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Sounds more like What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?, doesn't it?
Yeah, it does.
"Come on! Let's get this show on the road."
Agreed.
I also smell the "bunnies/animation = for kids" fallacy. Sigh.
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry Pratchett
The page image for the opposite trope, What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?? is from that movie. Can the book go under one trope and the movie under the other if they were made with different audiences in mind?
"neither the film nor the original novel were ever aimed at kids"
The film is PG rated on IMDB. A search of the novel has it in YA or adult sections. They are both not meant for kids.
The image needs an Image Pickin' thread.
Edited by Candi Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry Pratchett
sounds like whoever wrote that example fell into the Animation Age Ghetto
@PegasusKnightmare Funnily enough, the original page image on What Do You Mean, It's for Kids? was a scene from Pingu, which depicted Pingu's mother hitting him, with the caption saying "Abusive Parents on a kid's show? No thanks." Why such was changed, I don't know.
Edited by Blazer_the_Delphox
Scan the image picking thread for any mention of this, and notify the user who changed it if they did so without permission.
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According to the history, Sailor Tardis changed the Pingu image to a Gravity Falls image (unilaterally), and then mod Willbyr put the current image on the page after an Image Pickin' thread decided on it.
So, unless I want to start up an argument, we're going to keep these things up the way they are?
I think you can remove the Audience-Alienating Premise for being Not An Example. To change the picture, you need to start a discussion in Image Pickin.
Are we allowed to start new Image Pickin' threads for pages that have already had one? I feel like we'd have to make a convincing argument that this film was never actually intended for children in the first place.
My interpretation of the poliy is that the decisions of Image Pickin' are not set in stone for all eternity. If nothing else, a new, even better, image may surface after the decision - it would be strange if you couldn't override the decision in such a case. But I might be wrong.
As for proof that it's not intended for kids, what about Candi's arguemnt in this thread?
Edited by GnomeTitan
I've never seen a case where an Image Pickin' decision was set in stone for all time. It's just that IP threads tend to pick very good ones that fall in the like a lot to okay with it range.
And a show that has rabbits being gassed in their holes is NOT for kids. And that came from the novel.
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry Pratchett
The point of Image Pickin' is basically to prevent edit warring, brainstorming images and to settle disagreement about images, basically. With that in mind, its decisions are not set in stone.
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Re-wrote Watership Down example.
Forgot to add, What Do You Mean, It's for Kids? has a discussion about the Watership Down image going on now.
I have an issue with an example on Audience-Alienating Premise (For future reference, where would I go for this sort of thing, if not here?):
Watership Down is a movie about rabbits aimed at kids somewhere between late elementary and middle school age. Except it's notoriously violent and mature, with more than a few scenes having the rabbits tear each other to shreds or die violently, including a disturbing scene of rabbits slowly suffocating to death after being buried alive. The art style enough is a bit unsettling, being very dark and realistic in design.
The whole issue with this example is that neither the film nor the original novel were ever aimed at kids. They were aimed at teenagers/adults who would be more likely to be able to handle the violence, which only happens during the climaxes of both the film and novel, contrary to the popular belief that they're literally just slasher horrors with nothing but violence and death everywhere. What do I do about this?