What happened to TVTropes...

What happened to TVTropes? It used to be a massively huge site but now it seems like barely anyone ever talks about it these days.

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A lot of it is cringe bullshit

Plus, they never get anything done. There are trope ideas that have been going on for literally upwards of four years and still haven't gotten made into full pages

It has the most ludicrous definition of what qualifies as a "trope" and thus is cracked at its very foundation. Stack the inevitable weight of the internet wiki spergs on top and you just end up with a fucking mess.

>It has the most ludicrous definition of what qualifies as a "trope"

How so?

I lost interest in TVTropes about the time it moved to purge all the discussion from its threads - regardless of whether you believed "this troper thinks..." was cringeworthy or not, the whole point of TVTropes was that it was lovely and informal. After its move to rationalise pages it degraded from being a place encouraging you to take another look at media to turn over pebbles in the river, to just being a less accurate Wikipedia, i.e. TVTropes became pointless.

I used it a good deal when I was in my teens and new to writing, but I got out of it as time went on and I realized how cringey it is (this troper, etc).

I'll still use it occasionally but it's nowhere near as dominant as it used to be for my writing

>Nightmare Fuel: There was a thing

Didn't they remove all of the TroperTales/This Troper stuff a while ago?

I don't even mean that. A good deal of the entries on the WMG or headscratchers page, or the real life sections of trope pages, would have someone saying "this troper can confirm x because..." and it was just so cringey

Speaking of real life, the site's policy of banning real life examples for certain tropes they deemed too sensitive a topic also makes me not like them. It's the interwebz, you don't need a goddamn PC police

>What happened to TVTropes?
People learned what a shithole it was.

I took one look at their forums a few years ago and knew that kind of community couldn't sustain a website.

They stop the troppers page, so people stopped going there to mine cringe...

yep. fucking ruined the entire point of the site and its casual vibe. Sure it got cringey from time to time but it was easy to steer things back on course.

still the site was dead when the loli purge happened and fasteddie was like, happy about it? instead of just reluctantly 'hey sorry gotta do it blame google'

Not that user, but
>Some female characters are blondes, THAT'S A SEPARATE ROPE
>Some female characters are brunettes, THAT'S A SEPARATE ROPE
>Some female characters are redheads, THAT'S A SEPARATE ROPE
At least that's what this troper thinks he meant.

Reminder that "character wears a hat" is a trope unto itself.

What kinda hat? I'm sure there are tropes for different hats.

Yeah, the site should have kept its casual vibe. It's trying way too hard to be professional and serious, despite having so many opinion-based tropes, pun-based names, and pointless/irrelevant/redunant/stupid tropes.

It became distilled autism.

Nice Hat, the "supertrope" to all the other hat tropes. On paper, it's to point out characters who have cool hats. In actuality, it's just there to say "character wears a hat."

okay, so they say
>A trope is a storytelling device or convention, a shortcut for describing situations the storyteller can reasonably assume the audience will recognize. Tropes are the means by which a story is told by anyone who has a story to tell. We collect them, for the fun involved.

Fine. Vague, but whatever.
But you get shit like this
tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SpiesInAVan
Spies in a Van.
What's the "trope" exactly? What is the shortcut? The symbolic meaning? It's literally people, spying, in a van. OH WAIT, "Exactly What It Says on the Tin" is a "trope" and this is "subtrope" of "The Stakeout" that for some reason needs to be specifically singled out, so it's like a trope trope trope that's so fucking tropey, I literally figuratively troped my tropes off do trope you troping undertrope what I'm troping at?

Great Smurf!

The problem was that there were no standards, so autism gradually crept in. Like with .

It quickly became a game of who could make the longest entry for their favorite animes while pages describing great works of literature and cinema were shorter than a diner menu.

They needed someone to slap the autistics and tell them that "person driving a car" is not a trope.

...

yep, that and them deleting things they deemed offensive which was apparently quite a lot. The whole place seemed like it shrunk and has been dying ever since.
Plus their web comic sucks the most unfunny cringiest shit ive ever been forced to read.Worse part this guy is getting paid for this crap i believe

>The lights went off in Naruto one time and I got scared!

Eh, I mainly use TV Tropes to find new movies/shows/games/whatever for a very specific genre or setting. For example if you want to find a movie where a guy wakes up with no memory, I'm sure there is a tropes page with a list of relevant movies.

It was a glorified forum that started desperately wanting to be taken seriously.

>man blinks trope. This is similar to woman blinks trope and a subtrope to the category of "person with eyes" trope. Related tropes are "eyes shut" and "winky face" trope, wherein we describe in EXCRUCIATING detail every occurrence of a person closing one eye. This will be further expounded upon in the "left eye wink" and "right eye wink" tropes. 3+ eyed category for said discussions will of course be their own section.

>Adult fear

I mainly use tv tropes to find examples of my incredible specific and unusual fetishes

What's that even mean?

Reminder that the Woobie page has a fucking Essay on Rainbow Dash on how she's the biggest Woobie because bad things happen to her sometimes and lists fanfiction as evidence.

Also pretty much any page with a fanfiction section will have one or more MLP fics.

The horse show fandom has really died down in recent years right?

Ohhhh boy. You don't know?
tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AdultFear

Basically they would apply this to mean "my favorite anime/cartoon is really deep because one time the characters were afraid their loved ones might die and that's a real fear, not a lame fake fear like a fear of vampires or giant monsters"

disgusting

You can guarantee that MLP will have a fucking essay's worth of examples on any trope page.

Why the fuck did that show attract autistics like flies to honey?

I feel like a lot of tropes by themselves are fine, but the Tropers do fucking backflips to try to make everything they love fit every trope, even if it's an enormous stretch.

Same reason Sonic did, super easy to make donut steals

can we talk about how shit their anti-adblock is?

They try really desperately to always be funny, but they never are

>Hey let me tell you guys why this kid's show is really scary and adult like dude with fridge logic the world is really dark as fuck like lovecraft dark I mean ain't it wild didn't I just blow your mind let me tell you how its a cosmic horror story that makes I have no mouth and I must scream look tame as fuck

Notable offenders include Kirby, Earthbound, MLP, Sonic,and Undertale.

>"Playing with a trope" page
>half of the examples are things no story would ever do

They really like laying it on thick. Just look at the Nightmare Fuel pages.

>Adult Fear: Naruto was mercilessly bullied as a child.

>Adult Fear: Twilight Sparkle is afraid of losing her friends.

>Adult Fear: Korra is worried that she's useless.

>Using italics to show that dude, I am FUCKING SERIOUS about this children's show being DARK AND EDGY.

The world is flat? More like the joke is flat!

Yes, it is horrible. I stuck with that site far longer than I should have. That was the last straw for me. Navigating the site is a total chore because of it.

MLP and Sonic don't have that so much besides evil gods existing but Kirby, Earthbound, and Undertale have some pretty fucked up shit.
Zero in Kirby's Dream Land 3 bleeds all over the screen as his pupil bursts from his body which is kinda fucked up for a kid's game.
Giygas is a bit creepy.
Omega Flowey is a bit creepy.
If Zero or Omega Flowey gave you nightmares though you're a fucking pansy.

But they feel compelled to "complete" the list, which is why they do it. Autistim is a hell of a disorder.

The sad part is they aren't being ironic when they write this stuff.

Well think about it. When you aren't articulate, clever, or emotionally moving you're kind of left with just being sort of funny. Humor is the last resort of people desperate for social interaction and with no skills at it.

It's why they're so obsessed with "snark".

Undertale and Earthbound do have some definitely disturbing moments.

Anons please. Dark is Johnny got his gun or Sophie's Choice or Blood Simple. Adult entertainment.

Kirby, Undertale, and Earthbound are not dark. They're games for children. If you found them disturbing at all you have the emotional intelligence of a child and need to seek help.

Head Chef Mung? More like load of dung!

You know what site I REALLY miss?

TV Tome.

I am noticing that a lot of TV Tropes users tend to get scared from overthinking things.

Another symptom of autism. Autistics have trouble functioning because their brains don't know how to prune information. Trivial shit becomes highly important. Choice paralysis sets in as every option becomes viable.

TV Tropes is like Chris Chan. Its great to study for anyone interested in mental health and disorders.

is there a joke because i don't see it.
They literally explain the trope in the stupidest way.

Kirby and Earthbound are definitely games for children. Undertale really isn't.

anyone got a link for the old TrooperTales stuff? I'm in the mood for some cringe

>Undertale really isn't

user.

This is media for adults:youtube.com/watch?v=8t9x_y3vFic

This is dark.

This is media for children. youtube.com/watch?v=MX-tMxzN5ig

This is not dark.

Any questions?

Just look at the losers in this thread trying to argue Undertale is dark.

Undertale is a game made for people who grew up on old RPGs and it parodies the kind of shit that happened in those games and the general genre. I'm not going to argue with you about how "dark" it is but it's literally not made for children.

Christ how much of a fag can you be

It's still a big enough site, it's just that people don't directly talk about it anymore because by definition it's more of a source than something to discuss directly. It had novelty factor for a while, but at this point people know what it is.

It's like Wikipedia in that way. Why discuss the Wikipedia page on Tom Brady when you could instead be discussing the actual Tom Brady. Same for TV Tropes and any content on it, Sup Forums constantly has a "It's a X episode" threads or "Shows that X" threads, which are basically just TV Tropes threads in disguise.

>THAT'S A SEPARATE ROPE

The internet became "self-aware".

Grow up user. Nothing about Undertale is "for adults". It's a children's video game.

Just because the game draws inspiration from classic RPGs doesn’t mean its main humor and character beats aren’t pulled straight from youth meme culture (satirical skeleton characters, self loathing anime nerds, fourth wall jabs).

Cringe

>Flowey threatened to turn off my computer and I cried!

>Speaking of real life, the site's policy of banning real life examples for certain tropes they deemed too sensitive a topic also makes me not like them. It's the interwebz, you don't need a goddamn PC police

Well it's a website about media, real life examples didn't need to exist in the first place. Like it or not the website needs to make money from ads, and decisions like "maybe we shouldn't let people list real examples of sexy rape" are part of that.

Literally name a single example of something that trivial.

It's seriously hysterical how you feel the need to keep defending yourself like this, keep going.

>Literally name a single example of something that trivial.
Those are all actual pages on the website.

Too much autismo. I also remember when Fast Eddie had a sperg out over any content related to pedo shit.

Spies in a Van makes sense though. Like, just glance at the number of examples they have of that specific scenario. TV tropes exists for multiple reasons, and this article makes sense in that scope. Maybe someone wants to have a scene in their new story where characters do the "Spy Van" bit, and checking out a few other examples makes the job easier for them. Maybe someone wants to watch something with a spy-theme and loves this setup. Hell, maybe someone remembers a movie they saw had a scene like that and wants to find it again.

Is there a single reason for it NOT to be a separate article? It's a fairly big article and the tropes above it in order are all also huge tropes, if you combined them all into one it'd be a massive article.

Autism speaks

Stopped caring when they allowed pages for fanfiction

This can't be real

It's not like having that article hurts anything though. As a supertrope is serves as an easy way to reach all of the other Hat trope pages, some of which ARE important.

You know before I found out what it actually was I always heard the name Sophie's Choice and assumed it was a reality show or something, like the Bachelor

>Just look at the losers in this thread trying to argue Undertale is dark.
but I want to laugh at the life of those loosers

WMG was the first page I stopped browsing.

Well that's how tvtropes works, it doesn't have a bias to say "this fiction doesn't count", so stuff with tons of fanfiction like mlp will obviously show up a lot.

This is the cowardly dog we're talking about here, right?

What you're describing are tags for a fucking search engine. Just a giant collection of data so you can punch in "movie with three women, two brunettes, one blonde. red car. Small dog"
That's not really the subject matter of an article.

I don't know this website much, but saw your link and it makes you look retarded. Adult Fear doesn't mean "real fears" retard, it means "stuff ONLY adults are afraid of normally, because kids don't think this way". Learn to read.

>Twilight vs. Flowers in the Attic: Sick Sex Smackdown, Eighties Style

Adult Fears are about the things mature, well-adjusted adults generally are concerned about, as opposed to supernatural or far-fetched fears: the safety of their children, the safety of their neighborhood, the fidelity of their spouse, the loyalty of their friends and coworkers, being able to pay their bills, etc.

What the fuck do you expect when you click a PBS kids show? Rape and murder? If you look at a page about scary stuff in a show for 2 year olds, you'll see 2-year old quality scares.

Why do they always say "jerkass" instead of "asshole"?

Autism. It's always autism.

You should look to how its applied on other pages.

I like the term jerkass more.

obviously jerkops is superior

How the hell is "asshole" it's own trope?

FastEddie's Google-friendly crackdown + moving to new servers

>casino
my nig

'tis the nature of the beast that is the wiki

The word jerkass makes me think of Homer
saying "outta my way, jerkass" in the Leader episode of The Simpsons.

You have indexes for locating tropes of similar theme. Nice Hat is harmless, but it's still a stupid addition that doesn't add anything to the site, the characters, or provide any worthwhile examination of tropes or media. It's just filler you can put on a character page to make it look busier.

Of the seven sub-tropes under it, five or six of them are basically "this character wears a SPECIFIC kind of hat." Hat of Power (a hat that provides the wearer with abilities), is the only one that's really unique here.

>fetish fuel has its own wiki because everything can be a fetish

>That's not really the subject matter of an article.
That's literally the concept of the website though. The base concept is that the website is a catalog for "tags" that exist when creating stories. It's something that a ton of autistic people clearly want, so it's not like it's worthless.

I'm not sure it was a matter of being PC as it was the mods not wanting to deal with users bitterly arguing about controversial subjects and getting into edit wars.

>It's something that a ton of autistic people clearly want, so it's not like it's worthless.

Giving them what they want is worse than worthless.

What the fuck is a woobie? Why is it called that?

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tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/TearJerker/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses

tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/DougWalker

tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/TearJerker/DougWalker

tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/AtopTheFourthWall

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