[attention whoring] About TV Tropes

[Antonio the Sixth]

As much as I hate to second BRTD's obsessions, I have to admit it : I found this website to be absolutely, amazingly, crazily brilliant. And addictive as sh*t.

To be short, I found a link to one of these "tropes" in a thread about Russian elections : I followed it, read the article, read the cases of shows or other productions for which the trope was relevant, followed the links leading to another trope, read it, read the examples, went to another trope, etc. This had happened to me before, but usually other business had avoided my spending too much time ther. This time, unfortunately, I found myself with nothing better to do (and having to wait for Michigan results to come up). So I continued... I've spent at least four hours (but it might be five or six : I don't know exactly when I began) on this website. I just couldn't stop following the links that led me to new articles and so on. Eventually, at 2AM, I painfully managed to hit the "close" button of my tab.

Now I feel like a f**king idiot and a no-lifer, having wasted an entire evening reading some sh*t in the internet, having done nothing productive, having learnt nothing useful, having had no social interaction. And my eyes hurt, too, of course.

So, bottom-line :
- People who write this stuff are geniuses.
- I shall never, ever, follow another link to a TV Trope.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

You are now a Full Member of the internets.

[Oakvale]

I hate that site with a passion I usually reserve for things that have an impact on my life.

[MaxQue]

Oh. One of my friends said the exact same thing last month.
And I agree with both of you.

[The Mikado]

Burn it to the ground.

[Хahar 🤔]

Two in the morning? Come on. That's a normal bedtime.

[Marokai Backbeat]

I hate that site with a passion I usually reserve for things that have an impact on my life.

Burn it to the ground.

Come now, we don't always have to appear bitter toward popular things on the internet.

[The Mikado]

Come now, we don't always have to appear bitter toward popular things on the internet.

I'm not trying to appear bitter.  Three tens-of-thousands-of-posts-long threads on SA chronicling in intricate detail every little horrible thing on that vile pedophile haven have exposed me to more horrors than I could reasonably describe.  Again, burn it to the ground.

[Marokai Backbeat]

I can't decide between getting upset at this continued hoity toity persona you and others have, or just dismiss this entire phenomenon as something that I will never be truly able to understand, so I'll just say "Okay, sure, whatever" and leave it at that. I think TVTropes is fine and amusing and actually useful for critiquing media at times, and some people need to get over themselves and turn the arbitrary irony-hating-irony down from eleven. I will now move on.

[The Mikado]

I can't decide between getting upset at this continued hoity toity persona you and others have, or just dismiss this entire phenomenon as something that I will never be truly able to understand, so I'll just say "Okay, sure, whatever" and leave it at that. I think TVTropes is fine and amusing and actually useful for critiquing media at times, and some people need to get over themselves and turn the arbitrary irony-hating-irony down from eleven. I will now move on.

[Joe Republic]

I've never really understood the appeal of it.  Sure, I get the concept and everything, but I just don't really get why it's considered so fascinating or addictive.

[RI]

TV Tropes is awesome.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Oh. One of my friends said the exact same thing last month.
And I agree with both of you.

Oh, so it's a common phenonenon ? I feel somewhat reassured.

Two in the morning? Come on. That's a normal bedtime.

That's not much the hour, as much as the amount of time spent. It's not like I even went to bed a 2, anyways : serious Michigan results came at 3-4...

I can't decide between getting upset at this continued hoity toity persona you and others have, or just dismiss this entire phenomenon as something that I will never be truly able to understand, so I'll just say "Okay, sure, whatever" and leave it at that. I think TVTropes is fine and amusing and actually useful for critiquing media at times, and some people need to get over themselves and turn the arbitrary irony-hating-irony down from eleven. I will now move on.

To be fair, that's at all not the kind of articles I have read.

[minionofmidas]

Some of it's great. Other stuff, not so much. But yeah, Lewis Trondheim-approved website.

[k-onmmunist]

I love TVTropes, but I have to limit my time on it or I end up wasting HOURS on the place.

[John Dibble]

TV Tropes is amusing and I like to see which tropes are in the media I consume sometimes.

[JohnnyLongtorso]

I'm with Mikado on this one.

[Хahar 🤔]

The Mikado's rage is both ridiculous and amusing.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Wow, I didn't imagine this would originate such a split in the forum community.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Two in the morning? Come on. That's a normal bedtime.

For an internet nerd?

[Mechaman]

TVTropes is pretty much my second language.

There, I said it.

[Jackson]

The Mikado is quite correct about that travesty of a site.

[Antonio the Sixth]

And it just happened again...