r/tvtropes
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*** [Say goodbye to the rest of your day.](http://tvtropes.org/) (This subreddit is just a user-/fan-run community, and has nothing to do with how the site is run. Complaints about the website and its moderation will be removed.) *** Spoiler tags are now implemented! Typing: \[spoiler](#s "TV Tropes Will Ruin Your Life") gives you: [spoiler](#s "TV Tropes Will Ruin Your Life") *** In case you somehow don't know what TV Tropes is: "What is this about? This wiki is a catalog of the tricks of the trade for writing fiction. Tropes are devices and conventions that a writer can reasonably rely on as being present in the audience members' minds and expectations. On the whole, tropes are not clichés. The word clichéd means "stereotyped and trite." In other words, dull and uninteresting. We are not looking for dull and uninteresting entries. We are here to recognize tropes and play with them, not to make fun of them. The wiki is called "TV Tropes" because TV is where we started. Over the course of a few years, our scope has crept out to include other media. Tropes transcend television. They reflect life. Since a lot of art, especially the popular arts, does its best to reflect life, tropes are likely to show up everywhere."
Members
12,327
as of February 2025
Last post
today
September 28, 2026
Posts (30 days)
99
Created
2009
July 9, 2009
Total posts
10.5K
archived
Total comments
45.4K
archived
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r/tvtropes was created on July 9, 2009.
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