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Deadlock Clock: Apr 21st 2012 at 11:59:00 PM
HiddenFacedMatt Avatars may be subject to change without notice. Since: Jul, 2011
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#1: Mar 4th 2012 at 10:18:41 AM

It's... almost JAFAAC. I say almost because the characters' facial expressions add a little bit, just not much. (And they seem to be the same in the top panel as in the bottom one anyway.) Otherwise it's pretty text-centric, and almost may as well be a page quote, if not for how it would take at least 8 lines of dialogue to show in its entirety. And even that is more of a reason for it not to be an image, seeing as how the image is fairly tall; at 1280 by 1024 in chrome, it extends well into the examples section.

I'm not sure what to replace it with, but I'd rather see it imageless than see it keep this image.

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KaiserMazoku Since: Apr, 2011
#2: Mar 4th 2012 at 10:47:50 AM

Ugh yeah, too much text and it looks really ugly on the page, takes up too much vertical space

FinalStarman from Clinton, Massachusetts Since: Nov, 2011
#3: Mar 4th 2012 at 10:57:11 AM

This is a good example of terrible image for a page. It's not an entire comic strip, but it needs to be read as if it is. The copy-pasting between panels is aggravating. just bugs me It dips far into the examples section.

This is harming the article. I'd say it doesn't even need a replacement to be pulled.

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Telcontar In uffish thought from England Since: Feb, 2012
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#5: Mar 4th 2012 at 1:01:42 PM

The image is not even close to being "Just a Face and a Caption." JAFAAC is when the image is an example, but it's impossible to know that unless you're familiar with the work the picture comes from.

It's a terrible picture that's basically just text, and it should be pulled, but it's not JAFAAC.

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#6: Mar 4th 2012 at 1:08:11 PM

Seconding, that's massive overkill.

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#7: Mar 4th 2012 at 1:10:04 PM

Seven votes a charm;

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So what do you butcher before it dries up? At this point, I would say "an analogy".

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#8: Mar 4th 2012 at 1:17:47 PM

The image is not even close to being "Just a Face and a Caption." JAFAAC is when the image is an example, but it's impossible to know that unless you're familiar with the work the picture comes from.
Isn't it supposed to also include when it has to be explained via caption? That's why I consider it almost-JAFAAC to have to be explained by speech balloons, which, like captions, are text-based rather than visual.

As for it being a "good example of a terrible image," perhaps we could have some stickied thread link to this as such?

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KaiserMazoku Since: Apr, 2011
#9: Mar 4th 2012 at 1:21:33 PM

ehhh yeah it's a horrible image to be sure, but it's not JAFAAC. JAFAAC is when the picture provides no context as to how the image fits the trope and usually stems from Fan Myopia, because the person who put the image up just expects everyone to know what it is.

This image is just big and ugly.

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#10: Mar 4th 2012 at 1:56:07 PM

... I guess I took "JAFAAC" a bit too literally then.

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FinalStarman from Clinton, Massachusetts Since: Nov, 2011
#11: Mar 4th 2012 at 1:58:54 PM

Just a Face and a Caption is not just "bad image." It's a certain type of Fan Myopic "does not illustrate the trope."

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rodneyAnonymous Sophisticated as Hell from empty space Since: Aug, 2010
#12: Mar 4th 2012 at 2:07:52 PM

Some tropes are about a kind of face, or are otherwise represented well by a picture of a person. That's not what JAFAAC means; Just A Face And A Caption could be Just a Landscape and a Caption, Just a Shoe and a Caption, lots of things.

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SalFishFin Since: Jan, 2001
#13: Mar 4th 2012 at 2:50:50 PM

This is a dialogue trope anyways. I say we should put it back until someone comes up with something less wordy.

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#14: Mar 4th 2012 at 2:51:59 PM

"The visuals add nothing" is the case here - we don't want page quotes slapped on some random image.

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#16: Apr 23rd 2012 at 10:07:46 AM

Clock's up; locking for inactivity/lack of consensus. No further action is to be taken based on this thread.

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