| Display title | All The Tropes as a Gateway Drug/Analysis |
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| Date of page creation | 21:27, 1 November 2013 |
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This attribute controls the content of the description and og:description elements. | One of the reasons All The Tropes is an effective gateway drug for new series and genres is its two-fold structure (the work pages and trope pages dichotomy), which creates a cumulative recommendation effect. The way it works, when a careful reader starts examining the tropes in their favorite works/genres of fiction (work plane), they soon discover a pool of their favorite tropes (trope plane) by determining the lowest common denominators of said works. Reading through the trope pages, in turn, inevitably makes them notice titles that, while unknown to them, keep popping up in examples of their favorite tropes. Eventually, they start reading said examples and, in doing so, create a sense of connection to the respective stories (especially if they also read spoilers). As the number of examples they read grows, the connection becomes more or less a commitment and reading/watching/playing the work of fiction in question becomes inevitable. |