Your early troper shames.

I first started to browse through this wiki in 2016, which also happened to be when my Literal-Minded issues were at their worst. I thought "The Dragon" involved a literal dragon.

I had no filter on the fora in 2020.

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Pretty minor compared to everything else, but once I deleted a Trivia entry because it was a YMMV trope now. I was either really tired or really lazy that day, because I never bothered to move it and someone else had to do it.

I was a Nightmare Fuel misuser when I first got here. Now I'm not, and I sometimes contribute to the Nightmare Fuel cleanup thread

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The overly narrow tropes I tried to launch as TL Ps, expecially the one that was "Episode dealing with a character getting brainwashed/amnesiac and then going back to normal ends with the same character pretending to be brainwashed/amnesiac again to fool their friends" one.

Still to these days I have ideas for tropes that are extremely specific but at the same time are things that I saw at least three times each, like "Evil business man's secretary wears purple tights" or "Smart schoolgirls with braids and Opaque Nerd Glasses"

Number one fan of characters that appear only once and ultimately were a recurring character either in disguise or trying a new image.

I pronounced “trope” wrong for years because I misunderstood Its Pronounced Tro PAY.

Peace is the only battle worth waging.

And that's probably why it got renamed to Pretentious Pronunciation

I've been banned from editing for almost a decade (maybe more) because of my bad grammar/spelling, but I do remember doing some shoehorning in a few places back when I could.

While I have come to generally dislike the site's reviews for a number of reasons, some of my own reviews (mainly the more negative ones) are really cringy. I honestly wish I could delete them, but I'm not sure if I can.

"Detecting trace amounts of mental activity. Possibly a dead weasel or a cartoon viewer"

I know this isn't much, but in my first few forum posts, I would sometimes add bits of snark and jokes into comments on cleanup threads. Thinking back on them now, they come off as distracting and desperate attempts to be funny. My snarkier posts also didn't help given the cleanup threads already had a bit of a reputation for being unnecessarily rude and snarky.

On a more serious note, I cutlisted Fridge.Popee The Performer because the Fridge Horror example seemed more appropriate for WMG ^note I say "Seemed" because I only skimmed through the example. Granted, it said "Could ___ be ___ because of ___?", instead of "____ gets worse when you realize ____", but it still might've helped to read the whole thing.. That's fine in itself, the shame comes from me not realizing that I needed to move the contents to a new page myself, so it got cut without being moved. I've felt guilty ever since.

Edited by RainbowPumpqueen on Feb 12th 2022 at 9:11:24 PM

Sandbox help wanted.

I started a work page cleanup that ended up going nowhere due to lack of interest / any major issues on said page. I finally cutlisted the associated sandbox last month.

I don't actually have any Bumblebee icons, I just think the nickname is funny.

The first time I got a complete on the CM thread, I wrote the entry straight into the series' YMMV page without putting it through the sandbox, and casually went to the thread and basically said "Hey want me to put this on the main trope page too?" Thankfully they were mostly nice about it, but... ughhh.

I’m gonna put some Gloom in your eye.

I once added a completely nonsensical example to You Go, Girl! to gush about a character from House Of Anubis, and when I later read the description and realized how wrong my example was, I was still too lazy to bother removing it for ages.

Current Project: Incorruptible Pure Pureness

That's not too shameful, given how I've left my Nostalgia Critic cleanup efforts out to dry because I lost the hyperfixation. (It'll come back eventually, probably.)

Hell, that cleanup effort was born out of my own shame cuz I used to shoehorn my own interpretations of characters onto those pages.

I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.

I added examples to Troper Tales back when that was a thing.

Bigotry will NEVER be welcome on TV Tropes.

Frankly I consider the vast majority of my activity from up until April 2021 a huge point of regret, and a lot of my edits immediately after that point were built around cleaning up the messes I made that hadn't already been removed (e.g. my old insistence on making every example a Wall of Text and obsessively troping a mangaka's scandal that'd ended as quickly as it began).

If we're specifically looking at early edits, as in within the first few years after joining the site (in my case, from 2014 to around 2018), the old shames that I can most readily call to mind are as follows:

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• An edit on ThatOneBoss.Kirby that treated Bold Inflation as a punctuation mark.
• Persistently troping about the guy that hijacked Vinesauce Joel's channel in late 2015 (among other tabloidesque and knee-jerk edits that I made on the Vinesauce pages, which extended into the 2019-2021 period).
• Similar knee-jerk edits on ProtonJon's pages and a bizarre, botched attempt at adding moments from one of his streams to his Funny page as said stream was happening.
• My old insistence on refusing to learn how to properly indent examples.
• Constant use of Word Cruft and natter that extended into the 2019-2021 period.
• An edit war on UsefulNotes.Wii U where I thought adding a snarky caption about the system's failure to the page image was a good idea. I actually got suspended for that and forgot about it until it was pointed out to me last year.
• The drawing that I used as my avatar from 2014 until last year (I've since deleted it).

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There's a hell of a lot of other issues I can name from 2019-2021, I just can't remember which ones started during that 2014-2018 period.

Be kind.

I plagiarized part of the description for Hoofstuck when I created the page in 2012 and only recently got around to fixing it. Pretty sure that's the only thing I've plagiarized in my time here. At least, I hope so.

In 2011:

• Rogue launched Put Off Their Food when the sponsor had edited it less than 10 days prior
• Launched Ram by Braking (this one was my own creation) with apparently only 7 examples across 5 works

Added to a huge tree of natter for Mary Sue on a work page. This was before YMMV and Flame Bait were a thing. Truly the Wild West!

In 2013, I created a stub page for Vibe — two examples, one of them a ZCE. Someone else came along a month later and turned it into a not-stub.

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On the positive side, I am still pretty proud of the descriptions for my earliest work pages (as in pre-medium namespaces). In fact, most of them are largely unchanged aside from some small additions over the years.

i was on here when i was 15-16 and uhh

• was a total jerk
• let someone i thought was my best friend take advantage of me
• demanded that people have crushes on me …???
• led a few people on :/
• obsessed over someone to the point of them leaving the site, probably. idk.

so so so many regrets. idk how i never got in trouble cause this was all out in public.

i’m in my 20s now and i’m in therapy and i’m not shitty anymore thank god. i feel a Lot of shame.

might you know me by another?

My forum activity from when I started getting involved in 2020 until my hiatus is not something I look back on fondly. I acted far too rash, got too upset and overreacted to a lot of things, and I had a general sense that I didn't know what I was doing. I can't even read some of my older posts. It didn't help that COVID dramatically negatively affected my personal life at the time. Eventually I went on hiatus after exploding in an ATT^note Someone reverted Hate Sink's description after its TRS thread changed it and I wrongly and angrily assumed it was done out of protest at the decision, which it clearly wasn't and was directly called out for both overreacting to it and a more general tendency to do so. I agreed to take a mental health break, and during my break I almost quit the site completely out of fear I'd repeat my older behavior. Ultimately I decided I could come back if I kept myself under control, and I've since tried to become more cautious with my site behavior. I sincerely hope I have been successful in my efforts.

Edited by themayorofsimpleton on Apr 11th 2022 at 9:06:13 AM

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From your recent posts, I can tell you improved a lot, so you're good.

Victor of HGS S320 | "There's rosemary, that's for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember."

Thank you. I'm glad I'm doing OK. I'm still very cautious with my behavior—I don't want to turn into the person I was.

(I was actually somehow even worse IRL. COVID was not a good time for me.)

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Just last year, I was moving periods outside of quotation marks when the quotes weren’t full sentences. I thought that this was a common mistake (especially since I saw that someone else had done these kinds of edits) until I got a private message that led me to find out that this is actually a matter of US vs. UK punctuation.

Are we human, or are we dancer?

Sometimes I think back on that weirdly defensive post I made back in January about a Values Dissonance entry and cringe. My posts about that came off as very "Tumblr bad", and while there are legit criticisms to be had about the site, that really did not paint the best picture of myself. I'd give it a self-thump if it was new and wasn't a potential reason as to why the thread about Unfortunate Implications citations was started. I might reuse the avatar from that period as well so that it doesn't remind me of that.

Sandbox help wanted.

I don't really want to talk about all the terrible things from 2020 and early 2021 I did for the wiki, but I like to learn from mistakes, so I might post some things here.

When I was more active in the TLP in late 2020 (when I joined), I used to celebrate whenever a draft, that was greatly bombed, was nuked, with one of them I think revolving around a duplicate trope of Obnoxious Entitled Housewife called The Karen.

I was told off for adding fuel to the fire.

I joined on the 30th of September, 2020, around 22 days after the 5T incident, so I was unaware why some tropers were upset at me.

I'm more mature now.

Edited by callmeamuffin on Jun 9th 2022 at 12:53:59 AM

Come play Character Uplift Game!

I was looking back at an old TRS thread I participated in (Five-Man Band) and I would like to reiterate that I sincerely apologize for being so angry and insane before my hiatus. I'd say that my COVID-influenced life situation impacted it, but that isn't an excuse and I had no right to be so angry. I am very sorry for everyone who had to deal with myself and my posts back then. Hopefully now I'm a little calmer.

(I know I already brought my behavior up, I just wanted to formally apologize since I felt bad about it.)

Edited by themayorofsimpleton on Jun 22nd 2022 at 9:36:44 AM

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