The nature of snowclones

Bob

Are we going to have an assload of confession threads now? That would make me sad. :,<

(Aaaaaaand now a bunch of people are going to do just that to spite me. FFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUU-)

Noimporta

DonZabu

This reminds me of something: you know how the Old Folk's Home subforum on TV Tropes got started?

A minor snowcloning fad. Within the same hour as a few snowclones coming up in Yack Fest, the new subforum was created, solely in response to a trend that probably would've run its course within an hour or so.

Bob

Does this mean that one can argue that the Old Folk's Home is, itself, a snowclone?

DonZabu

I don't know, but I can do this:

Bob

...Jeez, it was just a joke, dude. :<

Noimporta

This reminds me of something: you know how the Old Folk's Home subforum on TV Tropes got started?

A
minor snowcloning fad. Within the same hour as a few snowclones coming
up in Yack Fest, the new subforum was created, solely in response to a
trend that probably would've run its course within an hour or so.

Are you, by any chance, mad?

DonZabu

^^ I meant that in response to OFH's very existence and everything it represents about TV Tropes's administration, not your post.

^ I'm not mad, I'm just...disappointed.

Bob

I know, hence the strikethru. :P

Noimporta

and everything it represents about TV Tropes's administration, not your post.
That the admins are 50somethings that show preference for people in their age-gap?

Bob

That the admins are crotchety old bitches?

DonZabu

Well sure, but I meant more that they're thin-skinned and easy to panic.

Bob

So does that mean someone can have it deleted to due being a snowclone, kind of?

DonZabu

Their heads might asplode if you bring that up with them.

Bob

Sweet!

Later guys, I've got work to do!