When I was reading TV Tropes years ago, they always kept reiterating that tropes themselves are not a bad thing, though. Has that changed? Or is it just that media literacy nowadays is bad and people can't see tropes as narrative tools rather than just going "trope bad"?

Missed the opportunity not to make his upper body a catfish, smh my head.

Oooh, lovely~ Now the question is: Is the challenge to carry someone up the river...or are the two trying to save those who were swept away~?

Those tentacles look a little too friendly...

Do you need a volunteer~?

"A-aaah...w-why are they going for my ass all the time...~?"

"M-mmmmph?! It's...stretching my ass so much! N-not again~ ♥️"

"Aaaaahn, it's filling my ass and pussy...l-let me go before I get addicted~!"