So Bad, It's Horrible is one of the more flame-bait-y parts of the site, so a cleanup thread is needed to ensure that works aren't added simply because someone doesn't like them.
If you want to list a work under this, keep the following in mind:
- The work must have very few fans or defenders (both genuine and ironic). It should fail to appeal to any type of audience.
- Being offensive in its subject matter isn't enough.
- It isn't horrible just because a certain critic disliked it, though their reviews can be used as sources and citations.
- The work should have notably poor reviews (e.g., less than 3/10 on IMDb, or single digit scores on Rotten Tomatoes)
- For a Moral Substitute to qualify, it cannot even appeal to its target demographic.
- Please be polite while writing and as much as possible, avoid falling into Complaining About Shows You Don't Like. Instead, focus on explaining why the work is horrible.
In addition, per No Recent Examples, Please!, a work must be at least one month old before it can be added, to prevent knee-jerk reactions.
Edited by GastonRabbit on Oct 6th 2024 at 3:34:45 AM
It might just me being on mobile as of writing this, but I have no idea what you guys are referring to.
How's your day been?There are two discussions intertwined and it's all confusing.
Meanwhile, here's my version of the Playrix rewrite:
- Web advertisings for Playrix's mobile games, such as Gardenscapes or Homescapes, became infamous for being obvious cases of Very False Advertising. The games themselves are Match Three Games with house simulation functions, but the advertising not only presents them as a completely different kind of puzzle games where the player haves to find the right item to fix some messy situations the main characters find themselves in (and showing people taking the obviously wrong answer), but often give misleading suggestions to the game's actual plot by showing melodramatic scenes focused on love stories, adultery and abandonment that are nowhere to be found in the actual games. The issue went so hard that the Advertising Standards Authority banned the ads in the UK
, but are still released in other countries (albeit the games in the meanwhile added bonus rounds based on what is shown in the ads that appear every twenty or so regular levels)
Edited by PhantomDusclops92 on Oct 29th 2021 at 6:06:36 PM
Someone added to the High Guardian Spice entry implying the show itself got a poor reception. That didn't seem to be the case on my feed. It seemed to get mixed reviews at worst, and some people did genuinely appreciate the diversity in the show proper.
Edited by mightymewtron on Oct 30th 2021 at 12:39:13 PM
I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.No, the trailer entry that's been up for years. Someone added to that implying the reception was wholly poor but I haven't seen unanimous hate.
Edited by mightymewtron on Oct 30th 2021 at 12:44:41 PM
I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.From what I've heard. The show is considered So Okay, It's Average rather than bad.
"That's right mortal. By channeling my divine rage into power, I have forged a new instrument in which to destroy you."The new entry combines the opinions, though I don't love the use of "pandering" in this context because I get the feeling it means "too much diversity." Is it even that relevant to the trailer entry? All we need to know is that it isn't as bad as the trailer made it look.
I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.What I'm gonna say about High Guardian Spice is that is does not merit inclusion. A lot of the hostility can be chalked up to Tainted by the Preview, and the low ratings on Crunchyroll and IMDb were most definitely the result of review bombing.
Edited by Furian1996 on Nov 1st 2021 at 12:26:09 PM
High Guardian Spice itself isn't listed, the original trailer is.
There's no point discussing the show's reception beyond what's relevant to that trailer. I think we can probably cut that whole section off.
Edited by MurlocAggroB on Nov 1st 2021 at 1:44:37 PM
regulation pigeonAgain, nobody was adding High Guardian Spice yet, I was talking about the entry for the trailer which has been there for years.
I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.The trailer keeps, but I did rewrite it a bit:
- The the announcement trailer
for High Guardian Spice is widely agreed to have been the worst way Crunchyroll could've handled it. At a runtime of 90 seconds, the trailer features little more than extremely vague and non-specific details about the show itself and unfinished concept art (and what little art is shown is done in a style very similar to Western cartoons at the time, such as Steven Universe, making viewers wonder why the show is being made specifically for Crunchyroll, a site specialized in streaming anime), and instead is mostly focused on the staff talking about their feelings on the production and talking about the "diverse" nature of the series and staff while largely showing only white women. While the video itself could've worked as a behind-the-scenes featurette or even a Kickstarter pitch, what it certainly didn't work as is an announcement trailer, as all it did was taint the public's perception of the show as being more concerned with appearing progressive than actually making an entertaining work of fiction. A trailer featuring actual footage
did drop later on... more than a year after the announcement and after the show's planned 2019 release date, with nothing but radio silence in between, leaving people to either not care or be so set in the initial bad impression they hated it automatically. The Mysterious Mr. Enter goes into more detail on the matter here
, along with Beatrice the Golden Witch here
. The show itself premiered on October 26, 2021 with very minimal fanfare, and it's generally regarded by those who have seen it as So Okay, It's Average at best and a pandering Cliché Storm at worst.
I left the mention of the show itself to a short line at the end.
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Seems fine, not much change was needed.
Anyway, I just noticed that a few months ago, someone cut the description of the Ouya ad
on the Advertising page because it was so graphically disgusting. However, I think we do need to describe the ad for context. Can we summarize it without the specifics to cut down on Nausea Fuel (i.e. "it features a stereotypical pantsless gamer having a disgusting meltdown over a bad game, involving a lot of vomit"), or should we include it to get the impact across?
Edited by mightymewtron on Nov 2nd 2021 at 6:45:42 AM
I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.
Berserk Button: misusing Nightmare Fuel
To be honest, I think that if you're mature enough to read TV Tropes, you're probably mature enough to handle reading the phrase "he spews a torrent of vomit which floods the room before tearing out his spine through his mouth and flagellating himself with it" (or whatever wording we go with), especially if the visual aide is hidden behind a link with a graphic content warning.
On paper it doesn't even sound that bad. Like, gross sure, but almost cartoonish. I'm fine with restoring.
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper WallI saw someone had added a No Budget entry for the show because it looked low budget. It was deleted for complaining. Does No Budget require Word of God and/or released budgetary information to qualify?
Once Upon A Time.

So is that a yes?
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