Editing Vampire (section)

===The /tg/ Invasion===
/tg/ at large became aware of Twilight shortly after the release of the first book, when random (presumably) teenyboppers and/or [[Internet Troll|neckbeards]] began popping up on threads squeeing about seeing this awesome new series with its SoKewl vampires and asking for advice on how to stat them out as characters — or worse, suggesting that they were superior to [[Von Carstein|'proper' vampires]] and should totally replace our icky night crawlers as a superior breed. These questions and "suggestions" were met with [[RAGE|reasonable counterpoints]], which became more eloquent after some few elegan/tg/entlemen actually [[Heresy|read the book]].

This rapidly expanded into a [[Storm of Chaos|multiple-year-long discussion]] when the real-life popularity of the books (and later the movies) grew so great that it became impossible to avoid, and Edward Cullen became the poster boy and ('''''especially''''') punching bag for vampires everywhere. /tg/ did what they did, raging day in and day out against the "dying" of the scary and badass monsters-of-the-night that vampires originally were - joined (somewhat surprisingly) by the rest of popular culture.

A pleasant byproduct of this backlash was the surge of more and more media that not only took the piss out of these overidealized sparkly wangsters, but eventually [[/tg/ gets shit done|went fully in the opposite direction and made vampires actually frightening and dangerous again]]. Believe it or not, this was partly spurred by ''Edward Cullen himself'' - the actor who played Ed, Robert Pattinson, mentioned in interviews long after the fact that after reading the books he immediately made Ed for the creepy antisocial loser he was, and [[Troll|played his part to its logical conclusion.]]

The wellspring of righteous fury on the subject has long since run dry, aside from a brief revival in 2020, and even then it no longer has the cultural relevance to even halfway justify any further sustained vitriol - less of the [[RIP AND TEAR|frothing, passionate]] [[RAGE|hatred of old]] that became well-ingrained into pop culture itself, and more of the apathetic "yeah, fuck that series" disdain that comes with hindsight and the passage of time.

Even after you filter for the usual population of folks who blow up at the slightest provocation, the Twilight invasions remain one of the most epic RAGE inducing eras of /tg/ history. And yet, for all that, the image of an all-powerful badass creature of the night that can be both repulsively monstrous and charmingly human retains its appeal, showing that sometimes, just sometimes... there's nothing wrong with just liking things. Even with the usual fleet of derivative hacks, a good idea is a good idea, and there's a reason the public is willing to remember them more often.

As a small side note, an occasional /tg/ sentiment is that there's possibly a better story hidden under all that [[Magical realm|Mormon schlicking material]] -- the vampire mechanics are not that bad, if you're not going to have them burn up in the sun, and the vague plotline of the first book ("'Vegetarian' vampires come into conflict with wandering criminal vampires") sounds like something that could make a fairly good [[Vampire: The Masquerade|Vampire]] or [[Hunter: The Vigil|Hunter]] campaign.