he clearly wasn't paying attention and when everyone else's hand was raised makes it seem like he called on him for the sole purpose of embarrassment. Mr. Riley, Mikey's gym teacher can be seen as unnecessarily strict in the fact that he threatened to increase the amount of miles that everyone had to run all because Mikey protested having to run one mile despite it being hot outside.
- Mikey's mother struck at what could be her worst offense in 13-Year Old Robs Bank For Vision Pro. While what Mikey did was in fact illegal and could've very easily gotten him arrested for real, the mom somehow managed make herself look even worse than him. She not only lets this keep going and gets several people involved in her little lesson teaching plan, but after he's arrested, she leaves him in the cell with someone who wasn't involved. Her excuses for doing this were that Mikey needed to be taught a lesson, that several people had their times wasted putting her plan together (No, seriously; that was apparently supposed to make her look good), and judging by how she, as always, refuses to acknowledge that the damage she's doing to Mikey is a MASSIVE reason for why he's the way he is, pure narcissism. Also, the prisoner Mikey is left in with by the mom is confirmed to be a real prisoner, who she leaves him in there with just to spite him. While they leave it vague as to what the prisoner was in there for, the best case scenario is that the prisoner is going to beat Mikey up, and the worst case scenario is that he could be an ACTUAL PEDOPHILE; either one of which, especially the latter, could get Mikey's mother into serious trouble. The fact that she does this without any remorse doesn't help her case in any way like the video thinks it does.
- The defence attorney in "Prosecutor Sends Innocent Black Man to Jail" seems to be portrayed as someone who is well-meaning but completely powerless in the face of a ruthless and corrupt prosecution. In practice, the facts of the case are so basicnote that losing the case requires him to be absurdly incompetent to the point where his performance would near-certainly qualify as negligence. In particular, he fails to object to the prosecutor’s open racism in the trial, and cannot find or submit evidence that should be extremely easy to discover. While the prosecution is guilty of failing to submit evidence in their possession which would acquit the defendant (a major violation of prosecutorial ethics), the defence’s own failure to find anything in their own time is not the fault of the prosecution's actions, and the defendant’s guilty verdict is virtually entirely because of his defence counsel’s uselessness.
- Rachel from "Girl Fakes Being Rich At School". While the humiliation and trickery Felicia and her friends did to her by exposing her at the latter's party was very unpleasant to watch, what Rachel does to her friend Heather throughout the episode wasn't any better either. She doesn't fully defend her when the girls made fun of her bag, forces her to tag along to events she didn't fully agree with, ditches her multiple times to hang out with the popular crowd and her crush, and only apologizes after being humiliated by Felicia at the party. To top it off, she even accuses Heather of being jealous. What a good (not at all fake) friend for sure.
- The Mom and her boyfriend Jim from "Girl Hates Her Mom's Boyfriend". Kayla, the titular girl, is supposed to be in the wrong for accusing Jim of cheating on her mom. However, her suspicions do have some warrant to them. In the end, it turns out the woman Kayla thought Jim was cheating with was actually Jim's sister, but Jim still looks pretty bad after this revelation. Had Jim simply explained that the woman was his sister when Kayla accused him of cheating rather than delay said information, then Kayla wouldn't have been too suspicious. Also, Kayla's mom was quite harsh when telling her not to judge Jim and dismisses her initial accusation without questioning Jim further. When Kayla goes to her with some evidence, rather than at least listening to her daughter's concerns, she quickly shuts her down, assumes she's still not over her dad's passing, and tearfully begs her not to ruin everything, practically guilt-tripping her to keep quiet. No wonder Kayla's so frustrated by the whole situation.
- Mario from "Popular Girl Shames Nerd on Valentine's Day." We're meant to feel bad for Mario when Raji rejects him after he reveals himself as her secret admirer. But considering the message of the video is supposed to be "It's what's on the inside that counts, not the outside," Mario comes across as being just as shallow as Raji. He barely knew Raji, only mentioned her being "the most beautiful girl in the class" in his love note, and ended up getting together with the also-conventionally-attractive Julie in the end after Raji rejects him—conspicuously treating her to one of the grand gestures he used when trying to impress Raji. So instead of being a kind-hearted romantic turned down by a superficial girl, Mario comes across as a hypocritical Dogged Nice Guy who was creepily ready to switch his sights from Raji to Julie once the former turned him down.
- Nelson from "Nerd Throws Party Behind Parents' Back" comes off as this when he reappears in "TikToker Uses Nerd for Views." Like in his first video, Nelson ditches his friend when the opportunity to be popular falls in his lap. The first time it happened, he was an unpopular nerd falling under peer pressure who seemed to learn his lesson after his new "friends" desert him. But in the second instance, it makes Nelson come off as easily swayed against his friends. He basically falls for the same thing he did in the party video, letting peer pressure take over and letting his desire to be with the "in-crowd" take over his judgement. It not only makes Nelson look like an idiot for falling for the same thing twice, but also makes him look like a bad friend ready to ditch them whenever the popular kids take any interest in him. This leads to Nelson's apology sounding incredibly insincere because he could easily just betray his friends to be popular all over again. There's also the fact that Nelson is more or less responsible for destroying Brad's Tiktok career due to feeding him bad video ideas — something Nelson apparently feels no remorse about as he happily takes over Brad's Tiktok house and hypocritically calls Brad out for being a False Friend.
- Brittney and Carla's father in "Babysitter Abandons Kid" where he gaslights his teenager daughter Brittney by plotting an elaborate scheme to frame a kidnapping of Carla and make her think she was held for ransom by criminals; while Brittney was irresponsible, his gaslighting toward her is never acknowledged.
- Also Carla, like Amelia from the episode "Dad Wakes Up From A 10-Year Coma", was completely fine with going along with her parent gaslighting a family member and participating in it herself. And like the medical groups from the former (and that one Mikey storyline), their dad's employee(s) sees no problem going through with it.
- Elliot from "Mean Lady Destroys Gender Reveal", during the scene where Patty insults and screams at him in front of everyone. To be fair, Patty was indeed a horrible lady for her dishonesty, abusing and belittling Tamika, but he never gets punished for blackmailing her, goes against his deal with Patty to keep quiet and was most likely willing to let Tamika take the fall had Patty not been exposed by his mother and grandmother.
- George's wife and to a lesser extent his daughter Amelia from "Dad Wakes Up From A 10-Year Coma". While George's alcoholism is extremely unpleasant to watch, what his wife and daughter did to make him quit was equally as terrible. Basically his wife comes up with an idea to gaslight him into thinking he's been in a coma for ten years and that he's possibly the cause of Amelia's alleged death. Not only is this very unethical for doctors and nurses to do, but it would just traumatize and mess up George's mind even more. And not only does his wife never get called out on her gaslighting and manipulation, his daughter had no problem whatsoever going along with it, smiling happily as she pops up just when he thought she died. Seems like George wasn't the only one with problems in this family. YMS even refers to the situation as gaslighting in his reaction video.
- Sam from "Dad Abandons Wife and Teenager." The reveal that he divorced his second wife and took sole custody of their children due to her being a drug addict is suppose to justify him choosing to abandon his first born daughter Amelia. Except this leaves out the fact he was seemingly very neglectful and uncaring toward her and her mother before this happened, not bothering to say anything to Amelia other than a halfhearted "Happy Birthday" when he runs into her and Charlotte at the mall and later acting incredibly dismissive when Charlotte confronts him for never being there for Amelia and leaving her to take care of their daughter without any financial support. While being a loving parent to his other kids is a good thing, it doesn't change the fact that he practically threw Amelia away simply because he couldn't be bothered to make time for her. Amelia having come to terms with her father's abandonment doesn't make Sam any less of an awful father to her. The fact that Sam implies that he's struggling raising two kids on his own, yet still has the time and money to take them to the mall and buy them donuts and a new PlayStation 5, makes him even more unsympathetic.
- Anna in the ending of "Nerds Gets Revenge On Cool Teens". While she's clearly hurt from Mark using her feelings for him to pass a class, and her reaction to it was really sad to see, her revenge on him in the end wasn't fully justified. While he did toy with her feelings, she, on the other hand, ruined his entire school career in return. Which would have way bigger consequences on him than what he did to her at the restaurant. Not to mention the fact that she recorded him without his consent, one can’t help but imagine his family sued her afterwards .To a lesser extent, there's also the fact that she drew him in her notebook. Considering they didn't know each other that well, and are in high school, this action is a lot creepier in retrospect.
- Andrew from "Gay Son Forced To Marry Girl Parts 1 & 2". He's supposed to also be sympathetic alongside main character Dev, since he's watching his boyfriend be married off to a girl he's [Dev's] not interested in and which they can't do anything about since it's a family tradition and Dev is still closeted. However, his treatment to Dev towards the whole ordeal is not really helping. He acts rather pushy to him and complains a lot about it. Then, when he finds out about the engagement, instead of comforting his boyfriend, he goes to confront Dev and makes his own ultimatum to the latter, basically angrily urging the latter to come out to his parents, only choosing to stay when Dev promises to. The fact that he was ready to leave in the middle of ceremony when a crying Dev doesn't uphold his promise until Latika intervenes with her own confession, coupled with all of the above, makes Andrew come off as selfish. Sure, the whole ordeal also affects him, but most of his actions comes of as if he sees himself as the most affected, more so than Dev and Latika.
- Carly from "Girl Fakes Who She is For a Guy." We're supposed to feel bad for her because she feels like who she is isn't enough to impress her crush Lucas. The problem is that her plan is incredibly idiotic right out of the gates. The opening of the video shows that Carly and Lucas have been friends for some time, so you'd think it should be clear to Carly that Lucas likes her just the way she is. But because he takes the time to help Jess throw a basketball, she instantly assumes that girls like Jess are his type and decides to change her personality to win him over. It takes Lucas plainly informing her that he likes the real her for Carly to realize what was completely obvious from the start. Not only are her attempts to be more like Jess painfully embarrassing to watch, but she gets needlessly mean when her friend Brielle tries to talk some sense into her and comes across as a bit of a Female Misogynist with her judgmental comments about how much of a "helpless girly girl" Jess is. Furthermore, most of her behavior throughout the storyline makes her come across as a pick-me girl.
- Nick from "Guy Dates 2 Girls from Same School." We're supposed to think he's a good guy as opposed to his friend Dallas and feel bad when Dallas's Two-Timer Date ends up getting him in trouble at worknote However, for all of Nick's moral outrage over Dallas's two-timing, he never does anything to warn either of the girls about what his friend was doing. Also, at some points, he's shown enjoying causing Dallas stress by making the dates harder by prolonging them, by suggesting desserts to one of the girls.note Lastly, in the ending, when Dallas gets exposed online by his previous dates and was confronted by them as well as the other two, which in the end would cause him to possibly never be able to date again in the future, Nick shows no sympathy to Dallas whatsoever and says that he deserves it and that Dallas should stay single for a long time.
- Nina from "Jealous Girl Accuses Guy of Flirting." While the video accurately depicts her as being in the wrong for needlessly accusing Kyle of cheating on her, we're still supposed to feel bad for her because of how insecure she is about her relationship. However, those insecurities lead Nina to start engaging in some pretty disturbing and abusive behavior that the video never truly addresses. She stalks Kyle's Instagram and overreacts to his comments, changes her whole look to fit Kyle's "type," gets upset at him for daring to even talk to another girl, and starts flirting with another guy in an attempt to get back at Kyle for his perceived infidelity. When Kyle calls Nina out for all this, she turns it around and tries to gaslight Kyle by claiming he's responsible for her actions with all his "flirting" before breaking up with him. The fact that she has a history of doing this sort of thing and exposes herself as a misandrist during her rant makes it all the more disturbing how easily Kyle forgives her and takes her back. Even though she apologizes in the end, it's only after finding out that Kyle was hanging out with Sam to make a gift for her and that Alyssa (another girl Nina got jealous of for talking to Kyle) has a boyfriend. In other words, it comes across that Nina is only OK with Kyle hanging out with girls who are taken or who are helping him do things for her. In all likelihood, her jealousy will rear up again and cause further trouble for Kyle down the road.
- Mr. Labrant from "Kid Shamed For Learning Disability". He's presented in the story as a teacher who's defending Andre from a classmate who's bullying him for his learning disabilities, with said student also being mean to him. However, the way he tries to get Nicholas to understand, which involves harassing, humiliating, and gaslighting said student to the class by making him feel what it's like to have learning disabilities while also insulting him, not only unethical for a teacher to do, but could also get him fired if word of this incident ever got out. Considering by that point, his method was just straight up a teacher inflicting emotional and psychological abuse on a student as punishment for, ironically enough, bullying a classmate. Yet at the end of the storyline he's presented as being in the right for having done that.
- To a lesser extent, Andre, from the same episode, himself had some unsavory moments as well. There's a few moments that make it seem as if he's using his disability as an excuse, as he doesn't stop, or at very least, slow down his pencil tapping down when Nicholas says it's distracting him. Then there's the fact that he seemingly agrees with and enjoyed watching Mr. Labrant's unethical punishment towards Nicholas, if his big smile while he was walking out of class afterwards was any indication.
- Melvin from “Magician Rips Off His Customers“, specifically in the ending. While he starts out as relatively sympathetic compared to Jeremy, warning the latter about tricking their audience and stealing from them, his actions towards Jeremy when he gets caught and arrested is very harsh and not something a friend should to one another. When the two's idol calls Melvin on the phone asking for another magician for a future performance, rather than inviting Jeremy in (once he's released), Melvin decides to exclude his friend from it and claims in the phone that he knows no else, right next to Jeremy, no less. Then, afterwards leaves immediately, not seeming to notice or care about the fact that he just upset his friend. This heavily implies that Melvin never really cared that much about Jeremy and just wanted to be noticed as a magician, and that when he finally gets it, he no longer has no use for a partner since their idol decided to work with him instead.
- Rachel (no relation to the Faking Rich storyline) and her mother from "Little Sister Steals From Big Sister". While Kenzie did went behind their backs by stealing her sister's bags to sell online and by not telling her mom anything, thus hurting both of their feelings, all the while ignoring Nadia's constant warnings, their way of teaching her a lesson by using gaslighting techniques with the help of a police officer (with handcuffs) is equally as unpleasant as what Kenzie did to them, judging by her reaction.
- Nadia, Kenzie's friend, from said episode is also unsympathetic like the other two. She's portrayed as the worried friend who doesn't want Kenzie to get in any trouble, but, her reaction to the whole police officer scheme makes it look as if she doesn't really care about Kenzie's mental state all that much. Not only did she stayed behind the wall to not get involved, when Kenzie begins having a breakdown in front of the cop and her mother, Nadia didn't even bother to come in to comfort her friend and to explain things to the officer. Then, when the whole scheme is finally revealed, rather than call out Rachel and her mom for the trauma they caused Kenzie, she ignores it and casually goes back to chatting with Kenzie, seemingly oblivious to the latter's current mental state, considering what just occurred right in front of them. Furthermore, for all of her worries and defends at what Kenzie's mom and Rachel would feel at what her friend's doing, she doesn't seem to do anything to warn the two about Kenzie's plans.
- Jared from "Mom Shuts Down Kids' Electronics". While he's clearly annoyed at his mom's strictness towards him and his siblings' video game habits, most of his behavior towards his mom, compared to how Ethan and Kylie react, is not a proper way to act towards one's parents. When Kathy (their mom) calls them for dinner, instead of listening to her and pausing or saving his game, Jared chooses to deliberately ignore her until she had to go in and turn off the computer herself, also using his headphones as an excuse as to why he didn't hear her earlier. Then, he claims that she's not being fair when turning off his computer when it's pretty clear that she only did so because he was disobeying her. Finally, he also goes and talks back to his mom when trying to get his devices back. All of the above doesn't really help his case considering it's his mom he's quarreling with.
- Ben from "Movie Star Slaps Host at Award Show." After the incident in which Wesley slaps him, we're supposed to sympathize with Ben when it's revealed his misbehavior is a result of his parents' divorce. However, most would agree that this does not give him a free pass to take his frustration out on his innocent classmates. There's also the fact that Ben never really apologizes to Wesley when he apologizes to Ben for hitting him and gifts him a pair of new shoes. Instead, he only agrees to stop picking on other kids, but does so in a joking way that makes it seem he might not keep that promise. Not helping matters is how Ben never faces any consequences at school for any of his bullying, despite the principal plainly seeing that Wesley only struck Ben in response to his harassment.
- The principal from the above video also qualifies. We're supposed to sympathize with her on her worries of Wesley's apparently violent behavior in school. However, as stated above, she should've easily overheard the fight from the hallway and witnessed a brief part of the situation before Ben got slapped. But despite this, she chooses to hold only Wesley accountable for the incident and, for some reason, gives Ben a pass because he's going through tough times at home. Also, considering how famous Wesley's dad is, it's strange how she didn't acknowledge the possibility that Wesley could've been "inspired" by his actions, almost as if she somehow never heard of or saw it on tv or online. All of the above makes it seem as if the principal's biased and ignorant towards the whole ordeal.
- Mia from "Mean Girls Shame Teen For Anime". While she was getting bullied by Heather and her posse for her hobbies and dream career of writing and creating her own anime series, some of the things she does to create and write said series could be construed as somewhat questionable. Namely, for some of her characters, she blaitently draws and writes about her classmates and crush without their permission. Sure, they could've been simply used as inspiration, however, that doesn't ignore how she also never even changes their names or appearances so no one could connect those characters to the actual people. This makes it look as if she's writing her story as some sort of revenge fantasy and wish fulfillment on her end, which includes getting back at the ones who wronged her. The fact that she doesn't stop to think about the ramifications of drawing others without their permission when Heather, of all people, calls her out on it, doesn't help her case. Also not helping is when her mother says "think of Heather as a demon", which could be seen as the wrong approach to not only writing a villain for a series, but also interacting with people you don't like in general. Rather than seeing Heather as another human being, her mom esentially says to see her as nothing more than just a villainous monster.
- Nate from "Kid Completes 100 Dares in 24 hours". He was being tricked by Colin into doing dares for $100, but what happens afterwards doesn't help him. He willingly agrees to do the dares, and wholeheartedly does 100 dares (which consist of stealing, disrupting class, getting a janitor harmed, etc.) rather than just not agreeing to do them as they can get him in trouble. The fact that he gets mad at Colin for the dares and pins the blame on Colin for what he'd willingly done in order to avoid getting beaten up paints him in a very bad light, even if he is somewhat justified in getting angry since Colin never intended on paying him.
- Jayden from "Big Bro Has To Say Yes for 48 Hours" comes off as a downplayed example of this. He spends half of the video making Mikey do things that he knows he doesn't want to do (the stuff he makes him do is pretty harmless for the most part, but still), including making him answer a question in class when he doesn't want to. And this is encouraged by everyone around them and they never call him out on it (which is somewhat uncharacteristic for Jay). Their mother practically enables this from Jayden, which is ironic since she can be borderline abusive to Mikey for some of the stunts he pulls (like pulling his ear and tricking him into thinking she's going to inject him with an unknown substance). Jayden even starts to sound more abusive then he means to when he questions if he heard a No from Mikey. While he does worry about him in the end and rightfully tells him not to trust Eddie, he doesn't make himself look good for the first half of the video. This doesn't count as full on gaslighting like their mother did to Mikey during the fake allergic reaction scandal, but he could've handled the situation better.
- Laila from "Mean Girl BACKSTABS Her FRIEND, She Lives To Regret It." We are meant to feel bad for her when Hazel starts hanging out with her old best friend Michaela, who moved back from New York, and she feels like a third wheel. However, Laila expresses her jealousy by going out of her way to ruin Hazel's birthday party. This includes depriving the guests of pizza, ruining the punch, popping the bounce house, and planting a bag of dog poo in Michaela's present for Hazel. As a result, Michaela is hurt by all this and driven to tears. Despite Michaela admitting she was jealous of Laila, she ended up being the more sympathetic friend.
- Hazel from the same video can be seen in a similar light to a lesser extent, while her party being ruined was hard to watch, she was the one who started blowing off Laila in favor of Michaela for a majority of the video by barring Laila from touring Michaela around the school, forgetting that they walked to school on Thursdays and even having 8 missed calls from her, and even blindly agreeing to Michaela's offer for a party as opposed to Laila's party. Not helping is the fact that she straight up agrees to ditch Michaela when the party goes awry at first.
- The titular boyfriend in "Girlfriend Has Guy Best Friend, What Boyfriend Does Is Shocking." While he ends up being right that his girlfriend's male friend is actually attracted to her, he still ends up appearing incredibly controlling and clearly jealous/insecure about her spending time with another man, even though they have been friends since before they started dating. He also had nothing to back up his suspicions besides his own narrow-minded belief that men and women cannot be friends. The result is that he looks more like a Crazy Jealous Guy than a concerned boyfriend, who expects his girlfriend to end her already established friendships if they make him uncomfortable or insecure.
- Mrs. Jacobs from "Daughter Tests Positive for Coronavirus." While it's definitely understandable for her to be stressed out about her daughter being in the hospital with COVID-19, that stress doesn't provide any explanation or justification for the vile racism she spews at Dr. Reyes. With the level of detail she goes into while degrading Reyes and Asian people as a whole before straight-up ordering her not to get on the same elevator as her, it comes across that Mrs. Jacobs was already a racist before her daughter got sick and was just using the COVID-19 epidemic as an excuse to voice her bigotry. Not helping matters is how she only apologizes for her behavior after finding out the woman she harassed is her daughter's doctor, creating the implication that she would've considered her actions justified had her victim been anyone else (or worse, that she still looks down on Asians as a whole, but is making an exception for Dr. Reyes because she did something to "earn" her respect and kindness.)
- Emily from "Nerd Cheats to Win School Valedictorian" is portrayed as a Jerkass Woobie after she's exposed for her actions and subsequently has her acceptance into Princeton revoked, with Julie taking pity on her on the belief that Emily has been putting too much pressure on herself to be the best. However, Emily's exceptionally callous actions and attitude make it impossible to feel anything for her but contempt. While she claims after the fact that her actions were so she could have a good academic future, her arrogant boasting about how her having the best grades means she "owns the school" suggests her motives are far more selfish and rooted in a narcissistic need to be better than everyone else. Then there's how disturbingly gleeful Emily gets while scheming to destroy Julie's chances at Valedictorian, which escalate from merely sabotaging her grades to framing her for plagiarism, which could've destroyed Julie's entire academic future had Emily not been caught. Emily even bitterly accuses Julie of coming to gloat after she's been exposed, suggesting she still views herself as the biggest victim. So instead of a poor girl who lost herself to her ambitions, Emily comes across as a self-centered and entitled brat willing to destroy someone else's life in order to satisfy her own ego.
- Falynn from "Mean Girls Shame Teen's Skin Issues" is redeemed at the very end of the video and painted as a Jerkass Woobie, lashing out at Sasha for having vitiligo as a means of coping with her insecurity over having psoriasis. However, Falynn was so cruel in her continuous bullying of Sasha (as well as anyone who tried to come to her defense) that her psoriasis reveal doesn't have the desired effect of making her seem sympathetic and worthy of pity. Falynn's bullying extending to those without skin issues pokes holes in her Freudian Excuse as well as the classist (and vaguely racist) undertones of her harassment of Sasha and her friends don't do her any favors either.
- John from "Mom Walks Out on Dad and Her Son" is meant to be seen as a great father working hard to provide for his son Gabriel, despite facing the hardships of poverty and a girlfriend who abandons him when things get tough. But when you consider the details, he comes off a lot more self-centered than the video intended him to look. As much as he may love Gabriel, we see John brazenly refuse to go to his parents for help despite his increasingly unsustainable situation—on the grounds that he doesn't want them to "see him as a failure" after having already disappointed them by becoming a teen dad. However, we never see such harsh reactions from John's parents, who in the present events are nothing short of generous and caring, clearly willing to help their son get back on his feet. He also claims he doesn't want his son to feel he's "abandoning" him like his mother did by sending him to his grandparents while he figures things out, despite the situations not being at all comparable (especially since John could presumably still visit Gabriel if he were to send him to live with his grandparents temporarily). All that together makes John come across as a father more concerned with his pride than he is with ensuring his child doesn't end up homeless.
- Amy from "Evil Grandma Takes Kids from Parents." We're supposed to feel bad for her because of her mother Jenny's alcoholism keeping her from spending time with her grandkids, which serves as the reason for not allowing her daughters' paternal grandmother Mary (her husband Brad's mother) from seeing them. However, instead of eliciting sympathy, Amy's actions come across as inexcusably petty and self-centered. She's ready to cancel a vacation between her and her husband rather than allow Mary to babysit, frequently snaps at her husband for wanting his mother to have time with their kids, throws away a meal Mary prepared for her daughters, and blatantly ignores her daughters' desire to spend time with Mary. She even resorts to blocking Mary's number on Brad's phone, which could've led to horrible consequences had Mary had an emergency and was unable to contact Brad. Overall, it comes across that Amy is willing to make her entire family miserable rather than swallow her pride and come to terms with the fact that her mother is too irresponsible and reckless to watch over her grandkids. Additionally, as much as she chides her mother for her alcoholism, Amy never mentions getting Jenny any help for her problem, with the video ending with her laughing as she realizes that Jenny is once again getting drunk in front of her grandkids (Mary is there to take care of them this time around, but still...)
- Harley from "GIRL SHAMED For Playing ROBLOX GAMES" is meant to be seen as a girl who wants to take a career path that her mother doesn't approve of by developing Roblox games while her mother is supposed to be seen as unreasonably strict for punishing her. However, Harley is shown to be getting bad grades while also actively going against her mother by taking her electronics back. Not helping her case is the fact that it was also mentioned Harley racked up an $800 credit card bill buying Robux. Her mother even extended her grounding time for giving her own mother an attitude.
- Sabrina from "Teen FIRED For TIKTOK OBSESSION" is shown in a similar light to a lesser extent. While she never actively tries to be rude or disrespectful in the video, her father is supposed to be seen as unreasonably strict for not letting her do Tiktok. Also, it was mentioned that she was fired from three jobs prior with her getting fired from a fourth one all because she was putting Tiktok over her work. Her situation isn't as bad as Harley's, as she's at least using her own money, but she could have very easily done Tik Tok on her own time without neglecting her real job.
- With the exception of Noah's father, every parent in the Jay and Mikey centered videos comes across this way. While Jay and Mikey are far from perfect children, their behavior can be largely attributed to their parents' overly strict and often fun isolating mistreatment of them, from ignoring actual crimes committed by their teachers to ground them all summer, to indicating that they'll be taking fun away from them for the rest of their childhood. Mikey's mom reacts to almost every deed he does in an unreasonably strict way, more often than not forbidding him from anything he likes doing for longer than necessary; and Jay's mom is almost as guilty of this with it even being confirmed in Kid Won't LISTEN TO His Mother, He Lives To Regret IT, is confirmed to physically beat him at times in the ending. Mikey's dad is so loud and aggressive with the way he talks that one could be forgiven for believing he physically abuses Mikey, and that their mother somehow doesn't know about it, or is completely apathetic towards it. Jay's father isn't quite as bad as the rest, but he's far from perfect, as he more often than not goes along with these over the top punishments whenever Jay and Mikey get the major focus. Almost every time Jay and/or Mikey screw up, they face punishments that are either the parents going too far, outdated, or taking small things way out of proportion. The fact that no one objects to this treatment of them is insane, even though 90% of the time, the parents make themselves look even worse than Jay and Mikey, even when they're committing actual crimes that are deserving of punishment such as when they pretended to break into Noah's father's store to teach the kids a lesson. How ironic that Dhar Mann never explores how Jay and Mikey feel about this considering he's touched on how damaging child abuse is before.
- Zack and even to some degree Ryan from “Hot Girl Uses Co-Worker To Buy Her Things” Yes Zack is in the right to feel hurt and betrayed by Sabrina’s cruel rejection of him for Ryan even if Sabrina was right to point out how stupid he was to think she liked him and not many girls would date him due to his appearance, but how he gets back at her somewhat makes him come off as a stalker. First, he gets more fit in the new year and adopts a new skin routine and his new business comes off as successful but the problem is, the gym he chooses is the very one her boyfriend is running and first thing he does is literally tell him all about Sabrina’s treatment of him, and even though he hardly knows Zack at all, he straight up believes it immediately and comes by her work to dump her on the spot and has Zack be his company to his New Years outing. The manager at Sabrina’s job could also qualify as even though Sabrina was being rude to the customers and not helping them, she waited a whole year to finally confront her on it and possibly fire her. Sabrina may not be a nice person but in all fairness, she seemed like she loved Ryan a lot just by the date montage and was in a tough life crisis at the start.
- Emily in the bonus episode: “Daughter Runs Away from Her Judgemental Mother”. While we feel bad for Emily that she was being bullied at school, her mother handled the situation in a bad manner by criticizing Emily for her weight as well as harshly confronting her daughter’s poor performance at school (which involves getting bad grades and fighting another student), not even helping that her mother never gave time to understand what Emily has been going through. To be fair, Emily’s feelings were hurt by her mom’s strong words, but she handled the situation in the wrong way by trying to run away from the house. Therefore, she would have been kidnapped or possibly worse, never to be found again. Fortunately, the mother found Emily and expresses her remorse towards her daughter, realizing how awful she has been to her.
- SPOILED TEEN Yells At WAITRESS On Her Birthday: Jasmine demands that her waitress Angela risk her job to bring her more linen, tries to get her fired, knowing that her manager is a terrible man and straight up calls her (a black woman) "a monkey". Later, Jasmine's father becomes bankrupt and she's forced to get a job. She ends up working at the same restauarant where Angela worked at, and actually ends up serving her. Angela tips her well and offers her a more, well-paying job, in spite of all the horrible things she did to her earlier. The comments were against Jasmine and unhappy that Angela forgave a racist.
- Dr. Jackson in the bonus episode: "Male Patient Humiliates A Female Doctor." Yes she has every right be offended about Bob Cook judging her for being a female doctor and calling her inexperienced, but how she handled most of it was honestly just as bad, it not worst. She gives Cook a male surgeon at his request and it turns out the surgeon he gets is not even a experienced surgeon at all, so Bob reasonably asks Jackson to do his surgery for him instead but she coldly refuses all because of what happened earlier and even the receptionist refuses to allow it either by claiming she isn’t available again till six months later which makes Jackson and her just come off as unprofessional as they now just let a patient die or even get bad surgery results at the hands of a inexperienced surgeon that even came out and dropped his clipboard in front of the receptionist which would have shown her exactly why Cook wanted Jackson back
