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Uncanny Valley said:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale

*tips fedora*
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Funny thing is, that trope used to be called "Rape Is Okay If It's Female On Male". All tropes with similar names got a rename when Eddie was doing his poorly thought out purge. He initially tried to hide them, doing so in such a way all one had to do was change the URL slightly and they could still be found in their raw source format, then restored them with a greatly sanitized version of each after feminists crawled his case about making it seem like TV Tropes was trying to pretend rape didn't exist in fiction.
 
Keep an eye on their proposals of new "tropes". Lots of autistic content:

These will go well:
Queerbaiting - A media work's attempt to lure an LGBT fanbase with either false hints of representation or stereotyped, non-essential LGBT characters.

Adaptational Nationality - A character's nationality is altered in a derivative work.

Teen Sex Comedy - A teenage comedy... about sex!

Clash of Evolutionary Levels - More evolved species inevitably, swiftly, and sometimes gleefully eradicate less-evolved species.
example:
Jean Auel's book series Earth's Children, especially "Clan of the Cave Bear," recount how young Cro-Magnon Ayla became an orphan, and was adopted into the Cave Bear clan of Neanderthals. Her superior intellect creates growing friction with the superstitious clan, ultimately leaving Ayla ostracized from the group as a teenager.
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It doesn't really fit the "trope" unless Ayla came back and massacred her adoptive clan. Or is that what they fantasize?

And these are just... vintage troper:
Big Anime Eyes - Anime and manga commonly emphasise the eyes by drawing them unrealisticly large.
Pantsing - Pulling someone's pants down.
Badass Bisexual - A bisexual character happens to be Badass.
Critic Breakdown - Something so awful that a reviewer feigns a psychotic break over it. (No Mr. Enter yet, but one can dream)
 
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Positron said:
Keep an eye on their proposals of new "tropes". Lots of autistic content:

These will go well:
Queerbaiting - A media work's attempt to lure an LGBT fanbase with either false hints of representation or stereotyped, non-essential LGBT characters.

Adaptational Nationality - A character's nationality is altered in a derivative work.

Teen Sex Comedy - A teenage comedy... about sex!

Clash of Evolutionary Levels - More evolved species inevitably, swiftly, and sometimes gleefully eradicate less-evolved species.
example:

It doesn't really fit the "trope" unless Ayla came back and massacred her adoptive clan. Or is that what they fantasize?

And these are just... vintage troper:
Big Anime Eyes - Anime and manga commonly emphasise the eyes by drawing them unrealisticly large.
Pantsing - Pulling someone's pants down.
Badass Bisexual - A bisexual character happens to be Badass.
Critic Breakdown - Something so awful that a reviewer feigns a psychotic break over it. (No Mr. Enter yet, but one can dream)
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Anyone who complains about queerbaiting is a faggot.
 
Positron said:
Badass Bisexual - A bisexual character happens to be Badass.
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And this matters enough to be its own trope, why?

Positron said:
Critic Breakdown - Something so awful that a reviewer feigns a psychotic break over it. (No Mr. Enter yet, but one can dream)
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If you're acting like something's so bad it mentally breaks you I think it says more about your mental and emotional maturity than it does how bad something is. That really is why "angry critics" are usually so spergy,
 
The only valid example of a "critic breakdown" I can think of is Spoony's infamous emotional break at the end if his Ultima series. And even then it was written about how the game tainted pleasant memories of him and his brother playing the original games.

But we all know they mean Doug screaming at the camera.
 
Replicant Sasquatch said:
The only valid example of a "critic breakdown" I can think of is Spoony's infamous emotional break at the end if his Ultima series. And even then it was written about how the game tainted pleasant memories of him and his brother playing the original games.

But we all know they mean Doug screaming at the camera.
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Agreed, that was actually sort of justified considering how much the series meant to Spoony and how Ultima IX shat all over the series. And to be honest I think that segment is still legit heartbreaking to watch because Spoony stepped out of character to articulate what exactly Ultima was to him. And it worked because it personally affected him on a real emotional level.

Meanwhile you have guys like Enter who just scream at everything and think it's funny when it's more pathetic than anything else.
 
I've never watched the "snarky, scream at everything" reviewer types outside of maybe once or twice like Spoony or Enter and never got the point.

Why TV Tropes worships those guys is rather strange in hindsight, because their acts are largely derivative outside of the character they play, and even the character they play is usually a stock comedy stereotype crossed with a media reviewer.
 
GethN7 said:
I've never watched the "snarky, scream at everything" reviewer types outside of maybe once or twice like Spoony or Enter and never got the point.

Why TV Tropes worships those guys is rather strange in hindsight, because their acts are largely derivative outside of the character they play, and even the character they play is usually a stock comedy stereotype crossed with a media reviewer.
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A sizeable portion of TVT seems to be 00's kids who watched TGWTG at the height of its day and never jumped ship. There's a tendency to view him and others like him as "authorities" since they're older and they say funny words. I bet there's also a sizeable portion of that same sizeable portion that didn't actually watch movies and just watched him for the cartoon reviews and then Spoony/Linkara for nerdy shit and autistic storylines of playing pretend. The "I'm too mature for AVGN" crowd, so to speak.
Enter is just a result of that same mindset but in a new generation.
 
Zamasu said:
A sizeable portion of TVT seems to be 00's kids who watched TGWTG at the height of its day and never jumped ship. There's a tendency to view him and others like him as "authorities" since they're older and they say funny words.
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That grinning gentleman who lives in a van is also older and says funny words. He also has candy.
 
Zamasu said:
A sizeable portion of TVT seems to be 00's kids who watched TGWTG at the height of its day and never jumped ship. There's a tendency to view him and others like him as "authorities" since they're older and they say funny words. I bet there's also a sizeable portion of that same sizeable portion that didn't actually watch movies and just watched him for the cartoon reviews and then Spoony/Linkara for nerdy shit and autistic storylines of playing pretend. The "I'm too mature for AVGN" crowd, so to speak.
Enter is just a result of that same mindset but in a new generation.
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Ironically, the AVGN has more nuance than most of TGWTG, especially nowadays where you can tell he's making actual smart criticism because he knows simply getting angry at something is old hat. Not to mention at least AVGN as a character is totally different from James Rolfe, something most of the Channel Awesome guys don't seem to grasp and instead crank themselves up to 11. There's a good reason people still watch James to this day while Channel Awesome is starting to decompose.

Also, something I never liked about Linkara was his smugness when it came to not swearing. If you don't want to swear, that's fine, whatever, there are some cool reviewers out there who rarely swear, but the difference is they don't call attention to it. I wouldn't mind so much if Linkara didn't constantly call attention to himself and insist he can be funny without swearing.
 
Staffy said:
This is what you'd call classical autism. Listing something up just for the sake of listing something.
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Not really. Classical autism is rocking back and forwards and not speaking.

Some autists get a bizarre obsession with lists, and I'm sure some of them are Tropers, but for others it's something else, like cartoon ponies.

It's usually cartoon ponies.

Very few of the "tropes" on TV Tropes are actually tropes. Tropes in literature are things like analogies, similes, and metaphors. "Big Lipped Alligator Moments" aren't tropes, and neither are most of the things on that list.

Zamasu said:
A sizeable portion of TVT seems to be 00's kids who watched TGWTG at the height of its day and never jumped ship. There's a tendency to view him and others like him as "authorities" since they're older and they say funny words. I bet there's also a sizeable portion of that same sizeable portion that didn't actually watch movies and just watched him for the cartoon reviews and then Spoony/Linkara for nerdy shit and autistic storylines of playing pretend. The "I'm too mature for AVGN" crowd, so to speak.
Enter is just a result of that same mindset but in a new generation.
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I get the impression TV Tropes' userbase isn't very young; Fast Eddie is a lot older than you'd expect. Most of them were probably teenagers when TGWTG was big, and now they're in their 20s, working at Home Depot, and watching Channel Autism to get nostalgia of back in the days when they thought they'd actually achieve something in life.
 
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vertexwindi said:
Anyone who complains about queerbaiting is a faggot.
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Ugh. Queerbaiting now has an article? Literally 90 percent of the time, it's just whiny slash fangirls who are salty that their fanfic didn't become canon.
Baldur's Gait said:
And this matters enough to be its own trope, why?
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I still don't get why they can't merge the "Badass Bisexual" article into the "Badass Gay" one.
 
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Holy shit, TV Tropes.
 
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Holy shit, TV Tropes.
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I don't know if this makes it better or worse, but that really is what the show is about.

Twenty-seven-year-old Koshiro Saeki, who lives with his father, is dumped by his girlfriend of two years, who claims he was too cold and she'd found someone else. While on a train the morning after, he sees high school student Nanoka Kohinata looking at a button and crying. As she's later getting off the train, she drops her wallet and Koshiro follows to return it. Koshiro finds himself watching her sudden smile as she notices the cherry blossoms are in bloom. Later, Koshiro is leaving his job at a marriage-arranging company with a coworker when he encounters the girl again. Having two free tickets to a nearby amusement park, he gives them to her. To his surprise she asks him to go with her. While on the Ferris wheel, the girl explains that she was crying on the train because she'd been rejected by a boy she'd loved for several years. Koshiro ends up telling her about his own break up, and cries while she comforts him.

As they leave the park together having enjoyed the outing and expecting to part and never meet again, they run into their father and are shocked to discover they are siblings. Nanoka moved to Tokyo just that morning to live with them because it is closer to school. As Koshiro hadn't gone home the night before, he hadn't learned of her arrival. Since they had grown up living separately, they didn't know what the other looked like.

As the series progresses, Koshiro finds himself unable to rid himself of the attraction that he felt for Nanoka when he first met her. Instead, his love and desire continues to grow, despite his attempts to fight them. Entering womanhood, Nanoka also develops feelings for her brother, only increasing Koshiro's struggle. In near desperation, he moves out of the family home to remove himself from temptation and attempts to keep his coworker, Kaname Chidori, from finding out the truth behind his brusqueness with Nanoka.

However, the solution is only temporary, as Nanoka begins visiting regularly, cooking him meals and spending time with him. Eventually, unable to resist their feelings anymore, they have sex. Unsure what to do now that they have broken a societal taboo, they visit their parents, before contemplating committing suicide together. In the end, they decide to live, and to continue their relationship.
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