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* All The Tropes' Corollary: ''The difficulty of getting a group of people to agree on '''which''' 10% is '''not''' crud [[Your Mileage May Vary|exponentially approaches infinity as the size of the group increases. ]]'' (Or, "Crud is in the eye of the beholder... so to speak.")
** All The Tropes' Second Corollary: ''The other 90% of crud is further divided into [[Love It or Hate It|"Subjective Crud,"]] [[So Bad It's Good|"Crud You]] [[Guilty Pleasure|Like Anyway"]], and [[Epic Fail|"Total Crud."]] The exact proportions of this division have never been researched, and most likely varies by the individual for reasons mentioned above.''
** All The Tropes' Laconic Corollary: ''Ninety percent of [[Laconic
* [[The Theorem of Narrow Interests]]: ''The more constrained the thing you're looking for, the fewer good examples exist.''
** Also: ''If a video game has user-created content, a large amount of it will be based on [[Video Game Perversity Potential|male or female genitalia]] or "[[Little Big Planet|LittleBig]][[Godwin's Law|Holocaust.]]"''
* [[Martian Successor Nadesico (Anime)|Ruri]]'s Law:'' "The vast majority of people are idiots".'' or, in other words, ''You're probably crud.''
Sturgeon's Law is particularly obvious when the barriers to entry -- the whims of publishers -- are removed. Self-publishing, especially in the virtually cost-free environment of the Internet, makes the cruddy 90% ''very'' visible to the public; it no longer languishes in an aspiring writer's desk drawer. This often leads to the false impression that [[Fanfic]] attracts poor writers; the fact is that the poor writers have ''always'' been out there, but until recently, their poor writing had few mass outlets. As one writer put it, "flipping through [[
If we assume that the 90% figure applies only to published works, then about [[Million
Often the phrase is followed by the even more cynical addendum, "... including the other 10%." Rarely, a more optimistic second clause is added:
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