Coup Of The Author

When an audience either applies 'Death of the Author' or goes against the personal desires of said author. Often while this person, group or company is still alive.
This can include 'new cannon' being ignored, 'fan cannon', copying a game they want to remove, or adding mods more entertaining than dlcs, etc.

"Hey where can I get that horror game P.T?"
"Oh, they pulled that off the shelves for some reason. Pretty stupid if you ask me, its a great game"
"Really?"
"Yeah, luckily a bunch of people just copied the data and now spread it for free, real Coup of The Author."

by vertgeburger November 3, 2022

Death of the author

A term describing the idea of how a viewer should have the freedom to interpretate any piece of artistic work, for better or worse:

For example: Movies, webcomics, videogames, songs, paintings, and any other diverse piece of fiction.

Contrary to popular belief, this idea is neither a positive nor negative idea, but still, it can be use for the creative expresion and the opportunity to make new and personal creations.

For example: Giving a story to a background character, making a comedic parody of a gritty-horror story, Making an imaginative non-official sequel or prequel...

And as said before, this works of fanfiction can be used for both great good and evil: Anybody can make a beutifull piece of art to detone their intrepretation of any work, or by the bad side, they can make porn of it. (Yes, porn is bad.)

Dude: I recently watched this very cool and scary movie, but sadly, my favorite protagonist died at the end, so i will just ret-con that by making the killer dumb and my protagonist more cooler.
Guy: Wtf?! You can't do that you baby pussy boy! You can't just aply the Death of the author in that situation! BE SAD! QUIT HAVING FUN! STOP THINKING AND JUST ACCEPT HOW MISERABLE EVERYTHING IS!
Dude: Fuck you you can't tell me what to do! *Kills the guy epic style.*

by Fgyjt December 28, 2023

Author

Lil Bitch Ass

That author wrote about lil bitch ass shit.

by borf666 March 28, 2019

Negative Authority

One who pwns all over and over again.

by Anonymous September 6, 2003

mustache authority

Derived from an occupy human rights video in which a man steps inside a residence and performs an illegal search and arrest all because he had a mustache that gave others the impression that he held some kind of real authority.

Guy- Man that guy had some real mustache authority going in their house like that in that video
Girl- Dude he didn't even have a mustache...

by B3K4H January 16, 2016

World Habitants' Authority and Trust Corporation (WHAT Corp.)

A fictitious secret government organization that controls: media, politics, economy, healthcare, and more in the Carlos Lerma universe.

The World Habitants' Authority and Trust Corporation (WHAT Corp.) took Logan Wright in to bargain silence after he found the cure for cancer.

by swtffdua April 6, 2023

death of the author

A pretentious, postmodern jerk-off idea, popular among some academics, that says that the creator of an artistic work is irrelevant to the work, that their thought processes and intentions in creating the work don't matter, that they are not an authority on the very thing that they created, and that YOU, the passive consumer of the work, are more qualified to know what the work is about than they are, who put tons of hard work and effort into creating it.

Who does this "Ray Bradbury" person think he is, saying that Fahrenheit 451 is about how nobody reads books anymore? *I* say it's about censorship, dammit! What does HE know, he only wrote the damn thing! Death of the author says that creators are just passive, empty vessels through which the Divine Muse speaks!

by q359 July 24, 2023