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Does it have the YMMV banner? Has it been discussed to be YMMV?
If the answers are no and no, then sticking it on the YMMV page is misuse of the trope. Using it as an Audience Reaction is misuse of the trope.
Remove with extreme prejudice and edit reason. :p
Edited by Candi Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry PratchettCRTL+F on the Related To page
shows that it's linked on 96 YMMV pages. I looked through the first 10 or so, and they all look like misuse as an Audience Reaction. It's not listed as In Universe Examples Only, but wouldn't it pretty much have to be that by default if it's not an Audience Reaction?
Not really. Audience Reactions vary, which is why they go on YMMV. For instance, I find a lot of horror movies just plain gross, not scary. Others can't sleep for three nights after viewing one.
A trope can appear in a work without being IUEO, whether it's played straight, subverted, zigzagged, or warped to Hades and back.
The point is that if it's an objective trope, not YMMV, Audience Reaction, Trivia, or any of those, it does not go on the YMMV page, and is not to be used as an Audience Reaction.
Now, if they want to stick that in a review, that's their business. But not on a wiki page.
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry Pratchett

Quick question: Does Jerkass Has a Point only apply if it's acknowledged in-universe? A lot of the examples seem to be about fans thinking a jerkass character was right despite the narrative or creator saying otherwise, but the trope itself isn't listed under Audience Reactions so I'm inclined to think this is misuse.