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The Alcoholic: Seth has admitted to typing while drunk.
All of the Other Reindeer
An Aesop:
Author Appeal: system administration and weird games. He also seems to love A Dose of Buckley; many rants feature links to Buckley's videos.
Berserk Button: Hypocrisy and abuse are one-way trips to Seth roasting someone.
Caustic Critic: Seth is one towards e-celebutantes.
Channel Hop: The site was self-hosted on I2P before Seth migrated it to a tilde server on the clear web.
Chronic Hero Syndrome
Dark and Troubled Past: Seth is implied to have this.
Dark Is Not Evil
Deadpan Snarker: Seth.
Driven by Envy
Ill Guy: Seth.
Intelligence Equals Isolation
Knight in Sour Armor: Seth seems determined to warn about as many scumbags as he can find, regardless of how popular they are.
Seeker Archetype: Seth and whistleblowers.
Unlucky Everydude: Seth.
All There In the Script: According to the Alt Text of "Small Ants Are Easy to Crush", the detractors are named Felicia and Pippi.
An Aesop: Stupid behavior will be lampooned sooner or later.
Brother-Sister Incest: parodied in "Cantapoop."
Creator Breakdown: "Untitled"
Does Not Like Men: the titular hypocrite of "Feminazi."
General Failure: the representative of Maestro Media.
Hypocrite: the titular characters of "Careless Eris" and "Feminazi." Edmund McMillen is also detailed on Untitled's page.
Boom Knuckles: "You're just as bad as the bigots you hate!"
Noodle People: The only exception is Sonic Boom's Knuckles.
Punny Name: "Bruno Farts" and "Cantapoop." Also, "Edmund McVillian" in Untitled's reflection.
Reality Ensues: PearlTrans gets imprisoned for aggravated assault.
Schedule Slip: occurs often because of Seth's mediocre hardware.
Self-Imposed Challenge: parodied in "Small Ants Are Easy to Crush."
Shout-Out: SmallAnt's faked suicide resembles the time out screen in the first Leisure Suit Larry.
Suicide As Comedy: "Small Ants Are Easy to Crush"
Take That!: The strips are centered around jabs.
Took a Level in Jerkass: "Careless Eris" was based off UltimateDSfan's Face-Heel Turn, while "Untitled" was inspired by Edmund McMillen exhibiting this.
Your Cheating Heart: also parodied in "Cantapoop."
Adorably Precocious Child: Seth's Mohitamatchi.
Awesome Music: the Playlists.
Bookworm
Challenge Gamer: Seth lists a lot of difficult games in My Favorite Games.
Collector of the Strange: the owners of the Recommended YouTube Channels.
Embarassing Nickname: "ULTIMATE EMBERISMENT" for UltimateDSfan.
The Internet Is For Porn: the Revised Porn Site List, a fixed version of The Porn Dude.
Just For Pun:
dakkadakka: "TURKEY TOM GOT STUFFED NOOOOO"
Keep Circulating the Tapes
The Moral Substitute: Many are listed in, of course, the Index of Superior Substitutes.
Sturgeon's Law: demonstrated in Recommended YouTube Channels.
Take That!: a few in Miscellaneous Jokes.
Acceptable Targets
All Take and No Give: the grifters.
Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: The Creator Blacklist specifies reasons such as ephebophilia, scamming, and abetting, while Wondermat's is "JUST NEEDS TO GROW UP"
Bad Artist: Newgrounds is full of them.
Bad People Abuse Animals: Cybershell and SmallAnt engage in digital zoosadism.
Berserk Button: Lolcows have several in common.
Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: the hypocrites that only perform charity donations or preach against child abusers to look better than they actually are.
Black Dot Pupils: A lot of predators' avatars have these, while Seth nicknames them "Michael Myers eyes."
Broken Aesop: the primary problem with Smiling Friends and SomeOrdinaryGamers.
Can't Take Criticism: many cows' Fatal Flaw.
Chronic Villiany
Clothing Reflects Personality
Clueless Aesop: what Seth sees as the primary problem with penguinz0/Cr1tikal.
Dark Is Evil: Alex Rosen, Cybershell, David Firth, Drawfee, Eric "UltimateDSfan" Ray, Explosm, Lady Lunanova, LioConvoy, MeatCanyon, Nux Taku, RebelTaxi's Pan Pizza, Seth's parents, Shadling, SmallAnt, SomeOrdinaryGamers, Turkey Tom, Wendigoon, ZTV...
Didn't Think This Through: Kidults typically have poor impulse control.
Dirty Coward: When LS Mark trespassed California to stalk Butch Hartman, it fled back to Ireland before the police could question it.
Disco Dan: the youngest manchildren.
Double Standard: Most commentators/"DramaTubers" have at least one. The most prevalent one is criticizing public figures that prey on people in private, yet letting Card-Carrying Villians stay off the hook.
Entitled Bastard: Several of them are nicknamed "crybullies."
Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Most of Newgrounds's refugees can't understand morality.
Evil Makes You Ugly: Targets typically use unappealing avatars. Their real selves also won't be winning beauty pageants anytime soon.
Fashion Victim Villian: Manchildren tend to be poorly dressed.
Fat Bastard: Chris Chandler, Joshua Moon, and LS Mark.
Fat Slob: Allegedly, LS Mark doesn't wash its garments.
Foil: Turkey Tom could be one to Seth.
From Nobody to Nightmare
GIFT: Subjects are generally not known for their manners.
Greed: the motivation of YouTube's predators.
High Hopes, Zero Talent: the narcissists.
Horrible Judge of Character: white knights.
Hypocrite: Many targets contradict themselves. Karl Hamburger was even nicknamed "Karl Hypocrite."
Hypocritical Humor: Seth mirrors a screenshot of a Twitter user who claimed Sr Pelo blocked him for criticizing the latter's double-standardized pedophilia.
Implausible Deniability: Some predators and their defenders show this.
Manchild: almost every target.
Misaimed Fandom: Cows tend to miss the messages spread by media.
No Social Skills: Most targets don't understand social cues. Granted, many of them are autistic, but still.
Paedo Hunt
The Pigpen: A bunch are on the Creator Blacklist.
Police Are Useless: Most of the cybercriminals have not been arrested.
Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense: The Scrooges and their enablers.
Small Name, Big Ego: The Misaimed Fandoms are rife with this.
Sore Loser: A few cows can't handle being wrong.
Villian With Good Publicity: YouTube has many of them.
Bad Liar: Eris.
Berserk Button: Call Eris a man or insult its impulses at your own risk.
Boomerang Bigot: Eris is racist towards whites, despite also being white.
Break the Haughty
Card-Carrying Villian: Eris stated that a chaotic goddess's name is perfect for it.
"Could Have Avoided This" Plot: Seth implies Eris would not have hurt anyone if it attended therapy more often.
Department of Redundancy Department: Eris has a habit of repeating itself.
Downer Ending: Because Eris refuses to seek counseling, Seth predicts its mental health will continue to deteriorate until it commits suicide.
Dramatically Missing the Point: Eris with the media it consumes.
Dummied Out: A theory and a few more links are visible in the page's HTML code.
Ephebophile: Eris is this towards Sonic the Hedgehog.
Evil Makes You Ugly: Eris's avatar wears a dog collar and tacky accessories. It is almost always drawn without teeth.
Face-Heel Turn: the "transformation" from Eric to Eris.
Hypocrite: Seth mocks Eris for being this.
Informed Attribute: Eris describes itself as a "hot goth trans girl", but it looks masculine and has emo traits: whiny, angsty, and self-obsessed.
Jerkass: Eris insults people it disagrees with and abuses its followers.
Laser-Guided Karma: Eris almost always gets punished for its poor treatment of others.
Narcissist: Eris, to the point of attacking almost everyone it comes across.
Non-Indicative Name: Two of Eris's screen names are UltimateDSfan and UltimateDSEris, yet it does not discuss DS games.
The Scrooge: Eris complains about being "broke af", despite wasting thousands of dollars.
Shotacon: Eris is implied to be this towards Miles "Tails" Prower.
Shout-Out: The summary contains a spin on CWCki's slogan with Eris mentioned instead.
Seth: Observe Eristory. Don't make Eristory.
Small Name, Big Ego: Eris on occasion.
Squick: "Trans [Fem] Sonic"
Stylistic Suck: Eris's avatar has stereotypical SJW hair and almost always lacks teeth. It is also poorly imposed onto footage.
Seth, in the reflection for "Careless Eris": "The [...] editing looks worse than the videos I made when I was twelve, the same age when I was using Windows Movie Maker and iMovie to edit."
Too Dumb to Live: There was an instance of Eris considering self-harm, yet it bought a PlayStation 5 and emotionally abused its followers instead of talking to a professional.
Ungrateful Bastard: Eris.
Wall Banger: The page describes many from the titular YouTuber's Twitter feed.
Wangst: Eris is prone to this.