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{{quote|''"TVTropes is allegedly a site where people look at the common tropes found in the media. What TVTropes does not do is actually analyze anything and it has mostly become a toxic community of constant fanboy wanking. Come, tell your horror stories."''|Fuck No TVTropes's description}}
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* [[Abusive Parents]]: Joked about when
{{quote|''"I was so much of a weeaboo back in high school that my parents sent me to a camp run by Marcus Bachmann to make me normal. Now I'm more casual."''}}
* [[Accentuate the Negative]]: Per the blog's nature and title, though in spite of the vitriol it's far from exclusively negative, and isn't above the occasional note of praise. See [[Pet the Dog]] below in particular.
* [[Aesop Amnesia]]:
* [[Better Than New]]: When TV Tropes came under new ownership, they made some tweaks and design changes to improve the layout of the site. [https://fucknotvtropes.tumblr.com/post/107561454101/you-know-what-i-looks-a-lot-better-than-the-old This resulted in Bogleech giving them some rare praise]:
{{quote|''"Congrats, new mods. You're much more competent at website layout than the old mods."''}}
* [[Brain Bleach]]: Numerous examples:
**One unfortunate sod dove too deep into the Fetish Fuel side of TV Tropes, [http://fucknotvtropes.tumblr.com/post/119949366645/please-kill-me-ive-been-to-the-fetish-fuel-wiki and begged for death]. Bogleech also ventured to TV Tropes's ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]]'' Fetish Fuel pages, and, well:▼
{{quote|''"Five seconds, I've been on the page for five seconds. And do you know what I see? Without even having to scroll down?[https://fucknotvtropes.tumblr.com/post/106640630096/five-seconds-ive-been-on-the-page-for-five THE ABYSS. THE ABYSS IS STARING AT ME]."''}}▼
** TV Tropes' [[Incest Subtext]] and [[Incest Yay Shipping]] pages had [[Real Life]] [https://fucknotvtropes.tumblr.com/post/96665242876/pages-like-incest-subtext-and-incest-yay-shipping sections].
** [https://fucknotvtropes.tumblr.com/post/128415692786/just-when-i-think-ive-found-the-last-of-tv-tropes Another example insisted that] [[Series of Unfortunate Events|Violet and Klaus working together to survive their evil uncle's traps]] [[Insane Troll Logic|counts as "incest subtext".]]
** The ''[[Rugrats]]'' page of TV Tropes had a ridiculous yet detailed entry about [http://fucknotvtropes.tumblr.com/post/119862598177/so-i-was-looking-at-the-main-page-on-rugrats-its Phil and Lil's "Incest Subtext."] Starting to notice a pattern?
** [https://fucknotvtropes.tumblr.com/post/98327113931/per-your-request-mod-note-i-dont-even-know "Actually, being groped is good because you were attractive enough to warrant being molested!"] ''Dear God.''
▲** One unfortunate sod dove too deep into the Fetish Fuel side of TV Tropes, [http://fucknotvtropes.tumblr.com/post/119949366645/please-kill-me-ive-been-to-the-fetish-fuel-wiki and begged for death]. Bogleech also ventured to TV Tropes's ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]]'' Fetish Fuel pages, and
▲{{quote|''"Five seconds, I've been on the page for five seconds. And do you know what I see? Without even having to scroll down?[https://fucknotvtropes.tumblr.com/post/106640630096/five-seconds-ive-been-on-the-page-for-five THE ABYSS. THE ABYSS IS STARING AT ME]."''}}
* [[Brutal Honesty]]: The blog author does not sugarcoat anything. If the troping world does something wrong/horrible, it will be called on it in no uncertain terms.
* [[Hates Everyone Equally|Criticizes Everyone Equally]]: They also do not play favorites. Whenever a troping website does something horrible, it will be called out
* [[Damned By Faint Praise]]: The blog author, after being asked if there's anything he likes about TV Tropes, has this to say.<!--Source for this would be nice-->
''{{quote|I suppose a good aspect would be how they kept all the subpages on the top of the pages. That way you won’t have to go through the entire article looking for a link to their character page.}}''
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Many of the conversations and responses by the author (bogleech) and the moderator, as well as several of the submissions.
* [[Everyone Has Standards]]: When asked to make a cousin to "Fuck No TV Tropes" about [[DeviantArt]]'s [https://fucknotvtropes.tumblr.com/post/115679608680/oh-do-make-a-blog-similar-to-this-one-about darkness], Bogleech refused, even stating that he'll die after three posts and that many have tried.▼
{{quote|''"...If you stare into the abyss of DeviantART, it stares back."''}}
* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: Bogleech notes that he should look up things more often before replying to asks after a series of posts concerning ''[[Hyperdimension Neptunia]]''. [http://fucknotvtropes.tumblr.com/post/133412842579/honestly-neptunia-isnt-creepy-loli-anime He didn't trust the art style, and the series had been inaccurately characterized as porn], prompting him to look into it and learn that it was just a [[Moe Anthropomorphism|moe anthropomorphism]] of game consoles having adventures that was incredibly [[fanservice]]y at worst.
▲* [[Everyone Has Standards]]: When asked to make a cousin to "Fuck No TV Tropes" about [[DeviantArt]]'s [https://fucknotvtropes.tumblr.com/post/115679608680/oh-do-make-a-blog-similar-to-this-one-about darkness], Bogleech refused,
* [[Everything's Better with Dinosaurs]]: An anonymous submitter asked [https://fucknotvtropes.tumblr.com/post/111669651449/what-does-pro-dinosaur-even-mean "what does 'pro-dinosaur' mean?"]▼
** Mark also displayed a similar lack of interest [https://fucknotvtropes.tumblr.com/faq in the blog's FAQ], stating that dA and other sites have a way to avoid the worse segments of their communities (with the implication that doing a similar blog would mean [[Bile Fascination|actively searching for them]]); due to TVTropes and its nature as a wiki, the worst parts of the site are more likely to show at the forefront and thus reflect poorly on ''everyone'' involved - that, and he'd also probably "be dead within a few weeks" if he tried a similar blog for dA.
▲* [[Everything's Better with Dinosaurs]]:
{{quote|''"It means that my list of priorities goes like this: 1. Dinosaurs 2. [[Pokémon]] 3. RuPaul's Drag Race 4. Shitty Fan Fiction 5. My personal appearance 6. Everything else."''}}
* [[Feminism|Feminists]]: Both Bogleech, the creator/author, and the blog's only mod, Mark, stated that they [http://fucknotvtropes.tumblr.com/post/122963674906/how-many-mods-run-this-blog-do-they-consider consider themselves as such].
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{{quote|''"Viva la revolución."''}}
* [[Nostalgia Filter]]: When asked who would be insane to put ''[[Duke Nukem]]'' in the [[Fair for Its Day]] examples, Bogleech answered its tropers who are blinded by the nostalgia filter.
* [[Orphaned Series]]: The blog was inactive since the last ask answered in March 2016. In March of 2019, [https://fucknotvtropes.tumblr.com/post/183144173441/update Mark posted a final update] that clarified why he'd abandoned the blog: as much fun as he'd had taking the site down a peg, he eventually realized that, in his opinion, he was holding the site up to a standard it could never truly meet, and had more productive things to invest his time in.
* [[Pet the Dog]]: The blog has recommended All The Tropes as an alternative to the site multiple times, and the FAQ even states not to vandalize TVTropes pages, instead giving tips on how to actually improve the site and provide actual analysis. See also
** The author acknowledges when TVT realizes that [http://fucknotvtropes.tumblr.com/post/126764370923/ill-be-fair-at-least-tv-tropes-realizes-they underage characters ending up in the "Memetic Sex God" and that they have to do huge cleanups].
{{quote|MOD Note: Shimaspawn's doing God's work right now.}}
** Bogleech reminds those that have issues with TV Tropes to just leave criticism at Fighteer's [[YouTube]] videos, not '''Death threats'''. [https://fucknotvtropes.tumblr.com/post/76300982742/fighteer Also, '''Stay away from his son'''].
* [[Self-Insert Fic]]:
{{quote|"Think of it this way: Now that the Library of Alexandria is gone, we don't have to read Sappho's self-insert [[Greek Mythology]] shipping fan fics.}}
* [[Unperson]]: TVTropes has banned any and all mentions of the blog.
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