I was moving Green Eggs And Ham to I Do Not Like Green Eggs and Ham and then changing the wiks. Since it took me by that page, I dropped a thread here so I wouldn't forget.
Swapped demot for image and caption, placeholder though.
edited 5th Oct '10 11:08:53 AM by Deboss
Fight smart, not fair.I know that picture has led to some great Memetic Mutation
and has some recognition... but can we at least have a picture of someone dressed as a girl scout?
^Yeah, and not being stupid, they may wonder what a picture that's commonly associated with a minor meme that has nothing to do with girl scouts is doing on the page.
The supposed "evil" in the picture is, literally, just a face, and actually requires the caption to make the picture about girl scouts.
edited 24th Oct '10 11:58:59 AM by SeanMurrayI
Most of the others were just pictures of girl scouts, or women in tight girlscout uniforms for Rule of Sexy.
Fight smart, not fair.^But there IS no connection to girl scouts in the picture; it's all the caption's doing.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the only thing this community looks for in images is that it can effectively represent a trope well enough on its own—even without a caption. If that's the case, then I feel like pointing out that there is nothing in the picture itself that suggests an "evil girl SCOUT." The only thing with any context related to girl scouts is the image caption—not the image—which we've added on our own and has nothing to do with the picture. The caption may as well just be put to use as a page quote (or re-included in a demotivator image on the page again).
edited 24th Oct '10 5:57:15 PM by SeanMurrayI
The connection is that of having a seemingly wholesome small girl being up to skulduggery. The image sells that underlying element extremely well without being literally an image of a Girl Scout.
Put it this way. There nothing about the picture that would prove that she isn't a Girl Scout, and it pegs the trope.
A picture can need a caption to make the final leap, as long as it tells the story right up to the point where the caption closes the gap.
No burning building in the picture here — just the face — for example, and the story isn't told.
edited 24th Oct '10 6:04:27 PM by FastEddie
Goal: Clear, Concise and WittyYou're saying that the picture is suitable because nobody can prove a negative. That's never been a valid point in any argument.
I may as well argue that this picture
◊ then would be as equally valid a replacement as the current picture because nothing about the picture would prove that she isn't a Girl Scout, either.
edited 24th Oct '10 6:20:19 PM by SeanMurrayI
^But sure they are sufficient. The picture doesn't convey the trope. It's not just a trope about evil girls; it's about evil girl scouts. Nothing in the image itself shows anything to do with girl scouts, unless we all assume everyone who looks at it is going to follow the inaccurate logic that "all girl scouts are girls; therefore, all girls must be girl scouts."
If the only acceptable goal we strive for is objective clarity, certainly we could try to find a more explicitly clear image.
edited 24th Oct '10 6:44:57 PM by SeanMurrayI
We can chop up the demot, I just didn't want to download something if I wasn't going to use it. She's got the glowing eyes of evil going on at least.
Fight smart, not fair.
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Be back later, doing something.
Pulling image, previous (after gutting and desecration):
edited 5th Oct '10 11:06:52 AM by Deboss
Fight smart, not fair.