Discuss TV Tropes itself, such as observations you've made about the site/forum/wiki.
NOTE: Keep it civil; try not to get into any Flame Bait-y territory, per the forum rules
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One thing I've noticed is that for all how the page for They Might Be Giants claims them to be the unofficial official band of this wiki, there's relatively few people on this site who seem to ever reference them.
Edited by GastonRabbit on Mar 28th 2023 at 7:19:52 AM
(re the Earthy Tortoise thing from the previous page)
This is so funny to me. It makes it look like some kinda weird clickbait.
Edited by Twiddler on Apr 25th 2024 at 4:35:35 AM
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I see TV Tropes in my news feed sometimes, usually indeed new tropes. I guess they categorize trope pages as just "articles" in general, regardless of whether they're "news." (Cuz let's be real, half of what comes up on a Google news feed nowadays barely qualifies as "news." ![[lol]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lol2v12_4863.png "[lol]"){kind=small}
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If news is important, then well,
"Importance is relative."
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Pretty sure the Google News Feed is at least catered to your interests and search results or at least what it thinks you would be into. So naturally if you on on TVT a lot it might show. Although I never had tropes show up on mine (I barely check it though).
Edited by MacronNotes on Apr 25th 2024 at 10:02:09 AM
Macron's notes
Angry babby
Yeah my algorithm picks up stuff from TV Tropes. When I edit on my phone, it even picks up wiki wording and adds it to my suggestions.
It's usually funny... except after editing a Bowdlerise.Theatre too many times on my phone, it added the n-bomb to my suggested words whenever I typed "And the..." just because an entry on the page (not even one I had added!) quoted a lyric that used it. So that was a bit terrifying.
I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.
The sleepiest good boi
I've had my phone recommend wikiwords as well, but I'm surprised the n-word was able to get past it for you. My phone doesn't even pick up regular swear words for that, which I thought was probably programmed in on purpose but apparently that can get by so maybe I just don't curse enough for it to pick up or something.
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Oh Jesus, imagine if you accidentally sent the n-word somewhere. Yeesh.
Sounds good on paper (he/him)
They say TV Tropes Will Ruin Your Vocabulary, but it sounds like a phone's vocabulary was ruined in this case.
In all seriousness, I've heard of autocorrect replacing profanity with unrelated non-profanity words (such as changing "fuck" to "duck"), but a phone suggesting racial slurs in text that isn't a direct quote is easily worse than that.
Edited by GastonRabbit on Apr 25th 2024 at 11:26:12 AM
Patiently awaiting the release of Paper Luigi and the Marvelous Compass.
The sleepiest good boi
Yeah, see here, this is what happens when I type in a swear word, it either goes blank or conspicuously attempts to redirect me to another word. I'm honestly shocked that that word was able to get by, seems like a serious oversight.
Big Catch, Sparkle Edition
Same. I have to try several times. Odd that your autocorrect would do that, Mew. Wiki articles have power.
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Angry babby
My autocorrect will pick up very niche things from pages, like the wiki-wording of a particular show, after editing a page a few times. I think it picked up from Bowdlerise.Theatre because I edited that on my phone shortly after seeing shows on at least two occasions so I wouldn't forget the censored line in question.
It should go without saying that I have never in my life typed that word myself, not even in a quote, so I was paranoid someone would get the wrong idea, but thankfully I can delete suggested words. (It was like, the second top result, not the center one, but still fucking jarring.)
I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.
Big Catch, Sparkle Edition
No kidding. What a shock, it's like a jumpscare but instead it's a slur
Edited by WarJay77 on Apr 26th 2024 at 5:55:49 AM
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Plakis Morakis
Think you posted in the wrong thread.
Shhhhhhhh, its a tv tropes meta joke. Cant ruin it by explaining.
Big Catch, Sparkle Edition
...Oh. I get it. Took me too long because I also thought you were in the wrong thread. 
inside joke just trust me here it makes sense and is also funny
Currently Working On: Incorruptible Pure Pureness
She got it lol!
Plakis Morakis
I genuinely can't tell if there was an original injoke or not at this point.
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Big Catch, Sparkle Edition
There was. Aegis keeps mixing Mew and I up.
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BTW I am so glad you two ARE two different people. WE REALLY need knowledgeable tropers to do clean ups and stuff.
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Has there been anything on TV Tropes about its 20th anniversary?
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Haruhi returns to page images for it!
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lmao
...are y'all seriously saying this site is almost as old as me
*googles "how old is tv tropes"*
I've only been a troper for almost 4 years but
Bruh
Creepypasta cleanup got two major pages for JTK and Slender
wild that they now allow for new tropes, i thought it was only for news sites...
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