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rjd1922 Best robot boy | he/him | Image Pickin' regular, from the United States Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: Love is for the living, Sal
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#1: Aug 18th 2019 at 10:41:04 AM

~Omeyrolx added this image, ignoring the note saying to start an Image Pickin' thread. The thread that removed the previous image contained multiple BUPKIS votes, since subtitles would be hard to distinguish from a Gag Sub.

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#2: Aug 18th 2019 at 11:03:40 AM

The text is also rather small. I say yank it.

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#3: Aug 18th 2019 at 11:06:32 AM

Pull.

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rjd1922 Best robot boy | he/him | Image Pickin' regular, from the United States Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: Love is for the living, Sal
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#6: Aug 18th 2019 at 1:34:10 PM

FYI, the example references the page image, so that should be changed if the image is pulled.

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#7: Aug 18th 2019 at 2:30:39 PM

Pull.

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#8: Aug 18th 2019 at 7:27:24 PM

It's also a meme and the caption contains a chained sinkhole. Pull.

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#9: Aug 19th 2019 at 1:50:40 AM

Pull.

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#10: Aug 19th 2019 at 3:01:57 PM

It's gone and the tag's updated to note this thread. Any ideas?

EDIT: How about this, with the black frame removed and the panels flipped?

EDIT #2: If someone's willing to transcribe the dub as captions in screencaps, this has a lot of good options.

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/snapcubesonicadventure2gagdub_7.png

Edited by Willbyr on Aug 19th 2019 at 5:11:06 AM

GastonRabbit C'est la vie. (he/him) from Robinson, Illinois, USA (General of TV Troops) Relationship Status: I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
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#11: Aug 21st 2019 at 4:25:30 PM

I'm leaning toward not having an image. Gag Sub is easier to illustrate because of onscreen text, while Gag Dub is an audio-related trope.

Edit: Also, I think the suggestion looks more an example of Gag Sub.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Aug 21st 2019 at 6:27:58 AM

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rjd1922 Best robot boy | he/him | Image Pickin' regular, from the United States Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: Love is for the living, Sal
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#12: Aug 21st 2019 at 4:26:35 PM

[up][up]The first suggestion works.

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#13: Aug 21st 2019 at 4:28:06 PM

[up][up] My issue, too. How do we know these images aren't just a Gag Sub?

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rjd1922 Best robot boy | he/him | Image Pickin' regular, from the United States Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: Love is for the living, Sal
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#14: Aug 21st 2019 at 6:04:43 PM

[up]It would be better if it said "Original Japanese" and "ADV Dub".

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GastonRabbit C'est la vie. (he/him) from Robinson, Illinois, USA (General of TV Troops) Relationship Status: I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
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#15: Aug 21st 2019 at 6:07:08 PM

[up]It still relies heavily on subtitles, even though the trope is about audio, while a separate trope covers subtitles. In fact, subtitles aren't even needed for this trope.

I feel like this is a similar case to what got Fake American BUPKIS'd, since audio (the imitation of accents in that trope's case) is a factor with that trope, while this actually is an audio trope.

Edit: I thought about it a bit more and I'm voting BUPKIS for this as well (especially since the previous thread shows I'm not the first person to do so), since adding subtitles would make the image too similar to a Gag Sub example, while omitting them would result in JAFAAC.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Aug 21st 2019 at 9:58:10 AM

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#16: Aug 27th 2019 at 10:59:57 AM

Bumping because ~Tropers/{{2ndBro}} posted this suggestion in the Suggestion thread:

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/japernses.jpg

I could support BUPKIS, however, I think this suggestion is a bit more illustrative than most (since he does refer to them as "those Japanese words", implying this is a non-Japanese dub of a Japanese work). Thoughts?

Edited by Synchronicity on Aug 27th 2019 at 1:02:35 PM

WarJay77 It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (8,356/50,000) from My Writing Cave (Troper Knight) Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
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#17: Aug 27th 2019 at 2:04:06 PM

Eh...I'm going BUPKIS.

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#19: Aug 27th 2019 at 5:48:58 PM

[up][up][up] I think it's funny.

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#20: Aug 27th 2019 at 5:51:13 PM

The English text is too hard to see, what with the blending-in, positioning, and image quality.

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#21: Aug 27th 2019 at 6:36:06 PM

Still, nobody is really addressing what Gaston and I are actually saying.

To illustrate this trope, subs are needed.

But with subs, the image becomes no different from Gag Sub. There's literally no way for a casual reader to know that the scene is of a dub.

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#22: Aug 27th 2019 at 6:51:53 PM

[up] Agreed. I'll go with BUPKIS, too.

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#23: Aug 27th 2019 at 10:36:21 PM

BUPKIS, then.

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