This is the Your Mileage May Vary page! It contains more subjective tropes that not everyone will agree with, along with various tropes surrounding the fanbase. Mostly, it's used for shipping, documenting the fallout of shipping flame wars, listing of fandom memes, and the occasional attempt to make new memes up.
- Creator Backlash: Brendan deeply regrets some of the jokes he made in Welcome to Tumblr, both for being bad jokes and coming off as transphobic.
- Crack Pairing: The Fanfiction.net episode has a Wii Fit Trainer/Olimar sex scene.
- Fountain of Memes: The Fanfiction.net episode is insanely quotable. Especially the Creepypasta and Wattpad segments.
- "We was YOU, and YOU became Skeleton and wrote THIS!"
- "Ideal Cast: One Direction + MEEEEEE!"
- "Maybe, you'll look better WITHOUT the dress? Hmmmmmmmm ;)"
- And, from the outtakes, “Ooohooohoo, SPOOKY! Ooooh, SPOOKY!”
- Fridge Horror: Played for Laughs in the Fanfiction.net episode - the author of the creepypasta is said to have committed suicide, but later revealed to be the viewer, implying the viewer killed themselves in the story or will do so in the future.
- Growing the Beard: YouTube is where the series started to gain a lot of recognition. Not surprising, since the art was a step-up from the last two episodes, and the jokes and mocking were sharper and funnier.
- Harsher in Hindsight:
- In YouTube, a few jokes about the site's constant, never-asked-for updates that change the interface and make everything more convoluted, including one at the end where a fake update is shown that requires users to have a Google+ account to do anything. Funny then, but less funny after Google actually force-integrated Google+ into the site, a decision that actively made the site (mainly the comment section) less user-friendly, and caused more backlash than any prior update.
- Similarly, the jokes about copyright aren't as funny after the serious crackdown on copyrighted content starting in late 2013, which caused many people to struggle with disputing copyright claims for videos that weren't technically copyright-infringing.
- Ultimately culminating with Jello's channel suffering two copyright strikes on his Baccano Abridged series, deleting a majority of the series, though fans have been able to salvage the episodes by reuploading, and Jello starting a backup channel.
- Hilarious in Hindsight:
- In Facebook, made in 2012, the Narrator calls out Duck Face for attempting to use hashtags on Facebook, where they didn't work. Then, in June 2013, they were added to the site. He points this out in an annotation, and the HD reupload changes the joke to reflect it being dated.
- In his remake of Facebook, Jello removed the "Like if you remember Hey Arnold!" gag and replaced it with SpongeBob SquarePants. He did this because he mentioned that since Hey Arnold had been cancelled for over a decade, there technically are a lot of kids who probably haven't seen it. Nick decided to greenlight a new Hey Arnold! movie in 2016.
- In his remake of Facebook, Jello removed the "Like if you remember Hey Arnold!" gag and replaced it with SpongeBob SquarePants. He did this because he mentioned that since Hey Arnold had been cancelled for over a decade, there technically are a lot of kids who probably haven't seen it. Nick decided to greenlight a new Hey Arnold! movie in 2016.
- Jaltoid, another animation group on YouTube, had one of their video thumbnails be shown in a collage during the animation segment of YouTube. The couple behind Jaltoid would later directly take part in the series by voice-acting in Fanfiction.net.
- The "penguins going extinct" gag in Welcome to Tumblr is a lot funnier considering the shutdown of Club Penguin.
- The end of Welcome to Webcomics has him express his frustration at how RPG World never got a proper ending. Thanks to OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes, it now does.
- In a more darkly amusing example, in his Welcome to Tumblr! video, one of the pegs makes a political post, only for it to quickly attract a mob of angry followers. The commenters were quick to point out the Irony of this in the light of his "Vote" video and how it was received.
- Similarly, the gag involving Tumblr's amounts of porn is even more hilarious after the site announced it was banning pornographic content in 2018, a move so controversial and flawed it has been blamed for speeding up the site's decline.
- In Facebook, made in 2012, the Narrator calls out Duck Face for attempting to use hashtags on Facebook, where they didn't work. Then, in June 2013, they were added to the site. He points this out in an annotation, and the HD reupload changes the joke to reflect it being dated.
- No Yay: The Self-Insert Yaoi author Marissa pairs Len with Gakupo. Gakupo is a grown adult, Len is an adolescent. Do the math.
- Ally, 14 years old, pairing herself with One Direction is this to a lesser extent.
- Overshadowed by Controversy: Welcome to Tumblr has the highest view count of the series. However, a lot more people discovered it not because of its quality, but because of the huge amount of hate the Tumblr community (natch) was giving it. Jello has since expressed regret for the points he made in the video.
- Unintentional Period Piece:
- With the websites featured getting changed constantly, a lot of layout-related jokes don't work as well as the episodes age, most notably with YouTube. Jello even directly calls Facebook a period piece in his HD reupload of it.
- Most of the internet culture surrounding some of the websites has moved on. For one, Archive of Our Own isn't given so much as a passing mention in Fanfiction, whereas it probably would have been a talking point if Fanfiction was made today.
