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SantosLHalper The filidh that cam frae Skye from The Canterlot of the North Since: Aug, 2009
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#1: Jul 18th 2016 at 12:49:24 PM

So This is It Collective is for all intents and purposes a Don't Hug Me I'm Scared page with perhaps a half-dozen "Bad Things that can Happen" tropes at the most. Even the name of their youtube channel is "Don't Hug Me I'm Scared". Am I the only one who thinks we should give Don't Hug Me its own page, and make This is It a directory to a "Bad Things" and "Don't Hug Me"?

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Someoneman Since: Nov, 2011
#2: Jul 18th 2016 at 6:31:18 PM

Courtesy link: This Is It.

I'm in support of moving the tropes to Dont Hug Me Im Scared.

DustSnitch Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: Non-Canon
#3: Sep 24th 2016 at 9:21:29 PM

I agree with both if the above and I'm prepared to help move links from This Is It to Dont Hug Me Im Scared

edited 24th Sep '16 9:21:52 PM by DustSnitch

Xtifr World's Toughest Milkman Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
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#4: Sep 25th 2016 at 4:17:38 PM

For the record, this is exactly how it's supposed to work. Tropes from a specific work can go on the creator page if there aren't enough to justify a separate page for that work (three is the bare minimum). Once there are three or more tropes, you should make a work page.

I mention this because OP seemed a little hesitant about the whole thing.

One thing to watch out for: if the examples you find on the creator page are ZCEs or shoehorned, and you make a work page, and then those bad examples get deleted later, the work page may get cut if the number of valid tropes is less than three. And there's a good chance that the one or two valid tropes remaining won't get moved back to the creator page first. So make sure the tropes you're starting with are good ones.

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Someoneman Since: Nov, 2011
#5: Sep 25th 2016 at 5:00:02 PM

The current hard part about creating a DHMIS page would be coming up with a description. If we can do this then the rest should be easy enough.

DustSnitch Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: Non-Canon
#6: Oct 3rd 2016 at 6:12:54 AM

[up] I can give a description a shot.

"Don't Hug Me I'm Scared is a six-part horror Puppet Show created by This Is It. The show details the lifes of the plainly named Red Guy, Duck Guy and Yellow Guy as they find their routine interrupted by increasingly demented teachers. Initially, the draw of the show was the shock of the sudden switch from an Edutainment show to a Horror show that ocurred at the end of the first episode, but later episodes were forced to rely less on that shock value.

The first episode was supposed to be stand-alonea but after going viral, a second episode was quickly produced. Past that, all the episodes were funded thanks to a Kickstarter campaign, which creatively advertised the project by literally holding the three main characters hostage. Ultimately, the sixth episode ended the series with its release on June 19th, 2016.

The series can be found on This Is It's Youtube channel [[alinktothisisitsyoutubechannel here]].


  • And examples would be moved down here."

Xtifr World's Toughest Milkman Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
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#7: Oct 3rd 2016 at 7:50:49 PM

As someone who knows nothing about the series, that description seemed clear enough to me. But should it go under the Web Video namespace instead of Web Original?

Before you create the page, you should make sure you have the right namespace, and you should have at least one index in mind, because the powers-that-be get really mad if you make a page and don't index it. Check the two links above for index ideas.

Then after you create the page (and index it), you should go through the trope pages and edit the examples to point to your new page. Then you should be golden.

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DustSnitch Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: Non-Canon
#8: Oct 3rd 2016 at 8:37:49 PM

Web Video seems to fit best. In terms of indexes, Puppet Shows, Horror Web Originals and The New '10s all work fine.

By the way, we'd also have to move most of This Is It's supplementary pages to Don't Hug Me I'm Scared since it dominates those pages.

edited 3rd Oct '16 8:38:17 PM by DustSnitch

DustSnitch Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: Non-Canon
#9: Oct 5th 2016 at 1:25:51 PM

Ok I set up the page. I'm going to work on redirecting links before moving the YMMV pages.

SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#10: Oct 29th 2016 at 3:51:10 AM

~Dust Snitch, do you still need this thread?

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DustSnitch Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: Non-Canon
#11: Oct 29th 2016 at 6:54:16 AM

No, all that really needs to be done is a bit of crosswicking. The page is complete and all appropriate links to This Is It have been moved to it

SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#12: Oct 29th 2016 at 6:59:52 AM

So closing.

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