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Pointless Pedant said:
One thing that's really odd about this site is that it's mostly horribly autistic but not entirely. The TV Tropes article on the Second Sino-Japanese War is actually almost entirely accurate and a decent summary of the war for casual readers. Not a single weeb meme there either, despite the subject matter.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/SecondSinoJapaneseWar

I was expecting something like "then Jiang Jieshi went go-karting with Bowser in a moment of fridge brilliance", but it's surprisingly respectable. I also remember seeing a relatively decent article on the downfall of the Chinese Empire.
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TV Tropes is kind of weird because there's a lot of "Old Growth" sections of the site that are a relic of an earlier time.

They might be totally accurate like the one your shared or they might be mostly accurate with only some mildly autistic fandom references, usually weeb but sometimes Buffy or Star Wars, and they're never woke nor do they reference later TVT fixations like MLP, Nostalgia Critic, or SJW's.

Nine times out of ten, if you see an autistic fandom reference in one of those old growth articles, it's usually directly related to the page in question (like referencing a work set in that era or directly related to the topic)

They've become increasingly rare, especially as the Woke Left gets bigger and more dominant on that site.

Most of the truly hardcore spergs that are SJW's on there aren't even weebs but are usually the bronies, Channel Awesome fans, and CalArts/Steven Universe spergs that ruined the site and drove out most of the weebs and Buffy spergs.

Another thing to consider is that before 2013, there was a sharp and distinct divide between the wiki itself and the forums. The cultures were worlds apart and it was like two sites in one.

Most of the creepy stuff like Troper Tales and Fetish Fuel were the forums spilling over into the Wiki.
 
Syaoran Li said:
TV Tropes is kind of weird because there's a lot of "Old Growth" sections of the site that are a relic of an earlier time.

They might be totally accurate like the one your shared or they might be mostly accurate with only some mildly autistic fandom references, usually weeb but sometimes Buffy or Star Wars, and they're never woke nor do they reference later TVT fixations like MLP, Nostalgia Critic, or SJW's.

Nine times out of ten, if you see an autistic fandom reference in one of those old growth articles, it's usually directly related to the page in question (like referencing a work set in that era or directly related to the topic)

They've become increasingly rare, especially as the Woke Left gets bigger and more dominant on that site.

Most of the truly hardcore spergs that are SJW's on there aren't even weebs but are usually the bronies, Channel Awesome fans, and CalArts/Steven Universe spergs that ruined the site and drove out most of the weebs and Buffy spergs.

Another thing to consider is that before 2013, there was a sharp and distinct divide between the wiki itself and the forums. The cultures were worlds apart and it was like two sites in one.

Most of the creepy stuff like Troper Tales and Fetish Fuel were the forums spilling over into the Wiki.
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The MLP stuff actually seems to be dying out. Maybe it's not woke enough?
 
AnOminous said:
The original wave of horsefuckers were channers, not tumblrinas.
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I meant on TV Tropes specifically.

IIRC, weren't the 4chan horsefuckers phased out by the Tumblr and furry crowds pretty quickly? They got their own containment board and some of them trolled Ghost extensively back in 2011-2012.

I'm still confused at how the brony thing began as an ironic 4chan joke in 2010 and before 2011 even came around, it was already one of the most cancerous fandoms in existence.
 
Syaoran Li said:
IIRC, weren't the 4chan horsefuckers phased out by the Tumblr and furry crowds pretty quickly?
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Tumblr had its own fandom which more or less hated the /mlp/ crowd but the /mlp/ crowd didn't give a flying fuck what tumblr thinks.
 
Fromtheblackdepths said:
This has been bugging me, but how many people enjoy Gargoyles the TV show?

Did Xanatos deserve his own trope?
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I liked it.

SFDebris pointed out that the writers on the show did figure out how they could have the villain "beaten" every week but have him still accomplish a goal in order to be a continued threat. Maybe some other show did it before, but I haven't found it yet.

Plus who doesn't like to say "Xanatos"? Voiced by Will freakin' Riker!
 
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