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Also, is it just me, or do they obsessively hate media referencing modern pop culture? The "We're Still Relevant" page is weird and it seems they turn into shrieking harpies the moment somebody like Homer Simpson or Garfield talk about iPhones or current media. What's so "bad" about it? It's not like these characters didn't reference THEN current media when they first came out.

Also, from the Garfield YMMV:

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They're so unoriginal they had to steal from Doug Walker to make their point.
 
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friedshrimp said:
Also, is it just me, or do they obsessively hate media referencing modern pop culture? The "We're Still Relevant" page is weird and it seems they turn into shrieking harpies the moment somebody like Homer Simpson or Garfield talk about iPhones or current media. What's so "bad" about it? It's not like these characters didn't reference THEN current media when they first came out.
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I personally don't find the trope itself weird, because some references do feel more out of place in works than others and arguably that merits commentary. But a lot of tropers misuse the page, as if this is the rightful place to rag about their distaste for modern pop culture and "bluh bluh I hate memes & social media".

One example on the page struck me as especially inappropriate/hypocritical:
  • The Fairly OddParents may be falling into this, seeing as one episode was about Timmy wishing for his mom to have a popular YouTube channel, and Cosmo and Wanda taking selfies and making duck-lips scenes in "The Big Fairy Share Scare" (Chloe's first appearance), and another was about Timmy wishing for a super-smartphone. [...] At least the smartphone episode had a Shout-Out to HAL though.
"If a work references something old that I like, then it's a Shout-Out, but if it references something about this generation that I wish I wasn't a part of, then they're just try-hards." - some dicknose
 
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friedshrimp said:
Also, is it just me, or do they obsessively hate media referencing modern pop culture? The "We're Still Relevant" page is weird and it seems they turn into shrieking harpies the moment somebody like Homer Simpson or Garfield talk about iPhones or current media. What's so "bad" about it? It's not like these characters didn't reference THEN current media when they first came out.

Also, from the Garfield YMMV:

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They're so unoriginal they had to steal from Doug Walker to make their point.
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I get where they're coming from with the "We're Still Relevant" trope (show/movie/game/whatever trying to be topical by shoehorning in forced pop-culture memes and shit). But to claim they hate Pop-Culture, only to make a pop-culture reference later on makes them come across as hypocrites. Whiny ones at that if they think characters using touchscreen phones and crap is 'forced'
 
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"In another variant, the phrase "the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak" got translated as "the alcohol is strong but the meat is rotten". (This translation was once used as the Trope Namer for Either "World Domination", or Something About Bananas, which is a Sub-Trope.)"


Everything about this paragraph is "My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels", which is tvtard speak.
 
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Some of these are good examples, but they get way too lost in spergy headcanons and then there's the representation and "NO STRAIGHTS ANYWHERE" thing. Also, lol Doug Walker mention.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LGBTFanbase
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I think I would actually like the page if it was just that, but its less that and "IM GAY AND I FIND THIS EASY TO MASTURBATE TO". I know the former is spergy as heck but I would still take it over the creepy anyday.
 
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