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href="#cite_note-Ownership-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Drew Schoentrup<sup id="cite_ref-Ownership_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ownership-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">URL</th><td class="infobox-data url"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://tvtropes.org">tvtropes<wbr />.org</a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Commercial</th><td class="infobox-data">Ad-supported</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Registration</th><td class="infobox-data">Required for all features other than viewing</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Registered_user" title="Registered user">Users</a></th><td class="infobox-data">16.000+<sup id="cite_ref-pagecount_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pagecount-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Launched</th><td class="infobox-data">April 2004<span class="noprint">; 20 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">2004-04</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Current status</th><td class="infobox-data category">Active</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Content license</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/CC_BY-NC-SA" class="mw-redirect" title="CC BY-NC-SA">CC BY-NC-SA</a><sup id="cite_ref-Administrivia_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Administrivia-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> from July 2012</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Written in</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/PmWiki" title="PmWiki">PmWiki</a> (very heavily modified with no current source code used)<sup id="cite_ref-PmWiki_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PmWiki-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>TV Tropes</b> is a <a href="/wiki/Wiki" title="Wiki">wiki</a> that collects and documents descriptions and examples of <a href="/wiki/Plot_device" title="Plot device">plot conventions and devices</a>, which it refers to as <a href="/wiki/Trope_(literature)" title="Trope (literature)">tropes</a>, within many creative works.<sup id="cite_ref-MarySue_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MarySue-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Since its establishment in 2004, the site has shifted focus from covering various tropes to those in general media, toys, writings, and their associated <a href="/wiki/Fandom" title="Fandom">fandoms</a>, as well as some non-media subjects such as history, geography, and politics.<sup id="cite_ref-CTropes_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CTropes-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The nature of the site as a provider of commentary on pop culture and fiction has attracted attention and criticism from several web personalities and <a href="/wiki/Blog" title="Blog">blogs</a>. Users of the site's community are called "Tropers", which primarily consist of 18-34 year olds.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>From April 2008 until July 2012, TV Tropes published <a href="/wiki/Free_content" title="Free content">free content</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-firstlicense_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-firstlicense-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After that, the site modified its license to allow only <a href="/wiki/Non-commercial" class="mw-redirect" title="Non-commercial">non-commercial</a> distribution of its content but continued to host the prior submissions under a new distribution license.<sup id="cite_ref-TVT-CCBYSANC_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TVT-CCBYSANC-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-SoylentNews_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SoylentNews-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The TV Tropes website runs on its own <a href="/wiki/Wiki_engine" class="mw-redirect" title="Wiki engine">wiki engine</a> software, an extremely modified version of <a href="/wiki/PmWiki" title="PmWiki">PmWiki</a> to the point where the PmWiki website lists that it "no longer uses PmWiki in any way; the only trace that remains is in the URL" and that "no code is in use"<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but is not <a href="/wiki/Open_source" title="Open source">open source</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-PmWiki_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PmWiki-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Before October 2010, it was possible to edit anonymously; however, registration is now mandatory for all other activities besides viewing the website.<sup id="cite_ref-GoogIn_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GoogIn-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It has two subwikis meant to categorize the more informal tropes and is held to less rigorous standards. Darth Wiki, named after <a href="/wiki/Darth_Vader" title="Darth Vader">Darth Vader</a> from <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars" title="Star Wars">Star Wars</a></i> as a play on "the dark side" of TV Tropes, is a resource for more criticism-based trope examples or common ways the wiki is inappropriately edited, and Sugar Wiki is about praise-based tropes, such as funny or heartwarming moments, and is meant to be "the sweet side" of TV Tropes. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=TV_Tropes&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>TV Tropes was founded in 2004 by a programmer under the pseudonym "Fast Eddie." He described himself as having become interested in the conventions of <a href="/wiki/Genre_fiction" title="Genre fiction">genre fiction</a> while studying at <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology" title="Massachusetts Institute of Technology">MIT</a> in the 1970s and after browsing Internet forums in the 1990s.<sup id="cite_ref-io9_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-io9-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He sold the site in 2014 to Drew Schoentrup and <a href="/wiki/Chris_Richmond_(entrepreneur)" title="Chris Richmond (entrepreneur)">Chris Richmond</a>, who then launched a <a href="/wiki/Kickstarter" title="Kickstarter">Kickstarter</a> to overhaul the codebase and design.<sup id="cite_ref-The_Believer_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Believer-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Initially focused on the TV series <i><a href="/wiki/Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer_(TV_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV series)">Buffy the Vampire Slayer</a></i>, TV Tropes has since expanded its coverage of many forms of media, including <a href="/wiki/Fan_fiction" title="Fan fiction">fan fiction</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-io9_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-io9-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and many other subjects, including Internet works such as <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia">Wikipedia</a> (often referred to in a tongue-in-cheek way as "The Other Wiki").<sup id="cite_ref-The_Believer_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Believer-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Articles on the site often relate to real life or point out real situations where certain tropes are applied. It has used its informal style to describe topics such as science, philosophy, politics, and history under its Useful Notes section. TV Tropes does not have notability standards for the works it covers.<sup id="cite_ref-io9_17-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-io9-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In October 2010, in what the site refers to as "The Google Incident", <a href="/wiki/Google" title="Google">Google</a> temporarily withdrew its <a href="/wiki/AdSense" class="mw-redirect" title="AdSense">AdSense</a> service from the site after determining that pages regarding adult and mature tropes were inconsistent with its terms of service. The site separated NSFG articles (Not Safe for Google) from SFG articles (Safe for Google) in order to allow discussion of these kinds of tropes.<sup id="cite_ref-GoogIn_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GoogIn-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In a separate incident in 2012, in response to other complaints by Google, TV Tropes changed its guidelines to restrict coverage of <a href="/wiki/Sexist" class="mw-redirect" title="Sexist">sexist</a> tropes and <a href="/wiki/Rape" title="Rape">rape</a> tropes. Feminist blog <i><a href="/wiki/The_Mary_Sue" class="mw-redirect" title="The Mary Sue">The Mary Sue</a></i> criticized this decision, as it censored documentation of sexist tropes in <a href="/wiki/Sexism_in_video_games" class="mw-redirect" title="Sexism in video games">video games</a> and <a href="/wiki/Young_adult_fiction" class="mw-redirect" title="Young adult fiction">young adult fiction</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/ThinkProgress" title="ThinkProgress">ThinkProgress</a></i> additionally condemned Google AdSense itself for "providing a financial disincentive to discuss" such topics.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Pornographic tropes and works, as well as additional content deemed inappropriate for coverage, were also removed from the site following the incident.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reception">Reception</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=TV_Tropes&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Reception"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In an interview with TV Tropes co-founder Fast Eddie, <a href="/wiki/Gawker_Media" title="Gawker Media">Gawker Media</a>'s blog <i><a href="/wiki/Io9" title="Io9">io9</a></i> described the tone of contributions to the site as "often light and funny". <a href="/wiki/Cyberpunk" title="Cyberpunk">Cyberpunk</a> author <a href="/wiki/Bruce_Sterling" title="Bruce Sterling">Bruce Sterling</a> once described its style as a "wry <a href="/wiki/Fan_fiction" title="Fan fiction">fanfic</a> analysis".<sup id="cite_ref-Sterling_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sterling-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Essayist Linda Börzsei described TV Tropes as a technological continuum of classical <a href="/wiki/Archetypal_literary_criticism" title="Archetypal literary criticism">archetypal literary criticisms</a>, capable of deconstructing <a href="/wiki/Trope_(literature)" title="Trope (literature)">recurring elements</a> from creative works in an ironic fashion.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Economist <a href="/wiki/Robin_Hanson" title="Robin Hanson">Robin Hanson</a>, inspired by a scholarly analysis of Victorian literature,<sup id="cite_ref-epjournal_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-epjournal-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> suggests TV Tropes offers a veritable treasure trove of information about fiction – a prime opportunity for research into its nature.<sup id="cite_ref-overcomingbias_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-overcomingbias-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In <i><a href="/wiki/Lifehacker" title="Lifehacker">Lifehacker</a></i>, Nick Douglas compared TV Tropes to <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia">Wikipedia</a>, recommending to "use [TV Tropes] when Wikipedia feels impenetrable, when you want opinions more than facts, or when you've finished a Wikipedia page and now you want the juicy parts, the hard-to-confirm bits that Wikipedia doesn't share."<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Writing for <i><a href="/wiki/The_Believer_(magazine)" title="The Believer (magazine)">The Believer</a></i>, Chantel Tattolli commented that "It is deeply satisfying to go there and reckon with the patterns made over time, across culture, medium, and genre—and to catch them in rotation."<sup id="cite_ref-The_Believer_18-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Believer-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the book <i>Media After Deleuze</i>, authors David Savat and Tauel Harper say that while TV Tropes does offer a "wonderful archeology of storytelling", the site undermines creativity and experience by attempting to "classify and represent" every part of a work.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The site is described in <a href="/wiki/Reference_Reviews" class="mw-redirect" title="Reference Reviews">Reference Reviews</a> as "an excellent example of <a href="/wiki/Linked_data" title="Linked data">linked data</a>", but pointedly "lacks accountability as a reliable resource" due to its standards on notability.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=TV_Tropes&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Archetype" title="Archetype">Archetype</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meme" title="Meme">Meme</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monomyth" class="mw-redirect" title="Monomyth">Monomyth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Motif-Index_of_Folk-Literature" title="Motif-Index of Folk-Literature">Motif-Index of Folk-Literature</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Relevant_fields_of_critique">Relevant fields of critique</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=TV_Tropes&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Relevant fields of critique"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Television_criticism" title="Television criticism">Television criticism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Film_criticism" title="Film criticism">Film criticism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Literary_criticism" title="Literary criticism">Literary criticism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Game_studies" title="Game studies">Game studies</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=TV_Tropes&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist 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