# CinemaSins
**CinemaSins** is an American YouTube channel, created by [Jeremy Scott](https://www.edgepedia.org/jeremy-scott) and Chris Atkinson of Nashville, Tennessee, that publishes satirical "Everything Wrong With..." videos which count "sins" in a movie, adding one for each plot hole, cliché, continuity slip, or detail the narrator finds annoying, accompanied by a signature ding sound and an on-screen sin counter.[1](https://www.fastcompany.com/1683275/everything-wrong-with-every-movie-youve-seen-in-the-last-decade-and-the-art-of-going-negativ) • [2](https://giveupinternet.com/w/cinemasins/) Its tagline is "No movie is without sin."[3](https://cinemasins.com/)
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Creators | Jeremy Scott and Chris Atkinson, both of Nashville, Tennessee; they met in 1999 working as managers at a movie theater[1](https://www.fastcompany.com/1683275/everything-wrong-with-every-movie-youve-seen-in-the-last-decade-and-the-art-of-going-negativ) • [4](https://podcast.show/crimecafe/interview-with-crime-writer-jeremy-scott/) |
| Launch | First video uploaded in December 2012; the debut video is listed as "Everything Wrong With The Amazing Spider-Man In 2 Minutes Or Less," posted December 11, 2012[4](https://podcast.show/crimecafe/interview-with-crime-writer-jeremy-scott/) • [5](https://shapes.inc/fandom/cinemasins/timeline) |
| Format | Rapid-fire narration with a red sin counter and a ding sound effect for each counted "sin"[5](https://shapes.inc/fandom/cinemasins/timeline) |
| Schedule | New videos on Tuesdays and Thursdays[6](https://cinemasins.com/faq) |
| Audience growth | More than 4 million subscribers by May 2015; over 7 million by August 2017; about 9.2 million subscribers and 2,147 published videos as of October 2026[7](https://tamagazine.com/2015/05/14/interview-with-jeremy-scott/) • [8](https://www.inverse.com/article/35558-cinemasins-kong-skull-island-jordan-vogt-roberts) • [9](https://hypeauditor.com/youtube/UCYUQQgogVeQY8cMQamhHJcg/) |
| Spinoffs | TVSins (voiced by co-creator Aaron Dicer), CommercialSins (voiced by Chris Atkinson), and Music Video Sins[6](https://cinemasins.com/faq) • [10](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYslZytdOWg) |
| Self-description | "We don't consider ourselves critics... we are purposefully super nitpicky for comic purposes" (Chris Atkinson)[11](https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/article/how-digital-creators-are-reshaping-film-criticism/2/) |
## Origins
Jeremy Scott (born 1975) and Chris Atkinson (born 1987) met in 1999 working at a movie theater, where both were managers who worked in the projection booth. Films arrived on separate reels that they had to splice into a single print, and part of the job was watching the assembled print to confirm no mistakes had been made.[4](https://podcast.show/crimecafe/interview-with-crime-writer-jeremy-scott/) Both were fans of *Mystery Science Theater 3000* in college, and every Thursday night the two would screen a film they had built and crack jokes at it from the audience; Scott later described this as the genesis of what became CinemaSins.[4](https://podcast.show/crimecafe/interview-with-crime-writer-jeremy-scott/)
Before launching the channel, both had written extensively about online video and video marketing, and they followed early YouTube creators such as [Epic Meal Time](https://www.edgepedia.org/epic-meal-time) and [Freddie Wong](https://www.edgepedia.org/freddie-wong). The first CinemaSins video went up in December 2012.[4](https://podcast.show/crimecafe/interview-with-crime-writer-jeremy-scott/) Atkinson recalled that the idea came from joking around in conversation, after several earlier movie-and-comedy YouTube channels they had experimented with failed to gain traction.[1](https://www.fastcompany.com/1683275/everything-wrong-with-every-movie-youve-seen-in-the-last-decade-and-the-art-of-going-negativ)
## Format and growth
Each video runs through a film scene by scene, adding a sin, with a ding, for every plot hole, cliché, continuity slip, or thing the narrator simply finds annoying, under a title of the form "Everything Wrong With [film] In [n] Minutes Or Less."[2](https://giveupinternet.com/w/cinemasins/) The debut video introduced the red sin counter and the ding, and established the rapid-fire satirical format.[5](https://shapes.inc/fandom/cinemasins/timeline) Early videos ran under three minutes; over time they expanded in length and scope.[8](https://www.inverse.com/article/35558-cinemasins-kong-skull-island-jordan-vogt-roberts)
Growth was fast. By May 2015, in under two years, the channel had amassed more than 4 million subscribers while releasing an average of at least two sins videos a week.[7](https://tamagazine.com/2015/05/14/interview-with-jeremy-scott/) A 2013 report in the *Nashville Scene* said the channel attracted 4,000 to 6,000 new subscribers a day, rising to 10,000 on days a new video was posted.[12](https://www.nashvillescene.com/news/multiplex-hecklers-musicians-and-marksmen-are-turning-youtube-into-a-career-path-and-in-some/article_da493d99-2c14-59ba-a48c-7db2e115b464.html) By August 2017 the channel had over seven million subscribers and was described as one of the largest movie-related networks on YouTube.[8](https://www.inverse.com/article/35558-cinemasins-kong-skull-island-jordan-vogt-roberts) As of October 2026, analytics firm HypeAuditor lists 9.2 million subscribers and 2,147 published videos.[9](https://hypeauditor.com/youtube/UCYUQQgogVeQY8cMQamhHJcg/)
The channel's output expanded into a family of related series. TVSins applies the format to television and is voiced by its co-creator Aaron Dicer; CommercialSins, voiced by Atkinson, covered commercials; Music Video Sins does the same for music videos. The FAQ says the shelved channels share a common denominator: time.[6](https://cinemasins.com/faq) The SinCast podcast, with Scott, Atkinson, and Barrett Share, began on January 9, 2016, and the writers' podcast Behind the Sins was later discontinued because producing the weekly videos and talking about them in show form became difficult to sustain.[6](https://cinemasins.com/faq) The brand also runs a Patreon (SinClub), a Discord community, and Twitch livestreams.[13](https://linktr.ee/cinemasins)
## Satire or criticism?
The channel's stance toward film criticism has been a recurring point of contention. Atkinson told Rotten Tomatoes: "We don't consider ourselves critics. We really just take movies and we are purposefully super nitpicky for comic purposes... The aim is not to rival Ebert, Peter Travers, or anyone else of that sort. We are just trying to entertain people."[11](https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/article/how-digital-creators-are-reshaping-film-criticism/2/) The site's FAQ answers the question "Do you hate movies?" with "Nope. In fact, we love movies," and says viewers who think otherwise may be missing the satirical humor; it also concedes that some errors are intentional and that "we fuck up sometimes, too."[6](https://cinemasins.com/faq)
Filmmakers have pushed back. In 2013, director [Rian Johnson](https://www.edgepedia.org/rian-johnson) responded on Twitter to the CinemaSins video on his film *Looper*, saying he should be good-humored about it but that it felt "oddly nasty."[14](https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/kong-skull-island-director-defends-143506318.html) In August 2017, after CinemaSins posted a 20-minute video counting nearly 150 alleged sins in *Kong: Skull Island*, that film's director, [Jordan Vogt-Roberts](https://www.edgepedia.org/jordan-vogt-roberts), published a lengthy rebuttal on Twitter, objecting to specific points and to the channel's premise, and writing that "these videos are now the length of TV pilots - where people tell actual stories." Several film critics agreed with him, and journalist-turned-screenwriter Gary Whitta called the channel bullies; CinemaSins downplayed the criticism.[8](https://www.inverse.com/article/35558-cinemasins-kong-skull-island-jordan-vogt-roberts)
The broader debate has centered on whether the format degrades film discussion. One essay on criticism describes CinemaSins, though meant purely for comedic purposes, as an example of "bad faith criticism," defined as critique that highlights flaws in a work for sport regardless of its other artistic merits.[15](https://www.networkisa.org/creative-screenwriting/view/why-do-critics-and-audiences-disagree-so-much-in-film-tv-reviews) A 2020 newspaper column noted that the creators describe the series as a parody of film criticism, an argument the writer found increasingly hard to buy as the commentary grew more mean-spirited with the channel's growth to around 8.6 million subscribers.[16](https://ufdcimages.uflib.ufl.edu/UF/00/02/82/93/00796/04-17-2020.pdf) Defenders and the channel itself maintain the videos are comedy rather than judgment of a film's quality.[6](https://cinemasins.com/faq) • [11](https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/article/how-digital-creators-are-reshaping-film-criticism/2/)
## Related work
Jeremy Scott, the channel's narrator and a co-creator, writer, published his debut novel *The Ables* in 2015, about disabled super-powered children who are overlooked by society. Within 24 hours of being announced it became the #1 [Barnes & Noble](https://www.edgepedia.org/barnes-and-noble) bestseller, the #1 "Amazon Hot New Release," and the #1 title on "Amazon Movers & Shakers."[7](https://tamagazine.com/2015/05/14/interview-with-jeremy-scott/) The channel's format has also been adopted in reverse: the spinoff-adjacent channel CinemaWins analyzes movies by pointing out what is good about them, sometimes indirectly referencing sins counted by CinemaSins.[17](https://youtube.fandom.com/wiki/CinemaSins)
## References
1. [Everything Wrong With Every Movie You've Seen In The Last Decade (And The Art Of Going Negative), Fast Company](https://www.fastcompany.com/1683275/everything-wrong-with-every-movie-youve-seen-in-the-last-decade-and-the-art-of-going-negativ)
2. [CinemaSins: Meaning, Origin and Whether It Is Still Alive, Give Up Internet!](https://giveupinternet.com/w/cinemasins/)
3. [Cinema Sins — No movie is without sins (official site)](https://cinemasins.com/)
4. [Interview with Crime Writer Jeremy Scott – S. 9, Ep. 16, Crime Cafe podcast](https://podcast.show/crimecafe/interview-with-crime-writer-jeremy-scott/)
5. [CinemaSins Timeline — Complete Chronology, Shapes](https://shapes.inc/fandom/cinemasins/timeline)
6. [FAQ — Cinema Sins (official site)](https://cinemasins.com/faq)
7. [Interview with Jeremy Scott, author of "The Ables" and co-writer for Cinema Sins, TAM Magazine](https://tamagazine.com/2015/05/14/interview-with-jeremy-scott/)
8. [CinemaSins Thrashed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts of 'Kong: Skull Island', Inverse](https://www.inverse.com/article/35558-cinemasins-kong-skull-island-jordan-vogt-roberts)
9. [CinemaSins (@cinemasins) YouTube Stats, Analytics, Net Worth and Earnings, HypeAuditor](https://hypeauditor.com/youtube/UCYUQQgogVeQY8cMQamhHJcg/)
10. [CinemaSins channel description, YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYslZytdOWg)
11. [Changing the Dialogue: How Digital Creators Are Reshaping Film Criticism, Rotten Tomatoes](https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/article/how-digital-creators-are-reshaping-film-criticism/2/)
12. [Multiplex hecklers, musicians and marksmen are turning YouTube into a career path, Nashville Scene](https://www.nashvillescene.com/news/multiplex-hecklers-musicians-and-marksmen-are-turning-youtube-into-a-career-path-and-in-some/article_da493d99-2c14-59ba-a48c-7db2e115b464.html)
13. [CinemaSins Official Linktree](https://linktr.ee/cinemasins)
14. [Kong: Skull Island director defends film against CinemaSins takedown, Yahoo Entertainment](https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/kong-skull-island-director-defends-143506318.html)
15. [Why Do Critics And Audiences Disagree So Much In Film & TV Reviews?, The ISA](https://www.networkisa.org/creative-screenwriting/view/why-do-critics-and-audiences-disagree-so-much-in-film-tv-reviews)
16. [Entertainment section, The Gainesville Sun (UFDC archive), April 17, 2020](https://ufdcimages.uflib.ufl.edu/UF/00/02/82/93/00796/04-17-2020.pdf)
17. [CinemaSins, Wikitubia (Fandom)](https://youtube.fandom.com/wiki/CinemaSins)
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