>>120309158TVTropes has a category called "Nightmare Fuel" on some works' pages, supposed to contain pants-shittingly scary or very didturbing moments.
But because implying that a show/book/movie has genuinely scary moments can make it sound cool/interesting, some users stretch the definition of "scary" to absurd degrees, to the point that external observers like /co/ think that TVTropes is full of wusses, and not full of basically chuuniboys or self-conscious people.
In fact, the page shown in
>>120302334 's pic was created by an user looking for a (rather poor) way to lure in new watchers, since "genuine scary" moments may make new viewers more interested in watching it... even if the scary moments aren't objectively there.
By the way, TVTropes has a pretty strict policy on what actually count as "Nightmare Fuel". So the reputation is rather undeserved.
