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alt title(s): YMMV; Your Milage May Vary Your Mileage May Vary, or YMMV, is a generic warning that the person giving an opinion recognises that not everyone agrees with them. It is commonly used in cases where expressing an opinion on a work of fiction either way would trigger an Internet Backdraft. For example, someone might say "I thought the Lord Of The Rings movies were pretty good, but your mileage may vary" or "YMMV, but I can't stand Arrested Development."
Since there is, at all times and on every subject imaginable, always someone who disagrees with you somewhere on the internet, if you put this into an example, you may as well have not said anything at all.
The title of this trope comes from US car ads in the 1970s and 1980s which was stuck in to indicate that the customer might not get as much fuel efficiency as the ad claimed. The phrase has since been adopted to mean 'you may not get the same thing out of this as me'. The kids' show Beakmans World made the actual phrase into a mini-Catch Phrase as well.
But in general use this phrase as an observation of mostly agreed upon fandom trends (Transformers fans are probably the most self-aware of their tendency to scream Trukk Not Munky), not simply because the indiviual editor has a bone to pick. No matter how popular it may be, there is someone somewhere who didn't like it. If you're in the vast minority of that opinion it will likely be deleted. This is also to cut down on Natter.
Compare Love It Or Hate It, where the mileage is broken into two separate chunks and are measured on different dials. Also compare Broken Base, where the fandom can't agree on what even what kind of car to buy.
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