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This is the thread to use if you feel that the page image itself is good but the caption needs help.

If you think that both the image and the caption are poor, please make a thread in Image Pickin' for the page, and we'll work on the image and caption both at the same time.

As with other TRS and IP threads, please state your reasons and make your case in your first post. Don't make the other posters spend time trying to pry it out of you.

Edited by Willbyr on Jun 21st 2021 at 9:42:03 AM

BigBadShadow25 Owl House / Infinity Train / Inside Job Fan from Basement at the Alamo (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded) Relationship Status: Drift compatible
Owl House / Infinity Train / Inside Job Fan
#4276: Oct 26th 2022 at 5:25:27 PM

[up][up] Agreed.

The Owl House and Coyote Vs Acme are my Roman Empire.
TroperNo9001 Braids From S286 Not Included from ZDR for now Since: Oct, 2014 Relationship Status: Sinking with my ship
Braids From S286 Not Included
#4277: Oct 27th 2022 at 12:08:40 AM

Reposting my question here.

"Rarity, are you okay? We gotta get you and your friends outta here soon!"
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She / Her
#4278: Oct 27th 2022 at 1:24:21 AM

[up]I agree the caption should stay, however, the link should go (it doesn't feel necessary to me).

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The Draftsman of Doom
#4280: Oct 27th 2022 at 6:00:26 AM

Keep the Gag Penis caption. Nix the link.

Nix the Psycho Lesbian caption.

Do we have consensus?

Rawr.
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Just a guy.
#4281: Oct 27th 2022 at 9:16:01 AM

I don't hate the caption on "I Am Great!" Song, but I have a suggestion for something that I think would work better with the image, that being a line from the song she's singing in the image (Perfect Isn't Easy).

"Perfection becomes me, n'est ce pas?"

Given it's a song-based trope, it feels logical to use a song-based caption. It also matches the image since the line is what she says during the scene.

Edited by Tylerbear12 on Oct 27th 2022 at 8:17:23 AM

PurpleEyedGuma Since: Apr, 2020
#4283: Oct 27th 2022 at 2:56:46 PM

[up] Agree.

Don’t know if this is the right place, but I removed a Tear Jerker wick from the caption on Trying Not to Cry last December (it’s an Audience Reaction on a main trope page), but Dravencour added it back with no edit reason. This post is all I can do without edit warring.

Edited by PurpleEyedGuma on Oct 27th 2022 at 5:56:59 AM

MurlocAggroB from the second-most ridiculous province of Canada Since: May, 2015
#4284: Oct 27th 2022 at 3:12:54 PM

[up] Have you sent them a message about it?

I removed it with a clear edit reason. If it's re-added by the same person again, then we take it to ATT.

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#4285: Oct 27th 2022 at 10:38:50 PM

Maybe the whole caption should be removed. It's obviously referring to an audience reactions, which means it's logical that people would want to add that pothole. If it's policy not to do that, then I think it's not entirely right to put the audience reaction itself to the caption either.

The universe is under no obligation to make sense to us.
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MurlocAggroB from the second-most ridiculous province of Canada Since: May, 2015
#4287: Oct 29th 2022 at 7:49:54 AM

[up] A funny noise a Caustic Critic made while reviewing it, I'm guessing. I'm cutting it.

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pragmatic scientist
#4290: Oct 30th 2022 at 4:31:31 AM

I suggest adding this little gem to the Trauma Button caption:

Unless the perpetrator is Gordon Freeman, then it's hilarious.

Humankind is like a train. No matter how powerful the locomotive is, it can only travel as fast as its slowest car allows it to.
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Braids From S286 Not Included
#4291: Oct 30th 2022 at 7:18:02 AM

I think the caption for Swooning Over Stans: A Grunkle Dating Simulator is superfluous. Cut?

"Rarity, are you okay? We gotta get you and your friends outta here soon!"
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MurlocAggroB from the second-most ridiculous province of Canada Since: May, 2015
#4293: Oct 30th 2022 at 10:56:19 AM

Symmetric Effect has a chained sinkhole in the last part of the caption. Personally, I think Game Night Fight is the best link to keep.

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w
#4295: Oct 31st 2022 at 7:37:29 AM

On Kaizo Trap, I feel like the caption "Be prepared to see this. A lot." would be kinda funny and fit decently well.

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The Draftsman of Doom
#4296: Oct 31st 2022 at 7:52:17 AM

Not feeling this addition suggestion at all. Gordon Freeman is not a Batman character, and thus that addition makes no sense if you know the source material, and even if you don't, the caption links to the place where Jason Todd gets whacked.

Keep the current caption as is.

Edited by SkyCat32 on Oct 31st 2022 at 10:52:47 AM

Rawr.
TheLivingDrawing Lucas the Dreamer from The Town of Clayton Since: Apr, 2019 Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
Lucas the Dreamer
#4297: Oct 31st 2022 at 12:21:02 PM

The laconic thread brought up that Laconic.Shotgun Wedding has a second laconic that’s a pretty good pun.

I voted it be removed because it’s too narrow of a description of the trope but it’s much better than the current caption for the main page. Can I replace it with a new caption?

Why waste time when you can see the last sunset last?
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TheLivingDrawing Lucas the Dreamer from The Town of Clayton Since: Apr, 2019 Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
Lucas the Dreamer
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Angry babby
#4300: Oct 31st 2022 at 12:27:06 PM

Seconded. Current caption is redundant anyway.

I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.

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