TV Tropes

TV Tropes is a wiki website that seeks to collect, document and identify descriptions and examples of plot conventions and devices, more commonly known as tropes, within many creative works, including South Park which has dozens of subpages. Since its establishment in 2004, the site has shifted focus from covering only television and film tropes to those in general media such as literature, comics, anime, manga, video games, radio, music, advertising, and toys, and their associated fandoms, as well as some non-media subjects such as history, geography, politics, and other real life occurrences, people, and events. The TV Tropes website runs on its own wiki engine software, a heavily modified version of PmWiki, but is not open source.
The nature of the site as a provider of commentary on pop culture and fiction has attracted some criticism however, much of it relating to its informal, non-encyclopedic style, lacking notability standards for the works it covers nor any sourcing requirements on any of its pagesBehind The Wiki: Meet TV Tropes Cofounder Fast Eddie while scholars. In the book Media After Deleuze, authors David Savat and Tauel Harper , in their book Media After Deleuze propose that while TV the site is a "wonderful archeology of storytelling", it often hinders and undermines creativity and experience by classifying every part of a work, reducing the total value.Media After Deleuze, page=149 In addition, before October 2010, it was possible to edit anonymously.
Relevant to fanworks, it has a Fanfic Reccs page that is fairly light, a small index of Fan Works, a Fanon page that is notably out of date, as well as a character sheet that is highly controversial and often debated on social media and a YYMV page that is notorious for trolling and debate. Nonetheless, these pages often treated as an authoritative, up-to-date decription of the fandom, even though there are chunks of texts over a decade or more old.
==References==
==External links==
*South Park on TV Tropes
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