Line #29 WebVideo/ColeyDoesThings


1	[[https://www.youtube.com/c/ColeyDoesThings/featured ColeyDoesThings]] is a [[Website/YouTube YouTuber]] and comedian who does short video sketches on various fanbases, often making fun of (in a light way) common fanfiction tropes, types of fans, and fan culture in general. She shoots and records her videos by herself, switching between different 'characters' noted by different post-it notes stuck to her forehead with their characteristics written on them ("Just here for the memes", "Precious newbie", "Multishipper", etc.).
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3	Her earliest videos on [=YouTube=] date to 2016, though her first video pertaining to fandom sketches "entering the voltron fandom like" was posted in April 2017.
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6	!! This show provides examples of:
7	* AllLowercaseLetters: All the video titles are all in lowercase to build on the [[invoked]]NoBudget aesthetic of Coley's videos.
8	* BecomingTheMask: "ironically shipping something to genuinely shipping it" tracks, well, a fan who starts out shipping two characters because they find it stupid but comes around to shipping them for real.
9	* DistinctionWithoutADifference: In the "bought a boy band" section of "reverse fanfiction tropes," Creator/SimonCowell insists to Music/OneDirection that he didn't ''sell'' One Direction, someone else ''bought'' One Direction.
10	* EnemyMine: After most of the "entering the kpop fandom like" is about how fractured the whole K-pop fanbase is and how the segments spend so much energy feuding with one another for various reasons, a non-fan shows up and asks for their help in combating racist shit online, in which all the factions agree to set aside their feuds for now to fight.
11	* {{Fangirl}}: She is in a ''lot'' of different fandoms. She even describes herself as a "professional fangirl" on her channel's About page, and some of her videos involve her freaking out over some of her favorite TV shows.
12	* {{Flanderization}}:
13	** "canon to fanon" details ways fan interpretations of various fictional character archetypes tend to get one aspect of their character played up into a single dimension.
14	** In the video "if i was a character in a fandom", Coley drinks wine, and the fans decide that that's her whole character.
15	* ForbiddenFruit: A classic example in "spite shipping" -- being told they ''couldn't'' ship something only made the POV character ship it ''harder''.
16	* GenkiGirl: She definitely comes off as one.
17	* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Many of her videos regarding impressions of a given show's fanbase are titled "entering the [show name] fandom like".
18	* InvertedTrope: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsZYjDo-ky0 reverse fanfiction tropes]]" depicts the opposites of various fanfiction cliches. For example, LoveTriangle becomes a "hate triangle" with three people just screaming at each other, and the inversion of HanahakiDisease has somebody ''eat'' a flower after confessing their love.
19	* LoonyFan: The more extreme segments of various fandoms get portrayed this way in many of the "entering the fandom like" vids.
20	* NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity: In-universe, "spite shipping" is all about this trope mixed with ForbiddenFruit; namely someone shipping a pairing to spite someone who told them they couldn't.
21	* OhCrapThereAreFanficsOfUs: "if team WebAnimation/{{rwby}} reacted to the fandom" has a section with Coley cosplaying as Ruby, Weiss, Blake, and Yang reacting to finding... ''particular'' kinds of fanart of themselves online.
22	* {{Omegaverse}}: PlayedForLaughs in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgugkxEab2Q omegaverse vs. alpha bro]]", a OneDialogueTwoConversations scene where an Omegaverse fangirl and a self-proclaimed "alpha" male converse about "alphas" and "betas" in entirely different contexts. The alpha male mentions dynamics between men that the fangirl takes as Omegaverse ideas. It takes some time before they realize the fangirl is talking about a sexy genre of fanfiction.
23	* OneDialogueTwoConversations: "Omega-verse fan meets Alpha Bro" has the two titular fans meet and carry on a conversation about their respective fandoms. Despite the alpha bro's hypermasculine aggression, it takes quite a while before they figure out the fan is actually talking about smutty fanfic.
24	* OnlySaneMan: The various chaotic, sometimes extreme antics portrayed within various fandoms are experienced through a version of Coley who is often bewildered and sometimes terrified about what she finds behind the door.
25	* ProneToTears: She cries very easily, especially when she's happy.
26	* SharedUniverse: Coley started making a series of videos that portrays fandom concepts like ships, fanfics, fanart, etc. being turned into shops/stores or similar establishments which are usually at least implied to exist in the same universe. Most specifically, Fanfic Cafe (a coffee shop that creates fanfics as coffee), Ships R Us (a shop that sells ships to people), Fanart Parlor (a gallery that displays fanart), Build an OC (Build-A-Bear, but with [=OCs=]), Y/N Matchmaker (a matchmaking site where a matchmaker matches multiple [=Y/Ns=] to different characters), and Fandom Labs (the factory where these things are created).
27	* {{Squee}}: Since she is a professional fangirl, you can expect this to happen quite often in her videos.
28	* StrawFan: The more extreme segments of various fandoms get portrayed this way in many of the "entering the fandom like" vids.
29	* TearsOfJoy: She's prone to shedding these when talking about how grateful she is for her supporters and followers.
30	* ThereIsOnlyOneBed: {{Discussed\|Trope}}. For her video [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDOBEcpQ6Ao "what is your fanfiction job?"]], Coley asked the Twitter fan communities what their ideal fanfic "job" archetype is. Among the many responses she reads in the video, ''nine'' of them[[note]](yes, she keeps count in the video)[[/note]] reply they'd work in a hotel (or in one case, as a landlord) to {{invoke\|dTrope}} this trope on their favourite ships. Coley jokes that with so many responses like this, they can [[ExaggeratedTrope start an international "only one bed" hotel chain]].
31	* TooKinkyToTorture: In "2 truths 1 lie fandom edition, after Coley tells her fellow content creators [[https://youtube.com/@Kictor?si=H5MVRYAAkaVrLYEJ Kictor]] and [[https://youtube.com/@ordinarydream3r?si=SohEpoWKPspSQOG5 Nadia]] that her sleep-paralysis demon, the Shadowman, climbs on top of her sometimes, they jokingly suggest shipping Coley with it. Coley states that she's "a monsterfucker for a reason", while Kictor and Nadia joke that the demon would [[ScrewThisImOutofHere stop haunting her and leave]], with their roles being reversed with demon being the one haunted instead. To top it off Coley quotes [[Manga/JujutsuKaisen Gojo's]] "This is where you're weak, right?" line, which was quoted earlier in the video when discussing a clip of him going feral making the rounds on Platform/{{Twitter}}.
32	* WorseWithContext: Her video discussing the infamous Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn ''Literature/GrandmasterOfDemonicCultivationMoDaoZuShi'' fic ''Sexy Times With Wangxian'', specifically how many tags it had.[[note]]The website had to implement a limit of 75 total tags per fic for all future works because of how badly this fic's tagfest broke the site.[[/note]]
33	-->"OK, so now armed with [the knowledge that the average fic has 17 tags and 11 is the most common number of tags], guess the number of tags ''Sexy Time With Wangxian'' had at its peak." (''waits for viewer to make a guess'') "Forty-four. '''Hundred.'''"

Context WebVideo / ColeyDoesThings