YMMV / Rocked

aka: Rocked Reviews

• Broken Base: While Luke really doesn't suffer much of this as much as his associates, a certain criticism people have of his content is his Take Thats towards certain bands due to bias (such as Limp Bizkit and especially Five Finger Death Punch/Ivan Moody), as well as certain comments he's known to throw terms at said bands and acts like them (such as the infamous "Butt-rock" comments). His responses to those who disagree with him doesn't help much either.
• Friendly Fandoms: With Crash Thompson.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • In the Regretting the Past episode on All the Right Reasons by Nickelback, Luke intentionally skips over "Photograph" before The Nostalgia Critic shows up to scorn him for skipping "Photograph" when he had to watch Foodfight! in its entirety. After the two start arguing, Luke caves and talks about "Photograph" anyway, and after Luke asks the Critic if he is happy, he says, "Oh, I'm always happy when I see another critic in agony." This video was made in 2015, when Rocked was part of Channel Awesome, but this line became a FAM following the infamous "Not So Awesome" scandal, an incident where several former and then-current producers from Channel Awesome came forward to address mismanagement, sexual harassment, and abuse by Channel Awesome's management team. Doug Walker, the actor who plays the Nostalgia Critic, while being listed as "talent", was actually involved in several company decisions through his brother Rob being an official manager, and was confirmed to have abused the cast and crew involved in Channel Awesome's anniversary film, To Boldly Flee. As a result of this scandal, almost all of the Channel Awesome producers (including Luke) left the site, the exceptions being the Walker Brothers, Brad Jones, and Larry Bundy Jr.
  • His video "Will We Ever Be Happy Again With Linkin Park?", where he discusses the future of the band after the negatively-received album One More Light, quickly became this when frontman Chester Bennington died by suicide a month later. Surprisingly enough, the video was unlisted or privated after the news broke out.
• He Panned It, Now He Sucks!: Fans of Limp Bizkit and Nickelback were not happy with his Regretting the Past videos on these respective artists. He even brings up that he got death threats for insulting the former in his RTP on Nickelback's All the Right Reasons.
• Heartwarming in Hindsight: In the Regretting the Past episode on Fall Out Boy's Save Rock and Roll, when talking about the title track that features Elton John, a speech bubble appears stating "We've lost a lot of musicians in 2016. For the love of God please don't take Elton away also." Come the end of the year, and Luke got his wish.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Luke's frustration over tool's Development Hell over their long-awaited fifth album in the Chinese Democracy RTP becomes this when, in 2019, Tool finally released their first album in thirteen years.
• Memetic Mutation: This is not about seeeex.....SEEEEEEX!!!!^note A Running Gag from the Regretting the Past episode on Creed's Weathered, more specifically an incredibly narmy moment in the song "Signs".
  • The Denny's stalker.^note Another Running Gag in the same series, used to describe lyrics with rather disturbingly stalker-esque vibes. He even makes an (off-screen) appearance at the end of the Buckcherry RTP!
  • Using "Durst" as a euphemism or verb to describe how something sucks.