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I don't think You Tube is enough of a source to indicate Internet back draft. Definitely ZCE
I'd disagree on these points. Internet Backdraft is a trope about the backdraft, not about the reasons for the backdraft. Examples of (un)popularity tropes that attract discussions of the reasons for the (un)popularity often become problems, besides. A forceful reaction on YouTube sounds like a form of Internet Backdraft alright.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Does it? From the Internet Backdraft page:
It works like this: Controversial Event X occurs, resulting in flame wars, including ones spanning multiple forums. Internet vigilantes occur who muck up the issue even more into a morass of rumors. Eventually it gets to the point where people are so sick of flame wars about Event X, that this in turn causes flame wars conducted by those who want it to just die. Which it eventually does, sort of, in a smoldering-ember sort of way. Then some n00b gives it enough oxygen to make it flare up all over again.
A knee-jerk reaction that's only happening on one site seems like the opposite of the trope description.
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Yes, Internet Backdraft gets seriously misused. It's not "people don't like something". It's a topic that is so heated among fans that any innocent person stumbling into it can trigger flame wars and attacks, even though the issue itself seems utterly trivial. I suspect massive misuse on the wiki.
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Could Tainted by the Preview fit better?
It would if it was not on You Tube. They hate everything there just by looking at it. So using it as the bar for "tainted by the preview" based on you tube personally I think doesn't work.
Edited by Tuvok
Most trailers get positive likes to downvotes on Youtube. Youtube isn't a case of "They hate everything there just by looking at it".
Haters do tend to be more vocal, so if you spend too much time* in the comments section, you could definitely get the impression that Youtubers hate everything. However, Reyntime is correct: a 10:1 like-to-dislike ratio is considered fairly average, so if there are literally four times as many dislikes as likes, that is pretty compelling evidence that it's actually disliked as opposed to the malcontents just being louder.
* For clarity: any amount of time is too much
Edit: Some simple Google-Fu reveals
that the number of dislikes is not an exaggeration.
It didn't give any clear reason due to the mandatory Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment rule shit.
Yeah, thats my only concern. It not giving a clear reason for the backlash. Im guessing because of a comment Kathy made on Batman.
In YMMV.Batwoman 2019, Internet Backlash is written as this:
Internet Backdraft: The first official trailer for the series has been completely flamed on YouTube, with more than four times as many dislikes than likes and many negative comments, for reasons that are better left unsaid.
Since it doesn't give a clear reason why its getting a backlash, does it make it a Zero context example?