Usually tied up with Self-Deprecation, possibly saying that the creator is a talentless hack who got lucky or is just in it to squeeze money out of the fans, but they're too dumb to realise it. Straw Fan is a subtrope where the audience is personified by a character in the work. Not to be confused with This Loser Is You (an audience-identification figure who is so pathetic that the audience doesn't want to), What the Hell, Player? (the game notes bizarre or cruel behavior), or You Bastard! (where a work tries to make the audience feel guilty for enjoying it or choosing to consume it). In pinballs, videogames, and other similar works, this extends to mocking the player's lack of skill. Andrew Cartmel on Doctor Who, " The Greatest Show in the Galaxy"Īiming a jab at the audience, usually for being such losers that they'll waste their time watching/reading/playing this nonsense, such moral degenerates that they'll enjoy sleazy pandering to their base impulses, and/or so dumb they'll pay good money for it.
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