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* [[Ad Nauseam]]: A long string of forced reskins, which crowd out content to make room for more paid display advertising and more advertising for other Wikia projects.
* [[Author Existence Failure]]: Can Wikia really exist when they're out of users?▼
* [[Anthropomorphic Personification]]: These folks used to be fine with the [[Furry Fandom]] and others, back when they were still small and needed the traffic. The community has since parted ways.
▲* [[Author Existence Failure]]: Can Wikia really exist when they're [https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/jul/31/wikipedia out of users]?
* [[Awesome Personnel Carrier]]
* [[Broken Base]]: There's a long list of [http://awa.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Forked_wikis communities which have voluntarily left]. In most cases, Wikia leaves the old project open as a direct competitor, permanently fracturing the community.
* [[Censorship Bureau]]: All the news that doesn't offend the advertiser, we print. Among the communities thrown [[Thrown Under The Bus|under the bus]], some of whom were with Wikia almost from the beginning: Spanking Art (2008), Anime Bath Scene (2018), [[Fetish Fuel]] Wiki (2019) and roughly twenty-two languages of [[Uncyclopedia]] (2019).
* [[Content Warnings]]: Especially the spoiler warnings.
* [[Don't Make Me Destroy You]]: Admins.
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Wikia [[Take That|retaliates]] in various subtle ways against communities who try to leave, but they're [[We Suck Less|utter angels]] compared to [https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/10/business/media/once-a-profit-dream-wikitravel-now-bedevils-owner.html Internet Brands, who sued their own users] for trying to leave Wikitravel for Wikivoyage in 2012.
* [[Everyone Is Gay]]: Depending on the Wikia's topic...for example, in the Winx Wiki majority of the population are girls.
* [[Fair Use]]: Stretched pretty much to its limits or beyond. Most of the wikis are commentary on well-known copyrighted entertainment franchises, which use large numbers of images from the original work.
* [[Grammar Nazi]]: Yes.
* [[Hot Linked]]: Particularly with deleted images
* [[Inn of No Return]]: A group of wikis, including WoWpedia, left Wikia for a competitor (Gamepedia, which ended up part of Curse Media) – largely due to [[Internet Ads|intrusive advertising]]. Wikia then bought Curse Media, so ultimately "they check in, but they don't check out".
* [[Insistent Terminology]]: Wikis hosted on Wikia are not wikis, they are wiki''a''s.
* [[Law of Wiki Expansion]]
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* [[Walkthrough Mode]]: Especially in gaming wikis.
* [[Take That]]: A heavy reliance on search engine duplicate content penalties to utterly crush communities who try to take their content elsewhere and leave Wikia. Staff routinely [[Censorship Bureau|censor info about the split]] on the old wiki to prevent users from finding the new project.
* [[Tropes Will Ruin Your Life|Wikia Will Ruin Your Life]]: Of course, the same can be said for other wiki hosts (such as Shoutwiki or Miraheze).
* [[Wiki Magic]]
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