User:Trigger Happy the Gremlin/sandbox

Why it Sucks

 * 1) It's little more than Trump-bashing; while Donald Trump is an extremely controversial president (hence his page on the Real-Life Villains Wiki), Plankton is portrayed as a Complete Monster who murders the Bikini Bottomites for no reason, despite having already built a wall around them and being wholly unprovoked.
 * 2) "SpongeBeto" is a horrible characterization of SpongeBob, being a vengeful sociopath who immediately resorts to violence after the Krusty Krab is shot up. Granted, Plankton is worse for having committed genocide on the Bottomites, but SpongeBeto shooting up the border around Bikini Bottom is still morally incorrect. SpongeBeto even murders the office workers who didn't hurt anyone and just happened to work at the border along with torturing one of the guards.
 * 3) * SpongeBeto's characterization is like Wonder Woman's character in Wonder Woman (2011), the main difference being that SpongeBeto vs. The Wall is fervently anti-America, while Wonder Woman was the reverse (in regards to the torture propaganda, anyways).
 * 4) Awful animation; the movie mostly relies on existing animations from Garry's Mod and fluctuates sloppily between CGI and traditional animation, with 2D-animation layered over 3D backgrounds in some cases. The traditional animation is also disastrous and overuses exaggerated facial animation that kills the tone.
 * 5) Terrible voice-acting, if it even counts; the characters' voices were generated through Uberduck.ai, which, while a quality text-to-speech website, is no substitute for actual voice acting. The characters sound drunk and emotionless; in some cases, it's unclear what they're even saying.
 * 6) Plot-hole: How did Patrick survive getting shot in the stomach, which was completely exposed? He even bleeds copiously as a result of his injury, so there's no chance that he was simply grazed.
 * 7) Poorly rated; the film is only rated 7+ despite having gun violence and gory images, which the rating description even mentions. There's more blood than most PG-13 movies and it's possible that it could even get an R-rating in the United States.
 * 8) * Case in point, the film was made with Garry's Mod, which is an M-rated game.

The LEGO Metaworld Redemption (Not a joke but never make this a page)
In autumn of 2019, Trigger created a sandbox on the Atrocious YouTubers wiki for his channel, LEGO Metaworld. While the page listed off over two dozen reasons why the channel sucks, many if not most of them were invalid and the sandbox's creation was entirely fueled by his self-hatred, not out of self-criticism. Over two years later, Trigger has returned and he's coming clean about all of this.

Why He Isn't Atrocious

 * 1) While several of his videos have inappropriate content, pretty much all of them have content warnings in the title and sometimes at the beginning of the videos in question. Rather than simply having a vague "18+" label, the warnings go over what material could be seen as inappropriate, such as blood and/or gore, sexual/suggestive themes, or just violence in general.
 * 2) *Unlike most ratings boards, which have been heavily criticized partly because of their age ratings and what content warrants them, unless the video is NSFW age ratings are rarely provided, just the content in question. While not a perfect system (although there is a tier system for content in the form of the "mild" add-on to descriptors) this allows viewers to decide whether the content is appropriate for them or their children without an age recommendation affecting their judgement.
 * 3) Low-quality as they may be, his videos are created wholly for his enjoyment and viewers aren't supposed to watch them as if they are professional content. While this isn't a shield from criticism, the poor quality of his videos don't justify a dozen bullet points.
 * 4) The concept of his Brickfilms, while derivative of the LEGO video games, is unique for the LEGO stop-motion genre. While most Brickfilms are either shot-for-adaptations or original ideas, both having great qualities for different reasons, the average LEGO Metaworld stop-motion is a mix of both, with the general premise being the same as scenes from movies or the LEGO games but with different actions after the beginning which lead to a very similar conclusion.
 * 5) His videos after the LEGO Indiana Jones Brickfilm titled Castle Crashers (no relation to the video game of the same name) have notably improved in quality, with less light flicker and the eventual incorporation of green-screen backgrounds.
 * 6) Whenever possible, the owners of music, sounds, images, and even LEGO itself are credited in his videos, which isn't something an atrocious YouTuber would do. Additionally, LEGO Metaworld tries to avoid using copyrighted music whenever possible.
 * 7) His meme videos, while rarely related to LEGO and fairly hit-or-miss, have been met with a positive reception and some have become the most popular videos that are still on his channel.
 * 8) Most of his older videos, which were much worse, are either deleted or kept private.
 * 9) Some of the relatively minor flaws in his videos, like the misleading thumbnails with live-action characters, were not even LEGO Metaworld's ideas, rather his brother came up with them. Given that the LEGO logo is usually included in these thumbnails, it's not as terrible as most instances of false advertising, even if it ultimately is.
 * 10) *It is worth noting that LEGO Metaworld's brother had a positive impact on the channel as well and if it weren't for him the LEGO Batman series wouldn't have continued past Don't be an Ice-Hole and the LEGO Indiana Jones series wouldn't even exist. While the Killer Croc videos are the lowest quality episodes of the series and their short length and use of pencil-sketch backgrounds are a major departure from the norm, the fact that Metaworld's brother tried to continue the series during his hiatus shows significant respect and admiration for his content.
 * 11) *Along with the videos' quality in general, the thumbnails improved massively after the LEGO Indiana Jones episode Castle Crashers, using original photography and sometimes a shot from the video itself rather than PNGs laid over an unconvincing backgrounds.
 * 12) The original page mentioned that he was going to make GachaTube videos when it wasn't until almost a year later that his first Gacha video came out. Making GachaTube videos isn't inherently a terrible quality, since as a medium it has both great videos and atrocious ones. The only Gacha Club video LEGO Metaworld has made up to this point is a harmless animation of one of his OCs wishing the viewer a great day, with none of the flaws commonly attributed to GachaTube aside from having next-to-no animation.
 * 13) While some of his videos were made for views in the past, the fact that his extremely unpopular holiday special videos keep coming shows that they are made from passion above all else.