Special:Badtitle/NS90:Forum:Trope Talk/Should "I Read it ffor the articles" be made into a YMMV Trope?/reply

TVT treats tropes as either being audience reactions or not, but when you think about it, "being an audience reaction" is a continuum. Tropes have greater or lesser degrees of subjectivity and we've arbitrarily decided that some are subjective enough that they have to be YMMV. But even YMMV tropes have a certain amount of objectivity. For instance, Cult Classic is clearly subjective in the sense that you might think a work is not a classic. On the other hand, it's objective in the sense that "has many people who think it's a classic" is something you can determine by counting people, regardless of your personal opinion of the work.

Many "subjective" tropes are really objective in this way: they are about reactions by substantial groups of the audience--substantial enough that their existence can be recognized even by people not in those groups.

I think that the audience reactions in the archive.org version of I Read It for the Articles are low on the "so many people react this way that it's obvious this counts as an example" scale. I am inclined to say we should make it a YMMV trope and add the examples anyway, but it *is* closer to the borderline than some other tropes.