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Well, are we talking about tropes or about the analysis of media culture? Because the latter isn't really the purpose of TV Tropes.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Furienna, you seem to be looking for a trope "A work is very popular for a time but then becomes almost forgotten". It might be better to ask in Trope Finder about that.
And I think the reason it was removed from Deader Than Disco is that it doesn't quite fit that trope. Isn't Deader Than Disco "X was very popular but then became widely despised or even hated"? And from the example, Lil Abner is almost forgotten but not hated.
Edited by GnomeTitanAnd what hatred the entry DOES describe mostly has to do with the creators' personal scandal. That's something that could go under Overshadowed by Controversy maybe, but not here. To the extent that his political views directly affected the work, it could go under Seasonal Rot, but DTD requires it to be so hated that even the early stuff from when it was popular is retroactively hated, and it doesn't sound like that's the case here.
Bottom line: preserving examples of tropes in works might be worth some effort. Preserving examples of people complaining about works: not so much. A little less negativity and complaining on the wiki is by no means a bad thing.
We honestly do not need to document every scandal every creator has been involved with. Some...well, it's hard to imagine mentioning the creator without mentioning the scandal (the author of Mein Kampf, for example, who literally started a world war). But with others...it's frequently little more than a footnote in history, and our goal is not to document history; it's to document fiction. Let's leave the minor, petty scandals to sites where they're more relevant.
Speaking words of fandom: let it squee, let it squee.The fact that Lil Abner used to be huge but now is almost forgotten is interesting and can have bearing on other works. Some discussion of the reasons can be warranted. But the scandals surrounding Al Capp are outside our scope.
Edited by GnomeTitan

There has been a huge clean-up of the Deader Than Disco trope recently. Fair enough, but I wonder where certain cut entries could get a new home. Many of the earlier DTD entries could be moved to a different trope, but I don't know where this one belongs:
It is not "Seinfeld" Is Unfunny, right? Because there is nothing in the entry about the comic being creatively impressive for its time. I believed that Society Marches On could be it, but it seems to about how writers seem to think that people in the future has the same values as people today. So...? I believe that someone in the clean-up thread mentioned Seasonal Rot. Could that work?
Edited by Furienna