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Stumbled across this on the page for Naked Lunch.
 
Effluvium said:
Guess that trope, huh?

How about Lame Gimmick? Right next to, Your Site Is Worthless and Dying.
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Of all the ways to try to engage with your userbase this one is pretty shit given 99% of the content on the site is text. The attached images are usually just some stupid in joke or incestuous referential crap.
 
Agarathium1066 said:
Of all the ways to try to engage with your userbase this one is pretty shit given 99% of the content on the site is text. The attached images are usually just some stupid in joke or incestuous referential crap.
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There are even multiple "tropes" that are so similar to one another that either one could be the right answer. So, basically, it's partly a no-lose situation.
 
Effluvium said:
There are even multiple "tropes" that are so similar to one another that either one could be the right answer. So, basically, it's partly a no-lose situation.
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I can't say I know what the hell the picture is meant to reference. Their scale, the portal, how one is gay for the other in some dimwit's fanfiction? Couldn't say.

Couldn't muster much of a care either.
 
Agarathium1066 said:
I can't say I know what the hell the picture is meant to reference. Their scale, the portal, how one is gay for the other in some dimwit's fanfiction? Couldn't say.

Couldn't muster much of a care either.
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I actually know what show that's from and that isn't a crossover. But I would also point that it's kind of boring, so I never really watched it when I was younger.
 
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NerdShamer said:
Fittingly enough, they think it's funny when a transwoman starts mauling people. The context behind that scene is that a bully realized that they're trans after getting lipstick smeared on them, tried to make amends with two of the main characters because they're trans, "nope, we're not buying it."

Cue reminder on to hit the gym before fighting your bully from the playground.

And also, they've listed metaphors for being LGBT
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They want everyone who looked at them funny beaten to death.
 
  • Vindicated by History: A mild example. After the hype died down and the years went by, several pop culture analysts have been taking a closer look into Twilight's impact and place in pop culture. While many agreed that its quality overall was so-so and its messages are questionable at best, the series has earned praise for being a (relatively speaking) nerdy blockbuster franchise that girls (a demographic that was usually passed over) could claim for themselves in a time when that kind of entertainment was still largely male-aimed and male-dominated, with some even crediting the series' massive financial success for helping to pave the way allowing more female-centered blockbuster franchises (notably The Hunger Games series, the Wonder Woman movie, and others) to be made after years of executives being convinced that female-led films (superheroine films especially) wouldn't sell well. In addition to that, many of those aforementioned analysts (most notably Lindsay Ellis, who released a video titled "Dear Stephenie Meyer, I'm Sorry" in 2018 to discuss this very subject) have also noted the undercurrent of (often condescending) misogyny that laced many of the criticisms and backlash to the series, an issue that has found some Values Resonance in the latter half of The New '10s with the growing power of women in the entertainment industry and push for greater inclusion and representation for women in entertainment being met with reactionary pushback.
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this wasn't written by a woman
 
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