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  • Critical Dissonance: At one point was both the most watched YouTuber, and considered one of the worst big channels by other YouTubers, due to perceived low effort content.
  • Ensemble Dark Horse:
    • Kassem G, who filled in for Ray as presenter in two videos, has a couple of fans.
    • He even got to be the host, again, in a future episode because people requested it.
    • Gabriel Iglesias could also count, being almost as popular as Kassem G, if not more popular.
  • Fandom Rivalry: Quite inevitably with Nigahiga, considering that Ray had surpassed him as the number-one most subscribed channel. Similarly, fans of Jacksfilms and Ray don't seem to get along due to the former bashing the latter.
  • Genius Bonus: On a video review about a cat that walked on two paws, he referenced George Orwell (and an on-screen annotation pointed out "TO THE AUDIENCE: He wrote Animal Farm".) Speaking of, when Ray reviewed a video of a dog watching Family Guy in the BAD KIDS episode, he said "Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy", which is a plot point in the film.
  • Harsher in Hindsight: The =3 video TOO FAT TO DIE! features a video by Randy Stair, who in 2017 would murder four people (including himself) at a Weiss market he worked for.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight:
    • In the episode "Man-Bitch", he jokingly asks if the fat guy that fell through the ceiling was Kevin Smith. Kevin Smith would later appear in person on episodes of Equals Three.
    • At one point in the episode "Psycho Asian Girlfriend", Ray starts a sentence with, "If I had an Asian girlfriend...". Now he does have an Asian girlfriend.
    • In the later episodes Ray hosted, the Google+ logo would be subjected to physical abuse from him. Google+ was shut down for business and personal use in April of 2019.
  • Memetic Mutation: Many of the viral videos Ray's reviewed are memes in themselves.
  • Replacement Scrappy: Naturally, someone will be disappointed when Ray isn't the one hosting a new episode.
    • However, the episode with Garfunkel and Oates was just terrible, with a 76 percent dislike rate.
    • The first episode hosted by Andy Milonakis was much less warmly received.
    • This was the fear with Robby Motz being the show's new host. However, people warmed up very well to Robby and see him as a younger version of Ray, as well as having a huge blend of sarcasm and upbeat humor.
    • The same cannot be said about Robby's replacement, Kaja Martin. The first video that didn't have an overwhelming dislike ratio since her debut as a new host was... the video where Ray informed everyone she was stepping down. Keep in mind, Robby stayed longer than Kaja. Holy crap. And it had less to do with her being the new host and more of her comedy style being vastly different compared to Robby's.
  • The Scrappy: Catt Lauer's "reports" weren't particularly well received, so Ray had him executed live in his (Ray's) birthday episode. Too bad Cats Have Nine Lives.
  • They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: The format change to five one-review videos a week from two three-review videos a week was received as this at the time, which is funny to look back at considering it's the format the show's best remembered for now.

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