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...What is the "Mandela Effect"?
"Mandela said [quote]."
"No he didn't, it was [name]."
"Why is Mandela's name attached to it?"
"Because it sounds like something he'd say."
Or the nasty variation: "His detractors were trying to drag him down."
Edited by Candi Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry Pratchett
When people remember something happening a specific way even though it didn't (like how a lot of people remember Mandela dying in the 1980's in prison).
I dunno. Who did tell you to post it here? Trope questions go in the Trope Finder.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
I did, because he/she wasn't asking what trope best fit the situation, but rather if it ever existed. No one could answer on Trope Finder. I figured if a trope existed and was either removed or changed there might be some record of that somewhere.
Black is Order, White is Chaos.
I think we had one called "Lesbians Are Neat" (named after a line from a webcomic) about that, but it doesn't appear to exist anymore.
TV Tropes's No. 1 bread themed lesbian. she/her, fae/faer
Wouldn't they both just be Ho Yay?
Do you mean "Het Is Ew"?
Becky: Who are you? The Mysterious Stranger: An angel. Huck: What's your name? The Mysterious Stranger: Satan.
^ No, definitely not.
I definitely know the idea this is referring to, but personally, I always thought this was just part of Girl on Girl Is Hot, not a separate trope.
I have never seen a trope like that before, but your query matches one inversion of Guy on Guy Is Hot.
"They played us like a DAMN FIDDLE!" — Kazuhira Miller, Metal Gear Solid V The Phantom Pain
If it helps, I remember this trope was mentioned on a page about idealized/badly-written sex, it also had a section on BDSM.
Aaand bumping the thread.
(Out of curiosity, does anyone else remember any tropes existing that don't?)
I remember a LOT of tropes, that it turns out aren't real. :p Some of them used to be real but got excised, though.
Ah, out of curiousity, what do you remember?
This is going to sound stupid, but... I don't remember. XD
Seriously, though, I remember going through before and being like "WTH, I could've sworn there was a trope for this, where'd it go?!" The only example I can think of offhand, though, would be Did Not Do The Research, which got cut because (I would assume) it was too similar to Critical Research Failure.
^ It was renamed into Artistic License, I believe, because the name "not doing the research" attracts too much complaining.
Actually, it was simply cut and Artistic License kept the index.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Okay so, I think I found the page Guy On Guy Is Ew was on, Idealized Sex, but the page is completely different than I remember it being.
Wayback Machine on Idealized Sex seems to indicate that the page has been essentially the same since at least July 2012, so that was probably never it.
Edited by nrjxll
Were there ever any other similar pages to it? Like a Useful Notes or something?
I feel like Guy On Guy Is Ew would be included in Girl on Girl Is Hot. If you think about it, Girl on Girl Is Hot isn't really tropeworthy if it's just the idea that Girl on Girl Is Hot. That would just be a kind of Author Appeal. It's the hypocrisy/double-standard inherent in the idea that Girl on Girl Is Hot but Guy On Guy Is Ew that makes it noteworthy.
I wouldn't exactly disagree with that, but if we're really discussing a mild change to the definition, we need to at least do that in Trope Talk, not Ask The Tropers.
Link to TRS threads in project mode here.
I'm not suggesting a change to the definition—I'm suggesting that that is a necessary and already-implied part of the definition.
I agree.
Becky: Who are you? The Mysterious Stranger: An angel. Huck: What's your name? The Mysterious Stranger: Satan.
This is kind of an odd one in that I know what the trope is, and what it was called. I remember there being an opposite trope to Girl on Girl Is Hot called Guy On Guy Is Ew, talking about how since most writers are straight males, girl on girl is more common than guy on guy. Only it seems to have vanished. Was the trope deleted, am I misremembering the name, or is this a case of the Mandela Effect?
(Told to post this here)