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That series is called Twisted Tropes for a reason. The joke is that Garfield is being eaten by ALF, and one of ALF's defining character traits is that he eats cats. Gory, yes, but I don't see that it's particularly mean-spirited.
Edited by Gideoncrawle Bigotry in the name of inclusion is still bigotry.
This tends to further my discomfort with the whole "Community Showcase" sidebar, just saying.
Still more than a little dark for the front page. I hate Garfield too, but seriously? Aren't we supposed to be a family friendly website?
We have pages for Game of Thrones. "Family-friendly" and "G" aren't the same thing. The picture is gross, but well within some of the crap on movies rated PG-13, weirdly enough.
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry Pratchett
It's more about the fact that it's on the front page. It's fine to have family-unfriendly images on the wiki, but you should encounter them on pages about family-unfriendly works and tropes, not the very first thing you see when you come to the site. It feels like it sends a bad message.
I have to agree. The front of the website should be kept PG. And gore should be kept out of the site's pr areas (which includes the front page).
Edited by war877
PG or not, currently newcomers to the site are greeted by a rather drastic and tasteless comic. I think we should consider what kind of a first impression people will get.
I gotta agree with this, it grossed me out.
Since the community showcase got mentioned, I figured it'd be a small banner or something, so then I checked and... wow no. I spend 99% of my time reading and editing, so most of the time I forget the pr spaces even exist, but that cannot be okay to have as the first thing a visitor sees upon arriving at the wiki's front door as it were.
Complaint has been reported, no reply so far.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
I gotta agree, I don't want any gory tasteless comic strip to be at the home page at all!
The fact that it's still there makes me even more concerned about the whole community showcase thing. The complaint may have been reported, but doesn't TV Tropes itself have any power to get it off the front page?
Tiny nitpick point: I don't think that the home page is the first thing every visitor sees. I originally came here through a link a friend posted in a chat, and didn't wander over to the home page until at least a month later.
Is the TT thing a courtesy link or some kind of dedicated ad? That might affect bootability.
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry Pratchett
I don't understand why it is still up. Administrators should have no trouble taking it down, and it is not like it is controversial. The admins took that trip to mars or something.
^It took me about a year to find the homepage.
Edited by war877
Well, it's been over a week and STILL no sign of the gory comic being taken off the homepage. I'm getting the feeling that I'm never visiting the TV Tropes home page again, as I'm now getting to the website via other links in bookmarks.
Looks like we got rid of it. Closing.
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Is the current Trope Depiction (Garfield being eaten, with a bloody chest cavity and ribs visible) a weird April Fools joke? I think it's too gory (and mean-spirited, for that matter) to be put on the front page.