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openWeb animation Vs Web Original Web Original
What is the difference between Web Animation and Web Original? Because, for example, I've seen Red vs Blue listed in both categories on various trope pages. Is web animation a type of web original? I would genuinely appreciate an answer.
resolved Can I make a transcript page for a media? Web Original
I remembered every line of a skit from the You Tube channel Wizards With Guns, so can I include a dedicated page called Transcripts to transcribe the entirety of said skit? Or should I do a Quotes page?
Edited by Duy03resolved Help Web Original
How do I hide images so that they don't show for me?
All help appreciated.
resolved Edit War for AssPull entry on YMMV/MurderDrones Web Original
- Aug 29th
, Troper mousegold restored Ass Pull entry due to it being deleted without an edit reason.
Ass Pull: The end of "Dead End" has V surrounded by the Drone Sentinels cut off from everyone else. "Absolute End" has her reveal that she somehow managed to not only survive but wrangle one of them into helping her. How she did that is never explained. - Aug 29th
, I removed it for misuse due to a scene in canon implying how it happened.
Rebel: Lizzy's texts with V showed her holding one of the Sentinels in a choke hold while saying "I lived bitch", making it pretty clear she just fought them off. - Sep 1st
, Troper mousegold restored entry and expanded on it, enacting an Edit War.
Ass Pull: Absolute End revealing V survived her attempted Heroic Sacrifice. At the end of Dead End, V manages to get the red-eyed Sentinel dead to rights, but three more Sentinels appear and she loses her glasses after one of them tries to bring the elevator back up. The scene is played as if V has no way out, and cuts away with V acting resigned to her fate, a Sentinel lunging at her while she makes seemingly no attempt to fight back. The only explanation the series gives as to how V made it out of what was portrayed as seemingly impossible odds is a single image after the fact of V standing triumphant over the red-eyed Sentinel, with no details as to how she convinced the red-eyed Sentinel to work with her or escaped/killed the others, and it can feel anticlimactic considering how much of a threat the Sentinels were shown to be throughout Dead End.mousegold: I disagree that the photo explains how V survived, but I will concede that the description could use some more detail.
resolved A profession form of Fish out of Water? Web Original
As seen in this skit
, what is the trope of someone unqualified being put into a situation against their will?
What other tropes apply in this skit?
openCanon spelling vs. popular spelling Web Original
There's a character in ENigmatic Recollection named "Gonathon." That's the spelling he uses the one time he spells it in-verse
, and the spelling his actor/player uses too. However, a slight majority of the fanbase spells it "Gonathan" with a second A, and that's currently the standard on our page for the work. I used the O spelling for a couple examples, but another editor changed it to the A one. (I messaged them about it, but didn't hear back.)
I'm pretty sure policy is that we should use the canon spelling, even if there's a more popular one. But I figured I should get consensus before unilaterally changing the spelling across multiple pages.
Edited by Speedchesserresolved Electroboom YMMV revival Web Original
I'd like to see Mehdi Sadaghdar's YMMV page's revision history, so I can recreate YMMV/ElectroBOOM.
Like, SungWon Cho has both WebVideo and Creator pages and thus the former can have a YMMV page.
resolved How Should I organize [[WebVideo/MagicTheNoah's Magic The Noah's]] individual videos? Web Original
Due to the massive amount of videos he
has put out, I believe that the best option is to make individual pages for each of them. My main question is is this the best option, and, if so, should it be as a series of Recap pages or as a series of normal Web Video pages?
openTrans Audience Interpretation issue? Web Original
I've seen a lot of examples that I haven't heard of in fandoms I was in, and realized this trope has a lot of entries with next to no source of it being popular. It's fairly common on Tumblr and other such sites to headcanon any character as trans, and while there's undoubtedly more frequent ones, I don't think it's particularly tropable. Plus a lot of examples tend to rely on sexist stereotypes (I.E. any character going against their gender norms will inevitably get an entry, which makes it seem like someone just can't be cis or quote on quote "normal" and not act masculine/feminine like they're expected by society).
resolved Making a Work page Web Original
So, i've been on TV Tropes for a while but only recently have made an account, and i'm relatively new to TV Tropes lingo and such. I've been wanting to make a Work page (if that's what they're called) about Night Five, a FNAF Fanfilm by Ex Blue, and have been struggling to figure it out. I apologize if i sound like i have no idea what i am doing.
openA page's index still isn't showing Web Original
It's been a few days since this page was created, and I've made sure to post examples of its tropes on a few pages, but the index section still isn't showing. Advice on how to get it working?
resolved Adding Images to Own Moments Pages Web Original
I know it's a site rule for a creator to not add YMMV/Moments entries to pages based on content that they own. Does that also apply to adding images to the related Moments pages?
openCharacters page for vanossgaming? Web Original
I saw it got deleted for them being real people. And yet, Party Crashers gets to keep a characters page, despite them being real.
Is there something i'm not getting?
resolved Are GLMMs Web Animation or Web Videos? Web Original
Would The Academy Of Magic be a better fit in Web Animation than Web Videos? It's not live action, but the fact that it's a Gacha Life Mini Movie makes me unsure if it counts as animation either.
openDouble Agent biased edit Web Original
drakenlol recently edited WebVideo.The Double Agent and Trivia.The Double Agent to include Ethan's plagiarism accusations. I am both a member of the Billboard community of which he was a part of and a friend of his and I want to make things clear.
There was no major backlash towards him. From what I saw, it was mostly a few youtube comments that needlessly called him a Todd rip-off of which Ethan took personally, hence why he released his "Citing My Sources" video. this also did not receive the level of backlash that both pages implied, which makes it sound like it was a James Somerton-case of plagiarism. If anything, I saw more support for Ethan around the community than not following his breakdown.
Ethan deleted his channel less because everyone turned on him and more that the few negative comments he did get he really took to heart, causing a toll on his mental health, of which has been alot better after that incident.
Would it be alright if I reedited both pages to appear more neutral?
Edited by NightBrowserresolved Is copying an existing explanation allowed if I wrote the existing one? Web Original
I am planning a new entry to the SiIvaGunner page for Puzzle Room uploads and how most of them reference the first and controversial Puzzle Room upload, called "The Puzzle Room incident." There are a lot of details surrounding the first upload's content, its inspiration, and the YouTube channel's response to the negative reception that I believe is necessary to mention for context but should be condensed to an expandable explanation note because otherwise there will be too much explanation compared to previous entries in the running gag page.
I have also written an expandable explanation note for the SiIvaGunner page for "The Puzzle Room incident", also for Puzzle Room uploads for similar reasons.
Please advise: If I made an Explanation note for the Running Gag entry, can I use the same explanation note again? If not, then what is your suggestion other than rewriting the explanation?
openMaking a TV Tropes Page Web Original
How do I make a tropes page for my original crossover project, The Legacy of Dragons?

For the page Super Mario Logan Main Characters, the edit page gives you a suggestion saying that it’s becoming very long and it could lead to extensive load and save times. What would help is to make multiple pages to help slower internet users. Is it okay if I give one of the characters their own page? If so, what character? If not I would like to reorganize the character pages differently since Black Yoshi, Shrek, Woody, and Toad are no longer main characters since Jeffy started appearing.