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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.
In order to free up slots, this thread is designed to handle moments subpages with a single bad image.
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- Start a thread in the following cases
- Removing an image because you already have an alternative suggestion on hand
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Edited by Synchronicity on Jul 27th 2025 at 5:33:56 AM
I think that enhances the scariness this time.
NightmareFuel.Stephen King comes from a source outside of his body of work. Even if that's not a dealbreaker, it doesn't really give a good sense of "nightmare fuel."
Funny.The Lost World: Jurassic Park just seems like a guy who I have trouble telling the expression of. Even the caption seems vague here.
Edited by KingofNightmares on Jan 13th 2023 at 4:57:35 AM
"It was the best of times, it was the BLURST of times?"Awesome.Wednesday: It's just a face and a caption. Plus nothing about it screams awesome.
Edit: Just saw it on the previous page. Sorry for that. Ignore this.
Edited by Bullman on Jan 13th 2023 at 3:20:22 AM
Fan-Preferred Couple cleanup threadHow do we feel about the image on Funny.Puss In Boots The Last Wish?
You’re Gonna Carry That Weight.It's a tentative keeper, his crying face is silly, especially with the mascara.
I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.![]()
Doesn't work in my opinion. The Protagonist crying would be a Tear Jerker, and there's nothing that makes the crying humourous like Ocular Gushers.
Personal keep votes this round:
- TearJerker.Bambi: This isn't just some human character going :(, this is a wide eyed woodland creature looking abandoned in dangerous conditions. Heartstrings = tugged
- Awesome.Freddy Vs Jason: Looks like they're squaring up to a Battle Amongst the Flames.
- NightmareFuel.Friday The13th 2009: "Villain looking menacing" is more for regular looking villains who are just frowning at the camera. I think the Menacing Mask pushes it into keep territory — Stock Slasher is a whole trope I think folks can get the message
- Funny.Codename Kids Next Door: It's perhaps funnier with context, but it's already silly-looking on its own, Straight Man frowning at some guy in silly costume is classic stuff.
Edited by Synchronicity on Jan 14th 2023 at 12:18:21 PM
- TearJerker.Atlantis The Lost Empire is a spoiler that shows a major character death pretty far into the movie.
- Funny.Home On The Range: Just the other characters looking annoyed.
Edited by costanton11 on Jan 14th 2023 at 10:46:26 AM
Voted to keep Awesome.Freddy Vs Jason because in a movie called "Freddy vs. Jason" the scene where Freddy actually fights Jason in the middle of flashy pyrotechnics is obviously the Just Here for Godzilla moment.
It could, however, use a quality upgrade, because Freddy is pretty obscured.
ERROR: The current state of the world is unacceptable. Save anyway? YES/NONightmareFuel.Fritz the Cat: Duke getting shot doesn't take up the entirety of the image, and even with it, the image isn't all that scary without context.
Orcus on His Throne will always be my pet peeve.![]()
It only needs a quality upgrade, IMO.
Honestly, I don't think it's awful. Keep Until Better Image Suggested for me.
On top of the ones Macron highlighted, I'm also voting to keep Funny.Chainsaw Man, their Oh, Crap! reaction is pretty funny to me. See the "Not actually JAFAAC" section in Just a Face and a Caption (which cites that same trope no less).
Edited by FernandoLemon on Jan 14th 2023 at 9:46:27 AM
Yeah, this thread uses "JAFAAC" as a blanket term for a bad image far more often than seems realistic. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't JAFAAC an image that makes almost/completely no sense on its own and relies mostly/entirely on the caption?
So, I added an image to Once Upon a Time. However looking at it now. I think it might be to blurry and might not work out of context of the show.
Fan-Preferred Couple cleanup thread
Agreed, I don't get what's meant to be comedic in the image, it just looks like a woman holding a paper.
Yeah it's only really funny in context of A) She is the Evil Queen using a 2 for 1 coupon. and B) She just pulls out of nowhere to try and force Emma to out for drinks. Without that she is indeed just a woman holding a piece of paper. I wish I would have realized that before adding it but here we are.
Fan-Preferred Couple cleanup threadHeartwarming.Escape The Night is too small and the heartwarming thing is not in focus.
I'll be more mindful of what I mark as JAFAAC in the future.
Edited by costanton11 on Jan 14th 2023 at 10:56:39 AM
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Even as someone who personally didn't enjoy much of their fight (or the flick), I still think the photo is kewl.
The option for Funny.Meta Runner has a red link due to a typo and has another grammar mistake. I would fix it but I'm not a mod so I can't.
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.
