Tropes that became problematic

[u/KalzK]

The Persistent Suitor: A guy who is after the girl and just wont take no for an answer. Nowadays we just call stalking and harassment, but it used to be romantic. Example: The Notebook (2004), Noah asks Allie out while she's on a date with another man. She refuses, but he threatens to let go and fall unless she agrees to go out with him.

Comedic Woman On Man Violence: Mostly seen in anime, recently it has decreased a lot but years back every show had a woman hitting a guy and showed it as funny. Example: Toradora!, where the quintessential tsundere, Taiga, beats up the MC regularly.

Kid Bags Adult Baddie: I remember a few of these, sometimes it was to show how cool and awesome a kid was because an adult woman fell for him, now it's just seen as problematic shit. Example: Blank Check, the woman likes the kid and kisses him telling him to look for her in 10 years.

[u/Hidden-Spy]

The main one coming to mind for me is Juvia from Fairy Tail, and I'm still so surprised that her ship with Gray is as popular as it is.

What sucks is that it's gradually becoming canon as of the sequel despite Juvia having no real character development on her part. Like, oh it turns out Gray simply pretended to hate it because he felt undeserving of her!

Yeah, I'm not too fond of the ship.

[u/greentarget33 → u/Hidden-Spy]

I feel like in this particular case its popular because Juvia and Gary do actually suit each other quite well, Gary is an asshole to most people he cares about and its very clearly treated as a "He doesnt know how to be affectionate due to his upbringing" type situation, and Juvia started as a villain so his attitude towards her madr a lot of sense to begin with.

That being said its been going on for way too fucking long at this point

[u/lameguy13 → u/greentarget33]

“Juvia and Gary”

When did Gary Oak join Fairy Tail??

[u/KonigSteve → u/lameguy13]

No, Gary Gergich

[u/lameguy13 → u/KonigSteve]

As if Juvia would hold a candle to Gayle Gergich