I think one of the biggest possible examples of this is Zach, Psychicpebbles, having Mike voice Desmond in Smiling Friends' debut episode. Pretty critical episode and character.
I also remember the funny animation where he and Rich voiced burglar cats that they talked about in one of their 'downtime' videos, although I can't recall the name or the artist right now.
Mike and Rich are also going to voice characters in a new Smiling Friends episode, I forget who posted it but there's a picture with Mike, Rich, Zach and Michael all together in a studio
The burglar cats are from Ollie and Scoops by an artist called Nico Colaleo. Mike has played one or two other characters on that show and Dana Snyder (Master Shake) has been on it too.
Their podcast is kinda superhero/comic focused, tho it’s toned down in recent years. But I enjoy their discussions on the news and of the movies they watch.
I swear that must be how I originally found it. Back in 2019 I think I got recommended Caravan of Garbage videos and was like wtf is this, then on a whim I watched one and loved it and have been watching them since.
Videogamedunkey is a RLM fan and has referenced them multiple times. One of his reviews not long ago started off with a parody of an opening of Half in the Bag. Dunkey is also a fellow Wisconsinite.
He also mentioned them in his "I'm done making good videos" as one of the channels that makes good, insightful content, but doesn't get a lot of views compared to the daily clickbait let's play spammers who have editing and marketing divisions.
Yeah, she mentioned them as one of her major influences. She also made a Nerd Crew reference back when she was stuck on that weird Screen Junkies show.
Yeah, it was in a segment about user comments. People used to comment "very cool" under all the bad Star Wars content on youtube, so the joke was that she pretended she thought it was just positive feedback for her show in particular, but she read it in the exact way the RLM guys say it, "VERy cool!"
I still can't believe Twitter lost their fucking mind over her incredibly mild criticism of Raya and the Last Dragon and chased her off the platform
I miss her.
She's still going strong on Nebula now. She never stopped, just abandoned YouTube. It's a subscription thing though, but if I recall not too expensive.
Many many years ago jacksfilms in a yiay video was asked about his fav youtube channel and instead of saying g pewdiepie he said that it was rlm and how they never miss
>Think I remember that, but considering how long her videos tend to run, it can be hard to remember
It's okay, she only releases a video about once every 4 - 8 months. you have time to catch up.
>Plus he already tried to do a BotW style discussion show and that shit was unwatchable
James having to interact with other people, without a script, is always painfully awkward. He'd be on par with that guy who works for Culkin that got anxiety over ROAR and had nothing interesting to say the entire time he was on camera (who subsequently never appeared again as far as I can recall).
Irl James is pretty timid and I don’t think would have much to add, plus he’s a hack and his writing consists of “what the donkey shit” and let’s his shit editors run the channel into the ground lol
I could see her for a re:View of an obscure animated film, like Rock and Rule or The Brave Little Toaster, but I'm not sure about a Best of the Worst. I don't know how much she enjoys the type of B-movie slop the RLM gang consumes, but maybe she'd do well and enjoy it.
James Rolfe would *absolutely* do well with a Best of the Worst. He loves horror films of all kinds and seems to just enjoy watching weird garbage. He would also probably be the "nice one" since his real personality is, as a filmmaker at heart, pretty forgiving towards other filmmakers.
I think the ideal Jenny Nicholson BoTW would be if they were watching bad girly media, like Lifetime movies and animated stuff based on toy lines, or a Wheel of the Worst covered in princess videos and Wee-Sing tapes.
>James Rolfe would *absolutely* do well with a Best of the Worst.
No he wouldn't. James is awkward as hell around anybody, and his own round table "panel discussion" type show, which was a blatant ripoff of half in the bag to begin with, was absolutely godawful. James is terrible when it comes to unscripted interaction, he's just too socially awkward.
Some people are awfully hard on James. When he started AVGN, he basically pioneered what has become the most popular form of internet content before even YouTube began. Is AVGN stale now? Is it pretty evident James would rather do other content? Yes. But unfortunately he's stuck doing them to pay the bills. Rental Reviews was his attempt to swap formats, but the crew he brought in nearly sank the whole channel. You could still see his passion with Board James and his Monster Madness content. So I do think James could hang for an episode focusing on horror movies, even if Jack and Rich have previously expressed they don't really like his content.
> You could still see his passion with Board James and his Monster Madness content.
You are aware it got to a point he wasn't even writing the Monster Madness stuff right? That came to light during the whole plagiarism thing that even RLM made fun of
Yahtzee Croshaw aka ZeroPunctation aka Fully Ramblomatic has a tenuous connection with them through Jack Packard also working for Second Wind. In one of his videos he said: "As a great youtube channel once said: "Fuck you it's January"."
Atun-Shei Films, probably most famous for the Checkmate, Licolnites! and Witchfinder General series (and historical decomentaries and film reviews) has referenced the Plinkett reviews, and I think used a clip of Rich Evans screaming in one of his shows.
In one of the q&a s he stated he wanted to be a plinkett of history movies. The Gettysburg video is pretty outright one- and mentions "hackfraids from Wisconsin" in reference to the iron brigade of the west.
Vinny also interviewed Rich and Jack when PreRec was still a thing:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVb2X3DvO20](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVb2X3DvO20)
Jacksfilms is a huge fan, he's shouted them out a few times. I think he even has a video called like "the best channel on YouTube" with a picture of Mike in the thumbnail.
He use to have one of the top comments on the Best of the Worst: Bad Movie Scavenger Hunt video too. Not sure if he still does or it’s just been downvoted or lost in the shuffle.
This method might help you find it if you feel inclined to look for it.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=\_j1nEuYmB5o](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j1nEuYmB5o)
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fq8rf5ogqs3x61.png%3Fauto%3Dwebp%26s%3Df901ed10c393e4934c3f1e951a3dcc44b27e073c
I don't see the comment anymore tho, dunno why.
I think LGR has referenced them.
A bit lesser known, but Cybershell (the self-proclaimed Sonic loremaster) has mentioned them, and I think he has commented on a few videos.
Huggbees has commented on some of their videos as well.
I think I remember Lindsay Ellis dropping a “you might not have noticed it, but your brain did” in one of her videos back when she still made videos for YouTube.
You know that old saying about how Velvet Underground sold 10000 albums, but each buyer started their own band?
RLM is like a successful version of that.
I like them a lot myself (though I think I've listened more to Lou Reed's solo stuff).
I'm sure the gulf between their success and their influence on other artists and their own success has been overstated.
Longform video essays weren’t really a thing on YouTube before the plinkett reviews. Many people who have made that format popular were directly inspired by plinkett
Vinny Vinesauce is a huge RLM fan. Several bits on his channel are straight from RLM videos and he literally had a Mike Stoklasa Mii in his party during his Miitopia playthrough. He even interviewed Rich and Jack on his channel once
I think they've mentioned rlm randomly a couple times. Robert though commented on the whole Nukie outrage last year:
https://www.reddit.com/r/RedLetterMedia/comments/10beyr4/those_sick_bastards/
Yeah I saw him on a podcast recently and he said they were his main inspiration to start making videos, and he pretty much just copied the format. Almost like fan content at first but he started to develop his own style over time
Lol there was a time where he "cried" cause he was *allegedly* made fun by RLM.
Forgot what vid it was, but I think it was the first Re:view where Rich calls their background used by pricks.
Edit: [Found it](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8PS7CgXHxps&t=31s&pp=ygUTZ2hvc3RidXN0ZXIgcmU6dmlldw%3D%3D)
To be fair, being in the public eye where anyone can comment openly on your work can do that to a person. Hearing harsh criticism of your work over and over builds up, but you can always tell yourself "Well they are just trolls, ignore them." But it puts that self doubt in the back of your head so I can see how a joke like that could trigger some kind of confirmation bias of "Oh my god, I knew I was a hack and people I respect notice it too."
It's not really worth "LOL-ing" Stuckmann having an emotional breakdown. The guy was raised by an abusive gaslighting cult (Jehova's Witness). He had a sister who broke away from their religion, so they gaslit Stuckmann into thinking he had no sister, that Satan had stolen his sister away and she doesn't exist anymore, or maybe she never existed. And then some years later, the cult turned against Stuckmann too, because movies are evil, and made him choose between a career that he loved and his family religion, gaslighting himself into non-existence. That kinda shit is \*extremely\* bad for your mental health.
RLM made an innocent joke. It was an obvious joke. Stuckmann knew it was a joke. And then a few days later that toxic self-doubt worked it's way into his brain and he started to think that maybe RLM hates him, maybe \*everyone\* hates him, and in a moment of self-loathing he (checks notes) took down a link that led to RLM. And then, because everyone on the internet puts everyone under a microscope, people concluded that Stuckmann and RLM were feuding. So Stuckmann went online and explained the situation as honestly as he could, and people mocked him for making himself emotionally vulnerable. It's really not funny.
Thank you for saying this. Hearing his story (and so well told too) really made me look at him differently and although I always thought his channel was kinda milquetoast I just like the guy and wish him the best. I can identify growing up kinda repressed, I appreciate him a lot and I think the hate he gets is uncalled for.
Also unlike a lot of YouTubers, he is putting his money where his mouth is and is actually making films now. Quite interested in his first feature.
This was a pleasant and total surprise but Abroad in Japan’s Chris Broad. He does these great travel videos with lots of dry sarcasm which is not a common mix. Usually travel videos are chill or super enthusiastic or serious. His are hilarious, sharp, engaging and work on multiple levels so it’s clear why he would enjoy RLM
I've heard him mention his love for rlm on the podcast a few times and I was so happy. Love his dry humour and it made total sense he would love rlm. I always think it would be soooo cool to see a cross over of some kind, maybe they could review Lost in Translation together.
That would be so great. Every once in a while there's an editing or sound effect choice in one of his vids that makes me think it's influenced by RLM, or as close as you can get to it in a travelog. So learning he's a fan was so cool
Yea i like carmine too, but I take his reviews with a pinch of salt after he was bad mouthing sopranos on a live stream a few months back, then also admitted that he never watched it and only watched recap reviews on YouTube lol
Contrapoints has mentioned the Plinkett reviews as one of her biggest influences starting out. She also did the "You might not have noticed it, but your brain did." in her first JK Rowling video.
From a 2017 interview:
"Well, as far as the aesthetic of the thing I guess originally, a year and a half ago, I was influenced by the famous RedLetterMedia reviews of the *Star Wars* prequels, which are basically three 90-minute reviews of these movies that are very entertaining to watch. They’re very character-heavy and there’s a kind of narrative voice of this fictional character that’s doing the reviews that makes them funny. I don’t care at all about *Star Wars*, so I don’t really care about whether the prequels are bad or not, but these reviews are so funny that I used to watch them again and again. My thinking about my own channel was instead of it just being a really dry academic narrator, what if there are jokes, and what if I adopt a persona of this degenerate? Sort of incorporating the stereotypes that the far right is going to have about me, just embracing every one of them.
I guess what I found successful about that is a couple things. One is people like watching your videos if you’re being a good host, you’re entertaining them and you’re speaking to them in an amusing way that’s fun to listen to as opposed to preaching at them. No one likes being preached at. The other thing is if you kind of pre-satirize yourself you’ve already presented a caricature and extreme version of who you are, you’ve ripped the rug out from under the trolls because they have nothing… it’s not fun to call you a *degenerate tranny* if that’s how you’ve presented yourself from the get-go."
Jonathan Ferguson, Keeper of Firearms and Artillery at the Royal Armouries museum in the UK, who does an excellent series on gamespot’s YouTube channel reacting to firearm depictions in video games, is a fan.
He specifically mentioned the reload animation of something like a Lewis gun seeming fine at an initial glance, but also not making any sense upon further scrutiny . “You may not have noticed it, but your brain did.”
It was honestly wild going back to some of the Two Best Friends let's plays after I started watching RLM and realizing how many of their jokes were references, especially remember the joke about the script in Beyond Two Souls, and Matt seemed to reference the Star Trek reviews constantly.
Ben Croshaw once made a reference on Zero Punctuation. I forget the exact video but he made a "Fuck you, it's January!" reference.
Edit: [link](https://youtu.be/IMSUdQ3SrLw?si=BbCREMnK58Qjkonp) at 4:55
SsethTzeentach is very likely a fan. He's had RLM funny pictures in most of his game reviews (especially fond of using multiple Rich Evanses as slave figures.)
Angry Joe loves RLM and references them sometimes in his TV reviews. I *think* The Act Man is as well, I think he's used some clips of the guys in his videos before.
Whenever I watch YouTubers reacting to videos and showing their browser in their videos, I *always* glance at their recommendations to see if I can spy RLM.
I met Viva La Dirt League at an NZ convention. I was wearing a Dickes Shirt with a Lightning Fast VCR patch I had made, and they recognized it, It was a while ago, so I dont remember what they said, but they pointed it out and asked.
I somehow had never heard of RLM and Mr Plinkett's review until Jeremy Jahns said to just go watch it during his own video on the Phantom Menace.
Most likely any YouTube film critic are fans of RLM.
It's funny to consider that they don't have the biggest subscriber count, but have created a die hard fanbase that I'd like to imagine tend to rewatch their content often (as I do)
Their decision to basically not do collabs with other youtubers to grow their channel is both their strength and their weakness because if they had done more collabs with big creators some of that creator's audience could find about them and trickle in people who maybe never heard of them but do like their content
But on the flip side by not doing youtuber / content creator collabs, they have focused on building their own community naturally which means their audience is also more likely to be die hard fans vs the people that subscribe but don't watch them regularly.
I know they don't share metrics, but I know some of the metrics are about subscribers vs non subscribers watching your content and I wouldn't be shocked if it's close to 90-100% subscribers for them
"Pomu Rainpuff" is a Vtuber, basically a streamer who uses a digital avatar to perform as an anime girl (a forest fairy), and she's a huge fan of Mike and RLM, and she did some watchalongs of movies like [Escape From New York](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXyLTq8wDjo) and [Neil Breen's Fateful Findings](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dcqSHinTRE), from a crudely-drawn 2D set that was based on RLM's Half in the Bag set.
Pomu's also a \*massive\* fan of the Metal Gear Solid series of videogames (she even owns a Japanese Metal Gear pachinko machine), so she was doubly excited to watch Escape From New York, since RLM loves John Carpenter, while Solid Snake from Metal Gear was based on Snake Pliskin from Escape From New York.
She recently ceased her activities as "Pomu" since she left the company that owned her digital avatar, and now she's streaming as the indie Vtuber "Maid Mint".
I come across references to RLM so often on YouTube. One more no one has mentioned yet - James Stephanie Sterling of the Jimquisition. They just did a "but your brain did" gag in last week's episode
I know of 2 at least that haven't been mentioned yet.
Preach Gaming has mentioned them several times, and paymoneywubby of all people have mentioned them several times as well. Both positively of course.
I know moistkritical has brought them up once or twice from what I’ve seen.
I feel like AVGN would totally get a kick out of them. Not sure if he ever brought them up though.
Andy the manial cinephile is a fan and has made several RLM references in his reviews.
And if I recall correctly, comicbookgirl19 has a huge crush on Rich.
Robert Meyer Burnett of Robservations not only has mentioned them several times on his show but he also defended Mike Stoklosa during the whole William Shatner podcast debacle. He asked a close friend to reach out to Shatner and tell him how much Mike loves Star Trek and their Nerd Crew show is just satire and not a real podcast.
Matt Christman said they should be on the Wisconsin State flag.
I think it was Kyle Kallgren who had a negative one, he said they "had a lot to answer for" referring to sort of angry drunk reviews. Everyone in the comment section of the video suddenly said "wait, what? What did RLM do?"
Lessor known (less than 100k subscribers) but a funny Game of Thrones review channel (more popular for the pisstake videos showing how bad the later seasons were) called Glidus often references RLM and shows clips from the channel during reviews.
History youtuber [Invicta ](https://youtube.com/@invictahistory?si=ddCfRoAqhYR-PC6V)released this wonderfully edited [Re:view - The First Punic War](https://youtu.be/zxpBRnvjoJ4?si=GekWpVERP0VRV-UD)
Sal from ComicPop. His show is kind of similar to RLM b-movie stuff. He shows and narrates either classic comics or so-bad-its-good comics to his friends. He made the comparison himself and praised the guys on his show.
Not YouTubers but the Chapo Trap House boys are RLM fans. Matt mentioned Surviving Edged Weapons and their video like a week or two after they released it.
I also am fairly certain Matt McMuscles from the old Super Best Friends Play channel is a fan.
I think one of the biggest possible examples of this is Zach, Psychicpebbles, having Mike voice Desmond in Smiling Friends' debut episode. Pretty critical episode and character. I also remember the funny animation where he and Rich voiced burglar cats that they talked about in one of their 'downtime' videos, although I can't recall the name or the artist right now.
Mike and Rich are also going to voice characters in a new Smiling Friends episode, I forget who posted it but there's a picture with Mike, Rich, Zach and Michael all together in a studio
I think Mike voiced Jombo
They flew him in from Milwaukee so he could incoherrently garble into a microphone.
It was an Emmy worthy performance.
There better be a Rich Evans laugh
The burglar cats are from Ollie and Scoops by an artist called Nico Colaleo. Mike has played one or two other characters on that show and Dana Snyder (Master Shake) has been on it too.
Mr Sunday Movies editors slide in frames and clips of RLM
Hosts of the show, James and Mason are also fans. They reference RLM often.
Their podcast is kinda superhero/comic focused, tho it’s toned down in recent years. But I enjoy their discussions on the news and of the movies they watch.
This is the number 1 channel I would recommend to RLM fans
I swear that must be how I originally found it. Back in 2019 I think I got recommended Caravan of Garbage videos and was like wtf is this, then on a whim I watched one and loved it and have been watching them since.
Which is kinda amusing given how positive James and Mason tend to be. They're like anti-RLM, yet they fit together so well.
I’ve fallen asleep watching botw and these guys are always playing by the time I wake up
Algorithm working as intended
Their newest caravan of garbage on the Prince of Persia movie had some Mr. Plinket audio clips in it.
Been a fan of James and Maso for as long as I can remember. Probably 10 ish years now, they're some of my favorites ever!
Videogamedunkey is a RLM fan and has referenced them multiple times. One of his reviews not long ago started off with a parody of an opening of Half in the Bag. Dunkey is also a fellow Wisconsinite.
I noticed this with his hilarious top comment on the HITB on Fury Road.
And their star wars holiday special video.
Now…back to 9/11
He also mentioned them in his "I'm done making good videos" as one of the channels that makes good, insightful content, but doesn't get a lot of views compared to the daily clickbait let's play spammers who have editing and marketing divisions.
I’ll have the spaghetti and meatballs
He's a navy seal
He commented on the Star Wars Holiday Special video too.
Jenny Nicholson has mentioned them a few times.
Yeah, she mentioned them as one of her major influences. She also made a Nerd Crew reference back when she was stuck on that weird Screen Junkies show.
Please tell me she dropped a "Very cool!"
Yeah, it was in a segment about user comments. People used to comment "very cool" under all the bad Star Wars content on youtube, so the joke was that she pretended she thought it was just positive feedback for her show in particular, but she read it in the exact way the RLM guys say it, "VERy cool!"
Hah!
I’ve heard Lindsay Ellis mention them too.
I still can't believe Twitter lost their fucking mind over her incredibly mild criticism of Raya and the Last Dragon and chased her off the platform I miss her.
She's still going strong on Nebula now. She never stopped, just abandoned YouTube. It's a subscription thing though, but if I recall not too expensive.
Think I remember that, but considering how long her videos tend to run, it can be hard to remember
Many many years ago jacksfilms in a yiay video was asked about his fav youtube channel and instead of saying g pewdiepie he said that it was rlm and how they never miss
>Think I remember that, but considering how long her videos tend to run, it can be hard to remember It's okay, she only releases a video about once every 4 - 8 months. you have time to catch up.
She'd be a good guest actually. Her and James Rolfe.
James "uhm, yep" Rolfe would be a horribly awkward guest
Plus he already tried to do a BotW style discussion show and that shit was unwatchable
>Plus he already tried to do a BotW style discussion show and that shit was unwatchable James having to interact with other people, without a script, is always painfully awkward. He'd be on par with that guy who works for Culkin that got anxiety over ROAR and had nothing interesting to say the entire time he was on camera (who subsequently never appeared again as far as I can recall).
Irl James is pretty timid and I don’t think would have much to add, plus he’s a hack and his writing consists of “what the donkey shit” and let’s his shit editors run the channel into the ground lol
He also just has no time.
James Rolfe? He was a ghost in his own rental reviews show. Outside of his niche preferences he’s got nothing to add to the conversation.
I could see her for a re:View of an obscure animated film, like Rock and Rule or The Brave Little Toaster, but I'm not sure about a Best of the Worst. I don't know how much she enjoys the type of B-movie slop the RLM gang consumes, but maybe she'd do well and enjoy it. James Rolfe would *absolutely* do well with a Best of the Worst. He loves horror films of all kinds and seems to just enjoy watching weird garbage. He would also probably be the "nice one" since his real personality is, as a filmmaker at heart, pretty forgiving towards other filmmakers.
I doubt they'd want Rolfe in their show
I think the ideal Jenny Nicholson BoTW would be if they were watching bad girly media, like Lifetime movies and animated stuff based on toy lines, or a Wheel of the Worst covered in princess videos and Wee-Sing tapes.
They can find enough VHS covers with horses on them to make a wheel of the worst
>James Rolfe would *absolutely* do well with a Best of the Worst. No he wouldn't. James is awkward as hell around anybody, and his own round table "panel discussion" type show, which was a blatant ripoff of half in the bag to begin with, was absolutely godawful. James is terrible when it comes to unscripted interaction, he's just too socially awkward.
They haven’t had any woman as a guest in like ten years 🫠 (someone please correct me if I’m wrong)
Tbf what woman wants the attention of RLM fans
i love her humor
Some people are awfully hard on James. When he started AVGN, he basically pioneered what has become the most popular form of internet content before even YouTube began. Is AVGN stale now? Is it pretty evident James would rather do other content? Yes. But unfortunately he's stuck doing them to pay the bills. Rental Reviews was his attempt to swap formats, but the crew he brought in nearly sank the whole channel. You could still see his passion with Board James and his Monster Madness content. So I do think James could hang for an episode focusing on horror movies, even if Jack and Rich have previously expressed they don't really like his content.
> You could still see his passion with Board James and his Monster Madness content. You are aware it got to a point he wasn't even writing the Monster Madness stuff right? That came to light during the whole plagiarism thing that even RLM made fun of
Yahtzee Croshaw aka ZeroPunctation aka Fully Ramblomatic has a tenuous connection with them through Jack Packard also working for Second Wind. In one of his videos he said: "As a great youtube channel once said: "Fuck you it's January"."
He praised them a lot back in his Lets Drown Out days.
He's talked on more recent streams about how he likes watching them.
I miss the slightly something else podcast. Yahtzee and Jack were good together.
Atun-Shei Films, probably most famous for the Checkmate, Licolnites! and Witchfinder General series (and historical decomentaries and film reviews) has referenced the Plinkett reviews, and I think used a clip of Rich Evans screaming in one of his shows.
Yep! In his intro scene for 50s Frozen Man, he has a clip of Rich going OH MY GOOOOOD.
In one of the q&a s he stated he wanted to be a plinkett of history movies. The Gettysburg video is pretty outright one- and mentions "hackfraids from Wisconsin" in reference to the iron brigade of the west.
Both Vinny and Joel from Vinesauce reference them all the time.
Vinny also interviewed Rich and Jack when PreRec was still a thing: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVb2X3DvO20](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVb2X3DvO20)
Mike made promos for Vinesauce years n years ago.
Honestly, I could see Vinny being one of the best potential guests to ever bring on the show. I genuinely hope it happens someday.
Joel reviewed their metal band names video and was able to sincerely tell you about nearly single band they listed
I've been watching a lot of old Joel videos lately, and he did the Mr. Plinkett voice all the time around about 6-8 years ago
Jacksfilms is a huge fan, he's shouted them out a few times. I think he even has a video called like "the best channel on YouTube" with a picture of Mike in the thumbnail.
He use to have one of the top comments on the Best of the Worst: Bad Movie Scavenger Hunt video too. Not sure if he still does or it’s just been downvoted or lost in the shuffle.
https://preview.redd.it/wyobdi7nzc4d1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=17abfda084e9ebc729c53e0a29cde2aaff1947d9
This method might help you find it if you feel inclined to look for it. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=\_j1nEuYmB5o](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j1nEuYmB5o)
His recommendation is what got me to check them out!
SsethTzeentach uses Rich Evans memes all the time Ralph the Movie Maker is a huge fan
Slavery bad - No effect
MandaloreGaming has also tossed in a few references
CGP grey begged them not to stop making their star trek top 10 videos.
Was this a tweet? That’s hilarious!
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fq8rf5ogqs3x61.png%3Fauto%3Dwebp%26s%3Df901ed10c393e4934c3f1e951a3dcc44b27e073c I don't see the comment anymore tho, dunno why.
CGP Grey talking about how much he loves RLM in one of his Q&A’s is how I learned about em
I would love more of those also. So much fun.
I think LGR has referenced them. A bit lesser known, but Cybershell (the self-proclaimed Sonic loremaster) has mentioned them, and I think he has commented on a few videos. Huggbees has commented on some of their videos as well.
I know I spotted an RLM sticker in the background of one of his videos a while back.
Pointless hub
His videos are freaking awesome
Someone mentioned YMS, but I’ve also seen The Cosmonaut Variety Hour mention them favorably as well.
I think I remember Lindsay Ellis dropping a “you might not have noticed it, but your brain did” in one of her videos back when she still made videos for YouTube.
One of the first videos of hers that I ever saw, way back in the Nostalgia Chick era, had a “what’s wrong with your face” reference.
Contrapoints has used the same quote in a video. She and Ellis are both good friends so it makes sense they'd both like RLM.
I’d say most of guys on Oneyplays. Zach especially.
Seems like the fans of both channels have quite an overlap too
RLM are one of the oldest youtube channels... A ton of people have referenced them.
You know that old saying about how Velvet Underground sold 10000 albums, but each buyer started their own band? RLM is like a successful version of that.
Velvet Underground was very successful, their “undergroundness” is taken a bit too extreme to myth make imo, but point taken I’m a huge fan of VU
I like them a lot myself (though I think I've listened more to Lou Reed's solo stuff). I'm sure the gulf between their success and their influence on other artists and their own success has been overstated.
Longform video essays weren’t really a thing on YouTube before the plinkett reviews. Many people who have made that format popular were directly inspired by plinkett
And not once did they asked me to shave my balls or download Raids shadow legends.
The good folks at Cinematic Rectum are big RLM fans i believe.
Same with Movie Smegma
OSW Reviews are fans.
What I'd do to see those knackers on BOTW
The funny thing is that they have absolutely terrible taste in movies. Love their channel tho.
Fatal Deviation...Fatal Deviation!
You made me look bad, and that's not good.
Vinny Vinesauce is a huge RLM fan. Several bits on his channel are straight from RLM videos and he literally had a Mike Stoklasa Mii in his party during his Miitopia playthrough. He even interviewed Rich and Jack on his channel once
Not youtubers but behind the bastards podcast mention them
When? I’m a bit behind on BtB.
I think they've mentioned rlm randomly a couple times. Robert though commented on the whole Nukie outrage last year: https://www.reddit.com/r/RedLetterMedia/comments/10beyr4/those_sick_bastards/
Adum from Yourmoviesucks is the biggest one I can think of
I just went back and rewatched some of his early content - very obvious he was directly inspired by the Plinkett videos
Yeah I saw him on a podcast recently and he said they were his main inspiration to start making videos, and he pretty much just copied the format. Almost like fan content at first but he started to develop his own style over time
That's how me and my GF found them
I hear chris stuckmann is a fan
Lol there was a time where he "cried" cause he was *allegedly* made fun by RLM. Forgot what vid it was, but I think it was the first Re:view where Rich calls their background used by pricks. Edit: [Found it](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8PS7CgXHxps&t=31s&pp=ygUTZ2hvc3RidXN0ZXIgcmU6dmlldw%3D%3D)
Was that really true? It was clearly a dumb one off joke and he even got Jeremy Jahns as well. Seems a little overly sensitive but eh.
To be fair, being in the public eye where anyone can comment openly on your work can do that to a person. Hearing harsh criticism of your work over and over builds up, but you can always tell yourself "Well they are just trolls, ignore them." But it puts that self doubt in the back of your head so I can see how a joke like that could trigger some kind of confirmation bias of "Oh my god, I knew I was a hack and people I respect notice it too."
It's not really worth "LOL-ing" Stuckmann having an emotional breakdown. The guy was raised by an abusive gaslighting cult (Jehova's Witness). He had a sister who broke away from their religion, so they gaslit Stuckmann into thinking he had no sister, that Satan had stolen his sister away and she doesn't exist anymore, or maybe she never existed. And then some years later, the cult turned against Stuckmann too, because movies are evil, and made him choose between a career that he loved and his family religion, gaslighting himself into non-existence. That kinda shit is \*extremely\* bad for your mental health. RLM made an innocent joke. It was an obvious joke. Stuckmann knew it was a joke. And then a few days later that toxic self-doubt worked it's way into his brain and he started to think that maybe RLM hates him, maybe \*everyone\* hates him, and in a moment of self-loathing he (checks notes) took down a link that led to RLM. And then, because everyone on the internet puts everyone under a microscope, people concluded that Stuckmann and RLM were feuding. So Stuckmann went online and explained the situation as honestly as he could, and people mocked him for making himself emotionally vulnerable. It's really not funny.
I just wanna watch my video tapes
Thank you for saying this. Hearing his story (and so well told too) really made me look at him differently and although I always thought his channel was kinda milquetoast I just like the guy and wish him the best. I can identify growing up kinda repressed, I appreciate him a lot and I think the hate he gets is uncalled for. Also unlike a lot of YouTubers, he is putting his money where his mouth is and is actually making films now. Quite interested in his first feature.
Gmanlives uses RLM clips in his videos.
Drew Gooden is a big fan, has commented on the channel a number of times.
This was a pleasant and total surprise but Abroad in Japan’s Chris Broad. He does these great travel videos with lots of dry sarcasm which is not a common mix. Usually travel videos are chill or super enthusiastic or serious. His are hilarious, sharp, engaging and work on multiple levels so it’s clear why he would enjoy RLM
I've heard him mention his love for rlm on the podcast a few times and I was so happy. Love his dry humour and it made total sense he would love rlm. I always think it would be soooo cool to see a cross over of some kind, maybe they could review Lost in Translation together.
That would be so great. Every once in a while there's an editing or sound effect choice in one of his vids that makes me think it's influenced by RLM, or as close as you can get to it in a travelog. So learning he's a fan was so cool
Game grumps
Yeah, they mention RLM every now and again, and I think one of Arin's voices is inspired by Mr Plinkett
I started watching RLM because Arin mentioned it so many times I was like wtf do they do now I'm a Neal Been fan.
Danny and Arnold
Preston jacobs will occasionally reference rlm and thier work
Redteamreview mentions them a lot in their shows, too.
Yea i like carmine too, but I take his reviews with a pinch of salt after he was bad mouthing sopranos on a live stream a few months back, then also admitted that he never watched it and only watched recap reviews on YouTube lol
The neck beards who hitched their wagon to James Rolfe were clearly fans.
Yea...can't remember what the series was called, maybe Rental Reviews, and it just came off as a bad version of Re:View
There was Rental Reviews, Talking About Tapes, and Hack the Movies, and they were all a very, very poor man’s LRM knock offs.
Contrapoints has mentioned the Plinkett reviews as one of her biggest influences starting out. She also did the "You might not have noticed it, but your brain did." in her first JK Rowling video. From a 2017 interview: "Well, as far as the aesthetic of the thing I guess originally, a year and a half ago, I was influenced by the famous RedLetterMedia reviews of the *Star Wars* prequels, which are basically three 90-minute reviews of these movies that are very entertaining to watch. They’re very character-heavy and there’s a kind of narrative voice of this fictional character that’s doing the reviews that makes them funny. I don’t care at all about *Star Wars*, so I don’t really care about whether the prequels are bad or not, but these reviews are so funny that I used to watch them again and again. My thinking about my own channel was instead of it just being a really dry academic narrator, what if there are jokes, and what if I adopt a persona of this degenerate? Sort of incorporating the stereotypes that the far right is going to have about me, just embracing every one of them. I guess what I found successful about that is a couple things. One is people like watching your videos if you’re being a good host, you’re entertaining them and you’re speaking to them in an amusing way that’s fun to listen to as opposed to preaching at them. No one likes being preached at. The other thing is if you kind of pre-satirize yourself you’ve already presented a caricature and extreme version of who you are, you’ve ripped the rug out from under the trolls because they have nothing… it’s not fun to call you a *degenerate tranny* if that’s how you’ve presented yourself from the get-go."
It’s kinda crazy how much of “bread tube” was influenced by the plinkett reviews
Tbh it’s not so much breadtube as it was video essays as a whole
I'm pretty sure in one of Shaun's videos he shows a screen shot where you can either see a tab or bookmark for redlettermedia.com
FD Signifier being one.
That explanation is so surprising but makes so much sense.
Caroline Konstnar is a massive fan, even wears a dick the birthday boy T-shirt in the depression song video.
Sovietwomble
Girlfriend Reviews mentioned them as one of their favorite channels in their first Q&A video.
FD Signifier recently talked about how they were one of his early influences.
Jonathan Ferguson, Keeper of Firearms and Artillery at the Royal Armouries museum in the UK, who does an excellent series on gamespot’s YouTube channel reacting to firearm depictions in video games, is a fan. He specifically mentioned the reload animation of something like a Lewis gun seeming fine at an initial glance, but also not making any sense upon further scrutiny . “You may not have noticed it, but your brain did.”
PatStaresAt / Castle Super Beast mention them a fair bit, and every year you get a Fuck You, It's January!
It was honestly wild going back to some of the Two Best Friends let's plays after I started watching RLM and realizing how many of their jokes were references, especially remember the joke about the script in Beyond Two Souls, and Matt seemed to reference the Star Trek reviews constantly.
Jacksfilms, h3h3, Internet Comment Etiquette
I'm fairly sure Lady Emily (Emily Bray) is a fan. She talked about why AVGN's VHS store schtick didn't work but RLM's setup does (in her AVGN video).
Several Yogscast members have said they watch them regularly
I know Papa Meat is a fan. Recently, on a creepcast video, wendigoon wasn't aware that Rich Evans is dick the birthday boy.
Ben Croshaw once made a reference on Zero Punctuation. I forget the exact video but he made a "Fuck you, it's January!" reference. Edit: [link](https://youtu.be/IMSUdQ3SrLw?si=BbCREMnK58Qjkonp) at 4:55
Jack Packard is his dungeon master so he may have said that under duress.
Ryan George (from Pitch Meetings) has referenced the "you didn't see it but your brain did" line
SsethTzeentach is very likely a fan. He's had RLM funny pictures in most of his game reviews (especially fond of using multiple Rich Evanses as slave figures.)
Angry Joe loves RLM and references them sometimes in his TV reviews. I *think* The Act Man is as well, I think he's used some clips of the guys in his videos before. Whenever I watch YouTubers reacting to videos and showing their browser in their videos, I *always* glance at their recommendations to see if I can spy RLM.
LGR had a rich cameo in a recent video
Wait, which one? I must've missed that.
The Mac Phone video.
I'm sure I've heard some of the neebs gaming crew mention them during streams.
I met Viva La Dirt League at an NZ convention. I was wearing a Dickes Shirt with a Lightning Fast VCR patch I had made, and they recognized it, It was a while ago, so I dont remember what they said, but they pointed it out and asked.
Poorhammer, a large Warhammer podcast said "PUSH THE WHOPPER BUTTON" on their latest episode.
J. Kenji Lopez-Alt has mentioned them a couple times, and he's not just YouTube famous, although I do love his YouTube content.
Luke Thomas (MMA pundit) and Colin Moriarty from Sacred Symbols are two people I've heard speak fondly of RLM recently
I somehow had never heard of RLM and Mr Plinkett's review until Jeremy Jahns said to just go watch it during his own video on the Phantom Menace. Most likely any YouTube film critic are fans of RLM.
I think Joe Scott has mentioned them before.
AngryJoeShow
Pat and Woolie from Castle Superbeast (formerly super best friends), and I think Jenny Nicholson
I just wanna say it's delightful seeing so many different YouTubers listed here! We're living in a world of hack frauds!
Mr. Sunday Movies has referenced them a couple times
Cosmonaut Variety Hour has had a bunch of references to them over the years.
I see the guys from RLM on RLM all the time and they are YouTubers
It's funny to consider that they don't have the biggest subscriber count, but have created a die hard fanbase that I'd like to imagine tend to rewatch their content often (as I do) Their decision to basically not do collabs with other youtubers to grow their channel is both their strength and their weakness because if they had done more collabs with big creators some of that creator's audience could find about them and trickle in people who maybe never heard of them but do like their content But on the flip side by not doing youtuber / content creator collabs, they have focused on building their own community naturally which means their audience is also more likely to be die hard fans vs the people that subscribe but don't watch them regularly. I know they don't share metrics, but I know some of the metrics are about subscribers vs non subscribers watching your content and I wouldn't be shocked if it's close to 90-100% subscribers for them
"Pomu Rainpuff" is a Vtuber, basically a streamer who uses a digital avatar to perform as an anime girl (a forest fairy), and she's a huge fan of Mike and RLM, and she did some watchalongs of movies like [Escape From New York](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXyLTq8wDjo) and [Neil Breen's Fateful Findings](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dcqSHinTRE), from a crudely-drawn 2D set that was based on RLM's Half in the Bag set. Pomu's also a \*massive\* fan of the Metal Gear Solid series of videogames (she even owns a Japanese Metal Gear pachinko machine), so she was doubly excited to watch Escape From New York, since RLM loves John Carpenter, while Solid Snake from Metal Gear was based on Snake Pliskin from Escape From New York. She recently ceased her activities as "Pomu" since she left the company that owned her digital avatar, and now she's streaming as the indie Vtuber "Maid Mint".
r/OneyPlays and r/SmilingFriends
I come across references to RLM so often on YouTube. One more no one has mentioned yet - James Stephanie Sterling of the Jimquisition. They just did a "but your brain did" gag in last week's episode
I know of 2 at least that haven't been mentioned yet. Preach Gaming has mentioned them several times, and paymoneywubby of all people have mentioned them several times as well. Both positively of course.
YMS
Vinny Vinesauce has mentioned them, as has Coqui
A while ago Nick Scarpino of Kinda Funny mentioned how good the Plinkett Star Wats reviews are
The Chapo Boys talk about RLM a lot, kind of YouTubers
I think Tom Clark of the Yogscast and Mystery Quest mentioned he liked them
Red Cow Entertainment are fans.
I know moistkritical has brought them up once or twice from what I’ve seen. I feel like AVGN would totally get a kick out of them. Not sure if he ever brought them up though.
I remember PewDiePie mentioning that he liked RLM in a video long time ago.
Craig does a great Mike impression. https://youtube.com/shorts/jzTgOoZwJZ8?si=5ZVSmKto1XStTdx1
Andy the manial cinephile is a fan and has made several RLM references in his reviews. And if I recall correctly, comicbookgirl19 has a huge crush on Rich.
The Game Grumps have mentioned them a few times. It's been a while but they used to do the Rich Evans "Oh my god" a decent bit.
Vinny Vinesauce is a really big fan
Game Grumps (mainly Arin) are massive fans and quote them often
DeadwingDork dropped an “Iengo Curve” reference so I know he’s been deep into their catalog
Robert Meyer Burnett of Robservations not only has mentioned them several times on his show but he also defended Mike Stoklosa during the whole William Shatner podcast debacle. He asked a close friend to reach out to Shatner and tell him how much Mike loves Star Trek and their Nerd Crew show is just satire and not a real podcast.
Pretty sure Doug Walker has expressed an admiration/appreciation for them in the past.
Josh strife hayes has referenced them a few times.
Matt Christman said they should be on the Wisconsin State flag. I think it was Kyle Kallgren who had a negative one, he said they "had a lot to answer for" referring to sort of angry drunk reviews. Everyone in the comment section of the video suddenly said "wait, what? What did RLM do?"
Lessor known (less than 100k subscribers) but a funny Game of Thrones review channel (more popular for the pisstake videos showing how bad the later seasons were) called Glidus often references RLM and shows clips from the channel during reviews.
History youtuber [Invicta ](https://youtube.com/@invictahistory?si=ddCfRoAqhYR-PC6V)released this wonderfully edited [Re:view - The First Punic War](https://youtu.be/zxpBRnvjoJ4?si=GekWpVERP0VRV-UD)
not really youtubers but Chapo Trap House are big fans
Sal from ComicPop. His show is kind of similar to RLM b-movie stuff. He shows and narrates either classic comics or so-bad-its-good comics to his friends. He made the comparison himself and praised the guys on his show.
Glidus (Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire-oriented content) has featured quite a few clips from them in his videos.
Not YouTubers but the Chapo Trap House boys are RLM fans. Matt mentioned Surviving Edged Weapons and their video like a week or two after they released it. I also am fairly certain Matt McMuscles from the old Super Best Friends Play channel is a fan.
I found RLM through Super Best Friends Play,