Everywhere at the End of Funk / YMMV

Adaptation Displacement:
- The original mod, due to being in a barebones state for over a month, has been eclipsed in popularity by fanmade adaptations attempting to expand on it. Much of the friction in its reception can really be attributed to this rather than the original creators, as said adaptations are of varying quality and tastefulness, to say the least.
- As of 2022, the mod itself appears to have been totally replaced in lexicon by an adaptation by FadyFunker. Reception is mixed due to its very heavy departures from the original album and its controversial Glurge-heavy ending where Senpai cures Boyfriend of his condition through The Power of Friendship.^note
Common Crossover: A frequent tendency of fan comics and weeks based on the mod revolve around the future Boyfriend running into characters from other mods like VS Whitty and Mid-Fight Masses, and the otherwise-aggressive antagonists of them dropping their usual attitude (or lashing out in grief or despair rather than pure anger) once they realize something is very, very wrong.
Fandom Heresy: Given the very heavy subject matter of Everywhere at the End of Time, it's a general expectation among fans that respecting the album comes before implementing the logic of the Friday Night Funkin' universe, both vanilla and modded. As a result, attempts to override the Downer Ending of Everywhere through Rule of Fun or game logic, or cross it over with certain characters such as Selever have consistently ended in backlash.
Fanon: Some fan extensions of the mod have a tendency to blame Boyfriend's condition on a car crash that may or may not have also killed Girlfriend or one of her parents.^note The 2.0 update seems to have Jossed this, however, with everyone being alive and well, just away trying to figure out ways to help Boyfriend (though whether or not this is an improvement is debatable.) Notably, this concept appears to have been spun off, as it is the event that started off the storyline of Static Memories, another FNF mod that has themes of mental illness and damage to the brain.
Heartwarming Moments: One of the fanmade extensions to the mod, Everywhere at the End of Hex, is a crossover with Vs Hex Mod, and features the titular Hex realizing something's wrong with Boyfriend and offering him time to talk about his struggle. What makes this all the more fitting is Hex's canonical nature as a particularly empathetic machine, as he too experienced tragedy in his life, which meshes quite effectively with the common fan depiction of Everywhere at the End of Funk being set after a car accident.
- What makes it even more sweet as that this week has no rapping involved. Not a single note to be sung here. Hex cares enough about this random guy he met that he doesn't force him to rap, and instead just talks with him.
  Hex: No worries, buddy. And hey... If you forget about me, I won't mind. Because I'll remember you. And that's what's important.
Misblamed: The creators of the original mod were often blamed for trivializing or misinterpreting important parts of the condition prior to the 2.0 update (which introduces several more disclaimers declaring their actual intent and a warning to not stray from it in fan works.) This, however, is an issue much, much more prevalent within Fanon, due to the varying quality of such takes on the mod.
Paranoia Fuel: The mod takes the fuel from the original album and sprinkles in the terrible thought of becoming an extremely rare but entirely possible edge case of an awful and very real condition - the future Boyfriend might be very young by dementia's standards, but he's also still older than the youngest Real Life case. And if you subscribe to the "car crash/traumatic brain injury" theory, although it's true that it's not a fast lane to the condition, it can still be cause for paranoia since such an injury could theoretically end up cascading into what does cause dementia anyways.
Tear Jerker:
- The entire premise of the mod. Boyfriend has dementia for some unspecified reason. Girlfriend has to suffer through it all, taking extended trips to get stuff for him while his former rivals try to check up on him. Eventually, he starts to lose his grip on reality as his memories start fading away.
- Boyfriend's Despair Event Horizon near the end of Week 6. As a Chiptune version of "Libet's Delay" plays in the background, he slowly comes to the realization that he is losing the memories of those he cares about and will eventually succumb to his dementia. And he accepts it.

YMMV / Everywhere at the End of Funk

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