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  • Anvilicious: His Kimba the White Lion video on addressing the infamous "Lion King vs. Kimba" plagiarism emphasizes multiple important points when it comes to media.
    • 1) Do research before making any assumptions and opinions, and do not be too quick to judge especially if you never consume those media yourself, and instead buy into weak journalism that contains misinformation and inaccurate details.
      Adam: This is once again proof that being a published author doesn't mean you have any idea what you're talking about!
    • 2) Any form of storytelling and literary devices is done to death. This should not invalidate any creators to be expressive on their creative thoughts and works, regardless of whether their works are original or not, and coincidences do occur all the time.
  • Awesome Music: His own band An Unkindness shows impressive promise and showcases Adam's vocals surprisingly well. Made more awesome that Blondie covered their song "Fragments" for the album Pollinator!
  • Broken Base:
    • Adam's negative reviews towards movies that garnered a huge fanbase or gotten glowing praise will garner some negative attention and criticism, mainly towards his nit-pick attitude, sometimes coming off as "Stop Having Fun" Guy or complaining for the sake of complaining.
    • Adam's approach toward film criticism has become rather divisive. While none will dispute his ability to comment on the technical aspects of filmmaking, many feel that he is far too harsh, nitpicky, and bursting to the brim with bias to fairly evaluate the stories of said movies he dislikes. Adam and his fans are aware of this broken base and frequently remind detractors that his reviews solely reflect his opinions and should not be taken as gospel.
  • Fandom Rivalry: Adam fans do not get along with David Lynch fans, especially when Adam made it clear he hates Lynch's work all because his copy of Eraserhead does not have a menu screen. This got worse when he slammed Lynch's considered classic Mulholland Drive and borderline infuriated fans more when during a Sardonicast episode discussing the aforementioned Eraserhead with ralphthemoviemaker and I Hate Everything, Adam constantly interrupted the two and was borderline caustic about the film. Although in an ironic twist, he genuinely enjoyed David Lynch's adaptation of Dune, showing almost none of his usual distaste for the director and admitting that he likes it even more than Denis Villeneuve's adaptation of Dune.
  • Fridge Brilliance: May overlap with Fridge Horror, depending on your sensibilities. The banner for the YMS YouTube channel is a collage of various movies Adam has reviewed, with Cool Cat in the center. However, you can see one of the infamous torture photographs from Megan is Missing reflected in his eyes. It makes sense once you remember what happens in that movie, and with the Running Gag of Cool Cat being a pedophile, the implication seems to be that Cool Cat is Josh.
  • Friendly Fandoms: With I Hate Everything as Adam and Alex have collaborated quite a bit and Adam helped Alex during both his copyright dispute with Derek Savage and later helping to raise awareness when Youtube terminated IHE's account. Many YMS fans are also IHE fans, especially because both reviewers have a similar style.
  • Germans Love David Hasselhoff:
    • According to a Reddit post, Adum is very popular in China. His reviews pull in millions of views on Wechat, especially his review of Crazy Rich Asians, where he tears the movie to shreds.
    • He is just as popular in the US, if maybe more so than in his native home of Canada. This is lampshaded in his review of Riding the Bus With My Sister, where he catches himself using the term "pop" as opposed to "soda", though it is worth mentioning that "pop" often gets used in Northwestern States.
  • Harsher in Hindsight:
    • Adam getting flak towards fans of the band Car Seat Headrest for being insensitive towards vocalist Will Toledo became this when Toledo became subject to criticisms after he shafted and talked poorly of Isle of Dogs, accusing the film of "cultural appropriation", something Adam proceeded to make fun of.
    • Despite his bashing of Cool Cat Saves the Kids, he did admire Derek Savage's love and dedication for trying to create something for kids that would help them with issues like bullying and gun safety. Even though Savage himself responded to Adam's video and approved of it, he later started harassing other Video Review Shows because they gave Cool Cat negative reviews (namely I Hate Everything and Bobsheaux) and cut ties with Adam after his Cool Cat Learns Fair Use video called him out. Later on, due to Derek Savage launching multiple Kickstarters for new projects that didn't deliver on their promises (even in cases of successful funding) - even unblocking Adam on Twitter to get him to promote one of those films - Adam highly discourages anyone giving money to Savage's unfinished projects and has called him out on his manipulative behavior.
  • Heartwarming Moments:
    • Adam's admiration for Neil Breen's filmmaking passion and artistry despite the actual quality of his films is quite heartwarming, especially when Adam highlights Neil's sincerity compared to other So Bad, It's Good directors like Tommy Wiseau.
    • Even with how much he bashes Megan is Missing, he still compliments Goi on his heart being in the right place, even if he should stick to cinematography.
    • After Scott Henderson "Scoot" unexpectedly passed away in 2024, Adum and several other friends did a long live stream solely dedicated to Scoot, where they talked about how much they adored him and appreciated his sense of humor.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight: In their "420 Awards" commentary, one of Adam's friends jokes that Derek Savage is the voice of Cool Cat. Derek would later become the actual voice of Cool Cat after Jason Johnson severed his ties with him.
  • Iron Woobie: Early on wise, Adam stated on his AMA on Reddit that he struggled growing up with learning about being gay and being a furry, even once saying he would commit suicide if someone were to ever find out. He also admitted to struggling with addictions of pills and cocaine for two years before sobering up, and struggling to tell people about his sexuality and interest in the furry fandom before telling his close friends/bandmates. Despite this, as he's said: "Overall it kind of sucks, but I can deal with it."
    • During the extremely protracted editing process for his review of The Lion King (2019), Adam ended up getting tendonitis in BOTH arms due to the excessive amount of clicking and scrolling he did with his computer mouse on his dominant hand and then switching to his non-dominant hand to keep the work going. After being essentially stripped of his ability to do any editing at all with both arms out of commission, he then decided to use his time in recovery to catch up on movies he had been putting off watching. The end result of sitting on the couch watching hours of movies for extended periods of time? Fucking SCIATICA.
  • Memetic Badass: His feature-length dismantling of the "The Lion King (1994) ripped off Kimba the White Lion" controversy has made him the world's leading authority on Kimba due to the sheer amount of research he did on the subject matter. All arguably out of spite.
  • Memetic Mutation:
    • It's very rare for Adam to give a film a perfect score, and the few that do are usually of the intelligent and thought-provoking variety. He does admit that action movies, when handled well, are thoroughly entertaining and deserve the money they usually make, such as Mad Max: Fury Road. He gave Fury Road a rating of 7/10 as a film, but a Fun/10 as pure entertainment; at one time, this was what popped up on upvoted posts on his official subreddit.
      • On the flip side of things, his "Dumb/10" rating for Cyberbu//y (2011) was the message for downvoting a post.
    • He is the reason Cool Cat is a meme and arguably why people even know about Derek Savage.
    • A number of films he's done reviews on have spawned quotes repeated endlessly within his fanbase:
      • "I CAN'T GET THE CAP OFF!"Explanation
      • "FATHA!"
      • "I didn't pick them because they're really good — I picked them because they're really famous."Explanation
    • His reviews of Kimba the White Lion and The Lion King (2019) spawned several memes:
      • "Hmm, suspicious."Explanation
      • "Scar himself looks like foreign, weak and with very female moves."Explanation
      • yEsExplanation
      • "So, how was it like working with Beyoncé?"Explanation
      • "Wow! Dude, Pride Rock!"Explanation
      • "Beep repair" and "bEEp" Explanation
    • "Is that the Asian kid from 13 Reasons Why?" Explanation
    • "Get me outta here! I didn't do anything! Just get me out!" Explanation
  • Misaimed Fandom: Adum's video on the Kimba plagiarism controversy said, among other things, that one should do their own research rather than making assumptions based on incomplete and possibly incorrect information. Some of his fans seem to have missed this theme, review-bombing From Goods to a Good Life — a book by Madhavi Sunder that briefly tackled the issue — on Amazon.com solely due to Adum's video. While her claims were definitely worthy of criticism — not least because she got multiple basic facts wrong and used sources that were questionable at best — judging her book based on one small section showcased in a YouTube video is completely missing Adum's point.
  • Most Wonderful Sound: The 3-note jinglenote  that plays at the start of the "Quickie" movie vlogs, accompanied by a copyright notice to film producers and the like to consider fair use before using ContentID.
  • Seasonal Rot: While not too serious, some feel 2018's Quickies were too cynical even by Adum's standards, which some feel started with his negative review of A Quiet Place and the addendum to said review. This was also not helped by YMS review of The Visit, which Twitter followers weren't amused by because he had already reviewed it as a Quickie.
  • Squick: Him intentionally vomiting into a bowl and all over his body on the second part of his SAW review. If you read the comments, you'll see that a lot of people really weren't fond of that part, either.
  • Tear Jerker: The tragic passing of Scoot (Scott Henderson), who was often featured in Adum & Pals and many other videos. The loss was unexpected and devastating.

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