#2: Jul 24th 2017 at 8:54:48 AM
Opening.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
MsCC93
Since: May, 2012
#3: Sep 9th 2017 at 3:21:04 PM
I do think that the examples need to be rewritten to get rid of the complaining.
captainpat
Since: Sep, 2010
#4: Sep 11th 2017 at 8:17:53 AM
How about making it trivia for cases where a creator acknowledges that some people are interpreting their work wrong or they got audience from the their work they didn't intend? Cause right now examples for this thing are basically putting words in creator's mouths.
#5: Jan 7th 2018 at 10:59:21 AM
Locking per New Year Purge.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
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I've gone through some of this trope's subpages, and I can't help but feel that a lot of them are writen in a sort of condescending, passive-aggressive manner. Like, the trope description tries to avoid this, stating that neither ignoring canon nor treating it like it can only be interpreted one way are good, and that sometimes the creator is just bad at conveying the mesage. But it seems some people still use the trope to vent their frustrations about wichever theory or headcanon they disagree with.
From the Video Games subpage:
Of these four "arguments", only the last one is related to the trope at hand, and the troper who wrote this didn't consider that some people may disagree with "you can only become a good person if you stop being a Dark Knight".
This is basically a solid wall of complaining that has nothing to do with the trope. Misaimed Fandom is supposed to be about fans missing the point or intended message of a work. Since when has the point of Pokémon been that Red is not better than Ash?
Two works in one (can you even do that?)
Some transgender fans may agree with the work's original message, but they still chose to interpret certain characters as trans because they want to see themselves reflected in a work they like. Also, the line in bold (emphasis mine) is nonsensical. Very often, the whole point of a headcanon is that they are things people want to believe even if nothing sugests them in canon.
Here's another example from the Webcomics subpage:
...this is just dumb. Why sould fanfics limit themselves to events that happen within the work? There is such as thing as alternate universe fics, after all.
Finally, what that drove me to go thorugh some of the subpages to see how bad the other examples were. This is in the YMMW page of {{17776}}:
This paragraph criticises the reason people read a story. Does this mean that, if you just happen to not be ineterested in football, you're missing the whole point of the story? And there is no link to the creator confirming what the point was in the first place.
...sorry, that came out a bit salty. Do you think this is worth taking a closer look at?
edited 24th Jul '17 3:18:43 PM by Nazo