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If This Site Had a Page on All the Tropes

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Tropes in general

An Aesop:

Author Appeal: system administration, considering the pages in the Help section.

Beige Prose: in a few pages.

Channel Hop: the site was self-hosted on I2P before Seth migrated it to a tilde server on the clear web.

The Moral Substitute: Seth is obsessed with finding these. Specific examples include:

Unlucky Everydude: Seth.

Tropes common amongst Seth's competitors

Can't Take Criticism: many targets' biggest flaw.

Evil Makes You Ugly: Seth's targets typically use unappealing avatars, or "avatards."

Internet Jerk: Seth tends to criticize web personalities who are not known for their manners.

Tropes in "Life Is Funny"

Brother-Sister Incest: parodied in "Cantapoop."

Does Not Like Men: the titular hypocrite of "Feminazi."

Hypocrite: The titular characters of "Careless Eris" and "Feminazi."

Boom Knuckles: "You're just as bad as the bigots you hate!"

Noodle People: The only exception is Sonic Boom's Knuckles.

Punny Name: "Bruno Farts" and "Cantapoop"

Reality Ensues: PearlTrans gets imprisoned for aggravated assault.

Self-Imposed Challenge: parodied in "Small Ants Are Easy to Crush."

Take That!: The strips are centered around jabs.

Your Cheating Heart: also parodied in "Cantapoop."

Tropes in "The Fall of UltimateDSfan" and its sources

Bad Liar: Eris.

Card-Carrying Villian: Eris stated that a chaotic goddess's name is perfect for it.

"Could Have Avoided This" Plot: Seth implies Eris would not have hurt anyone if it attended therapy more often.

Department of Redundancy Department: Eris has a habit of repeating itself.

Downer Ending: Because Eris refuses to seek counseling, Seth predicts its mental health will continue to deteriorate until she commits suicide.

Dummied Out: A few more links are visible in the page's HTML code.

Ephebophile: Eris is this towards Sonic the Hedgehog.

Evil Makes You Ugly: Eris's avatar wears a dog collar and tacky accessories. It is almost always drawn without teeth.

Face-Heel Turn: the "transformation" from Eric to Eris.

Fallen Creator: Eric was a funny and caring guy before he received severe brain damage and became Eris.

Hypocrite: Seth mocks Eris for being this.

Informed Attribute: Eris describes itself as a "hot goth trans girl", but looks masculine and has emo traits: whiny, angsty, and narcissistic.

Jerkass: Eris insults people it disagrees with and abuses its followers.

Karma Houdini Warranty: Eris's expired when it lost its job and condo.

Narcissist: Eris, to the point of attacking almost everyone it comes across.

Nice Guy: Eric was usually this. Eris, on the other hand...

Non-Indicative Name: Two of Eris's screen names are UltimateDSfan and UltimateDSEris, yet it does not discuss DS games.

Perpetual Poverty: what Eris condemned itself to.

Shotacon: Eris is implied to be this towards Miles "Tails" Prower.

Small Name, Big Ego: Eris on occasion.

Squick: "Trans [Fem] Sonic"

Stylistic Suck: Eris's avatar has stereotypical SJW hair and almost always lacks teeth. It is also poorly imposed onto footage.

Seth, in the reflection for "Careless Eris": "The [...] editing looks worse than the videos I made when I was twelve, the same age when I was using Windows Movie Maker and iMovie to edit."

Too Dumb to Live: There was an instance of Eris considering self-harm, yet it bought a PlayStation 5 and emotionally abused its followers instead of talking to a professional.

Wall Banger: The page describes many from the titular YouTuber's Twitter feed.

Wangst: Eris is prone to this.