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* RankScalesWithAsskicking: [[http://www.cracked.com/article_15895_the-5-most-badass-presidents-all-time_p5.html The 5 Most Badass Presidents of All Time]]. Counts as a WeAllLiveInAmerica too.
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* WeAllLiveInAmerica: Usually this is justified in that they are an American site, but their list of the lamest ''Film/JamesBond'' puns commits the double fallacy of A: mocking the use of [[TheSixties 1960s]] humor... [[UnintentionalPeriodPiece in 1960s movies]] and B: mocking that the British James Bond, a British secret agent, who speaks UsefulNotes/BritishEnglish, often to other British people for the heinous crime of...using British idiom! Apparently, "nobody talks like that". [[SarcasmMode Because English-speakers only exist West of Maine.]]
** Articles about public institutions can also be confusing for Non-Americans. "x number Truths about y" will invariably be about the US version, though it will not be explicitly stated. This means that anyone with knowledge about their country's 'y' can be sat thinking 'that isn't right'.
** List of Heroes also tend to be heavy US-centric, making you think few great people live outside the US.
** Anything about Teen-sex seems to rely on HollywoodProvincialism, making British (and others) wonder what the pre-occupation with 17 year olds is.
** Articles about public institutions can also be confusing for Non-Americans. "x number Truths about y" will invariably be about the US version, though it will not be explicitly stated. This means that anyone with knowledge about their country's 'y' can be sat thinking 'that isn't right'.
** List of Heroes also tend to be heavy US-centric, making you think few great people live outside the US.
** Anything about Teen-sex seems to rely on HollywoodProvincialism, making British (and others) wonder what the pre-occupation with 17 year olds is.
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* StockholmSyndrome: ''Cracked'' accuses ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' of this in [[http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_528_23-romantic-movies-revised-honesty/ 23 Romantic Movies Revised for Honesty]] and [[http://www.cracked.com/article_19285_5-romantic-movie-gestures-that-were-actually-dick-moves.html 5 Romantic Movie Gestures That Were Actually Dick Moves]].
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* MonumentalDamage: The Statue of Liberty is the #1 [[http://www.cracked.com/article_19924_5-iconic-building-that-were-barely-saved-from-destruction_p2.html Iconic Building That Was Barely Saved from Destruction]] because "when Lady Liberty gets destroyed, it means the apocalypse is here".
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* MonumentalDamage: The Statue of Liberty Art/StatueOfLiberty is the #1 [[http://www.cracked.com/article_19924_5-iconic-building-that-were-barely-saved-from-destruction_p2.html Iconic Building That Was Barely Saved from Destruction]] because "when Lady Liberty gets destroyed, it means the apocalypse is here".
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* QuoteSwearUnquote: Claims adding swearing to the lyrics of "You're the Best Around" would make it even better.
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* OverlyNarrowSuperlative: [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-5-most-overused-jokes-internet/#ixzz1bYF8pemD Edouard Manet? Best.19th Century French Impressionist Painter Whose Last Name Is One Letter Away From Another French Impressionist. Ever!]]
** ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'': [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-dark-but-sexy-truth-behind-zootopias-imminent-demise/ Easily the best animated comedy about racial discrimination that [the author has] ever furtively masturbated to in the back of a movie theater.]]
** ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'': [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-dark-but-sexy-truth-behind-zootopias-imminent-demise/ Easily the best animated comedy about racial discrimination that [the author has] ever furtively masturbated to in the back of a movie theater.]]
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* OverlyNarrowSuperlative: [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-5-most-overused-jokes-internet/#ixzz1bYF8pemD Edouard Manet? Best.19th Century "The 5 most overused jokes on the internet"]]: [[Art/LeDejeunerSurLHerbe Édouard Manet]]? Best 19th-century French Impressionist {{Impressionist}} Painter Whose Last Name Is One Letter Away From Another French Impressionist. Ever!]]
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** ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'': [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-dark-but-sexy-truth-behind-zootopias-imminent-demise/ Easily thebest animated best-animated comedy about racial discrimination that [the author has] ever furtively masturbated to in the back of a movie theater.]]
** ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'': [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-dark-but-sexy-truth-behind-zootopias-imminent-demise/ Easily the
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* TheScream: Photoplasty [[http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_581_17-famous-images-as-seen-from-different-angle/?view=article Famous Images, As Seen From a Different Angle]] shows what the figure in Edvard Munch's painting was screaming at: Franchise/{{Superman}}.
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* TheScream: Photoplasty [[http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_581_17-famous-images-as-seen-from-different-angle/?view=article Famous Images, As Seen From a Different Angle]] shows what the figure in Edvard Munch's painting Creator/EdvardMunch's "Art/TheScream" {{painting|s}} was screaming at: at Franchise/{{Superman}}.
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* NoPronunciationGuide: Until the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5FWC8FiKZo Why Stupid YouTube Comments Are Older Than The Internet]] video was released, the majority of readers pronounced Soren Bowie's surname as "BOW-ee" like in Music/DavidBowie, or even "BAW-ee". The video revealed that it was, in fact, pronounced "BOO-ee".
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** ''[[Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} [Citation needed].]]''.
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* WholePlotReference: Funnily invoked with ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'' and ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon'', which are "accused" of being good adaptations of ''Series/StrangerThings'', respectively ''Series/TheCrown2016''.
--> We mentioned earlier how The ''Rings of Power''’s chief streaming rival, HBO’s ''House of the Dragon'', was seemingly taking its cues from ''The Crown''. Well, the ''Lord of the Rings'' show may be doing something similar, but with another popular Netflix series: ''Stranger Things''.
--> We mentioned earlier how The ''Rings of Power''’s chief streaming rival, HBO’s ''House of the Dragon'', was seemingly taking its cues from ''The Crown''. Well, the ''Lord of the Rings'' show may be doing something similar, but with another popular Netflix series: ''Stranger Things''.
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* PetPeeveTrope: Invoked with [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-stupid-characters-that-hollywood-now-puts-in-every-movie/ 6 Stupid Characters That Hollywood Now Puts In Every Movie]], which takes aim at films like ''Film/JurassicWorld'', ''Film/TerminatorGenisys'' and ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' for their insistence on putting these tropes in their movies.
** [[InvincibleHero No One Has Any Fear Of Death]]
** [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands Movie Villains Can Instantly Pick Up The Skills Of The Heroes]]
** [[DeusExMachina Everyone Gets Magic Expositional Plot Visions]]
** [[FauxActionGirl "Kickass" Female Characters Who Don't Really Do Anything]]
** [[BecauseDestinySaysSo Main Characters Are Now Fated To Be Heroes]]
** [[InvincibleHero No One Has Any Fear Of Death]]
** [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands Movie Villains Can Instantly Pick Up The Skills Of The Heroes]]
** [[DeusExMachina Everyone Gets Magic Expositional Plot Visions]]
** [[FauxActionGirl "Kickass" Female Characters Who Don't Really Do Anything]]
** [[BecauseDestinySaysSo Main Characters Are Now Fated To Be Heroes]]
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* PetPeeveTrope: Invoked with [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-stupid-characters-that-hollywood-now-puts-in-every-movie/ 6 Stupid Characters That Hollywood Now Puts In Every Movie]], which Movie]] takes aim at films like ''Film/JurassicWorld'', ''Film/TerminatorGenisys'' and ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' for their insistence on putting these tropes in their movies.
**movies: [[InvincibleHero No One Has Any Fear Of Death]]
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**Anything]], and [[BecauseDestinySaysSo Main Characters Are Now Fated To Be Heroes]]Heroes]].
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* SpiritualSuccessor: After the second Great Purge, former ''Cracked Podcast'' host Alex Schmidt launched a new podcast called ''Secretly Incredibly Fascinating'' that was clearly made in the late ''Cracked Podcast's'' image. He even opened the first episode with the same tagline as the ''Cracked Podcast,'' "A podcast about why being alive is more interesting than you think."
** Likewise, Cody Johnston and Katy Stoll's Website/YouTube show ''Some More News'' is clearly this to Cody's ''Some News'' series on Cracked.
** Likewise, Cody Johnston and Katy Stoll's Website/YouTube show ''Some More News'' is clearly this to Cody's ''Some News'' series on Cracked.
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** Another one [[http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_1018_20-classic-movies-from-perspective-minor-characters) features]] titles like ''[[WesternAnimation/ToyStory The Toys Are Alive]]'', the 'Q' film ''[[Film/JamesBond Destroyed Equipment]]''[[note]]No specific Bond film being parodied here[[/note]], ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Up}} SQUIRREL!]]''[[note]]The dogs from ''Up'' photoshopped on a ''The Dark Knight'' poster[[/note]], ''[[WesternAnimation/Frozen2013 The Queen's Monster: A Story of Forgiveness and Survival]]''[[note]]''Frozen'' if told from Elsa's second snowman Marshmallow's POV[[/note]], ''[[Film/TheGodfather The Rise and Fall of Khartoum]]'', ''[[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast In My Drawers]]'', ''[[Film/KingKong Killing Kong]]'', ''[[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack Luke's Cool Hand]]'', ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Up}} I Think We Just F**ked Up]]''[[note]]From the POV of the construction workers[[/note]], and ''[[Film/TheWizardOfOz My Journey on the Ash Grey Road]]''.
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** Another one [[http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_1018_20-classic-movies-from-perspective-minor-characters) features]] titles like ''[[WesternAnimation/ToyStory ''[[Franchise/ToyStory The Toys Are Alive]]'', the 'Q' film ''[[Film/JamesBond Destroyed Equipment]]''[[note]]No specific Bond film being parodied here[[/note]], ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Up}} SQUIRREL!]]''[[note]]The dogs from ''Up'' photoshopped on a ''The Dark Knight'' poster[[/note]], ''[[WesternAnimation/Frozen2013 The Queen's Monster: A Story of Forgiveness and Survival]]''[[note]]''Frozen'' if told from Elsa's second snowman Marshmallow's POV[[/note]], ''[[Film/TheGodfather The Rise and Fall of Khartoum]]'', ''[[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast In My Drawers]]'', ''[[Film/KingKong Killing Kong]]'', ''[[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack Luke's Cool Hand]]'', ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Up}} I Think We Just F**ked Up]]''[[note]]From the POV of the construction workers[[/note]], and ''[[Film/TheWizardOfOz My Journey on the Ash Grey Road]]''.
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* ShapeshiftingExcludesClothing: [[http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_767_42-sci-fi-movies-if-they-were-updated-realism/ 42 Sci-Fi Movies (If They Were Updated for Realism)]] shows what would happen to [[Comicbook/IncredibleHulk the Hulk]] if his pants were not [[MagicPants magic]].
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* ShapeshiftingExcludesClothing: [[http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_767_42-sci-fi-movies-if-they-were-updated-realism/ 42 Sci-Fi Movies (If They Were Updated for Realism)]] shows what would happen to [[Comicbook/IncredibleHulk the [[Comicbook/TheIncredibleHulk Hulk]] if his pants were not [[MagicPants magic]].
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* TropeName: [[http://www.cracked.com/video_18156_a-trailer-every-academy-award-winning-movie-ever.html This]] [[WebVideo/ATrailerForEveryAcademyAwardWinningMovieEver video]] takes generic and turns it UpToEleven for roughly three-and-a-half minutes.
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* TropeName: [[http://www.cracked.com/video_18156_a-trailer-every-academy-award-winning-movie-ever.html This]] [[WebVideo/ATrailerForEveryAcademyAwardWinningMovieEver video]] takes generic and turns it UpToEleven up to eleven for roughly three-and-a-half minutes.
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** Seanbaby took this UpToEleven with [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/exploring-the-mysteries-of-the-mind-with-the-sims-3/ this]].
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** Seanbaby took this UpToEleven up to eleven with [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/exploring-the-mysteries-of-the-mind-with-the-sims-3/ this]].
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* TheTetrisEffect: AKA [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/when-video-games-get-stuck-in-your-head/ "When Video Games Get Stuck In Your Head"]]
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Per TRS. Also it was in the wrong folder to begin with.
. Also it was in the wrong folder to begin with.* MediaScaremongering:
** A staple article topic is a list of mundane items and activities that can kill/maim you.
** And conversely, things which are hyped as dangerous by films/television/news media etc., and in fact are not nearly as dangerous as made out to be.
** A staple article topic is a list of mundane items and activities that can kill/maim you.
** And conversely, things which are hyped as dangerous by films/television/news media etc., and in fact are not nearly as dangerous as made out to be.
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* YouCanPanicNow:
** A staple article topic is a list of mundane items and activities that can kill/maim you.
** And conversely, things which are hyped as dangerous by films/television/news media etc., and in fact are not nearly as dangerous as made out to be.
** A staple article topic is a list of mundane items and activities that can kill/maim you.
** And conversely, things which are hyped as dangerous by films/television/news media etc., and in fact are not nearly as dangerous as made out to be.
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* {{Meganekko}}: Katie Willert from After Hours.
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* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad: J. F. Seargeant seems determined to disprove this trope. YMMV on whether or not he raises any sound points, but the commentators all agree that his articles are self-congratulatory and full of holes.
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* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad: PoliticalOvercorrectness: J. F. Seargeant seems determined to disprove this trope. YMMV on whether or not he raises any sound points, but the commentators all agree that his articles are self-congratulatory and full of holes.
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* VendorTrash: Photoplasty advertises a vendor that [[WeBuyAnything buys everything]], specifically naming items that substitute for MoneySpider, in [[http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_273_26-ads-products-that-must-exist-in-video-games_p26/#11 Ads for Products That Must Exist in Video Games]].
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* MailerDaemon: Parodied by Soren Bowie with his article "[[http://www.cracked.com/article/234_the-spambot-who-seduced-me-true-story-forbidden-love/ The Spambot Who Seduced Me: A True Story of Forbidden Love]]", in which he responds to actual messages sent to him by a dating site spambot (also mocking how common these spambots are in the comments on Cracked articles), with each reply being more and more lovesick.
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* UnseenPenPal: Parodied by Soren Bowie with his article "[[http://www.cracked.com/article/234_the-spambot-who-seduced-me-true-story-forbidden-love/ The Spambot Who Seduced Me: A True Story of Forbidden Love]]", in which he responds to actual messages sent to him by a dating site spambot (also mocking how common these spambots are in the comments on Cracked articles), with each reply being more and more lovesick.
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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Photoplasty advertises hair dye in impossible colors in [[http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_273_26-ads-products-that-must-exist-in-video-games_p26/#7 Ads for Products That Must Exist in Video Games]].
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* SingleSeasonCountry: Lampshaded in [[https://www.cracked.com/article_19168_6-myths-about-famous-places-you-believe-thanks-to-movies.html this]] article, where the fourth entry (It's Always Winter in Moscow, and It's Always Sunny in Australia) details how often Hollywood likes to depict Russia and Australia with the same season, while also pointing out that this is not the case in real life.
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* ManlyFacialHair: If the subject of one of their articles has awesome facial hair, they ''will'' point it out.
-->'''Commenter [=CavalierX=], on U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves''': That's not a man with a moustache on his lip; that's a moustache with a man on its ass.
-->'''Commenter [=CavalierX=], on U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves''': That's not a man with a moustache on his lip; that's a moustache with a man on its ass.
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As with the first half of the list, many of these links may be [[NotSafeForWork NSFW]]. You Have Been Warned.
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** Likewise, Cody Johnston and Katy Stoll's YouTube show ''Some More News'' is clearly this to Cody's ''Some News'' series on Cracked.
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* StrawmanFallacy: Take a shot every time this appears in David Wong's work. You'll probably need a liver transplant pretty soon.
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* SeenItAll: Losing the ability to be surprised by entertainment is one of [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-warning-signs-that-youre-finally-getting-older_p2/ 5 Warning Signs That You're Finally Getting Older]]. Entertainment will ruin your life [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife with or without TV Tropes]].
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* SeenItAll: Losing the ability to be surprised by entertainment is one of [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-warning-signs-that-youre-finally-getting-older_p2/ 5 Warning Signs That You're Finally Getting Older]]. Entertainment will ruin your life [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife [[JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife with or without TV Tropes]].
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** They even occasionally ''link to this website''. [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife [[JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife So after you're done reading Cracked]]...
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* TVTropesWillRuinYourLife: In [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/exploring-internet-in-11-days-epic-online-odyssey/ An Epic Online Odyssey]], Wiki/TVTropes plays the part of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charybdis Charybdis]], with Website/YouTube serving as [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scylla Scylla]].[[note]][[Administrivia/AllBlueEntry Blueness]] not in original; that would have just been cruel.[[/note]]
--> ''"TV Tropes [[WikiWalk is a veritable black hole of hyperlinks,]] each leading further into the center of oblivion. [[GoAmongMadPeople The entire site is made up of a community that spends its life]] [[WildMassGuessing collecting patterns and commonalities between fictional worlds.]] [[SuperOCD It applies names to every plot device, every story arc and every cinematic tool ever captured by a camera]] [[PotHole and then links them to one another.]] [[TheSchizophreniaConspiracy The result is like being in the mind of a paranoid schizophrenic deciphering hidden codes in newspapers.]] [[DontTouchItYouIdiot Clicking on one link will ensure that you click on another, and another]] [[YouCantGoHomeAgain until you have lost your way back home]] [[TheDarkSideWillMakeYouForget and forgotten who you are.]]"''
** Chris Bucholz did [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/something-called-science-claims-internet-makes-us-dumb/ an article]] where he claimed he "once logged in to Wiki/TVTropes and didn't come out for eight days."
** "I was gonna shoot you an email, but then I got on TV Tropes, and suddenly 12 years later ..." [[http://www.cracked.com/article_20202_6-hilariously-failed-attempts-at-making-comics-more-diverse.html#ixzz2J7d2JMgn 6 Hilariously Failed Attempts at Making Comics More Diverse]]
** Entry #2 in [[http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_1614_15-embarrassing-secrets-you-hope-hackers-dont-release_p3/ "15 Embarrassing Secrets You Hope Hackers Don't Release"]] is a CNN article claiming "Countless Man-Hours Wasted", showing a web browser history full of TV Tropes Pages.
--> ''"TV Tropes [[WikiWalk is a veritable black hole of hyperlinks,]] each leading further into the center of oblivion. [[GoAmongMadPeople The entire site is made up of a community that spends its life]] [[WildMassGuessing collecting patterns and commonalities between fictional worlds.]] [[SuperOCD It applies names to every plot device, every story arc and every cinematic tool ever captured by a camera]] [[PotHole and then links them to one another.]] [[TheSchizophreniaConspiracy The result is like being in the mind of a paranoid schizophrenic deciphering hidden codes in newspapers.]] [[DontTouchItYouIdiot Clicking on one link will ensure that you click on another, and another]] [[YouCantGoHomeAgain until you have lost your way back home]] [[TheDarkSideWillMakeYouForget and forgotten who you are.]]"''
** Chris Bucholz did [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/something-called-science-claims-internet-makes-us-dumb/ an article]] where he claimed he "once logged in to Wiki/TVTropes and didn't come out for eight days."
** "I was gonna shoot you an email, but then I got on TV Tropes, and suddenly 12 years later ..." [[http://www.cracked.com/article_20202_6-hilariously-failed-attempts-at-making-comics-more-diverse.html#ixzz2J7d2JMgn 6 Hilariously Failed Attempts at Making Comics More Diverse]]
** Entry #2 in [[http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_1614_15-embarrassing-secrets-you-hope-hackers-dont-release_p3/ "15 Embarrassing Secrets You Hope Hackers Don't Release"]] is a CNN article claiming "Countless Man-Hours Wasted", showing a web browser history full of TV Tropes Pages.
