User:Sgore/TV Tropes

TV Tropes is a wiki, built on a PM wiki platform, that collects and expands on various conventions and devices found within creative works. Since starting in 2005, the site has gone from covering only TV and Movie "tropes" to those in a number of other mediums. The site is known for approaching topics in a somewhat comic tone, author Bruce Sterling once describing it's style as "Wry fanfic analysis".

Content
TV tropes found it's beginning with an initial focus on the television show Buffy The Vampire Slayer, and has since increased it's scope to include articles regarding hundreds of other series, motion pictures, novels, video games, fan fiction, (etc...). Among it's longer standing policies, and possibily contributing to it's high number of articles, TV Tropes says that it doesn't require notablity behind it's entries and examples, just that they not be "made up".

"TV Tropes Will Ruin Your Life"
A phenomona the site itself warns about as "[replacing] surprise almost entirely with recognition", reading TV tropes has been known to change the way people take in fiction. Due to it's focus on and description of media conventions, it becomes difficult for some not to look at a creative work and see those same conventions, thus changing the perceptions of those that use the site.