I noticed "Crash" Thompson (formerly the "Rock Critic) was mentioned here ages ago. Now, he's always been a little on the "cringe" side with his videos. Back when he was the Rock Critic, his character was a saiyan who got sent to Earth (yes, really) and a weird, badly drawn chibi version of D.Va from
Overwatch that he voiced himself would frequently pop up in his videos (not many people liked her so he retired her for the most part after his Green Day retrospective).
He rebranded after his "Worst Albums of 2019" video in which he had Nostalgia Critic's
The Wall as number one. He goes on a long, overly dramatic rant about how shitty of a person Doug is while some cheesy, tense music plays in the background. He could've just rebranded quietly, but he had to make a big show of it because, if there's one thing I've learned about Crash, subtlety is
not one of his strong suits.
After he rebranded, he basically went full SJW and used any chance he could to complain about politics and also loved to remind his viewers that he's bisexual. Case in point:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZNZCUquiUYkYeah, he's one of those LGBT people who acted like Trump was their sworn enemy and the spawn of Satan and blah, blah, blah. He'd take any chance he could to bring up his sexuality. Most annoyingly in his "How to get into Van Halen" video where he plays an old SNL clip featuring Adam Sandler and some other guy at a pool screaming because it's full of gay guys and proceeds to cut back to him holding a rainbow flag and saying "This song belongs to the gays. It's ours now" in the most pretentious way possible.
2021 has been kind of a nothing year for him. He stopped doing album reviews so his channel has kind stagnated since he's only uploaded 12 videos. It looked like things may have started to look they were going to pick up after his two part "How to get into Bad Religion", and then he posted this.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ysg0QTsXabEFrom the very first second of the video you can tell it's going to be a whiny "woe is me" video because he does that cliche sigh at the beginning. What's really pathetic is his reason for taking a break. He shows a compilation of clips of him screaming at his notifications to shut up while he was filming. It's like watching an autistic child screaming. I really hope this was just him playing up for the camera, because if this is how he is in his spare time, that's just really sad.
So yeah, as of writing, Crash is on a break because he's burnt out from noises distracting him while he's filming and will probably have a nervous breakdown soon. He honesty should've just continued as the Rock Critic, because his real personality appears to be that of a whiny, easily triggered man child.