- Banned in China: Since 2018, most likely for coverage of anti-China memes and events.
- Creator Backlash: No one on the website looks back on the whole incident with the "Cringeworthy" page with kindness and will make you sorry if you say anything positive about it or anything that happened during the whole debacle.
- Why Fandom Can't Have Nice Things:
- Due to several factors, the "Cringeworthy" page's gallery became the very thing it was supposed to describe, resulting in the moderators struggling to keep up with all the rules being broken before finally putting their foot down and locking it for good.
- Too much Flame Bait was being posted.
- The material was beginning to get very Squick-y.
- Some users were using the gallery as an excuse to attack people, which on one occasion caused the gallery to be temporarily closed due to users continuously making fun of a Deviantart user and his artwork.)
- A drawing of Hercules with the proportions of a beach ball underwent unexpected Memetic Mutation, leading to the gallery being flooded with images featuring the "Herculoon" (or "Circules") in various situations.note All these factors led to , and led to the situation spiraling out of control until the exhausted moderators finally locked the gallery for good.
- Following the Cringeworthy image gallery incident, the Ruined Childhood, Childhood Enhanced, and Alternate Universe pages were locked due to the revised image gallery policy.
- Due to several factors, the "Cringeworthy" page's gallery became the very thing it was supposed to describe, resulting in the moderators struggling to keep up with all the rules being broken before finally putting their foot down and locking it for good.
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