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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.
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Edited by Synchronicity on Jul 27th 2025 at 5:33:56 AM
Exactly.
You could probably find something scary after the part where Magnifico decides to use the forbidden book, but that's a spoiler, so we can't do it.
I'm not sure what to do with this post
. It has a lot of images, and there's a combination of bad ones and "I personally don't find this scary" ones, so I don't think we should nominate them all.
My take:
- Funny.Invader Zim, TearJerker.Daria, TearJerker.Invader Zim and Funny.Rick And Morty are bad and definitely deserve to be voted on here.
- Heartwarming.Beavis And Butt Head and Heartwarming.Rockos Modern Life are questionable and probably deserve to be added to the crowner.
- The rest fit well enough (such as Nightmare Fuel images depicting creatures most people find inherently scary) and should be left alone.
Edited by MathsAngelicVersion on Mar 14th 2025 at 4:36:51 PM
Why is it such an issue that I said "Not scary/funny" for some of the images? Lots of other people say that as well and never get any objection by the mods or engineers. In fact, one of the crowners from the past
even has one entry (NightmareFuel.The Ren And Stimpy Show) that says "Not really scary". And this crowner from the past
has "Not funny" for Funny.Dont Hug Me Im Scared.
I get the feeling that it's okay for others to make such arguments but not me.
Both of those were from 2022, mate. Our standards for how to deal with the images has changed. People started getting really annoyed with people just dragging in any image they didn't personally vibe with, so we're trying to enforce a higher standard of reasoning. There are a boatload of moments images that I don't really care for personally, but I'd never bring them in because I recognize that my standard might be skewed (especially for Nightmare Fuel, mostly because what scares me seems to be wildly different from what scares most people here).
Edited by WarJay77 on Mar 14th 2025 at 2:35:04 PM
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper WallAnd ideally either in a sandbox or with the markup visible, because for engineers having to copy and format every link from scratch makes it take twice as long.
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper WallTaking suggestions from MathsAngelicVersion finding the worst images to discuss, here’s some pics for the next crowner (and ignoring ones that received criticism or had their own threads):
- Heartwarming.Beavis And Butthead: Just the duo walking into the sunset. Nothing heartwarming about that.
- Heartwarming.Rockos Modern Life: Just Spunky licking Rocko. What's supposedly setting up a heartwarming moment is that it's the picture of the day the wallaby met the dog.
- Funny.Invader Zim: It’s just a character crying and not particularly funny.
- Tear Jerker.Invader Zim: The caption explains the moment instead of the picture.
- TearJerker.Daria: Impossible to tell what's going on since the titular character always has the same expression.
- Funny.Rick And Morty: Seems more like Nightmare Fuel.
- NightmareFuel.Girls Frontline: Quite dark to see and it's Just a Character and a Caption, with a hand in a corner for some reason.
- NightmareFuel.The World Ends With You: A bunch of silhouettes and a caption. It's not clear what's happening.
- Awesome.Goddess Of Victory Nikke: Just a Face and a Caption.
- Funny.Moon Knight: A fan edit of the comic.
- TearJerker.The Croods: Unclear what's supposed to be sad
- NightmareFuel.Schindlers List: Too dark to tell what's going on.
- Awesome.The Walking Dead: JAFAAC
- TearJerker.Limbus Company: The image's focal point (the ring) is too small for the reader to hone in on, so it comes across as JAFAAC in practice. Also, the song lyric captions above our caption are awkward-looking.
- NightmareFuel.Overly Sarcastic Productions: Poor quality image, too dark to make out what it's a picture of.
- 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.
Thank you, Sync. Your work is appreciated.
Edited by CanuckMcDuck1 on Mar 14th 2025 at 1:59:34 PM
Do not mess with creatures which you do not understand.Cool, thanks — I've yoinked that into Sandbox.MICT Crowner. I'm running out of time for IP today, so I'll get to it...at some point over the weekend...if nobody beats me to it.
Sync, I got you covered.
I'll put it together in a bit, hang tight.
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper Wall- NightmareFuel.Futari Wa Pretty Cure: Just a girl looking at her hand
- NightmareFuel.Nerd Cubed: Just a teddy bear
Edited by StalkerGamer on Mar 15th 2025 at 4:38:16 PM
Heartwarming.Chicken Little 2005: Wouldn't really make any sense to those who haven't seen the work.
I'm much too lazy to come up with a caption.That's Day 5 now. I'll get to the remaining actions ASAP.
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Hollering to close the crowner.
Edited by Riolugirl on Mar 19th 2025 at 11:25:35 AM
"Hark! For your greatest fears manifest in yours truly!" (She/Her) (Current focus: Image Pickin')NightmareFuel.Futari Wa Pretty Cure
Is not "just a girl looking at her hand" she's looking at her hand in terror as it fades away into shadowy nothingness (note it's semi translucent)
The hand does look slightly transparent to me. Would a frame from further along in the scene where the hand is even more clearly transparent work better?
Closed and unhooked the crowner as requested. Archived link to the crowner in case anyone wants it.
Edited by GastonRabbit on Mar 21st 2025 at 2:06:03 PM
I got a rock for Halloween.
Crown Description:
This crowner covers posts from October 7 2025- After 24 hours, anything with +10 or more and a ratio of at least 2:1 will be pulled.
- 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.
- If an item has a (CLOSED) note, there is no need to vote on it; the result has already been decided.

It doesn't have to have an image
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