Gnoggin
is a YouTube channel run by Lockstin. He is known for his theories, mostly on video games and Pokémon related subjects.
Beginning from 2020 onwards, he's also the creator of the series of Fakemon (or Lockemon, as he calls them) videos about The Kaskade Region, a region of Pokémon based on the Pacific Northwest, and Pokémon Legends Neo: Ghetsis, a hypothetical "T Rated Action RPG" based on the Kanto region 40 years after a great Cataclysm.
Gnoggin contains examples of:
- Ambiguous Gender: Discussed in the "What is Sheik's Sex" video. He points out that Sheik has a rather masculine build for simply being a Sweet Polly Oliver, as
Word of God claims, and also brings up the fact that their eyes and race (Hylian —> Sheikah) change as well. He believes that Sheik's gender was changed to female retroactively to avoid the Moral Guardians. - Awesome, but Impractical: In a video involving what would happen if you have Adamantium Skeletons like Wolverine. Congratulation, you have a cool skeleton, you just to work out a lot in order to carry that heavy skeleton now. And don't worry about side-effects like having joint stress and fatigue, having blood problems and a compromised immune system... and that's not even the worst part.
- Clickbait Gag: He often lampshades his clickbaity thumbnails when the content of the video is exactly as clickbaity as the thumbnail suggests, like his videos on breasts and pointing out Gardevoir's thing on its chest.
- Content Warnings:
- "Why do Furries exist?" has a warning that contains many sexualized and fetishized images.
- He brought a content warning in his Every Poison-Type Explained video due to containing images of
disgusting images of diseases and toxins affecting the human body. - He also brought this warning in his What if Detective Pikachu REALLY Drank Coffee video to not feed your pets with caffeine.
- "There's SO MUCH Pokémon Rule 34! But Why?" features this warning for showing many adult and sexualized images of many Pokémon characters, both human and creatures.
- Godwin's Law of Facial Hair: In "Tapping into the Lore of Mr. Rime!", Gnoggin delves into the history of tap dancing and Charlie Chaplin for Mr. Rime, a Pokemon from Pokémon Sword and Shield. When talking about Chaplin's mustache, Gnoggin quickly explains that Mr. Rime's mustache was different from Chaplin's actual toothbrush mustache because modern audiences would mock it and turn it into a Hitler reference.
- Inferiority Superiority Complex: His conclusion in regards to the psychology of Vegeta. His pride and superiority was his coping mechanism for his weakness, like his failure to save his people and his planet, developing his narcissism, and his power is overshadowed by many other powerful beings, including Goku. He found his superiority through the eyes of his family, being the best for them and fighting for them. Gnoggin even concluded that he is in a way a slate for the audience and relation of our fear of weakness.
- Innocently Insensitive: When he designed a bunch of new pokemon, he accidentally named one after the "coon" slur, not knowing that it was a slur. Thankfully he changed the pokemon's name to remove the slur as soon as he found out.
- Literal Split Personality: The Cynical part of Lockstin's mind broke out of him during the Sun and Moon theory, taking the form of his skull avatar, naming himself Maxill A. Gnoggin.
- Madness Mantra: "It all comes together."
- Matriarchy: In his "Why Inklings and Octolings have Breasts" video, he also concluded that the Inkling and Octoling society is a matriarchal society based on the game's lore and developers' interview. The females are anatomically stronger than males, as the breasts are actually muscles which allow for more pressure to eject their ink, like how human males have stronger muscles for upper body strength than human females. It is also evident in the Japanese version where the Octolings were known as "Takozonesu", which is a Portmantitle of Tako (octopus) and Amazon. The developers stated in an interview that the girl Inklings were developed as the face of Splatoon, since they had a strong female character in mind when developing the game, as it is rare to find female leads in Nintendo games.
- Non-Mammal Mammaries: He examined this trope with several examples, including the Khajiit, the Argonians, the Zoras, the Inklings and Octolings, the Vipers, Rouge the Bat, and Jynx.
- "Not Making This Up" Disclaimer: In analysis on Female Zora anatomy, he states that Congress hasn't classified fish as mammals like they did with pizza and vegetable. He tells his viewers to look it up.
- Painting the Medium: In Lockstin's video about the Pokémon Bellibolt, the framerate of the video slows down drastically when he talks about how fast toads process visual changes.
- Popular with Furries:
- He analyzed and delved into the fandom and why the fandom was developed in the first place.
- His video on Pokémon and its high amount of erotic images, which includes the creatures. He even referenced his previous video on the furry fandom.
- Portmantitle: His channel is one of "Game" and "Noggin," (as in, use your noggin) but is pronounced the same way as the latter.
- Puppet Show: Any episode with Arlo in it.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: His 36 Things I'm Thankful for in the Gaming Industry is one shaped as sarcastic praise to anything and everything he finds wrong with the gaming industry and its fans; from DRM to meandering franchises to overzealous fans, he claims to be "thankful" for them, but he says them in a way that makes it perfectly clear he isn't.
- Renaissance Man: Well versed in a variety of religions from Christianity to Indian, Hawaiian, Greek, Norse, and Jewish, alchemic lore, video game history, the language of flowers, nomenclature, and others.
- Sanity Slippage: Lockstin, as portrayed in the framing segments of the Pokémon Reboot theory videos.
- Sarcasm Mode: His Galarian Corsola/Cursola video is rife with this.
- Shown Their Work:
- Several of his videos show impressive amounts of research, especially on the Super Smash Brothers is About Autism video, where he read into various symptoms of Autism, and spoke with his wife (who worked at a daycare center when the video was released, has close autistic relatives, and majored in early childhood education) about the topic as well.
- He mentions his series of videos on Pokémon Sun and Moon rebooting thing in the franchise ate up 300 research hours, and it clearly shows.
- Take That!: Has made a few rebuttal videos to rival theory channel Game Theory regarding a few of Mat's more infamous theories. Ironically, he can do this without even intending, as his For Honor video ended up being.
