What went wrong?
Allowing fanfiction examples.
ThatGuyWithTheGlasses turning into a site for their viral marketing
No citations
"Superman was invented in the 1930s by Ed Wood..."
If you don't have to back your info, you can write any old shit whether it's true or not.
Try to correct bad info? Get banned.
Same as Wikipedia: too many idiots, too little actual research
Removing Troper Tales.
Is this isn't the worst thing on the internet, I don't know what is:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Awesome/TheMysteriousMrEnter
>>78256932
Every time
>>78256957
RK9 is worst.
They got their shit together and stopped people from using it as their personal blog.
Oh wait, you said what went wrong.
>>78256837
not using a creative comons license
What went right? tvtropes was beset by faggotry from every angle. You cannot point to one fandom that took root and shat all over everything, because every godawful part of every godawful fandom had a hand.
>>78257026
forgot pic
>>78256837
I just use it to look to see if my fetishes showed up in any cartoons or comics.
It has other uses?
>>78256957
>MrEnter's handling of 4chan trolls
>their TGWTG pages
Too sterilized now, I like that it's less bloggy but they also phased out the weird charm a lot of trope pages had. And too PC.
This is actually what TVTropes thinks 4chan is like:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/YMMV/Imageboards
>>78257131
>broken archive
Does anyone know what post they were linking to?
>>78257177
>http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/YMMV/Imageboards
That's pretty true though
>>78256837
comicfags
>>78257243
He's everywhere
>>78256932
kars pls
You can measure how autistic a fanbase is by measuring how large a TV Tropes entry the show/comic/internet shit has.
>their DC Universe page quote is from Linkara
The siterunners being narcissistic yet incompetent assholes who ignored major problems until they blew up in their faces, or the mockery of their lax attitude towards them became too big and widespread to ignore. At that point, they'd employ half-assed solutions and have their sycophants actually enact them.
Oh, and the unofficial "punish the complainer, not the troublemaker" policy (there's no trouble if there's no one complaining about it!)
>>78257177
>/a/ and /co/
>I had high hopes for this series, but it just gets worse and worse with every new episode.
this is literally always true
everything on that page is true
Ex-Troper here.
The site was plagued with spotty moderation due to the site founder being kind of nuts when it came to a lot of things on the site, the mod team being inexperienced most of the time, a shitton of fetishy content that almost got the ads shut down.
There's also the fact that the site couldn't decide whether it wanted to be Wikipedia Lite or a loosely collected series of fandom blogs. If the mod team stuck with one or the other, at the very least, the userbase wouldn't be at each other's throats as much.
I haven't been back proper in years, but I hear that they got rid of Fast Eddie, and they cleaned up most of the fetish stuff when I left.
>>78257148
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FanFic/HookerVerse
>>78257307
>Oh, and the unofficial "punish the complainer, not the troublemaker" policy (there's no trouble if there's no one complaining about it!)
So... like 4chan?
>>78257380
have you ever been punished for reporting a thread?
>>78257363
>ex-troperr here
Kill yourself.
Have Fast Eddie's replacements actually done anything other than slightly redesign the website?
Like, where did the tens of thousands of dollars raised by that crowdfunding go?
You'd think that when Fast Eddie left they'd have at least unlocked and restored pages he got rid of (like Caligula) because they personally triggered him.
Same anon as >>78257363
>>78257307
The 'punish the complainer, not the troublemaker' shit was so real.
Some of the worst troublemakers on the site stayed around way longer than they should have because of that
>>78256837
It's fine for what it is.
>>78257411
>faggot here
I wonder if anyone even remembers why the article for FF7 was locked []for the last 5+ years[].
>>78256932
>>78257043
>>78257024
-Allowing fan-fiction examples
-Poor moderation
-The most autistic userbase of any website I've ever seen this side of a MLP wiki.
Seriously, it's a battleground between the internet's most obnoxious and insane fan communities. Homestuck, TGWTG, MLP, ect.
The only good thing about the site was laughing at Troper Tales, and you can't even do that anymore.
Just how big is the community there?
I always found it a bit insane how even the most obscure video games, cartoons, and books have huge articles.
>>78257177
>most of the users were pissed when moot seemingly deleted /pol/ just for being involved in a protest. Even worse was the fact that he mocked the /pol/ users the whole time before deleting the thread, basically making an ass out of himself
You just KNOW a /pol/lack wrote that
>>78257177
>420chan is mentioned like 20 times
What? Does anyone actually care about that place?
>>78256837
Started treating the website too seriously (while also allowing shit like bad fanfiction) and also people treating 'troper' as an actual identity, with it's own lexicon.
I mean, as shit as this site can get I doubt we get many people IRL calling themselves '4channers'.
>>78257565
I don't remember the last time I've seen the active tropers counter dip below 3000.
This is probably the worst thing they've ever done:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/DethroningMoment/TeenTitansGo
>>78256853
this seriously. What the fuck is the point of having fanfiction examples?
>Humans Are Bastards: 4Chan and Reddit are most notorious for their hateful vitriol, casual racism, sexism, and homophobia, an uncontrollable amount of cyberbullying, encouraging teenage suicide, and being seen as the nucleus of the most rotten aspects of internet and fan culture. The boards are treated with heavy scorn and disgust by those who do not frequent them. 4chan at least seems self-aware of it's reputation and engages in quite a bit of Self-Deprecation, but apparently prefers complete freedom with a higher than normal amount of assholes to a strictly controlled but nice site.
>encouraging teen suicide
>>78256957
>TheMysteriousMrEnter
Figuratively whom?
>>78257608
>DethroningMoments
Should change the name to "Whiny overly-sensitive, bitches"
>>78257651
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XPlIXCPCuc
>>78257641
Yeah half of this thing reads like a love letter and the other half reads like the person who wrote it has never visited 4chan, but "has heard a lot about it"
>>78257285
This.
>>78257641
>>78257682
It happened. Did you forget /b/ exists?
>>78257580
Doubt it. It's true. I was pretty pissed that /pol/ got deleted because then the racists started posting on other boards, particularly /int/ and /tv/. There's a reason why every board is an containment board. I do not want to listen to the insane opinions of /pol/ on any other board any more than I want to listen to the immature babble of /co/ on any other random board with taste.
>>78256837
Autism.
>>78257702
>There are people in 2015 who think /b/ is the center of 4chan culture
Thanks for reminding me anon.
Seriously what was the last popular meme to come out of /b/?
>>78257641
oh you just know a tumblrina wrote that
https://archive.is/Kce9y
>>78257669
>Flapjack
>Nothing but grossout humour
>Even dependent on it
I know it's Mr. Enter, but... has he ever watched Flapjack?
Ever?
>>78257751
When's the last time you heared "meme" used in a positive light on this site?
>>78257177
Jumping the Shark: Many users feel that the site has done this thanks to recent events. moot suddenly started unfairly enforcing rules he never bothered with before, brought in a bunch of new authoritarian mods, and deleted an entire board just for being involved in a protest. This is causing many users to flee 4chan for the newly-created 8 chan, which has much looser but more effective mods and doesn't discriminate.
>MANY users
>>78257702
/b/ is not the only part of 4chan. Hell it hasn't even done anything like that in ages and the cases I remember were specific ones.
It mentions Reddit as well, but not Tumblr. I suppose because the trope page or whatever they call it is a bit old? They're going on about moot deleting /pol/ and Reddit's mod issues as if they are very recent events.
>>78257380
>being a whiny bitch with little justification =\= legitimately complaining about an unjust policy, action, or trend
Just because you got banned for your "outspoken" opinion about something doesn't mean the complainer is always punished.
>>78257802
When was "dank memes" still popular here? April-July?
>>78257669
>He's so awful he makes the Nostalgia Critic look good
>>78257307
I remember wasting a whole day adding tropes on a show. I used citation everywhere and it looked pretty good, checked up on those pages afterwards and everything had mysteriously disappeared, only to be replaced by someone's shitty commentary.
Reported the issue and they shut me down, complained about it and I got my account deleted. The site runners always mishandled problems badly, and it got unbearable when the site became popular.
>>78257363
>they got rid of fast Eddie
How will they get to be member of the telvanni council now?
>>78257751
Anon, I don't think it's just the memes.
People on the outside that spend less than an hour on their computer a day think 4chan is the root of all evil on the internet, because /b/ has done somemostlyharmless things since it was created, and since most of them have no idea what the fuck a 4chan is, they mostly rely on other websites (news based ones in particular) to tell them just what it is.
And since it's the job of the news to cover the worst over the best in a situation.. 4chan kinda gets caught in the middle there.
I don't even think a news article has talked about the occasional good stuff people on 4chan have done (at least i don't think so), like /v/ sending get well soon cards to Satoru Iwata.
>>78256932
>developed past the evolutionary stage
He's removing himself from the gene pool.
>>78257947
>*unsheathes sword*
>>78257725
>4chan
>having taste
A percentage of posters have taste. The boards themselves are no more or less tasteless than the average anon that frequents them.So only /mlp/ and /vp/ are truly 100% tasteless. (Budum tss!)
>>78257890
Fargoth will be the mouth
>>78257368
... Gross.
>>78257947
TCCH, NOTHING PERSONAL KIDDO
>>78256837
I think the main problem was inviting every autist in the world in and letting them loose with no editorial control. The site might have stayed decent if every edit had to be approved by one guy, who deleted all the blatant trash.
Also: allowing fanfiction examples, allowing real life examples, allowing troper tales in any form whatsoever, and not putting in a hard upper limit for tropes per show and vice versa (about 20, so that leading autists actually have to pick relevant examples instead of listing everything that happened in all 1517 episodes of Ranma).
>>78257177
There are a fair amount of slip-ups but it wasn't nearly as cringy as I thought it was.
Hell, they're actually on point as to why /b/ fell from grace.
>>78258035
>letting some Bosmer townie be a Mouth on the council
Might as well join Hlaalu.
>>78257986
The best part about those two boards is that they're entertaining in the way they're probably not supposed to be, especially /vp/.
Most of the time you get ridiculous squabble and nonsensical posts from anons, and actual, purebred autism.
Like, not "I DON'T LIKE SOMETHING SO IT'S AUTISTIC" autism. Shit that actually fucking kills off your braincells when you read it.
>>78257363
>I hear that they got rid of Fast Eddie, and they cleaned up most of the fetish stuff when I left.
Speaking of him, what was his obsession with 'trolls'?
He wouldn't even allow a comment function on the forums because he said it made 'trolling too easy'. What was up with that?
Also, wasn't he like 50, despite writing like a fedora'd teen thinks 50 year olds write?
>>78257177
That's actually pretty accurate, except that they don't seem to understand that banning is completely meaningless on 4chan. It's less a punishment and more an opportunity for the neckbearded preteen in question to get off his fat ass for once so he can waddle into mom and dad's room and reset the modem.
>>78258130
/vp/ autism is the fucking best
>>78257641
>but apparently prefers complete freedom with a higher than normal amount of assholes to a strictly controlled but nice site.
>apparently
are they saying they wouldn't prefer freedom with a few assholes in the mix
>>78258213
>Mr. Rogers
Who?
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Memes/TVTropes
It kinda makes me ashamed that I used to post on the TV Tropes forums on a semi-regular basis. Just talking about shows and related stuff like here on /co/, not the really autistic discussions.
Then I got banned after the season 1 finale of the Legend of Korra, because I was posting "PLOTHOOOOOLES" whenever they had a contradiction.
Actually, that was probably the best time I had at TVT.
Also, looking back they had a near-religious obsession with TGWTG and the Whateleyverse. Almost every trope has some sort of link to them.
>>78257669
>He doesn't like it because it's dark
Why does he only like cartoons that are 100% saccharine all the time?
>>78258172
someone got b& for trolling on a certain shitty forum
What happened to the This Troper video series?
>>78258282
He's a comfyfag.
>>78258307
It's still there. There's just no new material anymore, obviously.
>>78257947
Can someone explain the use of "Freudian" here?
>>78258367
Nope.
>>78258112
>allowing real life examples
I don't think that was that bad, but they need to be specific and also regarding major events. And it does feed the troper obsession that real life acts according to tropes.
>>78258305
Never used the forums, man, and I understand banning people for being blatant about it, but he'd ban people for pretty much any old shit under the guise of trolling.
Especially questioning him or the mods.
>>78258367
Freudian usually refers to dick/incest jokes
>>78258269
Fred Rogers. The Neighborhood guy.
>>78258367
Knives are long and penetrate like a wang, I guess? That just raises further questions, though. Did he think that the muggers were secretly gave for him?
Of course, it's more likely he just wanted to sound smart and badass on the internet so made up a situation that never happened with some words that he doesn't understand.
Very shallow and pedantic.
>>78258269
Kids TV show host. Extremely good person, on air and off. When he died a few years back people kept looking for some kind of dirty laundry, anything.
Nope. Nothing. He really was just a legitimately good person, the kind of person people like to pretend they are.
>>78258352
I know. I just wanted to know why the guy stopped.
>>78256837
>And of course, calling someone a faggot. No, they aren't calling you gay, unless they call you a "literal faggot". On 4chan the term is pretty much just synonymous with "idiot" or "drama queen". This is ignoring all the homophobic implications of the term, its being defended as an acceptable insult, and its prevalence therein, of course.
What a bunch of fags. They didn't even mention nigger.
>>78258112
It wasn't exactly real life examples, it was real life examples that begin with 'This troper...'
>>78258280
>being a plotholesfag
Literally the most autist criticsm of fiction you can have, it's why that Confused Matthew guy hates so much stuff.
>Also, looking back they had a near-religious obsession with TGWTG and the Whateleyverse
What the fuck even was the Whateleyverse, anyway? From reading the wiki, you'd guess it had a Homestuck level obnoxious fandom but I've never seen anything about it save for on TvTropes itself.
>>78258520
>defended as an acceptable insult
I get the point of calling out racists and homophobes and shit, but is there really such a thing as an 'acceptable insult'? Insults are generally meant to upset and offend, they're not nice things in general.
>>78257161
>Too sterilized now, I like that it's less bloggy but they also phased out the weird charm a lot of trope pages had
This. Half the fun was the autism. Their mistake was trying to treat it like a serious resource.
>>78258259
Uh yeah? Have you forgotten that Tumblrinas freak out whenever they leave their "safe space" aka their little shithole where they exercise total control. They hate it when something conflicts with what they believe.Not too different from /pol/ but /pol/ is willing to argue with you. Tumblr coined mansplaining so they could just discredit you without addressing your argument
>>78257368
>An alternate universe series created by emeriin (although other authors enjoy playing in it and the Kink Meme has contributed considerably), this universe sees the That Guy with the Glasses and Channel Awesome team as owners, employees and patrons of a seedy club in an even seedier world.
>>78258574
>plot holes
Yeah, at the time that was the only criticism I could think up. Still, many problems can stem from an incoherent plot.
And the Whateleyverse is apparently a series of TG webcomics or something, like The Wotch or El Shivish Goon. Always confused it with the Walkyverse, especially when I got here.
Anyway, the point is to never underestimate a group of TG fanatics who have to scour the Internet to find examples of their fetish, because they will post it everywhere.
>>78258610
By aceptable I'm guessing their tumblr approved words like "shitlord". But if you can't take being called a nigger or a faggot you probably are an underage b& anyway.
>>78258489
I agree, shallow and pedantic.
>>78257177
>int/, while very diverse in their international shitflinging, all agree on picking on Sweden, Britain, Canada, India, and Russia.
Why Britain? Also, it's forgetting Portugal.
>>78256932
>primitiv atavism
Every time.
>>78258172
Definitely up there in age.
And I don't know about the comment function. no one knows. I've asked people who were mods and they don't know.
We just don't know
>>78256837
People started using the site as a winning formula to write their plots.
>>78258679
Britbong here, I don't know.
Have to get going, though, I hear the minarets calling me to prayer.
>>78258798
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuAYqgb3wuI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aO9Gkc1gJg
I can think of a few reasons
very much /co/ related
http://imgur.com/gallery/XQiL6/new
>>78256932
moar
>>78259426
>http://imgur.com/gallery/XQiL6/new
hahaha sorry about your ban
>>78259537
Not me, its still garbage though
Didn't they move all the fetish fuel entries, or the troper tales entries, so their own website or wiki or something? I tried to look for it a while ago but didn't find anything of the sort.
>>78256837
Too many stupid people with too much time on their hands trying to impress their stupid internet fandoms with how much bullshit they can fill a page with, relevance or accuracy be damned.I edited TV Tropes for years before giving up. There's just too much shit to sift through a clean up for the few sane people left
>>78258274
>>78259426
fucking terrible
>>78258274
>>78259552
Yep.
I've checked them out, it's mostly 'hey, isn't Jessica Rabbit hot', but the bizarre thing is the large articles that a lot of TGWTG personalities have.
http://fetishfuel.wikia.com/wiki/Atop_The_Fourth_Wallit's real
>>78259426
>that anti-sjw rant in slut-shaming
>>78259705
>>78259551
>http://imgur.com/gallery/XQiL6/new
TVT mods are shit, but the "AGENDAS!!!" hand-wringing from the gallery creator is insufferable.
>>78256837
The answer is as simple as ~Autism~
The idea of documenting recurring patterns in common media isn't necessarily a bad one, but tvtropes shows that making it an open-source wiki-style resource just leaves it open to ignorant kids and the dangerously autistic kinds of NEETs that spend their lives watching MLP and masturbating in their parents' basements. This is also a good demonstration as to why most media-related boards on this site, including /co/, are frequently shit
>>78259705
This fucking wiki holy shit
>>78259705
A) How the fuck could anybody hold any sort of attraction to Linkara? The man fucking oozes repellent from every pasty, doughy inch of his body. I understand that probably none of the people there are great catches themselves but damn, how can ANYBODY have low enough standards to idolize fucking linkara?
B) I hope they're ready to get rejected by their idol if they're not a pre-op tranny.
>>78259426
I kinda understand why, even if I agree with your point, you aren't supposed to rant so blatantly. It comes of as immature and makes it obvious that it's just one guy's opinion.
>>78259823
Yeah, you could have just taken the reference to rape culture out of the article. Putting 'alleged' in front of it is just asking for shitpost wars.
>>78259787
It's not the post that's creeping me the fuck out, so much as the response immediately underneath.
What the fuck.
>>78259818
>how can ANYBODY have low enough standards to idolize fucking linkara?
Same reason a lot of autists make Sonic fetish porn, I guess.
Why do autists make their porn out of completely non-sexual children's cartoons, anyway?
>>78259930
Check the filename. I agree.
Though why put it under fetish fuel? Like this shit.
>>78259934
Can't move out of their childhoods, so they try to satisfy their urges by sexualizing it.
>>78259818
>WAS GETTING CAUGHT PART OF YOUR PLAN
HOLY FUCK I'M DYING
>>78257918
>like /v/ sending get well soon cards to Satoru Iwata.
To be fair, look how well that turned out.
>>78258322
>flapjack
>gross-out humor
>>78260013
How did that turn out?
>>78257918
>I don't even think a news article has talked about the occasional good stuff people on 4chan have done (at least i don't think so), like /v/ sending get well soon cards to Satoru Iwata.
Don't forget when /v/ bought all those copies of W101 and sent the pictures of them to Kamiya. When the community gets behind something they genuinely care about (like /tg/ with homebrews, or here on /co/ with our storytimes and secret santa exchange), we can do some great things.
>>78260045Iwata died earlier this year
It went from being a kind of tongue in cheek wikipedia to becoming a thousand times as anal retentive.
I guess that's what happens when you put spergs in charge of having fun.
>>78257639
So they can link their own autismal fan works.
Also, I love that there are webcomics that only TVTropes seems to actually read, like EGS and Misfile, and they appear on every trope page.
>>78260045
Iwata died of complications in surgery.
>>78260076
>>78260084
Oh I know that, but I was assuming something cringy happened like the time /v/ visited valve.
They got rid of Troper Tales, Innocent Panties and the examples from the Panty Shots page.
>>78260080
EGS is kind of popular.
>>78257918
I write for a comic book academic journal and I've been toying with the idea of writing a piece about my experience on /co/ mainly the positive aspects of things that happen here.
>>78260114
With weirdo transformation fetishists like TVTropes, yeah.
Other than that, no.
I remember a point in time where every forum I frequented would refer to the moral of a story as the "Aesop." And I hated it.
>>78257183
Not showing up on Desu either.
>>78258274
I love how they didn't start about 80% of those.
>>78260175
There are still people on /co/ who use TVTropes speak and it annoys me every single time I see it.
Mostly I get mad at myself for being able to recognize it, though.
I think the worst ones were the pages that used Japanese words for trope names, like Nakama.
>>78260142
The guy in charge of it gets like 3k a month off of patreon. Don't think that's whale-based either.
>>78260231
For some of them it's dumb, yes, but "Nakama" I don't really have a problem with. "Comrades" is a good English equivalent, but it's got those Soviet socialist connotations in modern times now.
>>78260208
>>78257183
The fact that you can't find it anywhere and no one remembers it shows that, whatever it was, his 'handling of 4chan trolls' was obviously shit-tier.
>>78260263
>>78260231
Why not 'My Niggas'
>>78260278
Because TV Tropes is filled with tumblrinas and they'd find that offensive
>>78260303
ooh snap sick burn
>>78260264
I understand that, I still want to witness how shit it was.
>>78258639
The funny thing about tumblr is that it's a disorganized mess of blogs. The feature that filters what's on your dashboard is as close to baords as they get. So the SJ types are /pol/, but for tumblr. A lot people, here and there, have noticed things like this. I for one see tumblr as 4chans sister-site. A reflection of everything here. Think about it.
>4chan is probably 3/4 men
>tumblr is probably 3/4 women
>both have an extremist political minority that refuses to see the world realistically, and seeks to sway the future to their ideals
>both have a majority of posters that like gay porn of the opposite sex of the majority, as well as porn of the opposite sex with sexual organs of the majority sex (futa/fuccboi)
>both have a lot of stupid fucking jokes, puns, and shit/fun-posts, comments, and general site-wide humor that the average person would probably be offended or confused by
>both agree and understand Reddit is shit
>both hate, misunderstand, or distrust the other site for the superficial appearance of the aforementioned extremist political minority
And despite ALL of that, I still wouldn't be caught dead with a tumblr account. The navigation is too shit to deal with and their file size limit is ridiculous. I heard it was still only 2mb.
>>78260369
>slur tw
>>78260369
>it's not my job to educate you = stop asking for spoonfeeding and lurk more
Holy shit how did I never make this connectionif someone asking you for a source, either in an argument or for entertainment, upsets you, then you're probably a bit of a cunt
>>78260407
I bet $10 that was ironic. And to get it to show up on sj/pol/
My favorite.
>>78260105
Nah, 4chan boards are oddly good at sending letters. Even /b/ managed to curb their autism during the William J Lashua thing
>>78260369
Remember when 4chan and tumblr got shipped, back when it was mostly known for being for hipsters?
I remember there was one Troper Tale about a guy who thought he was impressive for snapping pencils in a fit of anger. If I remember correctly though everyone else thought it was the funniest thing in the world because it was so stupid.
>>78260369
When was the last time any one said Tits or gtfo?
>>78260330
Scroll down a bit and look at his "giving troll an epic burn"
>>78260502
It's been too long
>>78260472
Oh man I forgot about him. Apparently he passed away in 2013
>>78260500
You forgot the funniest part.Didn't even snap all of them, had to get his older brother to snap some of the harder ones
>>78260440
>I'll take "Things that Never Happened" for 200, Alex.
>>78260543
You know, in retrospect, that post is pretty cringey.
>If i can pontificate a bit, for your edification
jeez
>>78260589
You don't have to dumb down everything.
>>78260431
Just looked at the tumblr, and you're probably right. Fucking unbearable shit though.
>>78260231
>I think the worst ones were the pages that used Japanese words for trope names, like Nakama.
Why do weebs do this, anyway? It's fucking baffling, especially since it's usually not even originally a japanese cliche. They do it with the images too. I'm not going to go dredge through the site for current examples but I remember awhile ago that some autist was seriously hardcore pushing to get The Count (sesame street) taken off "Friendly Neighbourhood Vampire" and replaced with a generic moeblob that looked absolutely nothing like a vampire.
>>78260605
And you don't have to spruce up everything, either.
>>78256837
Didn't Something Awful have 5 billion threads about that site?
>>78260589
Yeah but that was done with self-awareness. It's meant to sound pretentious and douchey
>>78256837
>>78260654
Yeah, SA was one of the first websites to start shining a light on TVT's dark underbelly. It pissed Fast Eddie off something fierce, and presumably kickstarted his "TROLLS, TROLLS EVERYWHERE!" episodes.
>>78257463
I wonder how long it will take for them to perma-lock the page for the upcoming remake. Probably happen before it's even released.
Found this on Deader Than Disco:
>/b/, one of the many boards on 4chan. In the late 2000s it was the internet's boogeyman, a central hub of memes and a force to be reckoned with. Its relevance and creative output in the '10s has dropped off significantly, both inside and outside of 4chan. There are a number of reasons this happened: the board found itself flooded with new users (many of them adolescents and teenagers) because of its reputation, many of the older users moved on to other boards (this created a cycle of newer users coming/older users going at a consistent rate), the board had a tendency to isolate itself from the rest of the site, and unlike other prominent boards that have evolved over time, /b/ has pretty much remained the same as it was around 2007, minus the rage comics. All of this pretty much assured that they get left behind as other boards moved on and influenced the site as a whole. /v/, /mu/, and /co/, while also experiencing a drop in relevance, still provide enough output to keep them in the scene, while /sp/, /fit/, /tv/, and /int/ have since stepped up as the more prominent boards of the site and have entered golden ages of their own. What was once 4chan's very core has now become an irrelevant pest in the eyes of other users.
>>78260860
>/sp/, /fit/, /tv/, and /int/ have since stepped up as the more prominent boards of the site and have entered golden ages of their own
>>78260895
>This thread reminds me of how Kylo Ren is Luke's new apprentice and he has him execute Han.
I see this spoiler everywhere and I'm unaware if it's true or not. I'm hoping it's not because that's some fanfiction tier shit right there.
>>78259818
Remember when Linkara tried to deny that Iron Liz was a pre-op tranny, despite Iron Liz saying otherwise? And was that last time Linkara attempted an actual joke, like with a set-up and a punchline instead of a WACKY reaction to something in a comic? Last I could think of was like 2008.
And the fact his movie is so fucking horrendous and people still adore him horrifies me.
>>78260860
>golden age
>baneposting
My head hurts
>>78261485
What's with his review show having so many fucking storylines?
Storylines that he takes seriously, at that.
>>78261485
>tfw remember the days /co/ loved him
Dark times. Dark times.
>>78261565
God, I remember the big eldritch horror being he had been building up for like 2 -3 years, the "Big Bad" behind all his dumb stories, turned out to Missing No. from fucking Pokemon?
I was able to make a clean break after that.
>>78260369
>your fave is problematic = your waifu is shit
Probably just salty about having a shit waifu to be frank.
>>78261668
>you didn't make the break when this shit happened
He did this and thought he looked cool doing it
>>78260878
some one go tell /sp/, /fit/, /tv/, this see what they think
>>78259818
Pictures like this make me really kind of scared of all the weird things I've posted on various sites over the years
It got rid of loli.
>>78261668
>>78261710
>Watching out of force of habit
>Discover fremdschamen firsthand as he enacts increasingly, worryingly elaborate storylines
>Drags his parents into acting in shit, dresses up in more and more costumes, crossovers
I think I stopped at the Power Rangers costume. Linkara leaked autism like Chernobyl leaked radiation.
Almost as bad as his History of Power Rangers rants.
>>78257918
>I don't even think a news article has talked about the occasional good stuff people on 4chan have done
Does this count?
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/28/isis-fighters-rubber-ducks-reddit-4chan
>>78261783
Overall nobody really cares that much even if you get famous, at most it's just an interesting bit of trivia and something that may actually deepen the fan's appreciation, since sympathy to embarrassment is one of the things that draws people together. And if someone does notice and spread it around, all it takes to defuse the issue is to say "yep, I was a fucking moron, go ahead and laugh at me because goddamn that was a retarded thing I did" like how totalbiscuit wrote off his embarrassingly stupid SA rant about how much smarter he is then dumb atheists with his 150 IQ and law school degree.
The only time posts like that get dug up and passed around forever is when the way the person acts today is totally contradictory to the old posts and they try to bury it and refuse to apologize, like Ian Miles Cheong's neo-nazi teenage years or Dobson's inflation days or Linkara wanting to suck big black cock despite being totally not gay and 100% straight and also a good christian conservative man.
>>78258322
But Flapjack is one of the most comfiest shows CN has ever put out.
>>78262132
Yeah but what if it involved being aBendis fan
>>78258501
His car was stolen from the station lot once. The day after it made the news the car turned back up in the lot with a note saying "I didn't know it was yours"
>>78261507
>The fire rising
>Not a golden age
>>78257275
One man legion.
>>78257918
>People on the outside that spend less than an hour on their computer a day
People who actually use full-on computers to access the internet have GOT to be in the minority at this point, right?
>>78258244
>That screencap
Jesus, isn't there a rule that you have to be 18 to post on this website?
>>78262801
Apparently it's not enforced on /vp/
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=rpwbbt9wa34u21yr6nrxbp7d&page=1
Still the best part of the site.
>>78261710
>Wearing a fedora and trenchcoat over a Power Rangers costume
Just get a tattoo on your forehead saying "I have no self-awareness whatsoever."
>>78262872
Half of these guys think they're Joss Whedon, and the other half apparently write fiction like fucking forum RP's.
>>78260559
Or it did, and it was less "this troper instilled in him true fear" and more "if I beat up an autist it might end up on the news"
>>78263104
I suppose that's technically true, seeing how I've heard Whedon's writing style described as "equal parts smug and high-functioning autistic."
>>78262872
>"Grr...! You are a fat bastard!!!"
>"Now now, my dear. I don't make comments about your height, so don't do the same about my weight."
>“Subtlety? What is this subtlety of which you speak?”
>“Your front door was locked, so we kicked it in. Scientifically.”
>“We have a very simple solution for such problems.”
>“Such as?”
>“Hit them with something heavy, preferably sharp. Then keep hitting them until they stop moving. Alternatively, shoot them.”
>"Zombies named Jorge!" (pronounced Hor-hay) And.. It makes sense in context honest!
>Tsundere (After an Anguished Declaration of Love from a Dogged Nice Guy):
>"... Are you threatening me?"
>"Nothing is what you think it is. This city, the government, your life; they're all lies."
>"Huh. Well, from where I'm standing, it looks pretty clear-cut. This is me, this is my kitchen and you are the psycho who is about to get booted out the front door."
>Context: The Complete Monster of a Knight Templar is being confronted by the Properly Paranoid Conspiracy Theorist nerd of a hero and his superheroine girlfriend for making normal people into an army of cyborg soldiers.
>"How? How could you ruin the lives of so many people?"
>"The superhumans are a threat to the human race... I believe a favorite logician of yours said it best- 'The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one.'"
>"You must've stopped watching. Because the entirety of the Search for Spock was dedicated to proving that wasn't true. He's all yours, Steph."
>"Viva la France, bitch!"
>Again, no context for you.
>Big Bad: "You are like insects to me!"
>Hero: "And you are about to find out why entomophobia is so common."
>>78263173
>equal parts smug and high-functioning autistic
Isn't that a redundant statement?
>>78263235
Only at its most annoying.
The thing with TvTropes, I think, is that their memes don't cycle.
4chan threads die. Tumblr and Reddit posts get forgotten/downvoted. But TvTropes shit just stays static. Their memes never become cringeworthy old jokes replaced by newer ones. That's why the whole site is littered with 'everyone is Haruhi and also Deadpool and also a Time Lord' and Real Life seen as a work of fiction.
>>78262850
>tfw not proud of your power
>>78262872
>Hero: "OK, so you're stronger than me and faster than me, but I can still win."
>Dragon: "Going to try that power of friendship nonsense?"
>Hero: "No, just the power of a lower standard of victory. I don't care whether I can stand up after this fight, but what happens if I weaken you enough for one of your subordinates to kill you?"
>Having just been saved by what's obviously a dragon...
>"You’re a dragon," he finally said.
>"My, how very observant of you dear!"
>"Oh-Em-Gee!"
>"Correction, Oh-Em-Eff-Gee."
>One of my favorites; so my protagonist has a spineless bureaucrat pinned up against the wall at gunpoint and the following scene results...
>Bureaucrat: "You can't do this...I've got friends, connections-"
>Morgan: "Such might avenge you...<gun cock> but none will save you now, should I pull this trigger."
>Person: Bunnies are really fluffy! :D
>Electra: And Tasty! :D
>Person: Nuuuuuuuu! Unless they piss me off, otherwise Nuuuuuuu!
>"Fuck that!" - The Protagonist Death Seeker saying right before he was about to allow the villain to kill him. (Which he says in English, and he's Japanese in the story and only speaks it formally.) to which the villain replies "Oi! You speak English, I've been speaking Japanese this entire time and you speak English!" (He's an Australian English speaker.)
>“Damned bloody right we heard her,” Claire said as she put her helmet on. “So let’s go. It’s the last dungeon, boys and girls. Don’t count on finding a save point.”
>“This had better not be like one of your roleplaying games,” Josefine warned as she gave her rifle a final check. “They never end well. Either everybody dies, or it turns out to be a total mindfuck.”
>"Ever since the world had started to end, things had been looking up for Ol' Yorkenheimer."
>Spoken by naked Thomas Jefferson to a time traveler in drag
>"I call it... The smooth handle."
>"DIE MONSTEEERRRR!!!"
>>78256837
Literally making everything its own trope
>>78262850
okay i go on /vp/ every once and awhile (mostly for showderp) but what the fuck is this guy talking about?
>>78263210
>"Viva la France, bitch!"
Reminds me of Force Monkeys. I can't remember why I ever read that webcomic in the first place, but there were a few decent strips in there.
>>78263416
In the games Pokemon get personalities which dictates what stats grow and at what rate.
>>78262850
Kek. This never gets old.
>>78263416
Pokémon have little flavor text in their stats that depends on their IVs. Shit like "sleeps a lot". "Likes to trash about" means it has perfect attack IVs.
>>78256837
That people like this are allowed to post
>Why Not Now: For me, Team Four Star has never sunk so low in their entire history than to have Krillin make an abortion joke in episode 44. An abortion joke! Really? Really?! At a time when women are constantly losing control over their bodies and facing the very real possibility of having a forced birth at least once in their lifetimes, making a joke that distracts the viewer from what is supposed to be comedic parody and brings us back to an increasingly worsening and depressing world was just plain all-around unfunny. This is a real, serious, and complicated issue that needs to be discussed, and like the ignorant sexists themselves who promote such views, Team Four Star reduced it to an insultingly childish level of simplicity, and that's just pathetic.
>Dr Zulu 2010: I enjoyed episode 1 for the most part, but even I have no liking to what they did to Carla AKA Eren's mother. Anyone who read the manga or watches the anime know that her death kickstart Eren's vengeful crusade against the titans. However, in the abridged version, her entire character is just a joke about her saying nothing than "Hmm Hmm". Yes! Carla's entire shtick in the whole 3 minutes of screentime is her saying "Hmm Hmm" over and over again. Come on. Faulerro's Null Metal Alchemist gave Trisha the same amount of screentime and she has more personality and more of a character than Carla. I don't expect her to be deep or well written, especially in a condensed adaptation of five episodes of the series, but Team Four Star should know better than having her saying just "Hmm Hmm".
>>78263416
If you're not aware, every Pokemon (as in every individual, not species) has one of like, two dozen personality descriptions, which correlate to a set of bonus stats that aren't normally displayed (IVs).
"Likes to Thrash About" is tied to the best IVs Lucario can have. This autistic Anon thinks of the personality description as if his Lucario is real and it's actually describing it's behavior.
>>78263538
its behaviour
>>78263538
I'd like to think he's just that into roleplaying
Comics and cartoons.
>>78261783
You should be fine, Anon. Just don't become a moderately successful Internet reviewer and them make waves with your obnoxious attitude and Puritanical claims.
>>78262274
Go to the dungeons Anon.
>>78263235
High-functioning autistics, in my experience, are more eager than smug.
>>78263309
The scars of TV Tropes's pony phase still remain. They're on every page now, usually about three-quarters down in the Western Animation section.
>>78256853
Maybe, but at least 10% of their given examples are absolutely worthwhile. I'd've never found some great fics without their help. The other 90% though...
>>78257725
/pol/ got deleted? when? It was old /new/ that got deleted
>>78263457
>>78263473
>>78263538
oh okay, I knew about IVs, i frequent showdown but I haven't actually been able to front up some money for a real game in awhile so i didn't know there was desriptions correlating to them.
>>78264072
Back when I went to that site I found one worthwhile fanfic, and you wouldn't even call it that really because it was for D&D. I only remember it for the authors ability to perfectly capture the feel of a shounen fightmans manga in text.
>>78264321
What was it called? Now I'm curious.
> tfw I liked the idea of tvtropes
> I learn there's a community where they discuss comics
> make an account
> stay there for a few days
> get the heck outta there
> If you google the handle I use about everywhere, a shitty joke I made on the TVT forums is now one of the first results
>>78264340
Looked it up again, it was called Adventuring for Dummies. It's still on the fanfic recs page for tabletop Dungeons and Dragons.
Shit, It's been 10 years.
>>78264397
It's not on fanfiction.net anymore m8
>>78256837
Everyone's head is up their asses.
Fine for somewhere like here, Reddit, blogs, etc., but this is a "comprehensive" (as they keep asserting in a frequently smug-feeling way) Wiki were talking about
>>78264467
That thing they link to isn't it either.
Just imagine if the guy behind One Piece ran a D&D campaign. A guy takes half steps in 7 league boots to kick peoples asses. At one point the bard stares at his reflection and bluffs himself so hard he become a barbarian to win a fight. Silly, creative shit like that.
-Use of italics for emphasis
-Their stupid inside jokes like BRIAN BLESSED or whatever the fuck
-The same sarcastic tone on every single page
-Their use of italics of emphasis.
-Their stupid as shit terminology like "subverted" that they all think make them sound sophisticated.
-The endless unnecessary captions of people thinking that they're being hilarious
-Seriously, if any troper is reading this, please fuck off with the fucking italics.
>>78264385
>If you google the handle I use about everywhere, a shitty joke I made on the TVT forums is now one of the first results
Do you know how much dumb shit I posted on SA when I was 13? I shudder to think what would happen if I ever ran for public office. At least that retardation is probably hidden behind a paywall.
>>78256837
A TVTropes article is a piece of fiction with everything that makes it worth experiencing removed. Once you realise this the site gets very boring, very quickly.
>>78258269
Some faggot that nobody likes.
>>78264625
I /could/ fuck but I'd rather not.Just kidding, I don't edit "TVTripes"
>>78258274
TVTrope memes are slightly worse than reddit memes.
>>78260133
So you don't intend to write anything?
>>78264611
Compare the page size for any given Shakespearian play or classic film to the page for a flavor-of-the-month anime sometime. Or don't, if you value your belief in a just, loving world.
Just for an experiment, I decided to compare Shakespeare to Sword Art Online. Ctrl-Fing suggests that Hamlet's main page has around 160 examples, and it's something of an outlier (King Lear has about a third that). Meanwhile, the characters page for just Kirito has around 170 examples.
So... yeah, according to TV Tropes, the bland, overpowered protagonist of a flash-in-the-pan anime that everybody stopped caring about after about six months is worth greater analysis and compiling than one of the most famous and enduring works to ever be written in English.
>>78260278
Because then you sound like an autistic 12 years old kid from the suburbs
