Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-5597060-20170116234511/@comment-25024572-20170118005255

Alright, everybody's made pretty good and funny points, so I'm not repeating those. What I will address is this little line:

"Another thing, cliches, everyone had a damn heart attack with these. Instead of realizing that every single piece of work in modern times has at least a few cliche's, everyone had (and still have, apparently), a damn panic attack."

Yes, most works do have a few cliches. However, the problem arises when a story has a fuckton of cliches. 99.657% (yes, this is a factual figure) of those JtK knockoffs you probably consider to be the height of creativity are filled with cliches. Don't believe me? Read a JtK story, and see how many of these pop up:

-Abusive parents

-Bullies

-Depressed main character

-Over the top murder

-Hoodies

-An incredible focus on what the main character is wearing

-Rape

-Dumb cops

And many more that I can't think of at the moment. These things, for the most part, work in moderation, but altogether make an idiotic clusterfuck of a JtK wannabe named "[insert author's name or really stupid nickname here] the Killer."

We should also mention some other cliches too. For example, "hyper-realistic." Every time I read a story with that word in it, I want to strangle a puppy, rip off its head, and fuck its neckhole. I hate that word, and every mention of that word, and most every story with that word. It's cliche, it's stupid, and it's awful.

Sorry, what were we talking about? I kinda blacked out in a fit of anger. Oh, right, cliches and OP's dumbass original post.

Listen, cliches are necessary, I will admit. But an overreliance on them hurts a story. That's the problem. It's not having a panic attack over them; it's hating the unoriginality and idiocy they bring to a story.

Get your head out of your ass, and stop being all uppity.

Also, is the schmuck who started this thread reading any of the comments?