 "HipHopDX"s Josh Svetz presented the album as "challenging and uncompromising" and "a manifesto for the misunderstood", complimenting JPEGMafia's "insane production and brilliant engineering".Eli Schoop of "Tiny Mix Tapes" said that "All My Heroes Are Cornballs" is one of the best produced albums of the year, and likened the album to an electronic manifesto and an auditory guerrilla warfare.He compared it to James Ferraro's "Far Side Virtual", reasoning that both are inspired by "internet anxiety", as JPEGMafia's "memetic technology and kinetic mindset" resembles Ferraro's "dread of automation and late-stage capitalism web "osteria"".