Part of the trope is that the loser is meant to represent the audience. Nothing about the current image shows that.

Motion to pull

Per OP.

Seconding the pull. There has to be a better example.

The caption does the heavy lifting, if we're going to pick something else I expect it'll be a comic frame just so it won't be caption dependant.

Thirding the pull.

Pulled.

I liked the Homer image.

I thought Homer was perfect too.

Me too. I would have voted Keep Until Better Image Suggested on this one, and I think this was pulled too fast.

Fourthed.

That seems to happen a lot. (I'm looking at you, Willbyr)

Except that it doesn't illustrate the trope. The trope is about the work making the protagonist a loser so that the audience sympathizes with him. The Homer pic just doesn't show that. At all. It shows that he's a loser, but there's absolutely zero implication that he's supposed to represent the audience.

edited 16th Jan '12 5:13:34 PM by JapaneseTeeth

Exactly.

Your concern is duly noted.

Everyone bitching about the image being pulled too quickly should've piped up when the motion was made.

edited 16th Jan '12 6:01:33 PM by Willbyr

That picture is not an example.

Perhaps to demonstrate the trope we go a little meta and use the last panel from this

Edit: Ok, my mistake, this is not exactly the trope I thought it was and that link is not an example. Sorry to waste your time.

edited 16th Jan '12 7:01:46 PM by agentjohnbishop

I love that image and I laughed hard when I first saw it, but yeah it's pretty bad. This is going to be tough to picture…

I don't liked the homer pic either. While it definitely covers the 'lost' aspect, what is supposed to make me think I supposed to identify with him? I think the best solution here is to go meta.

A parody might do best at driving home the intent. How often does this trope actually work anyway?

Courtesy of The Onion. Alternatively, a slob watching a slob on TV watching TV. The Simpsons did a lot of things, but ever that?

edited 17th Jan '12 11:37:21 PM by FnF

Laconic: "Character meant to depict the audience is shown negatively."

I get a lot more of that from the Onion image, than from Homer or from nothing.

edited 18th Jan '12 12:17:05 AM by rodneyAnonymous

Except that if you want to get technical, how does that demonstrate the "you" any better? The Homer picture was pulled on the grounds that it demonstrated that the character was a loser, but not the audience he was mocking. Once more, that pic demonstrates someone who is a "loser" (supposedly by demonstrating him playing a game that does the same thing he's doing), but where's the connection that this is supposed to be us in general? There are more people in America that probably own an easy chair, are slovenly, and have a beer gut than there are people who fit that second pic.

edited 18th Jan '12 1:11:20 AM by KingZeal

It's not supposed to be us, it's supposed to be him.

The trope is called "This Loser Is You". So yes, he is supposed to be us.

It could be called Supercalfragilistic, the title doesn't matter that much.

...What.

Are you kidding? Tropes are never defined by their titles.