Gideoncrawle
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#2: Aug 5th 2018 at 5:42:12 PM
Genre articles aren't tropes, either, and so don't belong on trope lists. The genre(s) a work belongs to can be mentioned in the work's description.
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#3: Aug 5th 2018 at 11:02:55 PM
Actually, we do usually treat genres as tropes...
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#4: Aug 6th 2018 at 5:47:21 AM
More specifically, genres are tropes that are collections of tropes. They usually have a bit more fuzzy definitions, since it's about the overall feel, themes, and mood of the works.
That said, they're usually written into the description and used as indexes rather than used as tropes on the work pages.
I'd say YouTube Poop is a genre.
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You Tube Poop could be classified as a video genre or at least an umbrella term, and it's described on its page as a Neo-Dada art form. It would make more sense for its page to be categorized on Main as such, like all of the other disparate genre/art form pages we have (e.g.: Punk Rock, Horror, Postmodernism; or more related Web Original subgenres/tropes like The Abridged Series, Let's Play, Remix Comic.) However it's listed as Web Animation, as in a unified series or franchise, when it's not. This has led to mods removing it from trope listings on creator pages, citing "not a trope." I'm unclear as to why this is, if it's an outdated categorization thing (like how the site used to have New Wave Music linked as "Music/NewWave", a disagreement among mods, a misunderstanding (perhaps by the same person who put The Abridged Series as a subtrope of YouTube Poop on the Fan Works page). Is this something we can go ahead and change, or is there more to it than I'm seeing?
Side note: Animutation seems to have the same problem despite it also not being a unified series but a genre itself.
Edited by ThornBrain on Aug 5th 2018 at 4:56:57 AM