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Zuxtron
(On A Trope Odyssey)
12th Jan, 2020 05:04:31 AM
There are other methods of disambiguation than namespace and year. Some fanfics have the source material in the page title to disambiguate.
Perhaps we could have the pages be called "Strange Aeons (vlog)" and "Strange Aeons (Slender Man)"?
WarJay77
(Troper Knight)
12th Jan, 2020 10:39:25 AM
I guess?
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This is mostly a hypothetical, since though I'd like for this creator to have a page, I'd need a bit of time to find tropes, since they're mostly a vlogger. But, let's go under the assumption that I was going to do this, shall we?
So there's a YouTuber I enjoy named "Strange Aeons". She makes funny content and talks about LGBT / Catholic School stuff. She's p cool. I got curious to see if she had a page here, and found... Strange Aeons, about... a Slenderverse series.
My issue is, these people would be in the same namespace and they have the same name. While most works are disambiged by year, does that make sense for internet content? In fact, these two channels were even both started in 2012, so even that wouldn't work very well. So, if I wanted to make a page for the YouTuber, how would I do so?
(And I guess it's theoretically possible for this person to have a page since we have pages for people like Jenna Marbles and Logan Paul, I just have trouble finding the line between "troping these peoples' real, actual on-camera lives" and "troping creative content these people make" when it comes to vlogger-types.)
Edited by WarJay77