NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity
#93375
This troper's friend has a cartoon series, one episode of which was posted on Encyclopedia Dramatica, on a page where it was trolled. Thanks to this incident, the video now has 10 times the hits it had before, and only ONE negative comment.
#93376
Call me a Joseph Mengele if you will, but one thing I would love to see is an experiment done with peoples' minds. For example, release a movie...and then "cut" a couple scenes from the movie and "{{Bowlderize}}" it before release. Get word out on the internet that it was censored and Bowlderized...then when the DVD/Blu-Ray comes out, label it as "uncut" with the "Bowlderizations" removed and the "cut" scenes restored...except that the "Bowlderization" was merely making a character who doesn't swear normally cuss like a sailor (Even when it makes absolutely no sense for them to be screaming PrecisionFStrike after PrecisionFStrike), incredibly minor details that don't contribute to the story, etc. And the cut scenes? Storylinewise they're all Big Lipped Alligator moments that don't contribute a thing to the story or are redundant scenes that establish something an earlier scene already did...etc. My hypothesis is that the "uncut" release would be considered the superior version on basis of being Uncut or whether or not the plot is enhanced by the "Removal" of the "Bowlderizations" and "addition" of the "cut" scenes.
#93377
My parrot is constantly doing things she'll be reprimanded for just to get attention.