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Twiddler (On A Trope Odyssey)
#1: Sep 5th 2023 at 2:33:48 PM

I noticed there are some items listed on YMMV.Home Page that really should be on the subindex Audience Reactions instead, such as shipping-related items.

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    shipping 
  • Abandon Shipping: This means that something happened In-Universe that caused people who used to ship two characters as a couple to not ship them anymore. As shipping is something the viewers do, not the characters, and some shippers keep shipping regardless, it is a YMMV.
  • Cargo Ship: Shipping a character with an object. This is a YMMV because Shipping is something the audience, not characters, do.
  • Crack Pairing: Shipping a pair that makes no sense as a couple. YMMV for two reasons: Shipping takes place out-of-universe and not everyone agrees that two people would be strange as a couple.
  • Dry Docked Ship: Having two characters who aren't revealed to be exes get portrayed as exes in a fanfiction. YMMV as only the audience can invoke it.
  • Dry Docking: When, in a fanfiction, people take apart an Official Couple. YMMV because it's something that only the audience can do.
  • Idiosyncratic Ship Naming: Shipping two characters and calling the two of them by a buzzword of their names. YMMV because it is out-of-universe.
  • Launcher of a Thousand Ships: A character who is shipped with everyone. YMMV due to being something only certain members of the audience do.
  • Mentor Ship: A teacher is shipped with their pupil. YMMV as only viewers can ship. All In-Universe examples go to Teacher/Student Romance.
  • Mind Game Ship: Someone ships a character with someone who brainwashed them. YMMV because only viewers can ship.
  • One True Threesome: Shipping three characters together. YMMV because it's out-of-universe.
  • Robo Ship: Shipping a machine and non-machine. YMMV because it's out-of-universe.
  • Ship Mates: Being on friendly terms with people who ship two characters who you don't ship. YMMV because shipping is out-of-universe, not everyone has Ship Mates and not everyone ships.
  • Shipping Goggles: Viewing something non-romantic and non-sexual as romantic/sexual subtext. YMMV because a) it's out-of-universe, b) not everyone does it and c) not everyone can agree on where the line is drawn.
  • The Ship's Motor: A piece of the canon that causes the audience to start shipping. YMMV because shipping is out-of-universe and not everyone will ship because of that bit of canon.
  • Ships That Pass in the Night: Shipping two people who've never met. YMMV because shipping is out-of-universe.
  • Ship-to-Ship Combat: Two people argue about whether Alice should be shipped Bob or with Carol. YMMV because it's out-of-universe and because not every shipper argues.
  • Starboarding: A form of Shipping where someone thinks that one person is in love with another, who doesn't return the affection. YMMV due to being out-of-universe.
  • Super Couple: Pairings that everybody is really interested in. YMMV because there will be some who are not interested.
  • Theme Pairing: Shipping due to the people being shipped together having something in common. YMMV because it's out-of-universe.
  • Toy Ship: Shipping kids. YMMV because shipping is out-of-universe.
  • War Ship: Shipping two characters who are at war with each other. YMMV because Shipping takes place out-of-universe.

    scrappy items 
  • Alas, Poor Scrappy: Someone hates the character but is sad when they die. YMMV because someone might not hate the character or not mind the death.
  • Damsel Scrappy: A female character is hated for often being the Damsel in Distress. This is YMMV because not everyone will hate her.
  • Ethnic Scrappy: Most of the characters are of the same ethnicity, but there is one character who is a different one and is hated because they think the character is a stereotype. YMMV because not everyone will find that character annoying/stereotypical.
  • High-Tier Scrappy: An unpopular video game character who's unpopular because they're too good. YMMV because popularity and the terms "good" and "bad" are subjective.
  • Replacement Scrappy: A character is killed off or Put on a Bus and replaced with another one, who gets hated. YMMV because not everybody will hate the replacement.
  • Scrappy Mechanic: A video game that has a mechanic in it that people find annoying. YMMV because it doesn't annoy everyone.
  • Scrappy Weapon: An annoying video game weapon. YMMV because annoyance is subjective.

    other 
  • Audience Awareness Advantage: When the audience forgets that they are not always being given the same info as the characters, so they might, for example, think something was obvious when it wasn't to the characters. This is YMMV because not all audience members will forget this.
  • Critical Backlash: A work is over-criticized and condemned to the extent that it attracts audiences, feeling it couldn't possibly be as terrible as mainstream makes it out to be. YMMV as not everyone feels the work was unfairly panned or there's any redeeming qualities to it.
  • Estrogen Brigade: A group of female fans of a work intended for male audiences. YMMV because it's out-of-universe and some people might think the brigade's existence is insignificant.
  • Fanart At First Sight: Works that are previewed get fanart before the product is officially released. YMMV because it's something that only the potential audience can partake in (and even then, that might be a mere portion), and some people might wait until a work is released.
  • Fan Wank: A fan theory meant to solve inconsistencies. YMMV because it's non-canon.
  • Gameplay Derailment: A game is played unlike how the developer(s) intended. YMMV, because only the audience can do this, and some people play it the intended way.
  • I Am Not Shazam: Thinking the title of the work or something similar is the name of the character. YMMV because only the audience, and only some of the members of the audience, do that.
  • Loot Drama: In an RPG, people do immoral things to get a rare item. YMMV because it's out-of-universe and only some players will do this.
  • Only the Creator Does It Right: Believing that a sequel is bad if its creator didn't make the original. YMMV because some people will like the sequel or dislike the original.
  • Opinion Myopia: What you shouldn't have if you know what YMMV means! Believing your opinion is universal or a fact. YMMV because not everyone believes this.
  • Platonic Writing, Romantic Reading: The audience thinks two characters are a couple, they're not. YMMV because not everyone will think they're a couple and it's out-of-universe.
  • Poison Oak Epileptic Trees: Negative fan theories. YMMV because they're not Canon.
  • Praising Shows You Don't Watch: Someone acts as though they like a show but they've never seen it. YMMV because not everybody does this and it's out-of-universe.
  • Protagonist Title Fallacy: The belief that if a character has their name on the title, they are the protagonist. YMMV because it's out-of-universe and not everyone believes this.
  • Recurring Fanon Character: When an original character created in a fandom becomes so well-known that they frequently appear in fanfiction even though the author never conceived of them.
  • Shock Fatigue: When the overused attempt of shocking audiences has desensitized the audience. YMMV because what might not shock one person anymore, might still shock the other.
  • Testosterone Brigade: A group of male fans of a work intended for female audiences. YMMV because it is out-of-universe and some people might think the brigade's existence is insignificant.
  • Ukefication: Fandom likes to make this character weak, vulnerable, and submissive for the sake of slash fic. YMMV because not everybody will see the character the same way.

    not sure if Audience Reaction 
  • Accidental Innuendo: When the writers didn't make an innuendo, but a viewer thinks something sounds dirty. YMMV because some viewers might not see anything dirty.
  • Cry for the Devil: People pity a villain. YMMV because not all people will pity the villain.
  • Dead Horse Genre: A music genre that people mock/hate on. YMMV as there will be someone out there who likes it.
  • Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game: When a viewer likes the story behind a video game but ignore the actual gameplay. YMMV because it's something only the players can do and some players don't ignore the gameplay.
  • Escapist Character: An extremely talented character who the audience likes to imagine themselves as. YMMV because only the audience can do this and not everyone who sees this character wants to be them.
  • Evil Is Cool: Finding the bad guy cool/interesting. YMMV because not everyone will think the villain is cool or interesting.
  • Evil Is Sexy: Being sexually attracted to a villain. YMMV because, even if the viewer doesn't have an Incompatible Orientation with the villain, there's a chance they will not be attracted to them.
  • Jerkass Dissonance: When the audience likes a character but thinks that if a real person acts like that character, they're a jerk. YMMV because only the audience can do it, and not 100% of the audience.
  • Macekre: Making fun of a poorly-dubbed anime. YMMV because it is out-of-universe and not universal.
  • Magic Franchise Word: An uncommon word that's used a lot in a work gets associated with the work. YMMV because only the audience, and not all of the audience, will do this.
  • Relationship Writing Fumble: A relationship intended to be written one way comes across as a different kind of relationship to viewers. YMMV because not everyone will think the relationship wasn't written as intended.
  • The Woobie: A character who is felt sorry for. YMMV because it's improbable to have everyone feeling sorry for them.

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