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Inspired by Jacksfilms’s Yesterday I Asked You series, or YIAY for short. I’m going to ask a Jacksfilms-style question, and other posters must give humorous answers. Tomorrow, I will repeat the question and give my favorite answers. I will then let another poster ask a new question, and the cycle repeats (at least) every day.

Example of a YIAY video.

If the original poster isn’t available to give their favorite answers, another poster is free to step in and give theirs (barring their own).

I have a question for you. Describe TV Tropes in just 4 words.

Edited by PurpleEyedGuma on Aug 11th 2022 at 10:10:39 AM

zycone zycone (Resciscor) from m. Mikaki, owod'nja Mikak'skoi (Troper in training)
zycone (Resciscor)
#8001: May 2nd 2024 at 8:15:06 AM

If Jack consents, we can throw the server kit up to the Internet Archive for posterity, but otherwise I do not oppose the cessation of the operation of multiplayer servers in that game.

hi! i'm zycone. how are you then? is everything alright?
Weirdguy149 The King Without a Kingdom from Lumiose City under development Since: Jul, 2014 Relationship Status: I'd jump in front of a train for ya!
The King Without a Kingdom
#8003: May 2nd 2024 at 8:28:57 AM

As long as this thread exists, I am fine with other methods of the funny getting their necks snapped.

It's been 3000 years…
CompletelyNormalGuy Am I a weirdo? from that rainy city where they throw fish (Oldest One in the Book)
Am I a weirdo?
#8004: May 2nd 2024 at 11:27:03 AM

I guess this is what all of those people were talking about when they said you can't be funny now.

Bigotry will NEVER be welcome on TV Tropes.
Florien The They who said it from statistically, slightly right behind you. Since: Aug, 2019
The They who said it
#8005: May 2nd 2024 at 2:14:39 PM

History shall not look kindly upon this.

This is not because it's a particularly bad thing or good thing that it's shutting down of course, it's because 700 years from now, they'll discover Objective Ethics, and it'll turn out that attempting to or actually being funny over the internet is morally equivalent to a mid-sized genocide. This whole era is going to be condemned as one of the darkest times in history, on account of all the attempting to be funny on the internet, and the mere existence of vehicles for attempting humor over the internet shall be enough for history to look unkindly at this.

SaifuuSuri Fuse Man from Power Plant Since: Apr, 2022 Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
Fuse Man
#8006: May 3rd 2024 at 8:22:51 AM

I guess this means we have to stop being funny.

Pack it up people, comedy is over.

Prepare to diode.
jandn2014 Very Spooky from somewhere in Connecticut Since: Aug, 2017 Relationship Status: Hiding
Very Spooky
#8007: May 3rd 2024 at 8:32:16 AM

Down with authoritarian means of enforcing comedy! Humor shall belong to the people!

back lol
FernandoLemon Nobody Here from Argentina (Troper Knight) Relationship Status: In season
#8008: May 3rd 2024 at 2:45:14 PM

Yesterday I Asked You: Be Funny Now! will be shutting down soon. Should we try to bring it back, or do we let it die?

And you have all chosen death.

  • If Jack consents, we can throw the server kit up to the Internet Archive for posterity, but otherwise I do not oppose the cessation of the operation of multiplayer servers in that game. (zycone) — Probably the most realistic (if wishful) of all the answers. Not funny though, get cancelled.
  • As long as this thread exists, I am fine with other methods of the funny getting their necks snapped. (Weirdguy 149) — HELL YEAH!!! TV TROPES SUPREMACY BABYYYYY!!!
  • I guess this is what all of those people were talking about when they said you can't be funny now. (Completely Normal Guy) — This is clearly all part of the liberal agenda to cancel coemdy, everything's offensive all of a sudden! Snowflakes!!!!!!!
  • Down with authoritarian means of enforcing comedy! Humor shall belong to the people! (Jandn 2014) — This is perfect, now nobody can tell me my memes are cringe.

Welp, that was fun while it lasted. Rip bozo.

Edited by FernandoLemon on May 3rd 2024 at 6:45:55 AM

I'd like to apologize for all this.
TheFarmboy Don't Try It from A Galaxy, Far, Far Away (Not-So-Newbie) Relationship Status: I LOVE THIS DOCTOR!
Don't Try It
J99908 The Unbreakable Spear from Mount Targon Since: Jun, 2023 Relationship Status: Healthy, deeply-felt respect for this here Shotgun
The Unbreakable Spear
#8010: May 3rd 2024 at 3:08:47 PM

“I was your age. The end!”

In battle, we are reborn.
Weirdguy149 The King Without a Kingdom from Lumiose City under development Since: Jul, 2014 Relationship Status: I'd jump in front of a train for ya!
The King Without a Kingdom
#8011: May 3rd 2024 at 3:11:51 PM

"I whined like a bitch and got shit for it."

It's been 3000 years…
FernandoLemon Nobody Here from Argentina (Troper Knight) Relationship Status: In season
#8012: May 3rd 2024 at 3:38:17 PM

When I was your age, items from the McDonald's dollar menu cost a dollar.

I'd like to apologize for all this.
TomT World's Most Boring Man (Troper in training) Relationship Status: Chocolate!
World's Most Boring Man
#8013: May 3rd 2024 at 3:48:28 PM

I had to walk uphill 20 miles to go to school! Both ways! Sure, it din't make sense, but back then, things din't need to make sense! That was before they passed the 24th amendment. I voted against it, of course. Course, back then, you voted by writing down your choice on a piece of paper, then puttin' it in your mailbox. One time, I wanted to vote for Mayor Williamson, but my pen ran out of ink, so I accidentally voted for Mayor Williams instead! Course, back then, chickens were allowed to vote. They say that's how FDR got a foothold, by promising to reduce taxes for chickens. Now where was I? Ah yes, the 24th amendment. It was suggested by my cousin, Patrick Jefferson, and the thing you need to remember about him was, he was Vice President for 5 minutes back in '43. His face even got put on the highly unpopular 60 cent coin! Course, back then, coins were made of wood, since they didn't have metal 'cos of the war. They suggested mining for metal in the South Pole, but back then, most people thought the Earth was flat, and there was no South Pole. Course, that was before they discovered Earth was a dodecahedron back in '72, the same year my son married one of those city fellas. That reminds me of when my neighbour wanted to borrow some flour, back when people used to grind their own flour...

"Ah, no, I'm fine" - Father Paul Stone
RandomFanOfStuff from somewhere I probably shouldn't be rn Since: Nov, 2017
#8014: May 3rd 2024 at 3:58:06 PM

When I was your age, people waited til the end to post the best YIAY answer because they knew no-one could top it and wouldn't bother trying. You young'uns gone an' scruffed it all up...

Welp, add that to the list of Terrible Ideas That I Knew Were Terrible Ideas But Did Anyway...
skan123 Since: Aug, 2018
Matchingbone from Somewhere between here and way over there. Since: Oct, 2016 Relationship Status: I'd need a PowerPoint presentation
#8016: May 3rd 2024 at 6:02:50 PM

When I was your age, we all wrote to a mysterious force known as "Abby." Abby knew all and told all before Google took over the planet. No one knew what Abby looked like or how they had so much life experience, but they trusted Abby with their secrets and problems.

jandn2014 Very Spooky from somewhere in Connecticut Since: Aug, 2017 Relationship Status: Hiding
Very Spooky
#8017: May 3rd 2024 at 8:03:49 PM

"...how old are you again?"

back lol
YourEternalTroper Master of the Multiverse (He/Him/His) from The Center of the Multiverse Since: Oct, 2015 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
Master of the Multiverse (He/Him/His)
#8018: May 4th 2024 at 4:14:12 AM

I was angry and throwing tantrums left and right to make people fear me.

Everything that lives is designed to end...
m-95 Har har har from my place of residence Since: Jun, 2021 Relationship Status: Loves me...loves me not
Har har har
#8019: May 4th 2024 at 7:25:04 AM

"... I was on the run from at least twenty different governments."

Please visit the "AITA" forum game
Superjohn Worry from Digital Circus Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
Worry
#8020: May 4th 2024 at 8:20:03 AM

"I spent my time on TV tropes, look, I wasn't an interesting person then, nor now".

"I guess I just don't want you to feel like you're nothing. I don't want anybody to feel like that."
Florien The They who said it from statistically, slightly right behind you. Since: Aug, 2019
The They who said it
#8021: May 4th 2024 at 1:18:13 PM

Standards of living were markedly lower and things were generally worse than they are today! Today is better than most previous times in even fairly recent history. You are lucky to not have lived when I did.

SaifuuSuri Fuse Man from Power Plant Since: Apr, 2022 Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
Fuse Man
#8022: May 4th 2024 at 1:55:04 PM

I was my age plus 2 then divided by 3. In 16 years I'll be your age now times 4. How old am I?

Edited by SaifuuSuri on May 4th 2024 at 4:57:34 AM

Prepare to diode.
CompletelyNormalGuy Am I a weirdo? from that rainy city where they throw fish (Oldest One in the Book)
Am I a weirdo?
#8023: May 4th 2024 at 3:33:34 PM

I drank too much vodka and found myself engaged to an Armenian camel seller.

Bigotry will NEVER be welcome on TV Tropes.
TheFarmboy Don't Try It from A Galaxy, Far, Far Away (Not-So-Newbie) Relationship Status: I LOVE THIS DOCTOR!
Don't Try It
#8024: May 4th 2024 at 3:44:17 PM

Yesterday, I have asked to finish an age-old interjection, here are my favorite answers.

  • "I whined like a bitch and got shit for it." -Weirdguy 149

  • "Standards of living were markedly lower and things were generally worse than they are today! Today is better than most previous times in even fairly recent history. You are lucky to not have lived when I did." -Florien

  • "When I was your age, we all wrote to a mysterious force known as "Abby." Abby knew all and told all before Google took over the planet. No one knew what Abby looked like or how they had so much life experience, but they trusted Abby with their secrets and problems." -Matchingbone

  • "When I was your age, people waited til the end to post the best YIAY answer because they knew no-one could top it and wouldn't bother trying. You young'uns gone an' scruffed it all up"-Random Fan Of Stuff

And the best for last...

  • "I had to walk uphill 20 miles to go to school! Both ways! Sure, it din't make sense, but back then, things din't need to make sense! That was before they passed the 24th amendment. I voted against it, of course. Course, back then, you voted by writing down your choice on a piece of paper, then puttin' it in your mailbox. One time, I wanted to vote for Mayor Williamson, but my pen ran out of ink, so I accidentally voted for Mayor Williams instead! Course, back then, chickens were allowed to vote. They say that's how FDR got a foothold, by promising to reduce taxes for chickens. Now where was I? Ah yes, the 24th amendment. It was suggested by my cousin, Patrick Jefferson, and the thing you need to remember about him was, he was Vice President for 5 minutes back in '43. His face even got put on the highly unpopular 60 cent coin! Course, back then, coins were made of wood, since they didn't have metal 'cos of the war. They suggested mining for metal in the South Pole, but back then, most people thought the Earth was flat, and there was no South Pole. Course, that was before they discovered Earth was a dodecahedron back in '72, the same year my son married one of those city fellas. That reminds me of when my neighbour wanted to borrow some flour, back when people used to grind their own flour... " -Tom T

It's Over Anakin, I have the high ground!
MorganFoulke Mercenary Anarchist Ace from somewhere in the Philippines, France or the US (Pilot) Relationship Status: Abstaining
Mercenary Anarchist Ace
#8025: May 4th 2024 at 10:01:29 PM

Welcome to the Air Force. What would you like to do, pilot?

Edited by MorganFoulke on May 4th 2024 at 1:02:23 PM

Yo buddies, still tropin’?

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