Fountain of Memes: Some of his more memorable jokes tend to stick with the anime that applies with that joke. So don't be surprised when a meme or a youtube comment references a joke from his.
Growing the Beard: Pre-comeback, many of his viewers felt his Fate/Zero review was when he began to grow as both a critic and a video maker. However, many of his fans feel that his comeback material starting in 2016 is some of his best material yet, mixing in both critical analysis and witty humor.
In 2019 he put out a video about "Anime Fans vs Manga Readers" that included a hypothetical conversation between the two that ended with the Manga Reader claiming "nothing you say will hurt me", only for the Anime Fan to declare "Komi-san is never getting an anime!" which enrages the Manga Reader. Two years later, Komi Can't Communicate would indeed get an anime adaptation for the Fall 2021 Season.
"If Anime Studios Were People" characterizes the personfications of Crunchyroll and Funimation as Sickeningly Sweethearts, a reference to their partnership at the time. And then it was announced that Funimation's parent company Sony Pictures would acquire Crunchyroll. The following March, it was announced that Funimation would undergo a rebrand as Crunchyroll, LLC and their content would move over to Crunchyroll.
I Knew It!: In early 2016, after he uploaded the second part of his 2015 recap he uploaded a few more videos to YouTube around the same time. This lead a lot of his viewers to believe that he was going to make videos regularly again. A while later he makes an announcement that he quit his job at the BBC and has decided to go back to making videos full time again.
"Happy New Years!"note Starting in 2013, Gigguk starting making yearly anime recaps that are split into two parts. From 2013 through 2015 the second part would usually come out after the New Year ended the most notable example being the second part of the 2015 recap coming out in March 2016. Though now that Gigguk has gone back to making regular videos the 2016 recap had both parts come out on time.
"Anime is trash...and so am I"ExplanationFrom his video on Eromanga Sensei, where he's come to full acceptance of the Guilty Pleasure show. This line now gets quoted whenever someone decides to admit to enjoying any "trash" series without worrying about being shamed for it.
"DOES SHOUTING REALLY LOUD SOLVE MY PROBLEMS?!"
"I will protect this smile..."ExplanationGigguk gushing about Tsumugi Inuzuka in his Summer Anime 2016 Abridged video has often been used for other moe characters.
"Sometimes, it takes a real man to become best girl." ExplanationDuring his review of spending $1000 on gacha games, he defends his decision to selectively roll for Mordred and Astolfo from Fate/Apocrypha, noting that rolling for the latter wasn't just for memes, but because Astolfo is cute. This humorous statement has since then mutated into an appreciation term for other popular male crossdressing characters.
"Everyone's favourite Genshin Streamer." ExplanationCrosses this with Never Live It Down but every since Garnt got back to Genshin in the middle of 2022, he has quickly garnered this reputation as being hopelessly addicted to it. Which he admits multiple times in his Twitch streams. The fact that he is one of the most watched Genshin Twitch streamers doesn't help at all.
"Gay Girls, innit?"ExplanationHow he described the evident Les Yay subtext in an anime series involving two female main characters with the obvious dynamic. Saw use since his "Best of Anime 2022" video.
VA-GrantExplanationIt was revealed during Gigguk's cross-streaming session with Amanda Lee that, apart from being a content creator for Genshin Impact, he was also hired as Voice actor for a few random NPC's for Honkai: Star Rail. The chat stream immediately took notice of this and made the said pun (despite the fact that that is NOT how his real name is spelt ("Garnt" instead of "Grant".)
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