The Distressed Watcher steers into this territory from time to time. In episode 13 of 'Trailer Failure' he said that the bombing of Pearl Harbor, starving children, and 9/11 combined were not as bad as Sex and the City 2. Though those who think this is bad are obviously not acquainted with The Distressed Watcher's YouTube work as The Amazing Atheist.
Harsher in Hindsight: At the beginning of his "Top 10 Anti-Heroes" video, someone comes up to him and asks "Aren't you the Distressed Watcher?" He answers "That was a long time ago. In another life." Then came his removal from Channel Awesome.
Ho Yay: His admitted bisexuality has done nothing to stop this. Most prominently, he has made out with Case (aka FakeSagan aka HardCaseOwnsYou) during a fundraising BlogTV session.
Misaimed Fandom: In a discussion stream with Vaush, Kirk said that he felt that "It's Only Sexist When Men Do It" garnered one. The 2011 video consisted of Kirk calling out The Talk for making light of a woman quite literally emasculating her husband as well other similar moments on other shows, and criticizing the feminist movement for not talking about these issues. The video consequently laid the groundwork for much of the anti-SJW culture that has polarized the internet, Kirk included. In his own words...
Kirk: When I did it I feel like it was anti-reactionary. Now, I feel like it is reactionary. When I did it, it was against outrage culture, now I feel like it's another tenet of outrage culture.
Vaush: Is that what you mean when you said you felt it was widely misinterpreted? That people used it as a springboard to engage in their own misbehavior rather than...?
Kirk: I don't think it happened quite that quickly, but I think that, y'know, it went from "Hey, don't you use this moral cudgel to control art," to— and that's what the anti-SJW shit is now, it's a moral cudgel to try to control art. And, uh, so it became the exact opposite of what, at least on my part it was intended to be.
Moment of Awesome: This video, in which he calls out a radical feminist who writes down a list of things that make a man a rape supporter note for reference, the list consists of pretty much every form of sexual activity that can possibly be performed by a man, so it basically says that every man on the planet supports rape. The best part? He calls it out more for its misogyny than its misandry.
Never Live It Down: Even diehard fans thought "Bananagate" would become this, but his calm response to the incident resulted in most of his critics backing off.
The Scrappy: His Channel Awesome alter-ego The Distressed Watcher. TGWTG fans had (unsuccessfully) petitioned for him to be removed from the site and he also wasn't very popular with some contributors on the site either. Lindsay mentioned how she doesn't like how he revels in pissing people off, site artist Marobot drew a picture of him being killed, JesuOtaku mentioned on Twitter that he found him to be childish and hateful in his arguments, and Film Brain said TJ (in comparison to the tightly knit group) was kind of a loner and didn't really talk to the other contributors much, the exception being Benzaie, who Lindsay said would defend him to 'the bitter end'. Once he left the site he explained his perspective on the whole TGWTG-cooperation on his secondary YouTube-channel.
