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openExploding TNT Web Original
Exploding TNT is one of the "millions-subscribers-popular" personalities on You Tube, And yet, the only person to attempt creating a proper "Web Video/Exploding TNT" article left it a poorly formatted stub with no examples, leading to its deletion. I implore you to respond: it safe to re-create this page?
open Complain-y edit on Twitter Web Original
With Twitter now doubled their character count to some users (I havn't have that yet as of 2017/10/01), as I was editing the page to tweak out the recent edit from a user named reterusu, I left out this part out of reluctance to remove it and had to consult to you guys about it first:
I think it's more of a Broken Base than a metaphorical shark jump for having 280 characters, (I myself kinda like that idea. 280 is more than enough to add more tags.) but I'll let you think about it more. I intentionally left that sentence because I thought to myself that removing that might start a potential Edit War.
EDIT: Changed some instances of "this troper" to "I to avoid confusion.
EDIT 2: I wasn't being clear here. My bad. The 'this troper' to 'I' edit" was for this thread only.
Edited by alnair20aug93openLe Tropeur de l'Extrême Web Original
So I produce this show on You Tube (it's in French, but I'm working on English subtitles, less than halfway done as of today), where I basically explain Tropes to a french audience, and of course, Tv Tropes is the basis for most of my work. I've been a long time Tv Tropes user, from afar, but never created an account. I just thought now that it would be nice if I could create a page for my show, seeing as how it would never have existed without Tv Tropes. Problem is : I have NO idea how to do that. Could someone explain to me how to create a page for a media ?
openCleanup thread for web originals? Web Original
I seem to remember there being a thread for cleaning up Web Original series that drifted into troping Real Life. I can't seem to find that thread though. Anyone got a link to it?
openProtonjon live streams funny page Web Original
After reviewing the page https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Funny/ProtonJonLivestreams
, I noticed that the Fortune Cookie streams folder has become colossal in scope, eclipsing most of the rest of the page. At one point should we consider moving Fortune Cookie moments to their own page?
open Vampire series? Web Original
I used to watch a vampire web series on youtube (this is back in the twilight obsession days) by a channel or company that had their own website. I actually entered a vampire video contest of theirs back in the day. I think the channel/website starts with a T. I cannot remember the name of the series or channel yet I wanted to reminisce a bit. Does anyone has any ideas about what I could be talking about? The series has to be 2007-2009 range.
openWhat does it go under? Web Original
DC Super Hero Girls is getting a tv show next year. So, should what should it be classified under? Web Animation as it currently is, Western Animation, or Franchise?
open Ratio of Main Characters to have? Web Original
I'm making a video series where countries of the world fight each other, form empires and alliances, collapse, etc. as in this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4RzAqhAlYI
What ratio of countries should be focused on and actually affect the story? Each country is a character - I'm not focusing on individual people.
Edited by LisbonMappingopenSBIH Fan Films That No Longer Exist Web Original
On the So Bad, It's Horrible sub-page for Fan Fims, some of the entries listed include fan films that no longer exist. They were taken offline at some point and no one bothered to upload a mirror link. In a situation where there's no copies or reviews, should we still list deleted Fan Films out of posterity?
openYahoo! Web Original
Seems the page has tropes about Answers and other features and nothing more. Nothing about a little bit of history other than it was acquired by Verizon this year.
EDIT: The Verizon part is the only thing I knew of, and that's the one I added.
Edited by alnair20aug93openWebVideo/StxclusivePrettyLittleLiars appears to be set as an index Web Original
It looks like Stxclusive Pretty Little Liars is set as an index. I'm not sure if that's something I can fix, or if it needs a mod?
openRestoring Cut Item: Horrible.WebOriginal Web Original
Hi guys, I have a little suggestion to make. I would like to restore the so bad it's horrible sub-page off from the Permanent Red Link Club with an additional rule; if anyone tries to make an edit war again, they will be banned up to 1 or 3 and a half weeks. No buts or ifs.
openWebsite/GameFaqs- No Trope Examples Web Original
The GameFAQs page looks more like Useful Notes page, and there are no trope examples listed. Why is that? Also, should the page be a Useful Notes page if there are no examples?
Edited by bradleya1234openDoes This Violate No Real Life Examples? Web Original
I added an entry into Police Are Useless for The Last Podcast on the Left, but only afterward did I realize that the trope is in the No Real Life Examples, Please! index. I now have two questions: does the following violate NRLEP? If so, do I take it off the works page, too?
- The Last Podcast on the Left:
- The hosts often note times when police ineffectiveness is a major factor in how long a serial killer goes without getting caught. For example, in the Dean Coril series, they note the Huston police were underfunded and understaffed so much that, as a result, they actively avoided investigating things like homicides and shut down a victim's family when they provided a letter written by their missing son that they suspect was faked, but which Missing Persons took as evidence he was no longer missing.
- They also note occasions when a killer was caught by dumb luck or mistakes rather than anything police did. Leonard Lake and Charles Ng, for instance, were only found out when Lake was held for questioning for an act of compulsive shoplifting by Ng, and police never suspected anything serious until Lake killed himself while in custody.
The trope is discussed on the show, but on the context of real life events (which I included so they wouldn't be purely general examples).
If this does violate NRLEP, could I rewrite the example to state that the hosts hold this view and then describe a character they created, Detective Popcorn, as a way to mock them?
Edited by sgamer82openSelf-Pimping: "Radio For Gamers" Web Original
User DJ_MixDoctor has created a page and four wicks to it for his own podcast, "Radio For Gamers." He isn't even trying to be sneaky about it (the page and one of the wicks leading to it are written in first-person), which tells me he probably just doesn't know how we do things here. I'd provide a link to the podcast itself as well, but in spite of all this he hasn't actually linked to it at any point or even said where it's hosted.
Edited by Dirtyblue929openMay I create a page for my little-known, foreign language, partially unfinished Wattpad books? Web Original
Exactly What It Says On The Tin. I'd love to ceate a page for my books and see what tropes there are in them (and share them with others), but I'm not sure if little-known works are allowed here. Is there a place where you can create the page for your own, small work? Also, several of my books are unfinished, so that might be a problem too.
openAdding pictures to body of page Web Original
A user added pictures to the body of several of the Rwby pages (funny, heartwarming, nightmare fuel, awesome) and reverted them on one page when another user deleted them, they've left a note saying to leave the pictures alone until it's resolved on the discussion page, but they haven't started a conversation on any of them and hasn't joined a discussion I was having with the user that deleted the pictures to argue for including them on the page. Is there a procedure for dealing with the issue since deleting them will probably result in an edit war?
openAdding example to YMMV page Web Original
bobg
added an example of Critical Research Failure to YMMV.Death Battle
, despite there being a comment saying not to add specific examples of it. They brought up a legitimate reason for their edit, but they did break a rule posted on the page, so I don't know if I should delete it or not.
openA question of formatting. Web Original
I'm trying to include some YMMV tropes that are being discussed by a journalist/pundit in his web series. Some of them, like Waggle, are technically YMMV tropes. Should I leave them on the main page, or move them to the YMMV page, if they are not listing examples of the tropes themselves but points at which the creator discusses them? If I should leave them where they are, is there a specific tag, like In-Universe, I should use to disable the YMMV prompt?
Edited by SpectralTime

I have an entry I want to add to In Spite of a Nail but I wasn't sure it counted, due to having a bit of an Entry Pimp habit when it's a series I like a lot, so I'm trying to get it vetted. I haven't had any luck in Trope Talk, either with the Is This an Example Thread or a dedicated thread
on the matter, so I thought I'd try here.
I've only gotten one response on the matter, from Fighteer
, who said that the two worlds/timelines involved seemed to different than was normally allowed under the trope. The question I've been pondering since is, isn't that the point? My understanding of the trope is that despite the differences involved between two universes or real life and the fictional setting, certain significant events still occur more or less the same? I've gone through a few versions, but this is the most recent version of the entry.
Any and all help is appreciated.
- In the Red Panda Adventures episode "The World Next Door" and its Sequel Episode, "A Dish Best Served Cold" a time traveler from an Alternate Timeline's World War II named Baboon McSmoothie convinces the Depression era Red Panda to help him steal the prototype of an invention that would one day become a major part of the Nazi war effort by offering him the case file of a Villain Team-Up that killed his Red Panda's Flying Squirrel. It's noted in-universe that there are enough differences between the two worlds, such as the Red Panda's costume being different, the alternate Flying Squirrel being a teenage boy instead of an adult woman, and three out of five members of the Villain Team-Up being either Gender Flipped or having different identities entirely, that neither the Red Panda nor McSmoothie are sure how much, if any, of the file's information will be relevant. Despite these differences, the conference the prototype was to be displayed at, the Villain Team-Up, and eventually World War II itself, all occur across both timelines. The conference in particular is part of the reason the main universe was picked for McSmoothie's heist in the first place, besides avoiding a Temporal Paradox.
Edited by sgamer82