Truth and Beauty Bombs

this man or woman also created the TVTropes pages for Bill Cosby, Ernest Saves Christmas, Retired Game Show Element, Kit N Kay Boodle, and Ziggy.

what can you expect from people who give "nightmare fuel" status to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie.

wait are you complaining that
something on tvtropes is bad?

ha ha

I wish I could have read that strip without all the comments.

It is pretty funny.

this is just like

distilled TvTropes

now I have something I can point to if someone asks me 'what kinds of people post on tvtropes'

as people often do

I just took a gander around TV Tropes. This is one giant troll, right?

you are

just hearing about tv tropes?

i own the twitter account @tvtropesisawful btw

one day i will actually

do something w/ it

Kendall this is one giant troll



TvTropes is all too real

the problem is that the most awful tvtropes posts come to way more than 140 characters, and that's without context

and if you spend too much time explaining the context, you risk becoming a troper yourself

any sane editor should have caught at least two or three of those problems imo

I've known about it for a while but thought it was just kind of a wiki of running gags in tv shows. I started reading an article this time and was just astounded.

if you call those articles

and i don't

if I gave more fucks about anime it might be more tolerable

or at least maybe i wouldn't want to hurt everyone that edits it

TV Tropes seems to be primarily about fanfiction.

Tommy, is that all you or were the red comments already there?

This is important.

yeah this is basically the problem (a problem)

for any given article, the "fanfiction", "web original", and "webcomic" sections are way too proportionally large

I do like a lot of things about TV Tropes.

It has helped me to come up with a lot of ideas.

But it is definitely a love/hate thing.

all me imo ):

OK, after kicking this around for a while, I've refined some stuff that bugs me about TV Tropes.

- Bros trying to legitimize stuff that does not matter in the examples. For instance, if there is a string of examples involving Star Wars, shifting into examples from the expanded universe without bothering to mention that they are not canonical or anything.

- Bros wanting to include as much information as possible about their pet franchises, for instance, "Crowning Moment of Awesome" should just be the coolest moment in a work, but it is guaranteed that there will be like twenty Buffy examples, and fifty Star Wars expanded universe examples, and a hundred Doctor Who examples.

- Using horrible internet terms as trope names, like using "awesome" and "fail" as nouns and/or using the Gargoyles cartoon as the namer for one of their main tropes.

- Really stupid shows and franchises being the best documented.

(That's also a problem I have with Wikipedia, by the way)

now i am just imagining a shirtless hick looking bro doing a monologue about tvtropes complaints

sry unwinder

I was really surprised you didn't use more actual named tropes in your Tall Comic.

bros disagree with other bros, though

are you suggesting the formation of a

committee

Sort of related to unwinder's second complaint; it's interesting enough when it does what it purports it does, that is, documenting the story-telling shorthand used in narratives, but it feels like most of the tropers are just trying to force their favorite tropes into their favorite shows.

anyway when people don't do that it's actually kind of useful for finding movies or shows or books that you'll probably like based on their having elements that you like.

I am mostly suggesting that a page about the most awesome part of a work serves little purpose aside from letting bros go on and on about how much they like stuff.