Changed w/o discussion: GIRL

Upon a recent arrival on the page, I noticed the image did not fit the trope at all, as it is not implied that the character we do not see we being deceitful for the sake of drawing attention. To my surprise, when I looked in the page source I found the last image picking thread decided to remove a previous picture, with the note still there. Shall we pull the new one?

Agreed, pull it.

Pull.

Pull

Pull

Pull.

Done and tagged.

~Radiant Dawn Lord seems to have an odd idea of what this trope is. In addition to adding the offending image, they also edited the description to claim it stands for "Guy/Girl In Real Life".

The point is not merely about someone being a different gender than they appear to be, but that There Are No Girls on the Internet to the extent that anyone who claims to be a girl can be assumed to mean they're a GIRL (this is pretty clear from reading the rest of the description). Making it a Recursive Acronym defeats the whole point and doesn't have the same effect. This does mean that, like There Are No Girls on the Internet, it's woefully outdated and maybe even offensive (as again acknowledged by the description), but it is a real part of Internet culture up to the 2000s. (While Urban Dictionary lumps definitions of the term in with those of actual girls, I don't see any use of the "girl" form in the first three pages but plenty of use of the "guy" form in ways that wouldn't work with the "girl" form.)

I agree with this; using G.I.R.L. for "Girl In Real Life" defeats the point of the acronym. However, that's less Image Pickin' and more Trope Repair Shop material.

I don't even know how to illustrate this, and I agree that fixing it would be a job for TRS and not here.

IIRC, Sword Art Online's first episode had a bit where everyone's in-game avatars were changed the real-life appearances of their players. Prior to this, a player with a male avatar asked a player with a female avatar to form a guild together, and the female avatar agreed. After the change, it's revealed the female avatar's player was male.

Find those two frames and slap em together, include the subtitles for context, and there's your illustration of the trope.

A discussed example from Sequential Art

double post

Edited by eroock on May 12th 2021 at 10:21:22 AM

barring a superior suggestion.

I mentioned TRS in the case that there's more misuse out there (or if there's a problem with the definition), not because of this specific unilateral change.

Anyway, the suggestion is fine.

Edited by GastonRabbit on May 12th 2021 at 5:42:49 AM

14 is alright pending a better suggestion, though I'd prefer something that's less Talking Heads.

I honestly don't know how to illustrate this without there being enough text to indicate that a character is an example.

Edited by GastonRabbit on May 12th 2021 at 6:17:02 AM

^ It could still involve characters sitting in front of a computer but the examples◊ I found lacked context.

The last panel of the second image might work on its own.

I prefer 14 but panel 3 of 21.2 is pretty good.