Maybe they were thinking of what's called "everyday sadism" in psychology, which basically just means sadism that isn't tied to sex or rise to the level of being a crime, but more like pranking people or laughing at others' suffering. Debatable on if you should call that "harmless", but it would make the statement make some sense.
Yeah I accidentally uncovered an entire rabbit hole here. There's an entire page for BDSM tropes.
TVTropes being degenerates? Color me shocked!
It's lighter because the entire process isn't as gory or drawn out as the original media, I'm assuming
This week's bugbear: An bunch of amateur historians on YT have fictionalized their subject matter to make it funnier and tropers are being twisted into a pretzel because they can't be allowed to trope historical figures because it might hurt someone's feelings, obviously!
Back in the day they would have. Nowadays they're afraid of "nazis" thinking they're cool.
>Not naming it "Sizable Semitic Schnoz"
Meanwhile Sinister Schnoz still has that name.
It's always fun to see political creed supercede actual discussion of a trope. They aren't touching that character because to admit he's bad somehow means they're agreeing with a TERF.
Well, it's nice to see that Leftists are still relying on the "guilt by association" routine, which something that the Nazis have repeatedly done.
The funniest thing is when the bulk of a pages examples are in the fanfiction sections. That's basically admitting that the trope doesn't actually exist.
Half the time it's just someone shilling their MLP fetish.
Shes actually 9, which isn't much better. I remember people outright cheering when takopi accidentally killed her. Even on some reaction, videos some people where celebrating. Ya know, the vitriol for child characters that are bullies is really something. I mean those that are pre-teens and younger. Them beefing with a 10 year old is some thesonicsegagamer shit. That or there was a marine figure that used to slap them around everyday at school idk.