Not Tropeworthy: Everythings Better With Llamas

The description is short and unfocused. One paragraph mentions llamas being treated as funny or comedic; the second sentence describes llamas as being used as companions by travelers; the third paragraph states that other South American camelids also count for… whatever this is, but Old World camels do not.

• Lama/llama wordplay: 3/50 (6%)
• Spitting llamas: 3/50 (6%)
• Other humorous llamas: 6/50 (12%)
• Llamas on chairs: 37/50 (74%)
• ZCE: 1/50 (2%)

The external wick check will cover every fifth example and skip Just for Fun/ and other site humor pages:

• Humorous llamas: 2/30 (6.7%)
• Spitting llamas: 1/30 (3.3%)
• Llamas on chairs: 21/30 (70%)
• ZCE: 6/30 (20%)

Right off the bat, chairs and ZCEs strongly dominate, as they make up three quarters of the main page and an even 90% of the inbound links. A few concepts are presented, not all of which are salvageable. The "llamas as companions for travelers" angle present in the main page and on The Drifter seems to have been pulled out of thin air and has no associated examples. A "llamas as comedy fodder" concept might be salvageable, although not all comedy examples present here are strongly linked to using llamas as opposed to anything else. The spitting llama thing has an associated draft of TLP that could conceivably be resurrected to take in those examples. The wordplay angle doesn't seem to have enough material to warrant splitting off.

My opinion is that this trope as it isn't salvageable and should be cut and disambiguated. Comedic and spitting llamas might both be worth extracting for their own pages. Examples of llamas as National Animal Stereotypes should just be moved to that page. Everything else can be cut with little loss.

Edited by Theriocephalus on Sep 25th 2022 at 9:46:37 AM

I am good with just cutting this. I can't think of any tropes we can use for a disambiguation.

Edited by MacronNotes on Sep 25th 2022 at 11:04:50 AM

It is time we free the llamas.

In other words, cut

Llama soup, anyone?

Cut.

Adios a las llamas.

Exterminatus.

Cut.

cut

Another one?

Cut

Pull the lever and make it fall.

Don't worry, we'll make sure the right one's pulled.

Edited by Berrenta on Sep 25th 2022 at 11:33:30 AM

Cut.

Remember to pull the croc pit lever, not the one leading to the lab.

(Cut)

Well, that's quota. Sadly, Three-Day requires Not Thriving-ness and this one has three-digit wicks.

Cut

Cut

Another generic animal trope, cut it.

Ellamanate it.

Cut.

Cut

Another animal snowclone. Cut.

Yeah, this one's a remnant of that time llamas were memetic on the 'net and serves no purpose. Cut it.

If this is a meme page in addition to a pointless animal page, then that's even more of a reason to cut it since we've cut other "trope pages" that were memes and not tropes (as with Pumpkin Spice Everything, Red Zone Remix Vid, and to a lesser extent, Rickroll and Caramelldansen Vid, which were kept but stripped of their trope status).

There was a bacon one too IIRC. (EDIT: It was Bacon Addiction.)

Anyway Everythings Better With Llamas is also part of the "Everything's Better With X" snowclone name family that has produced many problematic tropes. Reiterating that I support a cut.

Edited by themayorofsimpleton on Sep 26th 2022 at 12:37:06 PM

...Is there really not a trope for spitting camelids yet? Maybe that concept could be salvaged.

(Also, I thought wick checks were supposed to include at least 50 wicks? Or is this a special case?)

Edited by NitroIndigo on Sep 26th 2022 at 8:03:07 PM