[10] Street, then a web design student at the University of Plymouth, managed technical aspects of the site, claiming that he was "not responsible for writing or checking the content that gets published".

[12] The site also set up a "Uni Ladette" page with "debauched disasters" from a "borderline alcoholic" female writer that they supposedly found in "a gutter, muttering something about needing to get laid and nursing her broken stilettos".

[13] The site attracted considerable critical comment in the press and on Twitter due to perceived promotion of rape in some of the articles on the website.

[19] The BBC Radio 4 magazine show Woman's Hour interviewed a number of female students in Brighton who described the 'Sexual Mathematics' article as "vulgar" and were very critical of sexist comments and 'banter' on Facebook.

[22] Sarah McAlpine wrote an article for The F-Word, a UK feminist blog, which argued that Uni Lad was "an entire culture summed up in one hideous website".

In October 2018, the company that owned UNILAD went into administration, with owners Harrington and Bentley having incurred debts of £6.5 million and owing taxes of £1.5 million,[25] alongside being plagued by allegations of continued misogynistic, homophobic and transphobic employee misconduct; fraud; and cocaine use, particularly from a website run by an ex-employee titled "uniladexposed", despite efforts to sanitize the site's brand image.