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Pointless Pedant said:
TGWTG reviewers used to reference TV Tropes in their videos, and, in exchange, Tropers would name articles "Big Lipped Alligator Moment" after something from a TGWTG video. It's a case of autistic symbiosis.
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I consider a "Big Lipped Alligator Moment" when a TV Tropes member creates a completely shitty, autistic, meaningless trope that is totally useless and nobody understands.
 
OtterParty said:
btw All The Tropes wikia has a very highly detailed Kodomo No Jikan article. you should be ashamed.
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I actually sanitized that article quite a bit, and NO, unless the content breaks our rules by it mere existence in a legal or project scope sense, I am not taking it down. Despite how wholesome or repulsive it's subject matter is, it is a work of media, and it deserves to be troped like anything else, and unless you can give me a a good legal reason why I shouldn't keep it (Wikia nor Miraheze, both which have copies of it, have not done so to this point), it stays up, because I will not censor anything so long as it's stating objective fact about a work of media that is legal to discuss.

I will not compromise one of the founding principles of All The Tropes, agreed upon by all founding members, to not censor material unless were were given proper legal cause, and until you can give me that cause, I will not take down any article to please you or anyone else, no matter how virtuous or loathsome the article subject may be.

For the record, I am not a fan of that particular work and find it's subject matter quite disturbing, but since it's legal to discuss and is within our project scope to have an article on, I will not remove it simply because you are offended by it, and nor will that pass muster as a good reason for any other article, as explained above.
 
GethN7 said:
I actually sanitized that article quite a bit, and NO, unless the content breaks our rules by it mere existence in a legal or project scope sense, I am not taking it down. Despite how wholesome or repulsive it's subject matter is, it is a work of media, and it deserves to be troped like anything else, and unless you can give me a a good legal reason why I shouldn't keep it (Wikia nor Miraheze, both which have copies of it, have not done so to this point), it stays up, because I will not censor anything so long as it's stating objective fact about a work of media that is legal to discuss.

I will not compromise one of the founding principles of All The Tropes, agreed upon by all founding members, to not censor material unless were were given proper legal cause, and until you can give me that cause, I will not take down any article to please you or anyone else, no matter how virtuous or loathsome the article subject may be.

For the record, I am not a fan of that particular work and find it's subject matter quite disturbing, but since it's legal to discuss and is within our project scope to have an article on, I will not remove it simply because you are offended by it, and nor will that pass muster as a good reason for any other article, as explained above.
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lol calm down
 
OtterParty said:
lol calm down
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I'm chill. If anything, it's just reflex to repeat our policy because I've had a lot of people have given me the same response you did and in jest or not it's become inbred to give them the reply I gave you.

Working on breaking myself of that habit, though.

OtterParty said:
I vaguely remember an "everybody is a time lord" phase when superwholock was a big thing, and now an "everybody is autistic genderspecial" phase because far-left internet feminazis took over the site. the former had some overlap with the weeaboos because that brand of nerds seemed content to share, but a big portion of the weeaboos were driven out when Something Awful took notice and started fucking with tvtropes (around 2012 i think) - either way there was never a sane phase, the vacuum got filled very quickly and the insanity just went a different direction.
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After that time they did accelerate the renaming of tropes to things you didn't have to watch niche media to figure what they were talking about, but soon after the SJW infestation got really bad, so I'd say you're pretty on target with the above.

And the "X is a timelord" meme, I remember that, in all it's cringey glory.
 
GethN7 said:
I actually sanitized that article quite a bit, and NO, unless the content breaks our rules by it mere existence in a legal or project scope sense, I am not taking it down. Despite how wholesome or repulsive it's subject matter is, it is a work of media, and it deserves to be troped like anything else, and unless you can give me a a good legal reason why I shouldn't keep it (Wikia nor Miraheze, both which have copies of it, have not done so to this point), it stays up, because I will not censor anything so long as it's stating objective fact about a work of media that is legal to discuss.

I will not compromise one of the founding principles of All The Tropes, agreed upon by all founding members, to not censor material unless were were given proper legal cause, and until you can give me that cause, I will not take down any article to please you or anyone else, no matter how virtuous or loathsome the article subject may be.

For the record, I am not a fan of that particular work and find it's subject matter quite disturbing, but since it's legal to discuss and is within our project scope to have an article on, I will not remove it simply because you are offended by it, and nor will that pass muster as a good reason for any other article, as explained above.
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He who fights autists should see to it that he himself does not become an autist. And if you gaze for long into a Sonic/My Little Pony crossover fan fiction, the Sonic/My Little Pony crossover fan fiction gazes also into you.
 
TV Tropes has Awesome Moments, Heartwarming Moments and Tear Jerker pages for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

Guess what they're filled with:

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Awesome/TheLateShowWithStephenColbert

  • January 20th: When Sarah Palin gives a rambling speech supporting Donald Trump for president, Stephen gives his own rapid-fire speech endorsing several other candidates without losing his breath.
  • January 28th: Donald Trump decides to skip the latest Republican presidential debate being held by Fox News, so Stephen gives him the opportunity to hold his own debate against... Donald Trump.
  • June 15th: To explain Donald Trump's line of thinking, Stephen starts with a $100,000 Pyramid joke. Then he busts out the Figure-It-Out-Atron and draws a diagram to try to explain it further. What he ends up drawing first is a swastika, but later erases it and draws a series of lines he deduces is an asshole.
  • July 18th:Stephen: I know I'm not supposed to be up here, but in all fairness, neither is Donald Trump.
  • July 20th: A Meta example regarding Laura Benanti's appearance as Melania Trump: in an interview she made afterwards explaining how it came to be, she said she was asked to appear as Melania while she was away visiting her grandmother. After the visit - on the same day as the show, mind - she got on a train, rigorously studied Melania's speech (to the confusion of the man sitting next to her), rehearsed it once, then performed it live flawlessly. She also discussed how complicated Slovenian accents are and how each region has a very distinct dialect. She studied every lip movement Melania made. We remind you again: this all basically happened within the span of one day. This performance has since been compared to Tina Fey's impression of Sarah Palin during the 2008 presidential election on Saturday Night Live, with people even suggesting she should take the impression to SNL.
  • July 21st: Jon Stewart briefly takes up the reins in a brief but triumphant reprise of his old show as he proceeds to skewer the entire Republican party with an incredible "The Reason You Suck" Speech, outlining how and why they are craven, hypocritical opportunistic "born to rule" types who think the United States belongs to them, and who fight to exclude certain "subgroups" because they don't want certain privileges being taken away or having to share them with others, and will happily throw away their principles and support Donald Trump for the sake of power. One highlight is pointing out that many criticisms they gave to Obama can also apply to Trump.
    • Especially withering was him calling out those who vocally support "Blue Lives Matter" but voted against the Zadroga 9/11 Responders Bill, the one which Stewart literally had to go to Congress and shame them into passing.
  • September 19th: Stephen lays into Trump for trying to brush off the birther movement like it was no big deal even though Trump was its biggest supporter the whole time.
    Stephen: You don't get to flog this issue for five years and then act like you're correcting everybody else!
  • October 19th: In his live show after the third 2016 Presidential Debate, Stephen goes harder than usual against Donald Trump. After skewering the man for nearly 12 solid minutes, Stephen caps it off by playing a clip of Trump lamenting The Apprentice's not winning any Emmys and bringing out two of his statuettes to parade them in front of the camera to mock Trump.
  • November 8th: The 2016 election show.
    • Stephen ended the show with a plea for unity, followed by Stephen and the audience singing "My Country Tis of Thee".
      Stephen: The people who designed our democracy didn't want us in it all the time. Informed, yes. Politicking all the time, I don't think so. They designed an election that was meant to confuse us and bore us a little bit. That's why the Electoral College exists. And C-SPAN. And the State of the Union begins with 20 minutes of shaking hands with grandpas. But now, politics is everywhere, and that takes up precious brain space that we could be using to remember all the things we actually have in common.
  • Trump says he's tired of news articles citing anonymous sources for their attacks on him, and challenges the people saying he's a horrible person to just do it directly. Stephen happily complies.
  • May 1st: A similar situation to the above example happens after an interview made by John Dickerson from CBS's Face the Nation to President Trump, in which Trump says that he watches the program but prefers to call it "Deface the Nation", and after Dickerson brings up Trump's wiretapping allegations, Trump abruptly cuts off the interview. So Stephen steps in:
    Stephen: President Trump, John Dickerson is a fair-minded journalist and one of the most competent people to ever walk into your office, and you treat him like that? Now, John Dickerson has far too much dignity to trade insults with the President of the United States. But I, sir, am no John Dickerson.
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They actually linked that last one to Pre-Asskicking One-Liner lmao

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Heartwarming/TheLateShowWithStephenColbert

  • November 8th: The 2016 election show.Stephen: The people who designed our democracy didn't want us in it all the time. Informed, yes. Politicking all the time, I don't think so. They designed an election that was meant to confuse us and bore us a little bit. That's why the Electoral College exists. And C-SPAN. And the State of the Union begins with 20 minutes of shaking hands with grandpas. But now, politics is everywhere, and that takes up precious brain space that we could be using to remember all the things we actually have in common.
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And yet on the very next day, he continues to bash Trump voters.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/TearJerker/TheLateShowWithStephenColbert

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What the fuck exactly is TV Tropes' rule on English titles for anime and the like? Do they even have one, or is it an autistic roll of the dice which one gets used?

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Anime/BlueLiterature - No one calls Aoi Bungaku "Blue Literature". This title's never been used for any kind of official English release or even a fansub. It sounds like a page for porn.

Meanwhile...http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manga/SaikinImoutoNoYousuGaChottoOkashiindaGa What the flying fuck is this? This show has an English title.
 
Rihanna Ikari said:
What the fuck exactly is TV Tropes' rule on English titles for anime and the like? Do they even have one, or is it an autistic roll of the dice which one gets used?

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Anime/BlueLiterature - No one calls Aoi Bungaku "Blue Literature". This title's never been used for any kind of official English release or even a fansub. It sounds like a page for porn.

Meanwhile...http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manga/SaikinImoutoNoYousuGaChottoOkashiindaGa What the flying fuck is this? This show has an English title.
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used to be 'japanese names for everything desu~'

then there was a furious pushback against it because we're proud americans who shouldn't stoop to speaking un-american moon languages which makes sense, the moon still hasn't sent people to plant a flag on us lmao

then a counter pushback because some things really are exclusive to japanese cartoons, usually because they're too deviant for regular non-autistic american standards

where the mods were dragged into it (i think??) because the popular opinion was shifting toward being real americans, they made the american title the official one. outside of that it's back and forth wiki warring as usual. theres no real standard to it. everything comes down to how many people care about the article

i wish fat ahab was in charge again. then no matter what language the title was in, everybody fighting over it would get the ding dong bannu for creating 'negativity' and thats funny
 
Their trope names are really confusing since some of them are similar to one another. Like this and this for example. The former is about intelligent rich people who pretend to be a rich lazy dumb fuck and the latter is actually about what most of you probably expect: a legit lazy rich fuck.

Could they just name some tropes with mind-boggling names straightly to avoid further confusion?
 
OtterParty said:
they're too deviant for regular non-autistic american standards
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Only autists watch crap like that in Japan, though. It airs in the early hours of the morning, so people who work don't see it. The only popular cartoons are relatively clean stuff shown in prime time, mostly for kids.

Rihanna Ikari said:
What the fuck exactly is TV Tropes' rule on English titles for anime and the like? Do they even have one, or is it an autistic roll of the dice which one gets used?

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Anime/BlueLiterature - No one calls Aoi Bungaku "Blue Literature". This title's never been used for any kind of official English release or even a fansub. It sounds like a page for porn.

Meanwhile...http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manga/SaikinImoutoNoYousuGaChottoOkashiindaGa What the flying fuck is this? This show has an English title.
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Those school uniforms are definitely not accurate. I guess we know where Alex Mahan got his ideas from.
 
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Lackadaisy said:
So not only is Bikini Bottom Purgatory, but they're also all Sonic characters...?

So many layers of autism like a beautiful rotting onion.
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Not just Sanic characters but obscure Sanic characters. Autism so deep it reaches the Earth's core.
 
Rihanna Ikari said:
What the fuck exactly is TV Tropes' rule on English titles for anime and the like? Do they even have one, or is it an autistic roll of the dice which one gets used?

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Anime/BlueLiterature - No one calls Aoi Bungaku "Blue Literature". This title's never been used for any kind of official English release or even a fansub. It sounds like a page for porn.

Meanwhile...http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manga/SaikinImoutoNoYousuGaChottoOkashiindaGa What the flying fuck is this? This show has an English title.
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My bet is that most of the mods are lazy aspie fucks who barely get involved in trope naming and as a result never set some guidelines that would have prevented the names of many tropes to be decided by battalions of spergs edit-warring to the death.

Lackadaisy said:
So not only is Bikini Bottom Purgatory, but they're also all Sonic characters...?
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What is it with SANIC that attracts so many tards ? I don't get it, seriously the last unambiguously good Sonic game was released twenty years ago. The various cartoons are more of less complete shit, and Sonic is a successful character with a girlfriend, so it's not like they can even identify with him.

Unless they're all furries of course.
 
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