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Imagine it; you're scrolling around late at night letting this wiki ruin your life some more when you discover a page you've never heard of before. Not unheard of on a wiki this big, but there are some things that have become really hard to access over the years, either due to being depreciated, missing good navigation links, being shoved into Darth or Sugar, or what have you. Have you made any fun discoveries? Share them here so we can get more awareness about these cool pages people don't know about before!


OK so for my first post Imma cheat and plug this silly ass glitch thread. It's a bizarre hodgepodge of posts from all around the site, and as far as I know you can only get there on mobile through this glitch if you don't have a direct link. It's neat, really... TVT has its very own Glitch Dimension!

WarJay77 It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (8,356/50,000) from My Writing Cave (Troper Knight) Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (8,356/50,000)
#1: Aug 31st 2022 at 10:28:31 AM

Imagine it; you're scrolling around late at night letting this wiki ruin your life some more when you discover a page you've never heard of before. Not unheard of on a wiki this big, but there are some things that have become really hard to access over the years, either due to being depreciated, missing good navigation links, being shoved into Darth or Sugar, or what have you. Have you made any fun discoveries? Share them here so we can get more awareness about these cool pages people don't know about before!


OK so for my first post Imma cheat and plug this silly ass glitch thread. It's a bizarre hodgepodge of posts from all around the site, and as far as I know you can only get there on mobile through this glitch if you don't have a direct link. It's neat, really... TVT has its very own Glitch Dimension!

Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper Wall
CytoZytokine Since: Jun, 2022
#2: Aug 31st 2022 at 4:05:00 PM

[up]The posting dates are misaligned in that thread. Is this the result of the Skullfucking incident Parable mentioned?

WarJay77 It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (8,356/50,000) from My Writing Cave (Troper Knight) Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (8,356/50,000)
#3: Aug 31st 2022 at 4:43:44 PM

No clue. It's really just a bizarre mess now, and I appreciate it for that.

Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper Wall
omega2900 Jemerald of Brainrot from The Midwest, where everything is MID! (Ten years in the joint) Relationship Status: In my bunk
Reymma RJ Savoy from Edinburgh Since: Feb, 2015 Relationship Status: Wanna dance with somebody
RJ Savoy
#5: Aug 31st 2022 at 5:54:59 PM

[up] To sum it up:

1) Forums have a hangout thread.

2) Someone spams an emoticon to the point that it crashes browsers trying to load the thread.

3) Deleting posts manually would take too long, mods decide to delete the whole section of the thread using what was known as "skullfucking".

4) Only replace one problem with another because with so many posts gone (not blanked, actually gone from database) the thread's timestamps go screwy so that new posts appear somewhere in the middle of it.

5) Whole thread is deleted and "skullfucking" is no longer used.

But to answer the question, no. Posts are from 2015 or 2021, long after the incident. But I wonder how this odd selection was chosen by the server.

Stories don't tell us monsters exist; we knew that already. They show us that monsters can be trademarked and milked for years.
loserswithwifi (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#6: Sep 1st 2022 at 4:28:32 AM

I wonder why it picked so many pantheon thread posts. Or why the one of the green and red Yu-Gi-Oh! guy is repeated six times.

Cibryll ~Serra~ from Lightning Crest (she/her) Since: Feb, 2022 Relationship Status: Squeeeeeeeeeeeee!
~Serra~
#7: Sep 5th 2022 at 1:14:57 AM

"Total posts: 1"

Yeah, it's pretty bizarrely neat—

As for why Yuya Sakaki shows up so many times…
wild mass guess I'm guessing it wanted to invoke Number of the Beast in some way (even if with two less 6s? wild mass guess

"Can you even read the blackboard written clear as can be?" / "Can you even read his mind? See that kid's lost fantasy?"
Unicorndance Logic Girl from Thames, N.Z. Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
Logic Girl
#8: Sep 5th 2022 at 4:40:49 PM

I discovered DarthWiki.Tame Maverick Exposition.

For every low there is a high.
Tonwen HoMM Fan from Axeoth Since: Dec, 2021 Relationship Status: I <3 love!
HoMM Fan
#9: Sep 5th 2022 at 6:50:42 PM

The amount of obscure/not well liked works that are loaded with miuses and ZCEs is kind of impressive.

I've discovered so many obscure works thanks to wick checks, tbh.

"Grandmaster Combat, son!"
WarJay77 It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (8,356/50,000) from My Writing Cave (Troper Knight) Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (8,356/50,000)
#10: Sep 5th 2022 at 6:56:02 PM

[up][up] I remember the first time I found that, being very confused what was going on.

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StewieGriffin34 from Sea ice (Season 2) Relationship Status: Buried in snow, waiting for spring
#11: Sep 5th 2022 at 7:21:06 PM

I've realized the existence of numerous obscure webcomics as a direct result of this wiki.

On a more specific note, I discovered a fanfic called The Pokémon Squad from the Smoking Is Cool page that mostly drew me in because back then, I was a dumb teen who thought the idea of Barney or Elmo doing drugs (even legal ones) was hilarious. I was actually pleasantly surprised once I actually read an episode.

He/they | Mostly here on my free days
kirbman Mamaf*cker! from The place Since: Feb, 2015 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#12: Sep 5th 2022 at 11:47:02 PM

This page. I still don't really know if this was ever meant to be a real thing, or why it was on the Darth Wiki.

WarJay77 It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (8,356/50,000) from My Writing Cave (Troper Knight) Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (8,356/50,000)
#13: Sep 5th 2022 at 11:48:56 PM

It's an unpublished work page; Darth is just where they go.

A really bad unpublished work page, but...

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kirbman Mamaf*cker! from The place Since: Feb, 2015 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#14: Sep 5th 2022 at 11:54:26 PM

I thought the concept sounded pretty neat. But yeah, it's very badly written. The amount of ZCEs is staggering, and that for a work nobody is ever going to see.

Edited by kirbman on Sep 5th 2022 at 8:54:43 PM

loserswithwifi (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#15: Sep 6th 2022 at 8:06:30 AM

One time I found a page for a Danganronpa roleplay by clicking Random Media. The main page was completely empty except for one blank bullet point. The characters page was half filled-in and half not; some characters has bios and tropes, some just had bios, some just had tropes, some had neither. I found it in 2022 and it had last been edited in 2017.

When people say the Roleplay namespace is a mess, they really mean it.

Sourguy Doesn't do much (He/Him) from The Peach State Since: Oct, 2021 Relationship Status: You're a beautiful woman, probably
Doesn't do much (He/Him)
#16: Jan 21st 2023 at 8:31:05 AM

I can't express how many times I forget that Live Blogs exist. Does anyone even still do them?

Currently Reading: N/A
Ian07 Since: Jul, 2022
#17: Jan 21st 2023 at 9:56:11 AM

WebVideo.Googlebrains, a work page that for some reason also has SugarWiki and DarthWiki versions.

Sourguy Doesn't do much (He/Him) from The Peach State Since: Oct, 2021 Relationship Status: You're a beautiful woman, probably
Doesn't do much (He/Him)
#18: Feb 9th 2023 at 6:06:16 AM

Compared to the other queries sections, the Wishlist seems to not get much attention. I wish people would visit it more.

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AoeAbility Akarat bless you. from Personal Evil Tower of Ominousness Since: Mar, 2021 Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
#19: Feb 9th 2023 at 11:13:12 AM

[up][up]I always wondered what was up with that. Was Googlebrains a Troper creator like Manwithoutabody? Someone with whom the early wiki was obsessed enough to warrant not one, but TWO JFF pages? These pages confuse me.

You keep using the term "POV". I do not think it means what you think it means.
WarJay77 It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (8,356/50,000) from My Writing Cave (Troper Knight) Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (8,356/50,000)
#20: Feb 9th 2023 at 11:15:51 AM

No need to blame the whole wiki; it was a single troper who made both pages, presumably because they wanted to.

Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper Wall
AoeAbility Akarat bless you. from Personal Evil Tower of Ominousness Since: Mar, 2021 Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
#21: Feb 9th 2023 at 11:28:26 AM

Speaking of Manwithoutabody, he used to have a Web Video-namespaced page on This Very Wiki, and from digging through old forum posts, he seemed to be quite a celebrity on the site. And then he just kind of disappeared without a trace, and nobody knows what happened to him.

What I found funny about convos regarding him, in the Retsupurae thread, there was a short discourse on Ken "ForeverPandering" Ashcorp's take on their style (in that semi-famous, now-deleted MST of iJustine's infamously bad Let's Play of Portal 2). Several tropers said "He's just basically Manwithoutabody, but less talented". Words can't describe how badly that statement aged.

Edited by AoeAbility on Feb 9th 2023 at 11:28:44 AM

You keep using the term "POV". I do not think it means what you think it means.
TheWanderer Student of Story from Somewhere in New England (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
Student of Story
#22: Feb 10th 2023 at 1:36:14 AM

The amount of obscure/not well liked works that are loaded with miuses and ZC Es is kind of impressive.

I've discovered so many obscure works thanks to wick checks, tbh.

Yeah, there are definitely certain kind of works where this is common. Obscure web comics, indie films, generally things where only only a few tropers have ever seen the work and felt the need to make or edit an article about it. Then it sits for years until someone notices it and blocks out a bunch of the example and such.

I've definitely fixed up a few of those articles over the years.

Edited by TheWanderer on Mar 1st 2023 at 5:58:01 AM

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Sourguy Doesn't do much (He/Him) from The Peach State Since: Oct, 2021 Relationship Status: You're a beautiful woman, probably
Doesn't do much (He/Him)
#23: Feb 15th 2023 at 5:25:22 PM

I find it interesting how most Tropers don't really give much attention to the Pitch Generator or Story Generator. A shame really, because those things are a triumph.

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BlackFaithStar [Hiatus til March] from 🇲🇾 (UTC plus 8) (Less Newbie) Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
Ultimatum Disasturbator from The Wiggle Room (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#25: Feb 16th 2023 at 6:24:01 AM

Darth wiki and sugar wiki are basically the wilds of wiki,lot of stuff goes on there that's obscured

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