You know what's buuuulllllshiiiit? YMMV items. Not everyone agrees with these entries, so sometimes when people edit YMMV pages, Edit Wars break out and the mods have to step in and fix the pages up or outright lock them. Now that's bullshit.
- Broken Base: The "bullshit mask", which is considered either an impressive prop or a distracting annoyance. And that's for starters. One particular complaint is the awkward contrast it causes with the unmuffled voice-overs. In later episodes, however, the muffling issue is mostly gone (James inserting his lines post-op). Starting in 2016, the mask is no longer used at all.
- Heartwarming Moments:
- Despite most of the series being the Bullshit Man complaining about random annoyances, he actually does talk about a genuine safety concern about funeral travelers, not having a police escort or other means of giving motorists proper warning that they are coming through.
- Despite feeding birds being bullshit to him, he only does it... because his pet cats like to watch. Shows a Kindhearted Cat Lover side to him.
- At the end of "Inflatable Decorations", the Bullshit Man wishes the viewers a happy Halloween and a merry Christmas.
- Hilarious in Hindsight: In his episode about restaurants putting too much cream cheese on bagels, he acknowledges that some people might like them that way, and suggests a compromise involving options for how much cream cheese a customer wants on their bagel. Wawa would go on to introduce such a system some years after the episode was posted.
- Jerkass Woobie: While he isn't outright truly unpleasant, the Bullshit Man is grumpy, pessimistic and critical, but he's also a miserable person who has to put up with all of the inconveniences in his life. This line from the episode, "Assholes", says it best.The Bullshit Man: Fuck you! I used to look normal before all this bullshit happened to me!
- Memetic Mutation: "You know what's buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuullllllllllllllllllllllllllshiiiiiiiiiiiit?"
- Nausea Fuel: The bullshit mask. It's literally made of bullshit.
- Special Effect Failure: In close-ups, you can sometimes clearly see parts of the mask that are not painted: white cotton balls that are dangling on the bottom!
- Suspiciously Similar Song: The stock music piece "Houston Jazz Lounge" (heard in the episode "Microwaves") is a sound-alike to the big band piece "Let's Dance" by Benny Goodman.
- They Changed It, Now It Sucks!:
- Happens on a constant basis, despite the fact that the show is designed to be random, with limited formula. The most common complaint is, unsurprisingly, the bullshit mask and its consistent use from Episode 14 until its retirement in 2016.
- James did make a mellow response to this in his episode 18 video in the description.
"To everyone who doesn’t like the mask. It’s too late to change it. I shot 10 episodes back to back. (3 have been released and 7 are on the way.)"- After that, he continued to use the mask, apparently content with the way his character is portrayed.
- Much like The Angry Video Game Nerd, many fans were unhappy with the thumbnails being changed to look more uniform and algorithm friendly. Made even worse when the title was changed to You Know What’s BS, and that James isn’t allowed to say bullshit at the beginning of the video anymore due to YouTube's new guideline changes in 2020.
- Unconventional Learning Experience: The episode, "Grass", is not another one of the Bullshit Man's rants, but instead an educational lecture on the digestive system of cattle.
- Unintentional Period Piece:
- The Bullshit Man complains about the influx of penguin movies. Which was a 2007 thing.
- Even the pilot episode suffers from this; not only does it pertain to physical movie media which, while not dead, has nosedived in popularity since the advent of streaming services, security stickers have basically been completely done away with now even on current physical media.
- In the iTunes episode, the Bullshit Man complains about how his daily habit of listening to music has made him "helplessly dependent" on the software. With the rise of new online music streaming services in The New '10s such as Spotify and iHeartRadio, iTunes no longer dominates the music streaming industry like it did at the beginning of the decade when the episode first came out.
- In the Hotel TVs episode, the Bullshit Man advices to use a coaxial adapter to play games on televisions that lack an RCA input. Nowadays, games are played using an HDMI cable. Also, he mentions to go to stores like Circuit City which had shut down all locations in 2009.
- Unintentional Uncanny Valley: The Bullshit Man, face and all, reappears in "Micro SD Cards", albeit in animated form. Said animated form is... kind of unsettling, as he looks like how he would in live action, but moves in a jerky South Park-esque manner with still, dead eyes.
