Bile Fascination cleanup

Bile Fascination is a trope about works that audiences watch because they are terrible or poorly-done. It was once No On-Page Examples Only due to attracting complaining and natter, until a botched TRS started by a less-experienced and newer-to-TRS version of me with a poor wick check and unconvincing argument led to it gaining on-page examples following a crowner result.

Said examples have (predictably) themselves become full of complaining, and the off-page wicks probably aren't much better. This cleanup thread has been started per discussion to help clean the page up, since a TRS thread was ruled out by both me and others due to a lack of possible solutions.

Edited by themayorofsimpleton on May 1st 2022 at 6:15:29 AM

Thanks for opening this.

I think we should really just make it a No On-Page Examples page again, pretty much any work known for being bad can be put here, so the page is basically just a Works Known For Being Bad page, which is redundant anyways as Works That Require Cleanup of Complaining exists while serving an actual purpose.

And even then the page is just constantly repeating itself, again and again, every example is just saying either “this is the only reason anyone would check out this work” or just a long list of the reasons the work is hated. And even then, so many of the examples are written so smugly that it pisses me off.

I would say that we can keep the in-universe examples, but I’m not sure if that’s allowed? I’m struggling to find a No On-Page Examples page that does allow in-universe examples on the main page.

It's never a good sign when I open up a random folder and the first example is a misuse...

• El Arca is not a bad film, but it has become infamous for its almost intentional appeal to a very particular Periphery Demographic.

Popular with Furries and Periphery Demographic, not Bile Fascination.

Either way, I agree that onpage examples were probably not a good thing for a trope that attracts a lot of complaining.

I agree that it should be switched to No On-Page Examples, and I'd also like to note that given the existence of "So Bad, It's Good" and "Periphery Demographic", the page is not only complaint bait but also mostly redundant.