Embarassing crap on the wiki

Yeah, that entry needs to be cleaned up a bit. (Also, if anyone's interested I removed a few non-examples from the MLP:FiM radar page and changed its description to something that sounds less like someone trying to justify why they watch children's television)

Heh. I noticed that's a recurring complaint with TV Tropes, especially the Radar page. "It's not a kiiiid's show!"

People feel the need to defend their entertainment beyond "it amuses me" for some reason.

And if an Evil Overlord doesn't need any better reason to do stuff, why should we?

This is entertainment we're talking about, amusement is the stated goal.

^ Don't oversimplify. Sometimes, the stated goal is To Sell Toys.

PONIES ARE NOT FOR CHILDREN!!!

Sad face. Where is everyone watching all these ponies anyway?

Youtube.

The Hub Channel.

Getting back on topic, looking through the Rocko's Modern Life page, outside some bits of natter, the page doesn't come across as being too lewd for its own good. The examples seems legit enough, at least the ones that I can find Youtube videos of, at any rate.

About Panty Shot getting examples removed (since we were told to keep it here). I was thinking, would allowing examples only if they are of Playing with a Trope, and just stating the facts of the example, be okay? Take Sparkling Generation Valkyrie Yuuki:

• Lampshaded and spoofed during Yuuki's first battle in Sparkling Generation Valkyrie Yuuki. She realizes that the comic just framed a move as a panty shot, and then notes that it would have worked better if she hadn't been wearing a thong.

If we limited the page to stuff like that, would it make an acceptable page, since it wouldn't involve gushing, or details of the panties, but simply how the show plays around with it?

That particular example would be fine, but it'd be hard to curate because that page attracted creepiness (or whatever you want to call it) like no one's business.

Yeah, I think we'd be better off just leaving that page example-less, because you know that if we allowed any form of example, every creeper and his grandma would be finding excuses to put their waifu on it.

What's waifu?

Urban Dictionary: A term coined by Otaku and Weeaboo alike for their 2D significant others; predominantly anime and video game characters.

It became popular through a high school anime whose name I can't recall right now. Among anime fans, it means your favorite character, although that's not the usage in casual conversation among the Japanese and others.

Ninja'd. Also, most people I know like to joke around with the phrase, and then there are some people that just scare me...

edited 28th Mar '12 7:22:35 PM by Autumncomet

Why not just lock the page?

@Lebrel - assume I have no idea what you're talking about.

Weeaboo and otaku, are, generally, fans of Japanese media. There was this anime about high schoolers and one of the characters was asked a question; he answered "mai waifu" (my wife). And then the Internet took that and made it apply to any character the particular fan in question really likes. I've seen it used to mean anything from favorite character, to (other people talking about otaku's favorite) character that people are creepy and obsessed over.

OK, soo... There are people (stereotypically Japanese Otaku or Occidental Otaku) who get very attached to their favorite anime, manga, videogame, or other "2-Dimensional" character, usually of the opposite sex, and declare them their "wife" (waifu) or "husband" (husbando). Depending on the person in question, it's either mainly an in-joke, an open expression of Perverse Sexual Lust, or a symptom of inability to cope with the real (3D) world. Most of the cases I've seen are the first two, but the media looooooves to run with stories of men who marry videogame characters and stuff like that.

Hmm. Uh, do you know a good place to order Brain Bleach on the internet?

I need to dig up the story of a guy in Korea who married his Dakimura (Body pillow) of Fate from Nanoha legally married it.

tada

edited 28th Mar '12 7:58:10 PM by Raso

You can marry your body pillow? I wonder if I can find someone to wed me and Misa Amane...

Anyway, on topic, this on the Scary Black Man page:

"If an interracial porno has a black man in it, he's guaranteed to be Scary, often with some sort of gangsta gimmick even if that just means wearing a bandana and/or a pair of Timberland boots while otherwise nude. 'Watch as Susie/Billy is split in half by T-Dawg's massive 12-inch black cock!'"

That worthy of a cut? Also, completely unrelated, but I think "Gloriously subverted in Sesame Street where the main actor who plays Gordon is African American, but he is never depicted as anything but the ideal father figure." on the same page should also be cut, because it's kind of sort of racist to present a black man being a caring person and good father as so extraordinary it needs to be specifically mentioned as a subversion.

And on the Going Commando page, "While she appeared to be wearing a white dress underneath her pink one throughout her film, Rapunzel, in her merchandise and promotional appearances, is not wearing said white dress under her pink dress at all! Guess what the white dress is actually supposed to be!" should probably be cut since it's a character from a film meant for children.

That should be cut because it's not a subversion, not because it's racist.

The first and third could probably just be rewritten; the second can be cut.

edited 28th Mar '12 8:21:32 PM by Willbyr