I see the Awesomeness.
It shows a character in a work, with nerdy works?
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"why not have a girl who likes the things that guys do? You may not want to use a crossdressing girl or even a Tomboy — just give her a Fan Boy personality."
The trope is about a female otaku who serves as an audience surrogate for a mostly male fandom.
Picture shows a girl excitedly waving magazines for fans of Moe anime, a genre dominated by male fans. IE She's a Fan Boy.
How does it not demonstrate the trope?
edited 1st Oct '11 8:01:37 PM by Sackett
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Meh on the pic...I say keep until we find something better.
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Videoludus ergo sum
Mangas with soft-eyed hot chicks on the cover? Ewww... I wouldn't want to read any of those... Current image conveys the trope well enough, so as Willbyr said, keep until something better is found.
"We are not a stuffy encyclopedic wiki. We're a buttload more informal".
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Well... Let's take a look at the stereotypes when it comes to Lowest Common Denominator fiction. Works primarily aimed at a female fanbase tends to have conventionally beautiful but respectably dressed women as protagonists. Works primarily aimed at a male fanbase tends to have macho men as protagonists, with a few conventionally beautiful and scantily clad women as decoration. Those covers seem to fall into the former category to me.
This implies, quite correctly, that my mind is dark and damp and full of tiny translucent fish.
Videoludus ergo sum
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It's not that you don't have a point, you do in fact. As long as stereotypes are concerned. But one has to consider things like Periphery Demographic, how shonen have a strong older fanbase and Seinin have quite a few young appreciators, or that more recent My Little Pony "Bronyes movement" thing... But again, I do see your point.
All in all, I just see the image as "cute girl in a work doing geekish things", so it still works in my mind, but if a replacement is unavoidable maybe a Gamer Chick pic would be easier to find than something close to the current image. Most gamers are male anyway, right?
edited 2nd Oct '11 4:36:55 AM by plenum
"We are not a stuffy encyclopedic wiki. We're a buttload more informal".
I'm fine with trying to find a better picture, but the current picture does demonstrate the trope.
Which was the question that started this thread.
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The current pic isn't bad enough to pull, but it's not the clearest we could do either.
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Clock is set.
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Clock's up; locking for inactivity/lack of consensus. No action is to be taken based on this thread.
How does this demonstrate the trope?
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