All The Tropes:Weirdest Inbound Link of the Day

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With the implementation of Matomo Analytics for All The Tropes in late August 2018, it once again becomes possible to track, albeit broadly and crudely, links from other sites into the wiki. This page is for bringing anything odd, unusual or amusing among those links to the attention of the wiki community. Please add new entries below the banner and above the previous entries.

Weirdest Inbound Links

2018 November 29

• Someone somewhere on the Dark Net likes us -- a .onion address is in the list of this weeks' referrers.

2018 October 3

• The Music Theory ProfBlog links to Truck Driver's Gear Change on their page "Decoding the “Love On Top” Modulations".

2018 October 1

• This is an odd and interesting one. AlternativeTo, a site where you can get crowdsourced recommendations for software, will recommend us if you ask it for an alternative to TV Tropes.

2018 September 29

• The DOOM Wiki links to us on several of their pages. There's nothing weird about the links -- but it turns out that the DOOM Wiki has coded "allthetropes" as a link markup in exactly the same way that we have "wikipedia" as a markup; their users just have to type in something like "[[allthetropes:Ascended Meme]]" (with perhaps optional pothole text) to have a link to us.
• Meanwhile, you've got to wonder what's up at the Troup County School System that they're linking to us.

2018 September 28

• Fark.com has linked to us.

2018 September 24

• Four days later, and El Reg is now this week's largest inbound referrer, with almost a hundred links. Someone find the article and what it links to!

2018 September 20

• Snarky IT news site The Register has suddenly popped up with more than a dozen inbound links.
• Gaming wiki 1d4chan's page on TV Tropes links to us as its "most notable fork"; they are our third largest referrer, after AOL and Reddit.

2018 September 18

• Still getting inbound links from TV Tropes.
• explain xkcd knows who we are; their page Urgent Mission links to our pages Robot War and For Want of a Nail. This one's more "amusing" than "weird".
• We've also been getting multiple inbounds from The Guardian, although we can't tell yet from where or to where.

2018 August 26

• Confounding all our prejudices and expectations, we have multiple inbound links from TV Tropes of all places! Isn't it still an autoban to even hint that we exist there?

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