Buffistas.org
A community dedicated to discussions of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, and Wonderfalls with humor, intelligence and obsessiveness.
In April 2004, a thread in that site prompted Gus to set up a small wiki about plot devices on a humble 386 computer with a DSL connection. That wiki later became TV Tropes.
Do you think this might explain a few things?