Spun off the main odd confessions thread; this thread is for odd confessions related to TV Tropes itself.
Excessive complaining isn't allowed anywhere on the site. Keep it out of this thread.
I felt guilty about having to remove some of the real life examples on Mandela Effect. I would not have removed them if they didn't violate site policy. I enjoyed reading those examples, and I'm sure the people who wrote them are not happy about them being removed.
Edited by GastonRabbit on Apr 14th 2023 at 2:58:34 PM
Maybe it's just because I'm used to threads not being locked, which was the norm until relatively recently.
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper WallThere are some tropes that I know are cheesy and unrealistic but I still like them anyway. Like Law of Inverse Fertility still shows up in my own works and works I like just cuz I like the drama.
I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.When I'm making a new work page, more often than not my thoughts are "I hope someone checks this work out".
TroperWall / WikiMagic CleanupWhen I first discovered the Sommelier Speak page, I thought that the page image was from Death Note.
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That's more of my secondary motive for making work pages (but it's still completely valid), while for me, because I see TVT as an alternate way of paying tribute to a work I like (because fanart/fics can only go so far), I prefer using my proficiency with words to appreciate works as they are by making pages for them.
What goes on in my head while making work pages is "I hope I can give a good reading experience regarding what this work is about."
Edited by BlackFaithStar on Jun 18th 2023 at 11:17:25 PM
When you're alone I'm reaching out to let you know that you're far from strangers, like the saviorI often ignore those tropes too, mostly because if I already know what happens in the work, this list doesn't teach me anything new.
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper WallI generally look up every work I know to see if a page has anything missing.
TroperWall / WikiMagic CleanupI sometimes click the Random Trope button until I get a trope I remember visiting the page for. The amount of clicks I have to do is getting worryingly low.
fun fact: pro tip: breaking news: life hack: i can't find a good signature
It's like I'm in some kind of... TV Tropes...
i probably said this before, but i'll expand on it
i understand that fandoms aren't perfect, but the amount of hate tvtropes has for them is almost genuinely weird. Tainted by the Preview, Misaimed Fandom, Fan Wank, Why Fandom Can't Have Nice Things, Mis-blamed, Franchise Original Sin, the list goes on. i'd be more on board if there were an equal amount of "this fandom is decent" tropes, but people here are almost in love with talking about how every fan is crazy except themselves
if you're letting some idiot fans live rent free in your head, go outside lol
Also, positive opinions are all sort of generic, while there many be many reasons fandoms dislike a thing. The status quo is to assume people like the work, I guess.
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper WallIf there are common positive fandom reactions (like cosplay conventions? attracting a lot of music videos?) it can be TLP'ed. It'd just be difficult to research.
TroperWall / WikiMagic CleanupOh, and people who hate things tend to be louder than people who don't.
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper WallI usually ignore anything that's not Work, Recap, Characters, and Trivia. YMMV generally isn't fun to read at all for me — I tend to feel like the surplus of negativity is partly to do with validation? But if I hate a character, I usually don't need to swim in audience hatred for them in order to write up The Scrappy.
Edited by Synchronicity on Jun 21st 2023 at 7:38:17 AM
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Wow. I never thought of it like that before. I'm just glad it isn't as bad as it was on the Toxic Fandoms & Hatedoms Wiki. *shudders*
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Hey, there are some good YMMV tropes—I personally like Genre Turning Point a lot, for instance.
Also, positive opinions are all sort of generic, while there many be many reasons fandoms dislike a thing. The status quo is to assume people like the work, I guess.
They're talking how we have a bunch of tropes for complaining about fandoms, not tropes for fandoms complaining about works.
Granted, at least speaking personally, the existence of all those complaining-about-the-work YMMV tropes is a pretty good justification for why there's all those complaining-about-the-fandom ones. I've said this before, but I literally can't overstate how much affection I developed for TV Tropes when I first found it just because it didn't default to negativity.
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Yup. Probably literally never clicked on a YMMV page that didn't involve checking wicks or something.
I don't see those as complaining about fandoms, then; moreso just pointing out when fandoms have negative, inconsistent, or inaccurate viewpoints on the work. Which yeah could be seen as complaining if the examples aren't written with a neutral and objective stance, but the tropes themselves are just sort of reporting on things that happen in fandoms.
Still fits my point to, a fandom that's not engaging in any of these behaviors is the ideal fandom which isn't really easy to talk about because, well, what is there to say when fans perfectly understand and don't have any conflicting opinions about a work?
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper Wall

If I don't see a lock then to me it's still pending input.
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