![]() But then they'd turn around and claim there was no audience pandering at all in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. One claim I kept seeing come up was that said small-team productions were "pandering" by having this element or that type of character (often their claims were made on the shakiest of foundations, if any foundation at all). And some of their standards were very backwards, too. anything that was the work of a solo artist or small team, they would try to tear down, but then they'd turn around and talk about how great some by-the-numbers corporate franchise meant to sell toys was. I personally got the vibe, back when I was a community member there, that they were very much corporate lapdogs. well, its been noticed on many places of the internet that their approach to media criticism is very specific. In fact I used to ask for writing advice there (there's literally a section of their forum dedicated to it) and all I ever got was "add this trope, then this one." Reading around the net, I wasn't the only one who experienced this. TV Tropes gives people the idea (possibly by accident) that fiction is made by just putting tropes in a blender and pressing the "mix" button. ![]() To be fair, some of its articles are genuinely informative, particularly anything in the "Useful Notes" category, but outside of that the site isn't really useful in any practical sense. The problem is people make the mistake of seeing TV Tropes as a resource for media analysis or creative aid, when in reality it is neither. However, whenever I hear people use the word "tropes" or, in general, any terminology that originated from TV Tropes, my knee-jerk reaction is to think they don't know as much as they think they do. TV Tropes is a fun website, I occasionally waste time there when I have nothing better to do. ![]()
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