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Is there any criterion for any YMMV trope? If there were criteria that one could use to judge if someting were an example, it wouldn't be YMMV. (I do agree that this particular example is pretty dumb.)
Some YMMV examples do have certain criteria due to misuse, like Broken Base requiring 6 months of a sustained, vicious conflict within a fandom, with two or more clearly-defined sides among other parameters.
Edited by lalalei2001 The Protomen enhanced my life.
While not as rigidly-defined as with Broken Base, I think the criteria for Internet Backdraft is (or should be) that it's a vicious backlash, with a lot of people really angry. I've seen people use IB in cases where it seems too mild of an issue to qualify.
In the case of this example, it merely seems to be saying, "the fans didn't like this," which I feel is misuse of the trope.
Remove the entry. For it to be an actual example it needs to describe an aggressive reaction, not merely "a sour taste". Classic Square Peg Round Trope.
By the by, I'd be careful with " I looked around and couldn't find any backlash, significant or otherwise." as a removal rationale though, Google searches and the like are not all encompassing.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
^ Yep. It's been cut.
A new episode of The Good Place came out a few hours ago, with its recap page getting a YMMV page saying it got an Internet Backdraft from "many viewers". I looked around and couldn't find any backlash, significant or otherwise. Most
reviews
I've found
like the episode a lot, with one
saying it lacks focus but that's not really Internet Backdraft as I understand it, with discussion forums for the episode being mostly positive as well.
What's the criteria for IB, and what should be done with the page since that's its only entry? As written it seems to be less about the content of the episodes or how it was written so much as 'a thing people wanted to see didn't happen' or 'this character didn't do a thing'. YMMV.The Good Place S 3 E 06 A Fractured Inheritance
Edited by lalalei2001