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Edit war on Fallout 2024's YMMV page Live Action TV

On April 14th, troper Phantomskyler added this entry to the Fallout TV show's YMMV page:

• And You Thought It Would Fail: Leading up to the premier there was much grumbling and speculation over the quality of the series, with diehard fans worried about it being a similarly lackluster and divisive adaptation like Halo's tv series, and a rather loud minority of culture war youtubers claiming it will be a "woke failure" criticizing it's female and black protagonists alongside supporting character Dane being nonbinary being the show "catering for diversity points and not fans." After the premier was wildly well recieved by audiences and critics alike the former were pleasantly surprised (though some had minor gripes concerning the lore aspects) and the former were forced to very quietly slink away and keep their mouths shut when their predictions (predicably) didn't match reality.

I grinded it down for being a blatant ROCEJ violation and sent him a notifier for it. Two days later, he added a reworded entry again as a subpoint without discussion, which was then edited by unrelated tropers to this:

• To a lesser extent, a loud minority of "culture war youtubers" (content creators known for exaggerated and inflammatory takes criticizing "forced diversity" in media) were quick to lambast the show leading up to the premiere due to its female and black protagonists, claiming it would bomb as bad as The Marvels (2023) or the aforementioned Halo TV series, and that it will be universally loathed by everyone, especially fans. When the show dropped and became highly praised by fans and regular viewers alike, most of this group quickly sung the series' praises, moved on to different media to criticize, or (in more extreme cases) either used the vocal backlash against the handling of the NCR and (supposedly) Vegas or simply let their personal biases justify them giving the show a negative review. That being said... a portion of that small minority didn't even watch the show, and just confirmed their biases with a couple clips (namely, Titus running away from a bear being seen as an insult to the Brotherhood and Lucy and Max's "sex talk") without the context that explain what is happening in these scenes.

On April 17th, the entry was removed by troper Incredible Fulk 1 with the edit reason: "Really? That was such a small minority."

Phantomskyler then re-added the entry wholesale on April 19th with the edit reason: "Re adding since it doesn't break editing rules & shouldn't have been removed."