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In this case, Mad is enforcing the Rule Of Cautious Editing Judgment in regards to Harsher/Hilarious In Hindsight with the asshole in the Oval Office.
Found a Youtube Channel with political stances you want to share? Hop on over to this page and add them.I understand now, but the editing reason she gave didn't mention the ROCEJ. My mistake.
Peace is the only battle worth waging.Hilarious in Hindsight (and Harsher in Hindsight, and Funny Aneurism Moment, and the like) is a YMMV page because it's an audience reaction — whether it's present or not depends on the audience, not anything objective in the work. Real People (especially people who inspire strongly divided opinions) are not to be YMMV'd at all.
Since this topic is active, would that also apply to real people appearing on reality shows like game shows, travel shows, talk shows, etc.?
I was told that tropes that are usually NRLEP can apply to those because they don't count as Real Life for the purposes of this Wiki, which is fair enough, but does that go for the YMMV ones, like What An Idiot, as well?
Edited by supergod For we shall slay evil with logic..."Reality" television, as well as web reviewers and bloggers, are assumed to be presenting a persona that may be similar to the Real Life person/actor/creator, but has been edited and snapshotted and overacted to the point where the persona is not the person who presents the persona. That's why many musical artists have a stage name that they use. It becomes very confusing when these personas use the same name as their creator, but As Himself is a very old trope, and creates a line where you can trope the persona, despite the similarity.
Link to TRS threads in project mode here.I don't mean shows like Jersey Show or The Osbournes. I mean troping people who are interviewed on travel shows and documentaries, people who hire shows for help (like Kitchen Nightmares and Extreme Makeover), contestants on game shows like Jeopardy or The Price Is Right, celebrities who appear on 60 Minutes or Larry King Live, victims on prank shows, etc. While some of them act up for the camera, they're not really stage personas, just regular people who happen to be on TV.
I mean examples like this:
- What An Idiot - Several restaurants would end up completely disregarding Robert's advice on how to improve themselves despite all of the benefits. The majority of them would end up closing down because of it.
This is on the YMMV page of a show that's about a celebrity chef helping regular restaurant owners with their failing businesses. I just want to be clear if this kind of thing is okay or not.
For we shall slay evil with logic...Again, these scenes have been edited and snapshotted and overacted to the point where they're not to be connected to the real life person. "In the show, they are" or "They showcase the character's" or "Events make it seem like" to clarify these attributes belong to the persona created by editing may be useful.
(Edit: Your example specifically, should be cut on the basis of being General. "X restaurant chose to do B instead of Robert's advice A, and were unable to keep their store open.")
Edited by crazysamaritan Link to TRS threads in project mode here.

I'm aware that we have a rule against troping real people, which I assumed simply referred to applying tropes directly to real people. However, Madrugada recently used this rule to justify removing all references to real-life events (even for tropes like Hilarious in Hindsight that are inherently based on real-life events) from Adam Ruins Everything. Does this fall under the rules, or was this a misunderstanding?