HI! If an automated Image Pickin' thread-related PM for a page you are following sent you here, that means the image is being considered for removal. If you would like to vote for/against it, please familiarize yourself with the following guidelines then scroll down to the crowner.
Heartwarming Moments, Funny Moments, Moment of Awesome, Awesome Music, Tear Jerker, and Nightmare Fuel subpages tend to attract low-quality and unillustrative images that don't evoke the emotions they should, even if the scenes are examples in context. While it is very easy to pull them, the Image Pickin' forum has trouble finding replacements most of the time, leaving most of these threads to close due to inactivity and take up room while doing so.
In order to free up slots, this thread is designed to handle moments subpages with a single bad image.
This thread is not for:
- Start a thread in the following cases
- Removing an image because you already have an alternative suggestion on hand
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- Images on Moments pages for unreleased works aren't permitted. If you see one, simply pull it, add the IP comment later in this post, and post in the thread to say it's been removed. It doesn't need discussion or a crowner.
- Images that you personally don't find funny/sad/heartwarming/awesome/scary, or can't fully glean the context of, but still have some visual element of the Moment they're supposed to evoke (for example, a messy explosion might still be worth keeping on an Awesome/ page even if you don't understand what's exploding, because of Stuff Blowing Up). Remember that these are YMMV items.
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- After 3 days, anything with votes at +8 or more and a ratio of at least 2:1 will be pulled.
- After 5 days, all remaining crowner items with a positive ratio of at least 2:1 will be pulled, all items below the 2:1 ratio will be kept, and the crowner will be closed.
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Edited by Synchronicity on Jul 27th 2025 at 5:33:56 AM
NightmareFuel.Overly Sarcastic Productions: Poor quality image, too dark to make out what it's a picture of.
"Hark! For your greatest fears manifest in yours truly!" (She/Her) (Current focus: Image Pickin')![]()
No one is saying you came off as narcissistic, we're just saying that we need something more substantial than "this isn't scary/sad/funny/heartwarming". Why isn't it? If there's an actual reason you can pinpoint, you might have an argument; if it's your own personal taste, then it should probably stay off. Basically, we're just asking everyone to stop bringing things in if there aren't justifications beyond simply not getting the emotion, because that's where the inherent subjectivity lies.
Edited by WarJay77 on Feb 17th 2025 at 12:54:46 PM
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper Wall- TearJerker.Goldfinger: Out of context, it’s not clear that the character is dead.
- Funny.Live And Let Die: Just a character with a confused expression.
- Funny.The Living Daylights: The main funny part of the moment is not depicted, so it just seems like a person talking.
- Funny.Licence To Kill: Just a picture of a person.
- Funny.Tomorrow Never Dies: JAFAAC
- Funny.Golden Eye: Just a person making a weird expression.
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Okay, I understand now. Thanks for clearing it up. I think I provided valid reasons for most of them, but there were some for which I didn't. I updated my original post to provide reasons for NightmareFuel.Music Videos and NightmareFuel.South Park now.
We're past the 24-hour mark. Pulled all images at 10+ and 2:1 or higher.



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My main issue with the Nightmare Fuel Music Videos point is that it's such a large page about a subject rife with possible images (off the top of my head, "Kids" by MGMT, "Evil" by Interpol, "No Money Down" by Lou Reed, etc) that it feels really anti-climactic for it to be pulled without replacement on this thread. And I still feel like the image looks creepy regardless of context, since the monster is uncanny and the doll is, well, a Creepy Doll.
Forgot to signal time to pull the 8+ images after 3 days, sorry! We'll also need to check back later today to see if anything over the 2:1 ratio needs pulling.
ETA: Pulling all qualifying images.




"Hey, we got this."
ETA 2: Pulling the final set of qualifying images.




Hollering to close the crowner.
Edited by Riolugirl on Feb 21st 2025 at 10:58:51 AM
"Hark! For your greatest fears manifest in yours truly!" (She/Her) (Current focus: Image Pickin')- TearJerker.Among Us: Doesn't really show anything sad.
- TearJerker.Anastasia: Relies on context to make sense.
- TearJerker.Open Season: Too dark to make out anything.
NightmareFuel.Captain America Brave New World is rather weak; it's just a dark silhouette. (It might be worth waiting until the movie is out on digital to get a solid image of that character.)
Funny.Caddicarus Main Seasons 1 To 7: The part that would make this a good Funny page image (Caddy's silly face) is out of focus and not the focal point, which weakens the image's impact. After that, you're just left with a tree.
NightmareFuel.Video Game Systems: Just a screengrab and a caption. Not particularly scary when divorced from context.
Awesome.Ducktales 2017 Season 1: Just two characters and a caption. Unclear without context.
NightmareFuel.Station Ident: Poor quality image. Looks more funny than scary.
Heartwarming.Barnyard: Unclear what's going on.
Edited by Riolugirl on Mar 9th 2025 at 11:14:02 AM
"Hark! For your greatest fears manifest in yours truly!" (She/Her) (Current focus: Image Pickin')NightmareFuel.STALKER: Looks more like Scenery Porn, not scary
Edited by Oxyrhynchus on Mar 1st 2025 at 10:41:14 PM
STOP RIGHT THERE! BULLS**T!Heartwarming.Mufasa The Lion King: Nothing screams heartwarming. I guess it sort of looks like a love duet, but it's pretty weak.
Why so serious?Tearjerker.Filth 1998: Just two characters in a scene, one sitting and one standing.
Good morning, and good night, I hardly ever sleep. With what I have, what else do you think I'd ever need?Apologies for the double post, but is the discussion starting here
the reason for the delay in a new crowner?
NightmareFuel.The Many Adventures Of Winnie The Pooh
I know the scene scared many children but out of context these balloons look like the cutest things in the world to me
Edit: I think I'm just gonna show the image so you guys can understand
Edited by ThickFrog on Mar 24th 2025 at 5:59:25 AM
NightmareFuel.Haunting Ground is just text, written in a font that renders it illegible to boot. The caption really doesn't help its case.
"It was the best of times, it was the BLURST of times?"NightmareFuel.Wish 2023: It's hard to make out what's going on, and the facial expressions are unintentionally goofy.
Edited by MathsAngelicVersion on Mar 13th 2025 at 1:56:26 PM
So I'm assuming we won't get a new crowner until we formally figure out what to do about this set of images?
I personally would be fine with them all going on the crowner, if only to give us the opportunity to vote to keep them if needed.
I added the image to Wish Nightmare Fuel and yeah it really isn't that scary but like Wish isn't a really scary movie soo
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- After 3 days, anything with +8 or more and a ratio of at least 2:1 will be pulled.
- After 5 days, any remaining items with a positive ratio of at least 2:1 will be pulled, all items below the 2:1 ratio will be kept, and the crowner will be closed.
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