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I went on TV tropes and someone vandalized the site with the n word with the hard r five times
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What did TV tropes do to you
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![An entry in the history for the TV Tropes page Fandom Rivalry, in the Western Animation subpage.
It reads:
"Erin582
Removed: 489
#248: Dec 11th 2025 at 2:04:02 PM
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Reason:
Deleting an obviously biased entry from a now-bounced user.
Deleted line(s) 46 (click to see context) :
** With 90s Nick, we have ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'' vs. ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife''. Fans of the former accuse the latter of being a [[FollowTheLeader watered-down copy]] while fans of the latter hate that the former relied mostly on shock value (as well as going through SeasonalRot). This rivalry actually extended to professional critics, particularly Entertainment Weekly and the Los Angeles Times (both of which panned ''Rocko'' for the alleged similarities)."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gq5quidppixg2womtssocg5g/bafkreih6qjhfud4ld6grapjpn7ov6k5agtyyrw3dvf26yywbf6m5gatsza)
An entry in the history for the TV Tropes page Fandom Rivalry, in the Western Animation subpage. It reads: "Erin582 Removed: 489 #248: Dec 11th 2025 at 2:04:02 PM Is there an issue? Send a Message Reason: Deleting an obviously biased entry from a now-bounced user. Deleted line(s) 46 (click to see context) : ** With 90s Nick, we have ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'' vs. ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife''. Fans of the former accuse the latter of being a [[FollowTheLeader watered-down copy]] while fans of the latter hate that the former relied mostly on shock value (as well as going through SeasonalRot). This rivalry actually extended to professional critics, particularly Entertainment Weekly and the Los Angeles Times (both of which panned ''Rocko'' for the alleged similarities)."
Anyone remember when the word "bias" had a definition?
#tvtropes
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[Rambling TVTropes thread]
I'll miss the forum, because it's genuinely one of the most decent and rational communities on the Internet (thanks to strong, active moderation). Right at the start of the whole Bayonetta 3 fiasco, tropers were pointing out strange things about the situation, which […]
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[Rambling TVTropes thread]
And with the whole WatchMojo integration, TVTropes will not become yet another site shilling streaming services instead of showing fun connections between media. TVTropes has long aimed for (at times excessive) positivity, but WatchMojo will absolutely do a Grimace […]
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[Rambling TVTropes thread]
TVTropes has an option to pay $20 a month for no ads. Honestly not a bad deal, but it's a bit odd to pay a company for something I can get for free that applies to multiple sites. Oh, and it's only available to tropers, becaue like social media companies, they're […]
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[Rambling TVTropes thread]
Back in the day, Fast Eddie floated the idea of a karma system, and the mer suggeestion was so overwhelmingly unpopular that he deleted the thread. [[tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php The new owners introduced […]
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[Rambling TVTropes thread]
Which is a problem, because porn has tropes, and those are worth documenting.
It also means TVTropes can't link to #Oglaf or the works of #GisèleLagacé if they're too racy, instead having to awkwardly refer to strips by their publication date.
That was bad enough […]
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[Rambling TVTropes thread]
Revenue. That's always the issue.
Fast Eddie brought ads to TVTropes because the site is expensive to host and he was paying for it out of his own pocket. But advertising is ALWAYS a deal with the devil). Advertisers mostly don't want to be associated with porn, so […]
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[Rambling TVTropes thread]
But to come back to an earlier point, the reason everybody liked and to this day respects Fast Eddie is he was a member of the community who interacted and chatted with people every day on the forum.
The corporate owners aren't like that. Kory does (often good!) […]
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[Rambling TVTropes thread]
Trope misuse is a perennial issue stemming from the intentional (and correct) decisions not to restrict how many example a trope can have, and that everything from The Simpsons to a webcomic three people read is equally notable. The result is a lot of fancruft as […]
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[Rambling TVTropes thread]
So you have Literature/TheWheelOfTime, and the TV adaptation is at Series/TheWheelOfTime2021, which completely defeats the point of having seperate Series/ and Literature/ namespaces!
And don't get me started on how Series'/ and Film/ are just for live action, while […]
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[Rambling TVTropes thread]
Media namespaces were Fast Eddie's other mistake, but they made sense at the time. back when #TVTropes was just about TV, so the page called Batman was about the 1966 show. Comicbook/Batman was created so that people could talk about Batman comics without linking to […]
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[Rambling TVTropes thread]
Then there was the crackdown on so-called zero-content examples (ZCEs), which are examples that only make sense if one is already familiar with the work. It's good to make examples comprehensible to all readers, but this coincided with a move towards more descriptive […]
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[Rambling TVTropes thread]
The image selection subforum has a hard limit on the number of active threads to prevent things from getting lost. But, because *every* page has to go through the right procedure, it's regularly clogged with 10 threads about a single series that has a bunch of […]
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[Rambling TVTropes thread]
With Eddie gone, TVTropes accreted new rules with way a popular trope accretes examples.
There was a problem with people constantly changing page images, so no the rules is that once somebody has put a picture on a page, it can only be changed by discussion in one […]
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[Rambling TVTropes thread]
Eddie was an old-school hacker who casually peppered his speech with terms in the Jargon File and took a minarchist approach to running TVTropes. There were only a few rules, all of which were introduced reactively, and the site was wild, fun, and chaotic. There were […]
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[Rambling TVTropes thread]
But yeah, moderation is hard, and managing a community that size for no compensation was a massive mental burden on Fast Eddie. I absolutely do not blame him for handing over TVTropes to someone else and walking away.
Unfortunately, TVTropes up to then had been […]
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[Rambling TVTropes thread]
Also, many of the comments I saw before they got thumped really were rude, angry, or against site rules. A nonzero number of comlainers did actually deserve what they got.
So all I'll say about the moderators is that Fighteer should never have been one, and when he […]
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[Rambling TVTropes thread]
If you look around the Internet (especially Reddit), you'll see a lot of people complaining about TVTropes' moderators. Every moderator has made bad and wrong decisions, but volunteer moderators have a hard job; your instance admins will tell you that if they act […]
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[Rambling TVTropes thread]
Fast Eddie, the original founder of TVTropes (alongside Janitor and the late Gus) was a revered figure back in the day. His reputation has tarnished a bit since then, but he is still respected. He did all the technical work as well as most of the administration and […]
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[Rambling TVTropes thread]
That's a shame, because TVTropes' wiki engine, which I will henceforth refer to as TropeWiki, has a lot of good features. The site actually adapts to look good on mobile and desktop, instead of just having a mobile stie with lots of padding on the side. Discussion […]
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[Rambling TVTropes thread]
TVTropes was never going to be as big as Wikipedia, but if the code was available, other people would have been able to build cool things on top of it, and I have no doubt it would be bigger, more popular, and more versatile. But the people in charge always chose to […]
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[Rambling TVTropes thread]
If #TVTropes has an original sin, it is the refusal to release the source code. A big part of why #Wikipedia got so huge is that #MediaWiki stayed open and freely available, which meant the whole bazaar could improve it, and use it for other entire projects. MediaWiki […]
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I've been contirbuting to TVTropes since 2005, but as of Monday, I'm officially done.
tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php
TVTropes has for some time been going down the same road that Wikia (originally Wikicities, now fandom.com) did. I […]
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#thinkyblabbity
#tvtropes has a series called "Most Writers Are ___" where you can sub in the words Writers, Human, or Male.
This trope basically explains how the story is affected by being written by someone who could never have that experience.
In this case most writers are Black.
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✅️ Tropes I Like ✅️
Unreliable Narrator
Show me the story as the narrator wants it to be told. Then show me what actually happened. The contrast tells the real story.
#WritingCommunity #TVTropes
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❌ Tropes I Don’t Like ❌
Put on the Bus
I hate when less popular characters just disappear without a trace. No goodbye, barely a mention, like they never existed. It’s oddly unsettling.
#WritingCommunity #TVTropes
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A brief explanation of how the creator of TVTropes stole all the material from unsuspecting members of a Buffy the Vampire Slayer discussion site. By using and then killing off his sock puppet persona, upsetting some people. All for profit. The asshole.
My son sent this to me for confirmation.
They misspelled “harvested unsuspecting individuals’ intellectual discussions for profit.”
#tvtropes
#buffistas
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