Complaining: Design Students Orgasm

Aside from the incredibly negative (and not exactly the most polite) trope title, this doesn't come across as anything more than "complaining about art styles you don't like" which isn't really a trope and probably needs more than a mere lick of paint to fix given the discussion page. What I feel needs to be done is figuring out if this is tropable and if we can't limit the amount of purely negative opinions that make up the examples.

edited 2nd Oct '13 2:47:51 PM by treelo

I do not see any complaining at all there. The description "Extremely detailed and worked-on imagery" (or whatever the correct terminology here is) seems fairly straightforward.

I think the name is more on the non-indicative side.

140 wicks and 650 inbounds, though.

The inbound referrals list shows a Reddit post where the writer says, "The term for this style is Design Student's Orgasm. Not officially, but I really hope that it catches on."

Not seeing how it's not a trope. Looks tropey to me.

The main problems I'm seeing are Zero-Context Example and Weblinks Are Not Examples. Most of the examples provide no support for the definition by looking at it alone.

If it's not all that complainey to you guys, I'll take a rename because I still think it's ridiculously derisive.

With 655 inbounds, I will need something more than "it's offensive" as a rename argument. That usually isn't enough to carry a rename through.

I don't find it offensive or complaining at all. I did however remove the last bit of the description, since that didn't explain anything about the trope, and just made a joke about something related.

I don't see anything offensive about the name. It's just indicating that the work goes a little overboard in the graphic design department. It may be as bit on the crude humor side, but that's all it is saying the graphic designer blew their load(as in put every design idea they head at the time) into the work.

edited 3rd Oct '13 8:32:45 AM by shoboni

Yeah but the implication of it also implies that it's representative of bad or clichéd (in this case, too overly detailed) graphic design by someone not very good at it. Anyway, the specific style it speaks about isn't new, it's been around for decades but is treated as something that is almost hipster-like in its use so it probably needs something so people don't think the wrong thing.

edited 5th Oct '13 1:06:54 AM by treelo

The only bit that I would consider complainy would be the middle sentence of the following:

It is somewhat akin to a visual form of Purple Prose. The flowery elements of the more ornate ads often have nothing to do with the product itself, and don't always get the message across too well. But hey, if that's what the companies are signing off on...

Remove the last sentence of that? Adds nothing.

Admittedly, that seems a bit unbalanced in the way of it being a negative thing. It's not inherently negative, though, so nothing really more than a minor rewrite of that section there should be required.

I'd strip that whole paragraph, the trope isn't about advertising specifically nor is it the graphical equivalent of What Were They Selling Again?. Also, many examples aren't actual examples, there might be issues with the trope description which makes it attract really bad examples seeing as "design which is too complex for me" seems to be the bar of entry and turns into an Audience Reaction trope, if that has any validity here.

edited 5th Oct '13 5:23:26 AM by treelo

You could change it to that "it can become akin to Purple Prose if abused" or something like that.

And Tree, the name itself in no way implies that.

edited 5th Oct '13 2:32:53 PM by shoboni

That should suffice.

I agree with @17.

I think it is the visual equivalent of Purple Prose. If that counts as complaining, the problem with complaining lies with Purple Prose, not this trope.

Purple Prose generally means when it goes so absurdly far it begins to get in the way of reading the work because the overly flowery and complex text is distracting from the meaning or story it's actually trying to convey by stealing the spotlight.

In the end, maybe we need a trope for florid prose that isn't purple.

We should get on YKTTWing it, I suppose. If I have time I'll do it, or if anyone else wants to go ahead. "Florid Prose" sounds like a good start for a name.

I don't believe splitting Purple Prose into "florid prose BUT GOOD" and "florid prose BUT BAD" is going to produce remotely constructive results.

Yea, that YKTTW proposal is a Done Well split.

I don't really care if we do or don't do it, I was just trying to come up with a possible solution to the complaining thing. It wouldn't be good and bad persay, just when it works, and when it makes the work confusing.

edited 6th Oct '13 1:33:15 PM by shoboni