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Author: Huo

Jun 17th 2012 at 3:39:42 PM

With regards to the name shallow follow the leader or shallow imitation, the problem is that it's often both deep and shallow. That's why people pretend to comprehend it but fail to comprehend it's depth just the same.
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Take TV Tropes as a whole. Shallow people don't have a problem with thinking TV Tropes is straight forward because they don't put gravity in both the recentness of mass wiki usage and they don't put gravity in how TV Tropes unlike other Wikis have managed to transgressed which words are wikified.

Only more introspective or inspecting people (note I didn't say smarter) would realize that prior to TV Tropes, it would be very hard for a wiki entry, even fan based ones to link one entry with both TheCoconutEffect and SlapSlapKiss and WholsesomeCrossdresser.

...but deep thinkers are guilty of this too. One who criticizes TV Tropes can easily be sucked in thinking the skewed demographics of TV Tropes lends to perverted tropes out numbering everything in general where even the tiniest adjective trope that has some mild connection gets put as examples of a child's cartoon even if the child's cartoon wasn't even trying to get crap past the radar such as interpreting all rivalries as Foe Yay or all female interactions as Les Yay.

The deep thinkers are then too freaked out by this and fail to remember that this is still not only a wiki but just one example of a wiki called TVTropes. There's no rule that says if someone who's more capable of making a TV Tropes imitation can't fix what the current version failed to do. Remember there was a time when Yahoo seemed like nothing can topple it too until Google. 
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Worse, the words imitation implies there is always a 2nd future copy but most often the freakiness comes from the True Art equivalent of comparing Rome to the Fall of Rome or comparing a society who's experienced a great Depression to be unaware and falsely believe mainstream experts who were not only unable to predict the Recession but lead people to making it worse despite the fact that the Great Depression is drilled into that society's head especially when it comes to the experts.
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Follow the Leader doesn't have this problem but what if there's no leader? For example in the art of wiki, while the mods may follow the admin, this doesn't always mean they follow him. They could just as be "keep the status quo until WordofGod quacks and either supports or goes against your opinion" which is why things became freaky. 
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Even the previous post by the mod that has been erased by the vandalism alludes to the fact that he and many others feel tired of True Art tropes and yet he contradicts this by making it seem like this is an example instead of a subtrope and doesn't even address why the other True Art exists if his tiredness implies some chink in the idea that the True Art entry is tropeworthy as a whole.

Based only on the contents of what he revealed, he's neither following the leader, following his role as a mod, following the spirit of TV Tropes - but he isn't not necessarily not following them either as obviously his post implies the desire to create some form of notability and polish to the list of tropes on TV Tropes so that only those notable get to stay. It's a contradiction but a contradiction that he not only accepts but an entire community accepts without really having an objective standard outside of their own Bias Event Horizon and even that isn't an accurate explanation for the organic venetian blind that happens in almost all aspects of life much less this attribute with regards to the Art of Science, the Art of God Worship, the Art of Design, the Art of Marketing, the Art of Selling, the Art of Programming...any thing that can fall within the phrase "Art of" - the one trope criteria that could salvage this from being an entry full of general non-tropeworthy complaints which is why I opted to name it this way.