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* [[Harsher in Hindsight]]: The community's ''obsessive'' love of [[That Guy With The Glasses]] and [[Channel Awesome]] became this after the website collapsed in 2018, which painted a ''lot'' of its contributors in a bad light for various reasons. Making it even more uncomfortable is a lot of Channel Awesome-related pages being locked and barely updated to reflect on the fallout, which means users can still see tropers openly lusting after sexual predator [[JewWario|Justin Carmical]], among other cringeworthy things.
* [[Internet Backdraft]]:Following backlash over unbanning a user known for their transphobia in September 2023, the moderation team silenced any outcry about the decision and promptly locked down the thread. Fighteer's return to moderation only adds fuel to the flame, as they subsequently implement the 'no questioning moderation' rule, going so far as to suspend anyone who dares to criticize. Most end up unable to tolerate TV Tropes' infamous moderation any longer, with even some old-timers resigning following the incident.
* [[Memetic Mutation]]: The "Nuclear Ghandi" meme of the [[Civilization (video game)|Civilization]] fandom was created as consequence of a false information inserted into the series' page by Tv Tropes user Tunafish. It took years and Sid Meier himself negating the idea of a glitch making Ghandi hyper-agressive prior to the fifth game for the thing to be eventually negated, as the false information kept spreading thanks to [[Circular Reasoning]]: people kept linking to the wiki everytime someone negated the information of the wiki was false, and [[Fake Memories|users began to misremember Ghandi as agressive]]. It did not help the developers had not seen the source code of the game in decades, so Meier only checked it when writing his own autobiography.
* [[Never Live It Down]]: In general, TV Tropes' transition from a relaxed and casual atmosphere to a far more professional one is a sore spot for many an old fan. While most would agree that certain aspects of old troper culture such as Troper Tales did the site's reputation far more harm than good, scrubbing the website of ''any'' fun or personality in trope entries comes off as a major over-correction, leading not just to entries and pages feeling very clinical and robotic, but the website becoming its own antithesis by being just as stuffy and formal as Wikipedia. This may or may not be reflective of troubling general trends in fandom - wanting all of the prestige of being professional and legitimate, but with none of the actions, analysis and self-introspection that would be required to be "taken seriously".
** Mostly because of Fast Eddie and Fighteer, the staff at TV Tropes have garnered a reputation for being strict, power-hungry, abusive people who will ban anyone for the most mild offenses -- including not parroting their every opinion.
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