Cartoonshi シ

Cartoonshi シ (also known as Toons) (born: ) is an English YouTuber known for his critique videos of television and film, a series he calls "A Salty Critique", as well as Gaming and formely meme content.
==Content ==
Cartoonshi was originally a standard reviewer and YTP maker, However his first analysis video was "Was No Such Luck really the worst The Loud House episode?".https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aQ06jQ7h4c&ab_channel=Cartoonshi%E3%82%B7 From thereon he made videos critiquing The Loud House and the fanbase. He also made videos criticizing the Star vs. The Forces of Evil finale and the Steven Universe movie. He will occasionally respond to other YouTubers if they post a particularly bad take or have shown a pattern of horrendous behaviour.
His current content consists of (usually 40 minute to an hour) analytical reviews of cartoons, although he sometimes ventures into film and video games. His older videos contained edgy and offensive humor, but after noticing that actual bigotry was forming in his audience, he publically announced he would be toning down his videos, with his newer videos being a lot more tame while still having an edge to them. 
Cartoonshi himself has made it clear with numerous disclaimers (along with his activity outside of videos) that his older jokes are "tryhardy" and has openly disavowed bigotry a number of times in the past. 
Cartoonshi occasionally appears in videos about YouTube drama - he made an appearance in Just Stop's video about DaftPina and JohnBob.
He is also a fan of anime, and has expressed an interest in making more anime content, and has made videos on Attack on Titan (particularly it's themes), the Cowboy Bebop live-action series, and Komi can't communicate, which he praised. His favorite anime is Steins;Gate.
Many of his most notable videos include critiques of The Owl House, Steven Universe and The Loud House. Many issues tackled in his videos vary from plot consistency, themes and representation, being an open advocate for LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC representation in media and criticising the way many current shows handle it. Despite a number of political references and jokes made in his videos, he has gone on record to say he despises politics as a whole.
==Controversy==
===Feud with The Owl House fans===
On October 26, 2020, Cartoonshi uploaded a video criticizing The Owl House, a video he has recently expressed a disliking of, calling it overrated and saying that some people who praised it were being too accepting of mediocrity and simply praised it because of it's mystery elements and its similarities to other story-driven shows. The video received extreme negative backlash from fans of the show.https://web.archive.org/web/20210213162916/https://twitter.com/cartoonshi/status/1360625408266354699https://web.archive.org/web/20210704232922/https://twitter.com/cartoonshi/status/1345900461677830145 
Cartoonshi received death threats on Twitter, as well as from other platforms by those who would go on to espouse unfavorable views of his content. He was called an ableist by The Owl House fandom for calling Luz, the main protagonist of the show, "retarded" as a joke due to her hyperactive nature, only for her to later be confirmed to be neurodivergent. Cartoonshi himself is neurodivergent, and on the Autism Spectrum. 
His view that Amity Blight had the best character development out of the main cast,https://twitter.com/femceIcore/status/1346013750512418816 and that characters like Gus and Willow were not as well-developed or well-written, received equal hostility and derision. He made a response video calling out the toxicity which would later become age restricted.https://twitter.com/RedWorldLeader/status/1339203414123827201 Speculation was made on whether or not mass-flagging was really to blame.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yTirzUzdPI&ab_channel=Cartoonshi%E3%82%B7 
Tensions with TOH fans and Cartoonshi had dissipated and have mellowed out over time. Ultimately, Cartoonshi would upload two videos on June 17, 2022 and July 1, 2022 respectively, praising the show's second season and criticizing the Walt Disney Company's corporate censorship of its LGBTQIA+ representation, stating he has "become a huge fan", effectively ending the more than year-long feud. 
===Smash Bandicoot Drama===
On September 2, 2020, Cartoonshi released a video publicly calling out the YouTuber Smash Bandicoot, documenting his psychopathic behavior, pathological lying and numerous targeted attacks towards other YouTubers, including some of his friends. The video instantly took off and shone a much needed light to a very troubling situation. 
However, Smash Bandicoot responded with multiple videos, each of which being met with heavy criticism and a very negative like to dislike ratio and one video in particular, a 40 minute response to Cartoonshi's video titled "Internet Shit: Cartoonshi" (which was part of a series of Smash Bandicoot's) was hit with a community guideline strike for "Harassment and Bullying", mainly due to the video itself being approximately 40 minutes of Smash saying he didn't do anything wrong despite the screenshotted evidence presented, along with numerous defamatory insults slung at Cartoonshi. Smash also would attempt to harass other people related to Cartoonshi, and raiding Toon and his friend's discord servers. 
Smash continued to make videos about Cartoonshi but was regularly met with mass-dislikes and numerous comments calling him out for his repeated attempts at lying. 
Even after three years, Smash Bandicoot still harbors a deep-seated grudge against Cartoonshi. On March 7th, 2024, he striked once again by falsely reporting three copyright violations on Cartoonishi's channel to get his channel terminated, citing "revenge" as his motivehttps://twitter.com/cartoonshi/status/1765755291205787958https://twitter.com/cartoonshi/status/1765773933960176092. During this time, Cartoonshi received a ton of support across YouTube and Twitter, with the situation also receiving coverage from large creators such as penguinz0.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITY6MVai2cg After a few days, Cartoonshi's strikes were removed and Smash's channel was terminated for violating YouTube's terms of service. 
===Harassment and stalking from MisAnthro Pony===
On January 24, 2022, Toon tweeted "IMPORTANT: Recently, the YouTuber known as MisAnthro Pony has been using a sock account to publicly threaten and blackmail me on Twitter. A thread."https://web.archive.org/web/20220125051415/https://twitter.com/cartonofshi/status/1485780211778179072 
The thread revealed that a year prior, Cartoonshi had cut off MisAnthroPony for his harassment of his friends amongst his anger issues and tendency to go on tirades. But months after he blocked MisAnthroPony, he received new messages from a random account named @DelightfulCham2 that somehow knew about him and MisAnthro's mutual blocking of one another. 
This, furthered by the fact that @DelightfulCham's history was of nothing but defending MisAnthro from critics, led Cartoonshi to believe that it was MisAnthro using a sock account. Cartoonshi became fully convinced that it was MisAnthro after him and @DelightfulCham2 had an arguement and @DelightfulCham2 revealed that MisAnthro was working on a video where he would respond to his haters, and threatened to put Cartoonshi in the video as one of the "haters". 
The thread also detailed that MisAnthro would post long rants in Cartoonshi's server, which led to him being banned, since Cartoonshi didn't want to associate with someone full of hatred, and that Cartoonshi had his own triggers with people angrily yelling at him. After Toon began researching on his past controversies, he noticed that most of them stemmed from MisAnthro behaving in an aggressive manner, which validated his decision to cut him off even more. 
He ended the thread by saying "With this being said, Anthro, if you are reading this, I am fucking on to you. I don’t appreciate you blackmailing me in broad daylight and then feigning ignorance when questioned. If you are going to threaten me like this and go scorched Earth with a YouTube video about it, I will not hesitate to put all of this on YouTube to show people what a scumbag you truly are. If you are 100% convinced however that this person somehow ISN’T you, then I will happily retract everything and talk with you. Now unblock me, coward."
After the callout, Anthro and @DelightfulCham2 would have a heated exchange, but Toon believed it was all damage control.https://web.archive.org/web/20220125051416/https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FJ6RX2OX0AU3pm9?format=jpg&name=900x900 Anthro would make a response video, and Cartoonshi would comment under it, but later Anthro deleted the video.https://web.archive.org/web/20220125170451/https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FJ9n86-XMAASoGM.png Cartoonshi then announced that he will be making a video on the situation. 
Later BlareTV would create her own thread on the situation which revealed that not only had Anthro admitted to creating the account, he also guilt tripped her and tried to convince her that Toon was manipulative.https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FJ7HRYRWQAEi3o6?format=jpg&name=mediumhttps://twitter.com/blaretelevision/status/1485843117983027200
==Quotes==
*"That's the end of the video, play Yakuza or something."
*"BUT I GUESS NEFCY JUST FORGOT."
*"Cartoonshi, are you making thishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nO5ALJZq6JQ&ab_channel=Cartoonshi%E3%82%B7 video to annoy the majority of the cartoon community again?" - "Yeah."
*"There is literally zero variety in criticism in this community unless you look at obscure channels or members. Everyone parrots the same popular opinion and the community at large is a massive echo chamber."
*"I got called Ben Shapiro by a Redditor, what f-ing year is this." 
*"Some kids were dropped on their heads but you were clearly thrown at a wall." 
*"A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest."
*"My man saw Stardust Crusaders and went: 'Yeah but what if I do it BACKWARDS."
*"Voting is just political ratioing."https://web.archive.org/web/20220124021148/https://twitter.com/cartonofshi/status/1485433855502958595
*"Calling this actual movie"
==Personal life== 
* He is demisexual and swing both ways romantically. https://twitter.com/cartoonshi/status/1660081317910831104
*He is also on the autism spectrum and has social anxiety.https://64.media.tumblr.com/0188414fcd6ec189eb5d587f88e3984c/292628288019c6b1-5a/s1280x1920/8a3ad1af40c5c9763a5a30af63cdcbb73422adbe.pnj
*He has a pet doghttps://web.archive.org/web/20211012115806/https://twitter.com/cartonofshi and two pet cats. https://twitter.com/cartoonshi/status/1663954969194528777?cxt=HHwWkoCw0c-Ox5cuAAAA
*His first name "starts with S and has 3 letters", as revealed by Cartoonshi himself.https://discord.com/channels/715115938080358520/715228435756220528/753396135812530226
==Trivia==
*His Favorited TV show is Steins;Gate.
*His Favorited movie is Good Will Hunting and Spider Man: Into the Spider-versehttps://letterboxd.com/cartoonshi/films/rated/5/.
* Two of his favourite video game franchises, Persona and Yakuza/Like a Dragon, are frequently referenced in his videos.
* His outro songs comprise mostly of obscure pop-punk/rock songs. The most recent outro song, "Chew Well" by Losing Streak, has been used since September 2023 and has led to the original song receiving an influx of views. Losing Streak have indirectly confirmed they are aware of/are fans of Cartoonshi's videos as they have hearted several comments on the original music video referring to him.
*His most viewed video is his video is his video on the decline of The Loud House, sitting at a little over 1.8 million views. 
* His second most viewed video to date is his video on Borderlands 3's story, currently sitting at just over 1.6 million views. Despite this, he has mentioned on multiple occasions that the video is a "f-ing disaster" in terms of writing and editing despite it's mostly positive ratings.
*His favorite character is Ochaco Uraraka.
* On January 19, 2022, he noticed his Wikitubia page and commented on the above trivia pointhttps://web.archive.org/web/20220119113143/https://twitter.com/cartonofshi/status/1483762764724248583.
* He disliked Turning Red. He called the twerking scene "the single worst thing I have seen this year so far.".https://web.archive.org/web/20220317064759/https://twitter.com/cartonofshi
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