Discussion Main / AttentionWhore

Just putting this out there, but these days the term "attention whore" comes off as tacky at best, and misogynistic at worst. Given that the trope doesn't generally have anything to do with sex (the page image is from Calvin and Hobbes!), maybe it's time for a rename.

Same goes for Cam Whore, which a years-old discussion notes should probably be Cam Girl and/or Cam Boy.

Why can't we mention Herostratus as a Real Life example? That was his motivation for burning down the Temple of Artemis, and it worked despite the attempt at damnatio memoriae. How is that controversial enough to start an edit war.

• Rather dramatically deconstructed by Sayaka Maizono from Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc. Her desire for attention has a rather sad background, as she was raised by a single father who also was very workaholic and left her alone all the time. Young Sayaka spent several hours on her own in front of the TV and fell in love with the Idol Singer way of life, thinking that if she became one of these she would be given the affection and love she lacked; thus she worked hard, became a part of an idol group, and was so good at it that she became the Super High School Level Idol Singer, loved and admired by everyone in Japan. Then Monobear exploited Sayaka's massive terror at the idea of being forgotten, showing her a video of what would happen if she didn't leave Hope's Peak: that her group would be disbanded and she'd be totally abandoned by her fans... which ultimately made her snap hard enough to plan killing someone and use Naegi, her ex-classmate who had a crush on her, as a scapegoat — and finished when she actually TRIED to kill someone and ended up dead for it. All because Sayaka felt that, if she lost her fans's love and support, she would be literally worth NOTHING.

Sorry, but the entry is a MASSIVE failure to understand Sayaka's personality. The backstory is accurate, but Sayaka's motivation for becoming an idol wasn't to be the center of attention but to bring joy to others. Yes, she hated loneliness, and this also played the part, but love is something she received from her bandmates, not from her fans. Monokuma's motive wasn't playing on her fear of being forgotten, it was personal connections and what made her snap was her bandmates' lives being in danger. Sayaka may be many things, but this trope is not one of them

"warning you that such people in Real Life are only out for themselves" that seems like bit too much of a generalisation to be in a sentence that has the words "in Real Life". I mean I've known people who do obnoxious crap to get noticed but they weren't sociopaths

"If you are a Gamer Chick and don't go to every possible length to hide your gender online, there's a good chance you will be stereotyped as one of these."

Is it impossible for people to add a fandom entry without ridiculous over-the-top hyperbole or something? There are several communities with fair gender representation and even some where females dominate.

Moving this example here because I am not sure that it fits the trope as described.

• Phoebe of Charmed got angry that Piper was forced to leave a cafe because she was breast feeding. So, to protest, she rode around naked on a horse inspired by Godiva. How that's protesting for breastfeeding, I don't know.

I can accept cutting the real life examples, but Anne Coulter is an attention whole. That scene wasn't that they asked her and then didn't talk to her. They didn't ask her anything at the moment. They were talking with the other guest about a subject that he was the expert on, not her. And her reaction was only about them not talking to her, not the subject or trying to give an opinion on it.

So anyone claiming that's not an example shows you didn't watch that episode.

Again, not putting that on the main page. Just pointing out why the claim it doesn't fit is wrong.