Generic Entertainment is a YouTube channel with content focusing on books, comedy and other subjects.

The channel contains examples of:

• Accentuate the Negative: invoked In "When Authors Respond to Negative Reviews," the reader claims to have liked the book despite having many criticisms of it, but the author remarks that "it doesn't sound like it."
• All There in the Manual: Invoked in When your "comfort character" is just straight-up evil; when asked why their favorite character was still in preschool at the age of nine, the fan says that "they explain it in the manga".
• Arc Fatigue: invoked
  • In How Wheel of Time Fans "Recommend" the Wheel of Time, the two fans complain about the slow pace of the series, and attribute it to Robert Jordan loving side characters.
  • "When a 'Plot Twist' is WAY too Obvious", the obviousness of the protagonist being the former king's son doesn't bother the reader quite as much as how long the story takes to get to the inevitable reveal. After hundreds of pages, he finally loses his patience and stops reading after seeing the characters once again fail to make the connection he made long ago.
• Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: "When writers think one villain needs to control everything" has the apparent Big Bad claim that he was not only behind every foe the hero faced, but everything bad that happened to the hero, from missing a flight due to getting COVID to calling his teacher "mom."
• Bad People Abuse Animals: In When your "comfort character" is just straight-up evil, the character in question buys lobsters live to torture them by breaking their legs.
• Beethoven Was an Alien Spy: "It's a cult classic" claims that Christopher Columbus was an alien.
• Brick Joke: "It's a cult classic" states that members of the cult must have listening devices in their own ear, and that they emit beeping sounds at random intervals. Late in the video, one such sound is heard, revealing that Adam is a member of the cult.
• Captain Obvious Reveal invoked: "When a 'Plot Twist' is WAY too Obvious" has a strange traveler turn out to be the king, and he casually remarks that the protagonist is as old as his presumably dead son. The reader is able to figure this out from their first conversation, but gets increasingly frustrated with the author as the king and the protagonist don't figure it out despite the protagonist's numerous similarities to the prince and the queen. When the protagonist presents his Orphan's Plot Trinket to the king, who recognizes it as the one he gave it to his dead son but ultimately writes it off as a coincidence, the reader stops reading the book.
• Creator's Pest: invoked "That One Character in a YA Novel the Author Absolutely Hates" is about a perfectly nice and upstanding young man whom the third-person narrator despises and plans to kill in the third act.
• Creepy Monotone: When your "comfort character" is just straight-up evil, Argie never raises his voice or puts any emotion to it as he delivers his evil monologue.
• Cult Classic: invoked A more literal than usual example in "It's a cult classic." The movie Adam recommends that Frank watch, "A Hush Over the Night," turns out to literally have been made by a cult as a recruiting tool. The thumbnail has a man in black robes reading from a tome.
  Frank: When you said this film was a "cult classic," did you mean that it was a small-budget film that received mixed reviews at the time of its release but which has since obtained a sizable online following... or did you mean that it was a film that is considered a classic by the members of a particular cult?
  Adam: Uh... is there a difference?
  Frank: YES!
  Adam: Uh, I dunno. Maybe it was both.
• Dear Negative Reader: invoked "When Authors Respond to Negative Reviews" has the author getting into a heated debate with a reader over the story's perceived inaccuracies. Unlike in some cases of this, the author doesn't come off as entirely unsympathetic, and a few viewers think he has a point.
• Doorstopper: In "When a 'Plot Twist' is WAY Too Obvious," the book drags out the inevitable reveal that the protagonist and the man he met on the road are father and son for at least 300 pages and possibly 600 (depending on whether you count the "300 pages later" by itself or add it to the previous 100- and 200-page jumps), at which point the reader gives up, not wanting another 500 pages, which, if true, would put the book at about 800 to 1,100 pages long. The reader in the video seems to be reading a dictionary or an encyclopedia as a prop.
• Even Evil Has Standards: In "If Evolution had Customer Support" Part 1 and Part 2, Evolution is, if not precisely evil, exceptionally callous and unsympathetic in the advice it gives to various species asking for support. But when Cuckoo floats her plan to smash Reed Warbler's eggs and trick her into raising her chicks as her own, even Evolution seems taken aback by Cuckoo's ruthlessness.
• Fandom Rivalry: invoked "How the internet acts if you try to Like More Than One Thing" deconstructs the mindsets behind these rivalries by having Riley, who likes Land of the Whirlpool and another series about time-traveling Nazis, point out that it's perfectly understandable to like two "things" at once, and liking one thing doesn't mean having to insult others.
• Flat "What": In the video about how fans recommend Dune, the non-fan lets one off when the fans tell him about Leto II's human/sand worm hybrid form in God-Emperor of Dune.
• Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse:
  • When your "comfort character" is just straight-up evil has this exchange regarding a psychotic character one viewer likes.
    Argie: You might say, "Argie, isn't that a little violent?" But you don't understand. my father was an alcoholic.
    Fan: See? He was shaped by his trauma
    Non-fan: That doesn't justify anything.
  • In the video about 30-year-old Harry Potter fans who refuse to read anything else, the non-fan has some sympathy for the fan when the latter confesses to being nostalgic for his favorite book series from his childhood due to being unable to handle adult life and wanting to recapture the spark the books had for him, but politely asks him to tone down the Harry Potter references. When the fan replies that remark is something a Muggle would say, the non-fan promptly gives up on him.
• He Knows Too Much: In In "It's a cult classic," Adam poisons Frank for stumbling upon the cult's existence.
• Held Back in School: When your "comfort character" is just straight-up evil, Argie is held back so often that he's still in pre-school at the age of 9.
• Immediate Self-Contradiction: The video about The Wheel of Time has the fans do this when asked for their opinion about it.
  Fan 1: I definitely recommend it 100%... but it's also a huge waste of time.
  Fan 2: Right, you shouldn't read it unless you're determined to suffer through it... but also, you'll totally be missing out if you don't.
• Manchild: The 30-year-old Harry Potter fan from the video refuses to read anything not related to Harry Potter, and makes references to the series even when talking about real life tragedies. When pressed far enough, he goes on a brief rant about how he's fine with being considered "childish and cringey" for seeing the world through the lens of the series, since he wasn't prepared for the adult world.
• Misaimed Fandom: invoked Discussed in the video about How Dune Fans "Recommend" the Books. According to the fan recommending the books, Frank Herbert wrote Dune Messiah because "almost everyone" misinterpreted the first book. The fan then adds that the reason many fans dislike the second book is because it disproved their interpretations of the first book.
• "Not Making This Up" Disclaimer: In "30 year-old Harry Potter fans who still refuse to read anything that's not Harry Potter," the author shows that some of the fan's outlandish beliefs are based on real ones expressed by Harry Potter fans. As the fan claims that Harry Potter was one of the first children's series to show class and poverty issues, a tweet expressing this opinion is shown on screen, along with the text that this is something someone actually said. The same happens when the fan claims that Harry Potter was one of the first series in which children can't rely on authority figures.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: In When your "comfort character" is just straight-up evil, Argie says that he's "not a fan of the gays."
• Sci-Fi Ghetto: invoked "When fantasy authors don't want to admit they write 'fantasy'" has Rob refuse to admit that his fantasy novel is a fantasy book, since he wants the book to win a Nobel prize so he can go to Stockholm.
• Shout-Out: The start of the video about 30-year-old Harry Potter fans starts with the fan and the non-fan discussing General Tapioca staging a coup in the country of San Theodoros, as a stand-in for a real world event.
• Skewed Priorities: In "It's a cult classic," the cult leader imagines that his disciples might be concerned that the earpiece they must wear, which records all their words and will kill them if removed, is "itchy" and distracts them.
• Stalker Without a Crush: In "When a 'Plot Twist' is WAY Too Obvious," the author invites himself into the reader's house to see his reaction to the completely obvious plot twist that is hundreds of pages away.
• Stock Scream: In "When a 'Plot Twist' is WAY Too Obvious," a Wilhelm scream can be heard during the opening fight.
• Straw Fan: :
  • 30 year-old Harry Potter fans who still refuse to read anything that's not Harry Potter has a Harry Potter fan who is so obsessed with the franchise that he compares real-life tragedies to the books, refuses to read anything non-Harry Potter related and claims that the books were the first to do common literary tropes (e.g. a setting in which class and status matter, a claim that an actual Harry Potter fan made on social media).
  • "How the internet acts if you try to Like More Than One Thing" has Carter as a fan of "Land of the Whirlpool" who is so fanatical about the series that he takes it as an insult when people like other series, even when they claim to also like "Land of the Whirlpool."
• Stylistic Suck: In "It's a cult classic," the film "A Hush Over the Night" is clearly filmed in front of a green screen, which the viewers make note of.
• Take That!:
  • In the video about The Wheel of Time, the non-fan eventually gets fed up with how the two "fans" of the books alternate between singing the series' praises and complaining about its flaws, and asks if he should watch the show instead. Both fans immediately and forcefully say no.
  • In the video about Dune, the non-fan asks about whether he should read Brian Herbert's books. After a Beat, the two fans laugh and express disbelief.
  • The plot twist featured in "When a 'Plot Twist' is WAY too Obvious" was, according to the video description, inspired by one such plot twist from the second book in the John Carter of Mars series, with the creator saying he "wouldn't heartily recommend" the book.
  • "30 year-old Harry Potter fans who still refuse to read anything that's not Harry Potter," is one long shot against Harry Potter fans who consider the book to be better and more original than it actually is due to not having read anything else, to the point that they claim that the series pioneered longstanding literary tropes and plotlines.
  • In "It's a cult classic," the Netflix page for "A Hush Over the Night," a poorly made two-minute recruitment video for a literal cult, has Jared Leto in the cast, likely a shot against all the terrible movies he has starred in.
  • "Media Literacy in 2074," is a long one against declining media literary and attention spans, predicting that audiences won't be able to sit still for movies that are 35 minutes long, deal with shots longer than two seconds or focus on one film at a time. What's more, the two men having a conversation are distracted by other things.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: invoked A fan "recommending" The Wheel of Time complains that the series has so many unlikable characters whom the story still wants you to root for, specifically citing Gawyn as an example.
• Vindicated by History: invoked Parodied in "Media Literacy in 2074," in which Black Adam is regarded as an "art-house" film because people die and the main character is morally gray.
• Wham Line:
  • In When your "comfort character" is just straight-up evil, this quote recontextualizes the "interview" an actor is doing in which he admits to having committed vehicular manslaughter.
    "Your Honor, the defendant has all but admitted to killing Ms. What's-Her-Face with a Subaru. The prosecution rests its case.
  • In "It's a cult classic," the following exchange reveals that Adam has a listening device in his ear, and is a member of the cult that made the movie.
    Frank: Adam?
    Adam: Yeah?
    Frank: Did you hear that beeping sound just now?
    Adam: No, I think you're imagining that.
    Frank: Did that sound just come out of your ear?
    Adam: I'm sorry, Frank.
• With Us or Against Us: "How the internet acts if you try to Like More Than One Thing" has Riley as a Straw Fan of "Land of the Whirlpool" who considers anyone who likes media other than "Land of the Whirlpool" to be his enemy. He refuses to entertain the notion that you can like "Land of the Whirlpool" and other works of fiction at the same time.
• You Do NOT Want to Know: In the series about "recommending" The Wheel of Time, both fans say this verbatim when, after they complain about the spankings, the non-fan asks what they're talking about.
• You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: In "30 year-old Harry Potter Fans who refuse to read anything else,"when the Harry Potter fan claims the series was one of the the first in which wealth and social class mattered, the non-fan replies, "There is no way you just said that."