Poor Image: My New Gift Is Lame

My New Gift Is Lame

The image kinda lead me to think this was specifically about being given a shitty super power when I first opened the page, it's kind of misleading.

Uh, yeah. At best, the image show What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?. But it doesn't even illustrate that well.

Completely agreed. Not only is the trope not about superpowers, it's about one gift out of a group being disappointing to the receiver, not all of them.

Huh, not every day you see a Sonic the Comic image on here.

Not that this excuses the current image. If it weren't for the caption I would have no idea what it was illustrating - and the superheroes don't seem too fussed about how awful their powers are from the image cited.

No image suggestions. So is this a petition to remove it, or what?

I'd be fine with a removal even without a replacement. At best, it represents everyone getting a lame "gift" which is misleading... or it's just referring to the snowman, which is What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?. Either way, it's confusing.

edited 27th Nov '13 9:12:32 PM by Larkmarn

The current is a bad image. It's actively misleading, completely reliant on the caption, and poor quality (the text is illegibly small). That's three strikes against it. It should be removed even if we don't find something toreplace it with.

I think the image is a example of Blessed with Suck anyway. Should I cut it?

edited 27th Nov '13 9:13:42 PM by shoboni

I say yes, pull it.

Done(I have no idea how to get captions working right)

Meet The Zed Monkeys. Gifted powers include◊, being angry, melting in warm sunlight, personal grooming, those things you use to stop your trousers being caught in your bike chain, and really smelly armpits.

edited 27th Nov '13 9:15:42 PM by shoboni

Little over an hour since the thread was started, and it didn't start with any suggestions or calls to action. Pulled way too fast, invalid OP.

edited 27th Nov '13 9:21:31 PM by rodneyAnonymous

and that was a mod that said pull it...

And it's been said the image isn't even this trope in any way, shape, or form.

edited 27th Nov '13 9:18:56 PM by shoboni

...then making a case for it to be pulled should have been super easy.

_v That is true if, by "we", you mean "several other people but not me". Just saying something is misleading is not the same as saying it should be pulled. And there are only a few unique posters so far in this thread, 4-0 is not overwhelming consensus. I agree it's bad, just: there is no hurry.

edited 27th Nov '13 10:40:12 PM by rodneyAnonymous

We did, everyone in the thread said it needed to go because it didn't fit the trope in any way.

I fully support the pull, for both quality issues and not fitting the trope.

I looked at the webcomic examples and neither of the ones with links work well for making into a page pic, at least to me.

edited 27th Nov '13 10:42:22 PM by Willbyr

I don't know what the previous illustrates so I am fine with a pull there.

I also give full support for the pull. That image illustrates nothing

Rodney, The criteria for what makes a page image bad enough to pull without replacement is suggested in this post. Everyone in that thread agreed with those criteria. "Bad Image, Can be pulled without replacement" has 11 possible reasons (2 are mutually exclusive: "too large" and "too small" which means that only 10 can apply to any one image) and requires that the image meet several of them. This image met 5 of them — fully half.

edited 28th Nov '13 5:14:45 AM by Madrugada

Yes, but only four people had posted and only an hour had passed. I am not saying it shouldn't have been pulled—of course not, it's terrible—but that was way too fast. Couple responses defending that it was done at all, but that is not what I mean; it's the way it was done.

Also the OP didn't say anything about pulling the image, or why (besides "it misled me"); that was left to other people.

_v No! No reason not to be specific. Those things do not mean the same thing, and it doesn't insult anyone's intelligence to explain what you mean.

edited 29th Nov '13 12:18:34 AM by rodneyAnonymous

I kinda don't like assuming Viewers Are Morons when posting here and hope people can infer that saying a image is misleading/doesn't show the trope at all means it needs to go.

edited 28th Nov '13 1:11:23 PM by shoboni

I think saying it's misleading is saying it's pullable, unless you also write it's justifiable somehow (e.g. Visual Pun).

Yeah, the OP explicitly pointed out that the image is misleading. Even if it's not explicitly stated in the post, it functionally states "This image breaks one of the rules about what makes a good picture; what should we do about it?"

Well, if we're looking for a new image, how about this◊?

That's a different trope, actually