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
- Removing an image that was kept on the page by a previous Moments Images crowner.
- Moments page images that are duplicated somewhere else
- Moments pages with multiple images
- Pages that are on Image Pickin' Special Cases (assuming their status allows it)
- 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.
- If the only problem is that it's low-quality, try the quality upgrade thread
first. Per the admins, being below the 800px size guideline is not on its own a reason to pull an image.
- If the problem is that the on-page examples are bad, please see the Moments cleanup thread
and the specific Nightmare Fuel cleanup thread
.
How it works
- First, have you Failed a Spot Check? Check the page source: is there an Image Pickin' comment? Maybe a previous thread has explained the reasoning for this image, or it's already been included in a previous Moments cleanup crowner. You can also go to the Ask for Explanations
thread for other opinions.
- Link the page with the image you want examined. Please explain why you think it is a bad image (e.g. JAFAAC, "more funny than scary"). Posts without such reasoning will not be entertained. (You can use the Image Pickin' thread guidelines
for reasoning help.) If suggesting multiple pages in a single post, please put them in a bulleted list to ensure that each entry can stand on its own and that they won't be missed when the crowner is made.
- Similar to the Image Suggestion thread
, a crowner will be run containing the proposed pulls. Each crowner will run about 15 items at a time and last for 5 days. Please do not add items to a crowner once it's running.
- After 24 hours, anything with votes at +10 or more and a ratio of at least 2:1 will be pulled.
- 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.
If a page gets its own Image Pickin' thread while it's on an active Moments crowner, that item will be withdrawn from the crowner.
Crowners on this thread do not count towards the Image Pickin' Special Cases Multiple Threads rule (which applies to "pages that have had three or more IP threads").
If you think of a replacement image after an image has been pulled, you can use the Image Suggestion thread
or start a new thread for a replacement.
Templates
- Pulled images will be tagged as:
%%https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=1642193091068711500
%%Please do not add a new image without going through the Image Suggestion thread or starting a new Image Pickin' thread
- Pulled images on pages for unreleased works should be tagged as:
%% See the Administrivia/CreatingAWorkPageForAnUnreleasedWork policy page and the relevant post in the Moments Images Cleanup Thread: [moments post link]
%% Don't add a new image until the work is released. Please don't add an image without going through the Image Suggestion thread or starting a new Image Pickin' thread
- Kept images will be tagged as:
%% Image kept on page via crowner in the Moments Images Cleanup Thread: [crowner link]
%% https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=1642193091068711500
%% Please don't change or remove without starting a new Image Pickin' thread.
%%
Edited by Synchronicity on Jul 27th 2025 at 5:33:56 AM
Awesome.The Fairly Oddparents Cathartic and a big deal if you're a fan, otherwise it's just a teenage girl being scolded.
Tearjerker.The Fairly Oddparents I deeefinitely need in-story context to understand how that's sad.
Edited by KoshaVinka on Aug 18th 2023 at 9:55:10 PM
If I'm reading the history right, Tear Jerker's was added unilaterally in violation of the mod tag in 2020.
Edited by WarJay77 on Aug 18th 2023 at 3:55:45 PM
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper WallTearjerker kind of works because of the wide shot looking lonely, but the bright colors work against it without additional context.
Is TearJerker.Inside Job 2021 an implicit spoiler? It's from the end of the show but you need context to know what's happening and it does at least look sad.
Edited by mightymewtron on Aug 18th 2023 at 4:30:15 AM
I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.I mean, I see an obviously sad scene and with no context it cannot spoil anything for me personally.
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper WallBoth images on Awesome / Thunderbirds:


Edited by Xenothekid on Aug 18th 2023 at 2:36:41 PM
- AwesomeMusic.Bobs Burgers: Really hard to read what's going on in this image.
- AwesomeMusic.Darius: Just a album that shows nothing related to Music.
- AwesomeMusic.Isonzo: Just a soundtrack image that shows nothing related to Music.
- AwesomeMusic.Soviet Storm World War II In The East: Just a soundtrack image that shows nothing related to Music.
That is the last time suggesting Awesome Music images to pull.
NightmareFuel.Ghostbusters 2016: Goofy and cartoonishly spooky, not scary.
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If not that we definitely should put something on the "pick good image" page about album covers not automatically being good Awesome Music page images.
TearJerker.My Life As A Dog: Not only is it just a character crying, you can't even tell he is crying without the caption because their face is imperceptible, most likely due to the low quality. Funny.Get Out 2017: Image is three people laughing, but not showing something that's actually funny or a funny visual.
Edited by AudioSpeaks2 on Aug 21st 2023 at 8:54:42 PM
Calling the crowner
as it's over 5 days old.




AwesomeMusic.Tokyo Xtreme Racer



NightmareFuel.Thirteen Reasons Why

NightmareFuel.All In The Family

Keeps
- NightmareFuel.Breaking Bad
- NightmareFuel.One Thousand Ways To Die
- TearJerker.Puss In Boots The Last Wish
- TearJerker.Pokemon I Choose You
Edited by MacronNotes on Aug 21st 2023 at 2:46:55 PM
Macron's notesSkipped
- Post 1962
: Since work/work subpage and trope duplication isn't a big deal, I don't think duplication is a legitimate reason to pull without replacement.
- Post 1943
: Unused content still can be used on work subpages + the image was kept here
TearJerker.The Fairly Odd Parents: Three people standing on a bridge in space. No gritty colourscheme, nobody crying or dying, no sad caption, etc. to make it look like a tearjerker.
"Squid has to go to market. He's had to go to market for as long as he's sucked water."
A weird screenshot mishmash that doesn't make sense even with context.
Edited by Xenothekid on Aug 21st 2023 at 9:59:49 AM
Awesome.Sesame Street isn't very Awesome-looking out of context.
NightmareFuel.Sesame Street is mildly jarring at worst.
TearJerker.Sesame Street is just... the word sad.
Awesome.BTS is just a dance pose.
Edited by MissConduct on Aug 21st 2023 at 1:21:59 PM
AwesomeMusic.Tim And Geoff Follin: Just pictures of the two. This is solely because they don’t have actual creator pages.
NightmareFuel.Gangs Of New York is just a glass eye, nothing really scary.
TearJerker.Rockos Modern Life: JAFAAC of Heffer narmishly crying.
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.


Edited by mightymewtron on Aug 18th 2023 at 3:06:45 PM
I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.