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Manic Expression

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Manic Expression was founded by James Walsh as a place for bloggers and video-makers to come and show off their work. Anyone can submit their work, with the chance of it being featured in the "Outstanding Blog/Video of the Week". It has a small but Orwellian monitored community, meaning the usual riff-raff tend to get thrown out rather rapidly.

Reviewers featured on the site include Toongrin, Movie Curiosities, Decker Shado, and Rowdy C. Moore of TV Trash.

Tropes used in Manic Expression include:
  • Accentuate the Negative: Averted for the most part. James Daniel Walsh, the site's founder, is known for his STOP THE HATE columns defending various movies, TV shows, and people both real and fictional from disproportionate amounts of hate.
  • April Fool's Day: Manic Expression has had many ways of observing it. Sometimes there are collaborative efforts where one blogger will do a blog emulating the style of another. On another occasion, one Expressionist did a blog about a rarely seen deleted scene from a movie as if it were actually in the finished product (until owning up to it at the end of the post).
  • Caustic Critic: Rowdy C. Moore of TV Trash is definitely this. Some of the other reviewers (such as Decker Shado, Whyboy, Curiosity Inc, and The Last of the Americans) will have their moments where they are VERY hard on the material they're reviewing. Others (such as Moviefan12 and site founder James Daniel Walsh) will only be harsh on the material they truly feel deserves it.
  • Lampshade Hanging: Since many of the tropes reviewers use have been used and over-used to death by many Internet reviewers, most Expressionists will lampshade their use of said tropes in their reviews.
  • The Movie: 'Manic Expression: Creative Chaos'. There's also the animated movie, though that has been in Development Hell almost since the start of the site.
  • Reasonable Authority Figure: James and Fusionater.
  • Running Gag: 'Too Drunk to Dream', to the point where several Expressionists danced to it in a video. Various Expressionists have their own running gags in their respective blogs, videos, or shows.
  • Talking to Himself: In some of the Podcast Plays, a few Expressionists will play multiple roles, such as in 'High Class Academy', where Patricia Miranda plays two very different characters (one a girl who works with auto mechanics, the other a pretentious high class snob) in the same scene.
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