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Web-series inexplicably shifted to 'Self' filmographies despite not being a documentary
"The Angry Video Game Nerd" (2004-) is not in a documentary web-series: while one episode indeed has making-of segment it was a one-off case which should not logically affect whole series.
And yet, inexplicably, it just shifted to 'Self' filmograhies instead of 'Cast' for all cast, despite not even having "Documentary" among genres. The nature of that even eludes me even after troubleshooting, so I'm not quite sure what happened, exactly. I seriously doubt that one "Self" is affecting it that much, especially since we still have dozens if not hundreds of instances of incorrect 'Self' credits in fiction media which are not affecting at a whole, at all.
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Peter_pbn
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4 years ago
The non-fiction keyword is currently listed for the title.
non-fiction Used for a non-Documentary title, like a Talk-Show, to indicate that the people are portraying themselves
https://help.imdb.com/article/contribution/titles/keywords/GXQ22G5Y72TH8MJ5
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MykolaYeriomin
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Update: I have just discovered that "non-fiction" was also added to two more shows where this keyword is not justified: "The Nostalgia Critic" (2007-) and "The Eric Andre Show" (2012-). Despite the latter is indeed a talk show, it is heavily fictionalized with surreal scenes and depicted murder. It could be argued that it is so to a point that character fields should not contain 'Self', but that's debatable.
As for the former, this one is clearly fiction. Both instances deleted already, but it seems that the problem is far from over: someone is specifically targeting web-series for inclusion in the keyword, either "cleaning the filmography" of them or not considering them "worthy enough". On the lookout for more instances.
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Michelle
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4 years ago
Hi Nikolay -
Thanks for the call out regarding these series and the use of the non-fiction keyword. If you are seeing this keyword repeatedly being added to incorrect titles, please let us know the titles here and our staff can take a look further.
Have a good weekend!
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