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** Despite the name, TVT (and consequently All The Tropes) no longer focuses on solely television. Since the end of the 2000s, it has added movies, books, board games and video games to its lineup. Lately, it's even been moving away from ''tropes'', adding [[Useful Notes]], [[Audience Reactions]], [[Trivia Trope|Trivial Facts]], [[So You Want To/See the Index|writer's tools]], and [[Just for Fun|humor pages]]. [[Tropes Are Not Bad|Of course, this wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing]]. What's happened here is more expansion than decay; since we're not dealing with a finite number of time slots, we didn't have to remove any of the original material to make room for the new stuff. Given that most TV tropes originated in literature, mythology, and theater, such expansion makes sense. It gives perspective on the tropes.
** Troper Tales was a big example within the site itself. It was originally intended to be an example of tropes in real life, and the ultimate reason for its removal was because it became more of an anonymous blog and discussion forum. See also our own section of [[Why Fandom Can't Have Nice Things]].
** Subsequent to 2012, TV Tropes began actively embracing a kind of combined [[Moral Guardians|Moral Guardian]]/Cultural Gatekeeper role, in which the administration was actively declaring they had the right and obligation to decide which works and topics were "acceptable" to Western Civilization as a whole and which did not merit even acknowledgment of their existence. The latter were usually accused, Soviet-style, of obscenity of one kind or another ("pedoshit" was a favorite descriptor of works disapproved of by the TVT management, regardless of actual pedophilic content; and by extension anyone who objected to the new regime was automatically tarred as a pedophile).
* The site [http://www.moviemistakes.com/ Movie (and TV) Mistakes] seems to to be moving the same way as
* The [http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Main_Page Internet Movie Firearms Database] is a lot like
* [[YouTube]] was originally meant to be a medium for people to broadcast their homemade videos and independent shows (hence the motto, "Broadcast Yourself"). Then a bunch of people got the idea to start uploading a bunch of commercial copyrighted material so that others could watch their favorite shows and movies anywhere without the hassle of commercials or having to buy the DVD. Today, it seems most people go to [[YouTube]] for mostly clips if not full episodes of mainstream commercial shows while the site's creators (and now Google since they purchased it) are dealing with lawsuits from companies like Viacom, suggesting they let all the copyrighted material be posted to increase [[YouTube]]'s exposure. This eventually lead to the creation of Vevo, which is backed by the industry and specifically caters to music. Of course in fairness, [[YouTube]]'s roots still exists as homemade videos are still posted and viewed daily. If anything [[YouTube]]'s decay seems to be more of the fault of the video uploaders more than the executives.
* How about [[Google|Google Street View]]? It started as a service to allow Internet dwellers to explore the roads of their own home, and of other cities and countries, including far-off nations such as South Africa, Romania or Brazil. Then in 2009, they started introducing landmarks, including parks, stadiums (the [[World Cup]] being the whole reason for South African updates) and other points of interests. After 2009 and 2010, which had spread to nearly 30 countries, Street View began catering more to landmarks, taking an apparent focus to museums (the Internet equivalent of [[Adored by the Network]]), and not even updating roads, except for a brief unadvertised update to France and Brazil, until they introduced a Channel Island and Monaco, which were the only two new places to be introduced in nearly a ''year''. This might be the side-effect of the [[Unwitting Instigator of Doom|Wi-Fi Capturing Case]] though, as not only are road updates relatively neglected, but their last two updates was the official introduction of Google Places (indoor business photos) and a whole bunch of parks already collected. Note that Google Street View stays out of Total Abandonment and Slipped due to the fact they still offer roadside views, and the occasional, but rare, actual road update, and that park updates usually include in-park roads.
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