YMMV / Yoshiki Hayashi

• Americans Hate Tingle: He can draw this reaction on YouTube videos of his X drum solos that aren't on his own account among some of the angrier Western metal fans, specifically those who are prejudiced against anything "effeminate" or non-Western in the first place no matter what - outright racist remarks aren't unknown.
• Cargo Ship: Due to his habits of collapsing and rolling around on the stage during lives, some people jokingly ship Yoshiki with The Floor.
• Estrogen Brigade: Yoshiki, unlike most heavy metal/hard rock artists, has a sizable female following.
• Fandom-Enraging Misconception: As mentioned on the main page, "Yosheekee" and "Yokashi" and "Yoshi" are fairly good ways to evoke at the very least a Face Palm.
• Fan Nickname: "Yo-chan" (bestowed by hide, who was arguably one of his biggest fans as well as his guitarist), "Yoyo" by fans, "Pony" by people who think his face looks pony-like, and "Princess" by Brazilian fans and fans elsewhere.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Yoshiki would often fake falls and collapses in shows for the sake of drama and showmanship. Then he collapsed for real from his neck injuries in 1995 and 2008, with many writing it off by some as drama and fanservice.
• Launcher of a Thousand Ships: Is this in jrock fandom in general. There is Slash Fic of him with everyone in X Japan, including Heath and even Foe Yay Shipping with Taiji. Then Atsushi Sakurai of BUCK-TICK, and GACKT. Then everyone from Dir en grey. Then Miyavi. There is, arguably, Slash Fic of Yoshiki with every other person in Japanese rock a Yaoi Fangirl has ever heard of, and there is even a fic of him and Johnny Depp doing it on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride. Then there's the usually heterosexual original female characters...
• Memetic Mutation- The aforementioned Rice Monster, which he still hasn't quite lived down.
• Mis-blamed: Some of the concerts were canceled for reasons beyond his control (such as the 2016 Wembley show, which was canceled due to guitarist Pata's health), and the miniature scandal that was the Photoshopping and announcement of 8000 fans for the promotional video shoot in 2010 was due to the graphic designers and PR people involved. A fair amount of the hate toward Yoshiki is actually either misaimed or over things he can't do anything about, and a fair amount of it is haters simply jumping on the bandwagon of who's popular to hate.
• Took the Bad Film Seriously: Yoshiki doing the music for Saw IV and for Repo! The Genetic Opera. Yeah, one of the once-top drummers in the world, who *could,* had he gone classical rather than rock, be a virtuoso pianist, who created and led one of Japan's most successful rock bands, who is an extremely talented musician... working for people who, in the case of Repo, couldn't even pronounce his name correctly.
• Values Dissonance: What delayed the international release of Yoshiki Classical. Part of the cover art designed involves a picture with Yoshiki sitting over a mirrored surface and the reflection of his face being his skull, and another pic being him and his piano mirrored in "blood" red. While this might seem innocuous enough in the US and in Visual Kei subculture (and is quite tame compared to almost any of his X Japan cover art), it is highly offensive in some of the cultures and countries for which the international release was meant (including Japan itself outside of visual kei and gothic subculture) - and this led to the delay of the release.
  • And Yoshiki Classical still got hit with an 18+ rating in Russia because of Yoshiki's known androgyny and bisexuality. Never mind that most of the pieces are instrumentals (and the one that isn't both not having horribly explicit lyrics + said lyrics being in Italian anyway), therefore making the album nothing Moral Guardians could find serious objection to outside from the artist's appearance and personal life.