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Gondolindrim said:
1. Asexuality is not real, I don't know how to explain this any better. You don't have a boy or girlfriend but that does not mean you're incapable of sexual attraction. You're lying to yourself.
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Devil’s advocate- I do believe there are a lot of people who can’t feel sexual attraction. Not even close to a majority of people, mind, but certain medications (I believe antipsychotics are some), mental illnesses (such as severe depression), and old age can wreak havoc on your libido.
 
Gorillion others said:
Even though one of the clearest rules (don't know or care if it's still there since they hardly bothered to enforce it) that you cannot self-promote.
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You shouldn't (obviously you can) self-promote fanfic recommendations outside the forum threads on TV Tropes.

Want to trope your own works in autistic detail? Have at it! Good luck figuring out whether your Word of God information is notable enough for fanfic or just trivia. There's probably a "Death of the Author" argument in there somewhere.
 
The Cunting Death said:
I'm honestly surprised they still have the SBIH pages considering how anal they are about negativity.
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They've wanted it gone for a long time, IIRC.

It had fallen in the conundrum that it couldn't survive by means of being a catalogue of tropers boogeymen (like transphobes, J.K. Rowling, MAGA hats and such) fiction, something everybody there would agree on being called SBIH, because the whole site had been purging any reference to anything that suggest that alternative viewpoints to the standard enforced one even exist.

Which is kinda funny because, left to their own devices, Tropers will create pages upon pages of shit they don't like. If the mods weren't being totalitarian cunts, History has shown the website would be troping far-right works, tropes and individuals so niche that not even /pol/ know about them all in lovingly detail, as well as their own lives embellished to a degree where they all look like aloof self-made warriors who studied the blade, murdered their HS normies and bullies (but I repeat myself) and win their sister's pussy as a reward.
 
Ewan McGregor said:
It had fallen in the conundrum that it couldn't survive by means of being a catalogue of tropers boogeymen (like transphobes, J.K. Rowling, MAGA hats and such) fiction, something everybody there would agree on being called SBIH, because the whole site had been purging any reference to anything that suggest that alternative viewpoints to the standard enforced one even exist.
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I mean that's what Fallen Creator is. Most of the shit is "omfg he's a transphobe now!!!" or "omfg he voted for dumpf!" or some benign shit.
 
The Cunting Death said:
I mean that's what Fallen Creator is. Most of the shit is "omfg he's a transphobe now!!!" or "omfg he voted for dumpf!" or some benign shit.
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Harsher in Hindsight is a fucking riot.

There are so many COVIDiots on the site that they had to put a retard warning tag on this trope.

Note: Examples can only be added once the event that makes them harsher has ended. In particular, anything related to a widespread disease, basic hygiene, hoarding of any kind, or something similar to social distancing doesn't inherently mean that there's a connection to the COVID-19 Pandemic. Please don't add examples of this nature.
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Some examples:

  • Asterix: The Chariot Race (published in late 2017) features a Roman antagonist by the name of Coronavirus (even more awkward are the massive crowds of people chanting his name). As a bonus, the story takes place in Italy, the first country out of Asia to suffer an outbreak of the virus and one of the countries in Europe hit hardest by it.
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  • Several Italian Disney comics featured Uncle Scrooge as the owner of a newspaper that always seemed to be teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. This was always played for laughs. It doesn't become so funny once you consider the present situation of print media. It gets even worse by the fact that some writers portray the paper as a normal functioning respected news source, giving a reader that reads the stories in a certain order the idea that the paper was a successful venture that started spiraling into the abyss.
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  • Issue #7 of Paper Girls (published in July 2016, just months before the US Presidential Election that year) features a discussion as to whether or not Hillary Clinton — a woman — could be elected president in modern-day America. Flash forward to November... she wasn't elected.
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  • A Sesame Street comic from around 1976 showed a giant Cookie Monster climbing up the Twin Towers (possibly in reference to Dino De Laurentiis's King Kong, an upcoming release at that point), having taken huge bites out of them... Obviously not so silly in a post-9/11 world.
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  • Azumanga Daioh: In the manga, Chiyo gets a part-time job at Magnetron Burger, an in-universe knockoff of McDonald's, with her first summer there featuring the manager commenting on how strange it is to be hiring a ten-year-old to work at a fast food joint. Just over 20 years after the manga ended, an actual McDonald's location in Louisville, Kentucky was busted for hiring two ten-year-olds to do various jobs around the restaurant.
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  • Volume 9 of Gravitation is about Shuichi being Shanghaied to New York to perform for a new record label. During one of the last major climaxes, as Shuichi and company flee from his new boss, Reiji, in order to return to Japan, part of New York City gets the ever-loving crap blown out of it. Later, though it's on a plane headed for Japan, hi-jinks once again ensue, including K busting into the cockpit and shooting (with non-lethal rounds) and bounding the pilots and taking control of the plane. Volume 9 was released in Japan on January 2000, over a year before 9/11. This is made even more jarring when the reader is treated to a nice shot of the New York skyline, which includes the World Trade Center, when Shuichi first arrives to New York City.
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  • Judge Claude Frollo's Villain Song "Hellfire" sounds eerily similar to rhetoric used by misogynistic mass shooter Elliot Rodger.
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  • Shrek 2 had a smaller but more horrifying case. In one scene, Donkey (as a horse) is subdued by guards when the Fairy Godmother sends them after him, Shrek and Puss. One guard has his knee at the base of Donkey's neck, and Donkey begins to cry out "police brutality!". 16 years after the movie's release, George Floyd was killed by police officer Derek Chauvin when he kneeled on Floyd's neck, sparking international outrage and protests against police brutality within the United States for months following his death. Keep in mind that Donkey is voiced by a black man and a great deal of discourse surrounding Floyd's death was the role his race played in why he was killed and the long history police violence against black people. Because of this, in the UK, after ITV got the UK-TV airing rights to Shrek 2, the COPS parody is edited with that scene removed for obvious reasons.
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  • Turning Red: Mei's line, "My panda, my choice, Mom." was a light-hearted reference to "my body, my choice", a phrase associated with abortion. With the mid-2022 change in US abortion law, the line became a stark reminder of the difference between Canada, the film's setting, and the US, where the film was made.
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  • There is the Jewish mobster Meyer Wolfsheim who works in an office labeled "The Swastika Holding Company." In 1922, when the book was written, Those Wacky Nazis had only recently adopted the swastika as a symbol and were still a decade away from coming to power.
  • In addition, upon (the possibly Jewish) Gatsby's death from a madman, the narrator ends the description of the scene with "...and the holocaust was complete."
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  • Many fans have been disappointed that Nymphadora Tonks became softer and more feminine by the end of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, compared to her wilder debut in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. In late 2019, author J. K. Rowling tweeted in public support of Maya Forstater, a vocal TERFnote . On June 10, 2020, Rowling published an essay that was intended to explain her views on trans identity, but only ended up angering the LGBTQ+ community even more as it was full of offensive transphobic stereotypes. One of them was the idea that gender dysphoric teenagers will eventually "grow out of" their dysphoria. In the wake of Rowling's essay, this article on Vox.com by a non-binary writer bitterly concluded that Tonks' "taming" was not only a conscious rejection of trans identity but had been planned all along.
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  • And then there is the reporter Rita Skeeter in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, who is frequently described as having a "mannish jaw" and "large hands" (both things often used as "gotcha" characteristics that help people "spot" trans women). She's depicted as entirely untrustworthy, and it's later revealed that she uses her secret power as an animagus to turn into an insect and overhear what Harry and his friends say to each other in private conversations. She literally transforms herself in order to spy on children, a false accusation often levelled at trans people.
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  • There's also Dolores Umbridge in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, another villainous character who dresses in an exaggeratedly feminine style, while the author is always pointing out how "ugly" and "toad-like" she is. Rowling herself stated that this was inspired by an actual teacher she had, who had a similar dress style that Rowling found repellent. Nowadays these descriptions read a lot like the accusations of "performative femininity" that are levelled at trans women, or when transphobes mock them for not being "convincing".
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Making this compilation gave me cancer AIDS and I'm dying now.
 
Ewan McGregor said:
Making this compilation gave me cancer AIDS and I'm dying now.
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That page had always been an petri dish for the most autistic associations imaginable. But it's kind of an given for that shit to happen within this day and age; after all, they've used the Shrek 2 example as an case of it actually happening (but the Brits have always been snowflakes, so who cares?)
 
NerdShamer said:
That page had always been an petri dish for the most autistic associations imaginable. But it's kind of an given for that shit to happen within this day and age; after all, they've used the Shrek 2 example as an case of it actually happening (but the Brits have always been snowflakes, so who cares?)
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I sometimes wonder to myself where it all went wrong.
 
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NerdShamer said:
That page had always been an petri dish for the most autistic associations imaginable. But it's kind of an given for that shit to happen within this day and age; after all, they've used the Shrek 2 example as an case of it actually happening (but the Brits have always been snowflakes, so who cares?)
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Even more autistic than X Meets Y?
 
From The Uncanny Valley said:
Even more autistic than X Meets Y?
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That one was always kinda boring, but perhaps it was the autism.

There used to be quite a few pages where tropers would go full retard that would be utterly unreadable if you were not within the HiveMind, but I think they're being purged too.

Sometimes looks like TVTropes is some sort of autistic hell where the users just cannot leave and are there just to be blocked out of their natural instincts constantly.
 
I was debating bringing this up because it seems a bit petty but that AnoBakaDesu guy is back. You know, that one editor who is simultaenously everywhere and widely hated because he's extremely rude? I'm really surprised by that because I could've sworn that he was perma banned and had his editing privilleges revoked.

Makes you wonder how much sucking up it takes to overturn a perma.
 
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