Fake TPOT: Tier list icons and personality types

It was bound to happen: the day I must abandon the tier list icons I created last year (which can be seen on episode pages like this one) in favour of new ones. After all, the months-long era of "housekeeping" is coming to an end, there's a new TPOT episode out and some characters have had their personalities reclassified in the last few days.

On this page, you will find an image containing all of my new icons, which I have made available **to all of you for free use**. That's right! Once the image is loaded on your browser, I cede all claims to it to the public—except for the characters, of course, which belong to Jacknjellify. Now, I know there is some danger in releasing things in this way, *e.g.*, that they could be used for evil purposes, but I trust that anybody who uses these images will use them for good. It comes from my tendency to trust anyone who comes into contact with this wiki.

That's what happens when you're not well-known.

But enough with that, let's just get to the image!

## The image

*For a gallery of the tier list icons alone, **this page** may be of interest to you.*

## Frequently unasked questions

Even though no one has asked a question yet (which you can do at any time in the comments section of this page), I think this deserves a Q&A section.

#### **Question 1**: Are the icons already on the tier list website?

As I said in my last blog post, it doesn't feel right for me to upload about eighty images to the tier list website. I'd surely do it myself, even if for my own sake, but because of the little time I've got (it's been a year and I still haven't finished the season), I'll leave that task to someone else *should they want to do it*. Given the hours, days and/or millennia of work that I suspect are required for such a job, this is certainly not a requirement.

#### **Question 2**: What can I use the icons for?

The most common use of such icons that I have personally seen is for creating tier lists, ranking characters based on their popularity, projected ranking in *Real TPOT* and other characteristics (such as those infamous smash-or-pass lists). But you can use them for anything, really, such as scoreboards, stage directions, Other Wiki-esque transcripts, shipping charts and even seating plans.

Here's an example I've just created that tries to answer the question, "Where would each BFDI contestant be at my American late-2010s high school prom?". I think it represents the situation pretty well, even if it is rather unorthodox for a tier list.

#### **Question 3**: Why haven't you made icons for the other characters that appeared in the show (like Onigiri, Cheese Orb, Lego Brick, the entire cast of *BFDI Mini* *etc.*)? Are you lazy?

I may be lazy in some aspects, but not in this one.

The reason I didn't create icons for *every single BFDI character* is that it would be a bit of a hassle to create hundreds of new assets in Flash for every character with a page on The Other Wiki, let alone all the Nixefta from *Fake TPOT*. Plus, I don't have all their personalities down and I'm not sure I can class them properly with what little time they have on screen/page. The two groups of characters that I have made icons of exclusively are listed as follows.

1. Those who have competed in at least one season of canon BFDI or *Fake TPOT*.
2. Those who have hosted at least one season of canon BFDI or *Fake TPOT*.

Note that Nonexisty and Profily—although they have never competed for more than one full episode in any series—are still included here for completeness, as is Evil Leafy, who is more known as a non-competitor. But you are still allowed to—

#### **Question 4**: Where's Ten? Didn't they host TPOT 36?

Yes, but I accidentally forgot to include them. I now realize that they are just a combination (or rather a fused version) of Two and Five, so an icon for them is not really necessary. If I were to include Ten, I should also have to include other variants like Tree-in-a-Bottle, Yoyle Bubble *etc*. But you can always—

#### **Question 5**: May I create an icon of a character not shown here?

Yes, of course! You can use the blank icons under the "Non-competitors" and "Hosts" sections to add your character—it doesn't even have to be from BFDI or even an object! The outlines have been coloured in one shade (white for contestants, black for hosts) to make it easier for you to recolour the outlines, should you wish to do so.

#### **Question 6**: What do the colours mean?

A lot.

* The colour of the "light" that shines behind the depicted character indicates the character's gender: males receive a blue light, females magenta, non-binary or genderqueer figures yellow and genderless characters (applies only to hosts) grey.
* The colour of the background itself, that is, on the bottom of the image behind the character, indicates status. If the character is primarily known as a contestant, the background is black. If their only duty is hosting, it is white. Although TV and Donut (and some others in *Fake TPOT*) have hosted at least one episode of a BFDI series, viewers tend to perceive them as contestants and are thus shown before a black background.
* The colour of the outline of the symbol indicates the character's personality type, either by consensus of the voting members of the Personality Database or by me, who has modified the personalities of some characters for *Fake*, creating a discrepancy between my headcanon and the majority opinion. An explanation of the colours of the personality types and under which type individual characters are classed can be found in the following section.

## BFDI characters' (headcanon) personality types

  Outline of categories • Character properties (Ages (A to L, M to Z) • LGBTQ headcanons • Names in other languages • Nationalities • Personality types) • Tier list icons
  **1** (Hosts and related beings) • **2** (Contestants) • **3** (Non-competing main characters)**4** (Contestants-hopeful and family members) • **5** (Guest stars) • **6** (Other characters)

This section focuses on what I believe to be the personality types of each character in BFDI and *Fake TPOT* according to the very popular Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)—the one with the letters and sixteen types. I have alluded to this several times and even mentioned in a blog post that I was busy reading a book about it to understand it better—the MBTI was a trend on the Internet that seemed to have peaked at the tail end of 2021.

Note that the source for most of these classifications are those made by the voters on the Personality Database. The classifications I disagree with, either because of a personality change on the part of my headcanon or for other reasons, will be clarified in a footnote in the rightmost column. These types determine the colour of the outline of the character's icon, and the colours were determined by the same website. They are shown in the table for clarity.

You will no doubt notice that some characters have two personality types by their name. This perhaps contradicts the belief that one cannot be more than one MBTI type at once (except for fictional characters who often go through character development), which is why one type is bigger than the other on screen. But the larger type is the one a character is most likely to be seen as, either by me or by the public; and the smaller one is an equally valid, if less likely, type that they may have.

If you find my classifications highly unacceptable or are bothered by my having only a surface-level understanding of cognitive functions (to some I am highly unqualified to class characters by letters alone), kindly remember that this is only *my* opinion. Do feel free to recolour the icons according to the personality type you think the characters have.

## Notes

1. ↑ I'm not familiar with the tier list website in terms of adding one's own icons, but for best results you should crop the individual rounded rectangle as close to the edge as possible—I've added a small space between the icons—and save the resulting image separately from the main image. That way, you don't have to apply any special effects when you upload it to the website... although I am not 100% sure you even have to do there; after all, I'm not really that familiar with the tier list website.
2. ↑ There's a tier list I always see posted in the subreddit with hundreds of characters in it, most of whom have never even appeared in a canon episode.

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