Keep Grinding

If This Site Had a Tropes Page

insert intro

Tropes in general

The Alcoholic: Seth has admitted to typing while drunk.

An Aesop:

Author Appeal: system administration and weird games. He also really seems to love A Dose of Buckley; many rants feature links to Buckley's videos.

Berserk Button: Hypocrisy and abuse are one-way trips to Seth roasting someone.

Caustic Critic: Seth is one towards e-celebutantes.

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

Chronic Hero Syndrome: Seth might have this.

Dark and Troubled Past: Seth is implied to have this.

Knight in Sour Armor: Seth seems determined to warn about as many predators he can find, regardless of how popular they are.

Unlucky Everydude: Seth.

Tropes in "Life Is Funny"

All There In the Script: According to the Alt Text of "Small Ants Are Easy to Crush", the detractors are named Felicia and Pippi.

Brother-Sister Incest: parodied in "Cantapoop."

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

General Failure: the representative of Maestro Media.

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.

Schedule Slip: occurs often.

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

Shout-Out: SmallAnt's suicide attempt resembles the time out screen in the first Leisure Suit Larry.

Suicide As Comedy: "Small Ants Are Easy to Crush"

Take That!: The strips are centered around jabs.

Took a Level in Jerkass: "Careless Eris" was based off UltimateDSfan's Face-Heel Turn, while "Untitled" was inspired by Edmund McMillen exhibiting this.

Your Cheating Heart: also parodied in "Cantapoop."

Tropes in the Rants section and its sources

Acceptable Targets

Bad People Abuse Animals: Cybershell and SmallAnt engage in digital zoosadism.

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

Clueless Aesop: what Seth sees as the primary problem with penguinz0/Cr1tikal.

Disco Dan: the youngest manchildren.

Double Standard: Most commentators/"DramaTubers" have at least one. The most prevalent one is criticizing public figures that prey on people in private, yet letting Card-Carrying Villians stay off the hook.

Entitled Bastard: Several of them are nicknamed "crybullies."

Evil Makes You Ugly: Targets typically use unappealing avatars. Their real selves also won't be winning beauty pageants anytime soon.

Fat Bastard: Joshua Moon and LS Mark, apparently.

GIFT: Subjects are generally not known for their manners.

Greed: the motivation of YouTube's predators.

Hypocrite: Many targets contradict themselves. Karl Hamburger was even nicknamed "Karl Hypocrite."

Implausible Deniability: Some predators show this.

Karma Houdini: Most of the cybercriminals have not been arrested.

Manchild: almost every target.

Misaimed Fandom: Cows tend to miss the messages spread by media.

No Social Skills: Most targets don't understand social cues. Granted, many of them are autistic, but still.

Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense: LS Mark and its enablers.

Small Name, Big Ego: The Misaimed Fandoms are rife with this.

Sore Loser: A few cows can't handle being wrong.

Villian With Good Publicity: YouTube has many of them.

Tropes in "The Fall of UltimateDSfan" and its sources

Bad Liar: Eris.

Boomerang Bigot: Eris is racist towards whites, despite also being white.

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 it commits suicide.

Dramatically Missing the Point: Eris with the media it consumes.

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.

Hypocrite: Seth mocks Eris for being this.

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

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

Laser-Guided Karma: Eris almost always gets punished for its poor treatment of others.

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

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

The Scrooge: Eris complains about being "broke af", despite wasting thousands of dollars.

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

Shout-Out: The summary contains a spin on CWCki's slogan with Eris mentioned instead.

Seth: Observe Eristory. Don't make Eristory.

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.

Ungrateful Bastard: Eris.

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

Wangst: Eris is prone to this.