No, but I’d love to see that website! Instead, whenever I go to TV Tropes it’s all anime fanwank bullshit. Did you know that the most pertinent example of the “Will they or won’t they?” trope is Mayumi and Yakitori from Magical Chess Club Archipegalo: Shopping is Death? Me either! :smack::rolleyes:
Uh.
The trope pages are divided by media type so that you can easily scroll past the anime examples (which are at the top of the page). Sometimes you actually have to click on a link to make them visible.
Apparently some of you have a bug up your asses about anime, and that’s fine, but since the examples are easily avoided it really comes across like PEOPLE LIKE SOMETHING I DON’T LIKE WAHHHHHHH. I don’t care about comic books so I don’t read the comic book examples. I don’t whine and gnash my teeth about the fact that they exist and that someone other than me gives a fuck about them.
Once it’s published by a real publishing house, you can stop calling it fanfic.
To each their own and all that, but when there’s 80 anime examples (and again, many aren’t even available in English) versus only a handful of movie and TV examples for many trope pages, it gets irritating.
And Blackzilla is right, half the anime section of any trope page will include people claiming that some anime that came out two years ago is the ultimate example of a trope that’s often older than radio.
Making money IS the purpose of the site’s existence. That the site actually does what they purport to be about is nothing more than a happy coincidence.
I had the same reaction to a lot of tropes that are as old as mankind, top example is a show from last year 
But apparently, when the owner of some website decides that he wants to be the one place on the Internet that isn’t dominated by discussion of the grand artistic achievement that is cartoons about small children being raped by robots, that’s the time to give all the fucks.
Les Yay goes to Ho Yay for me, and reading the discussion page it seems to be that way since last year. It isn’t because of this recent Google ad scandal…
Best username / post combo ever!
Wait, WHAT?
If I may…
“The Emperor”, having been convinced by “Moral Guardians” that “Naughty Tentacles” are “Sick and Wrong”, has declared to the site to “Stop Having Fun Guys”, this is “Serious Business”. After all, someone has to “Think of the Children”.
And so, on the “Day of the Jackboot”, he decided to “Bowdlerize” the Wiki.
This resulted in a “Broken Base”, with declarations that “They Changed It, Now It Sucks” and the Wiki is “Ruined Forever”. He responded by declaring “Money, Dear Boy”, and has “Gannon Banned” any dissenters.
It’s really a symptom of the “Network Decay” the Wiki has undergone in the past few years. The title page proclaims “We’re not some stuffy encyclopedic Wiki, we’re a buttload more informal” - but a look at the forums will show that’s not true as people are constantly tearing into things that have been part of the Wiki for years and changing established trope names for not being descriptive enough. You can’t so much as launch a new trope page anymore unless it’s been thoroughly vetted for tropeability and non-redundancy.
It pains me that I have to tell the Wiki “I Shall Fight No More Forever”, but I don’t want to be part of a community that pulls this kind of “Orwellian Retcon” and decides to undergo “Disneyfication” every time some “Troll” says “What Do You Mean It’s Not For Kids?” This “Wall Banger” is nothing less than a “Dethroning Moment of Suck”, and at this rate the Wiki is quickly becoming “So Bad, It’s Horrible”. Until they say “Screw The Rules, I’m Doing What’s Right”, i’m just going to have to be “Put On A Bus” until the Wiki starts “Growing the Beard” again, escapes its “Seasonal Rot”, and is “Rescued from the Scrappy Heap”.
(That was harder to do than it looked without actually referencing the site.)
That was a crowning moment of awesome.
Fetish Fuel now has a separate site, which I’m not going looking for at work.
BRAVO! Now do classic “Jump The Shark”!
As I said before, I am far from convinced that the behavior this part is bemoaning as going away is a good thing to keep around. And being more informal than Wikipedia is both not hard and not necessarily meaning complete and total freedom to do whatever.
ETA: I think I know what the “problem” is. It would be (more) okay for anyone to create a trope on anything they liked and name it anything they want IF other users could be trusted to read the trope and understand it completely before using it themselves.
[understatement]THEY DO NOT.[/understatement]
Though personally, any process that makes sure you don’t get tropes named The Humphrey (really, guess what it was about before it was renamed) and Stalling For Time (hint: it was NOT about stalling for time) can’t be all bad in my book.
A career bureaucrat who specializes in using obfuscatory language and not getting any actual work done?
A conversation taking place in a public restroom?
Hmm. Makes sense.
If all of TVTropes went away, I would be a little happier. It started out as a neat concept, but it has slowly devolved into the worst dregs of the internet.
I’m not good with words, so here’s something someone else wrote about TVTropes on another forum:
I hope the whole site metaphorically burns to the fucking ground.
Yeah…it’s a shame, because it’s such a cool concept. There’s just something about fandoms that seem to bring out of hiding the toxic people, the drama whores and the real creeps–all the people no-one can be friends with in real life, I suppose. And when TVTropes basically became ‘the respectable alternative’ to livejournal fan congregations (or so it seems), well…we’ll see if they get enough donations to not collapse under their own weight.
Of course, it’s not like the website was ever particularly glamorous to start with–it started when a Buffy fan-forum got invaded by a professional wrestling fan-forum. There used to be unlabelled links to furry torture porn on small trope pages just sitting there (holy god was that disturbing), which I understand they at least make an effort to hide now.