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.
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Edited by Synchronicity on Jul 27th 2025 at 5:33:56 AM
Could very well work, maybe something like "If an image is kept, it can't be reentered for a month" or so? Is a month too long? Too little?
I mean, elsewhere on the wiki we don't try to re-crowner stuff unless new arguments can be made on the subject; it's not so much a matter of waiting out the clock, but of people legitimately changing their minds.
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper WallYeah. That's kind of what I was trying to get at with "not enough space" here — a lot of images are brought up at once, so it's kind of hard to gauge if consensus on a single image has a legitimate shot at turning out different.
Another option would be to not re-crowner an image without legit support (3 yeas/no ayes in the thread or something). That could tamp down on "well, I didn't LOL even if everyone else did".
Edited by Synchronicity on Sep 30th 2023 at 12:19:21 PM
- NightmareFuel.Sonic 3 And Knuckles: The ghosts are too cartoonish looking to really be scary, even with the horns and angry expressions.
- NightmareFuel.Sonic Heroes: JAFAAC. It's just a face of Neo Metal Sonic.
- Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Spirit of Justice: Just cops beating up lawyers. a disturbing scene, but nothing really nightmarish about it.
Edited by Tylerbear12 on Sep 30th 2023 at 11:43:31 AM
- Heartwarming.Cars 1: They're just smiling at each other. Nothing heartwarming depicted.
- TearJerker.Cars 1: It depicts a group looking sad, but not what they're sad about. Nothing sad depicted.
I would be against re-crownering things, but instead encourage people to find a good replacement image and make a thread instead.
I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.Tearjerker.Yellow Submarine: Nothing really sad is shown in the image, just a bunch of people with umbrellas.
- NightmareFuel.The Wandering Earth is just an alien and an astronaut, it's hard to make out what's going on.
- TearJerker.The Wandering Earth is just some light hitting or coming out of the earth, it's probably sad in context but not outside.
- Kakyoin Waifu Connoisseur - 2020 has the funny moment (Kakyoin getting eaten by a dragon) really tiny and hard to see as a Funny Background Event.
- Kakyoin Waifu Connoisseur - 2021 isn't a funny moment, and in a rare occasion, the caption actually makes it less helpful.
- Kakyoin Waifu Connoisseur - 2022 is just someone covering Kakyoin's eyes, and the caption is a dated and unfunny meme that doesn't explain the pic.
- Kakyoin Waifu Connoisseur - 2023 is another that doesn't work well out of context.
- American Horror Story: Apocalypse: Just three characters standing together.
- American Horror Story: Roanoke: Is not scary, and is hard to tell what's going on.
- American Horror Story: Apocalypse: Hard to even tell these are horses, and if these are apparently some of the least creepy things in the season, well, the creepier stuff should be the picnote
Edited by MissConduct on Oct 3rd 2023 at 2:48:00 PM
Calling the Sep 27 crowner

NightmareFuel.Sponge Bob Square Pants The Cosmic Shake

NightmareFuel.Super Mario Sunshine

NightmareFuel.Superman Vs The Amazing Spider Man


Heartwarming.The Wandering Earth

TearJerker.Xavier Riddle And The Secret Museum


Heartwarming.Kirby Star Allies

TearJerker.Red Dead Redemption


TearJerker.American Horror Story Apocalypse

NightmareFuel.Xavier Renegade Angel

Hello so I'm looking at the image found at Life Is Strange's Tearjerker Page and I'm not sure if it conveys tearjerking. Here's the image to see what I'm talking about:

I couldn't tell if this is tearjerking If it wasn't for the caption below as the picture just shows covering her face with her hand while Max's face isn't even shown. Anywho do you guys think that this pic should be pulled or kept?
Edited by G-Editor on Oct 4th 2023 at 10:10:22 AM
My sandbox of EPs and other stuffAwesome.Happy Days - It's literally just an image of the Fonz doing his trademark double thumbs-up. The caption, "Moments like these are worth a double thumbs up.", makes it seem like the image is being used to describe how awesome the written examples are, which I'm pretty sure is not how the page image is supposed to be used.
Edited by GoodOlGranite on Oct 4th 2023 at 10:53:56 AM
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They appear to be crying/despondent to me so it works.
NightmareFuel.Brandy And Mr Whiskers: Expression is a bit too goofy.
Edit: Nevermind.
Edited by Bullman on Oct 5th 2023 at 12:20:39 PM
Fan-Preferred Couple cleanup thread- Funny.Wanda Vision: Wanda and Vision making some poses.
- Funny.Blade Runner 2049: Unclear what's funny on the image.
- Funny.Avengers Age Of Ultron: Caption-reliant, it's just Vision giving the Mjolnir to Thor.
- Funny.Dog Soldiers: A dog looking at something.
- Funny.Star Wars The Clone Wars: Unclear what's funny on the image.
- Funny.Upgrade: JAFAAC
- Funny.Halo 5 Guardians: Unclear what's funny on the image.
Granted the top batch of comments/replies seem to be in discussion of whether images should be re-crownered because opinions may change.
But since that's still in debate/discussion and the decision hasn't been official, the crowner should just ignore the AOU entry on this page.
Edited by AudioSpeaks2 on Oct 6th 2023 at 3:17:02 PM
NightmareFuel.Sonic The Hedgehog 22022: It's just Dr. Robotnik with glowing green eyes. It's eerie and frightening with context, but out of context, it's not really scary looking.
Edited by Tylerbear12 on Oct 6th 2023 at 11:35:02 AM
Funny.The Princess And The Frog is JAFAAC. And Tearjerker.The Princess And The Frog is just Tiana looking sad.
Also I have a thought for
that one. Might make a thread.
Edited by BigBadShadow25 on Oct 8th 2023 at 2:31:16 PM
You’re Gonna Carry That Weight.Calling the Oct 3 crowner

I said beep beep, I'm a sheep.







Funny.Fantastic Beasts The Crimes Of Grindelwald

Funny.Invasion Of The Body Snatchers 1978



NightmareFuel.Ultimate Spider Man 2005

TearJerker.Twenty Eight Days Later


Awesome.Danganronpa V 3 Killing Harmony
NightmareFuel.Deadman Wonderland

Awesome.Oggy And The Cockroaches

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.

Mostly because the crowner is a relatively recent development, so the prospect does not come up very often. Mainly, I don’t like the idea of people resubmitting images they don’t like until it ends up pulled, especially since there’s no space to debate the merits of it unlike in a thread.
The rest of the forum has guidelines in place to discourage if not outright prevent similar behavior, so maybe a time limit would work here.