Meme Cuisine

Meme Cuisine is the name given to the podcast done by Meme and PastelGremlin. It is a podcast that is exclusive to Off Season videos, but it does have holiday specials posted in the BSFYL subreddit.

Initial Creation
Meme was going to write critiques about the first Off Season challenge during the 2017-2018 Off Season. He came up with the idea, however, of doing a LSFYL podcast with his brother PastelGremlin inspired by Lipsync Video Review, a podcast done by Mikey and Blake during Season 5 of LSFYL. Pastel latched on, and ultimately created the name Meme Cuisine, citing the podcast to have all the filling of a Kid Cuisine, "We have Memes, Actually Good People, Constructive Criticism, and Mmm...".

Format
Meme Cuisine follows a formula similar to Lipsync Video Review, which hails its inspiration from Raja and Ravens "Fashion Photo Ruview". Every week the two hosts discuss the videos, offering critique in order to help performers improve on their videos. Starting in Meme Cuisine 2, the role of a "Guest Judge" started, where a third person comes into the podcast to also offer critique. Meme Cuisine is more known, however, for having a more aggressive slant in terms of critique, which has caused controversy within the community.

Controversies
Meme Cuisine has raised concern with members of LSFYL. Critics of the podcast claim that the show borders too heavily on bullying community members and is not a fair podcast to listen to. Many cite Meme Cuisine's second episode for this, where out of a possible 32 "Toots" or "Boots" to give out, 17 "Boots" and 1 "Poot" were given. However, defenders of Meme Cuisine claim that the very blunt and straightforward critiques given in Meme Cuisine are invaluable to the performers of LSFYL, alumni particularly saying that the podcast getting right to the heart of a videos problems allows people to improve more than lacing a negative critique with "false positives" would do.

Trivia

 * The first time a guest appeared on Meme Cuisine was Episode 2, which featured Season 5 winner ShadyGuava
 * After heavy criticism following the second episode, a coin name for the series became "Mean Cuisine", which Meme took off with and turned into a community meme
 * The 3rd episode of Meme Cuisine for the return of the Back 2 Basics theme was cancelled after Meme was hit by a car walking to work. He has since recovered, and Meme Cuisine returned with "The Meme Cuisine Thanksgiving Day Special".
 * The guest judge who was slated for the third episode was Gii, the host of the first Back 2 Basics off-season challenge