I told him what he could do to improve, so fairly certain it would class as critique. I don't see how adding "great pics, but..." or whatever would make it any more useful though (just the opposite in fact because yeah... they really weren't; it was camwhoring with a side of tacky filters and dodge/burn).

Like I said, I wouldn't have even bothered commenting had there not been a shitstorm on the horizon; I was trying to explain why they weren't universally adored, and he took it fine (until today anyway).