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** Just read the [[Just for Pun]] index.
** The [[Sorting Algorithm of Tropes]] index qualifies, although the puns will likely [[Stealth Pun|slip under your radar]] if you don't have a computer science background.
* [[Interface Spoiler]]: Thanks to the seemingly arbitrary criteria in how character sheets are created and who deserves one, TV Tropes often
* [[Irony]]: The [[Fetish Fuel]] pages were cut after they became a massive embarrassment to TV Tropes. Irony abounds when said pages began with Fast Eddie's official blessing.
* [[Keep Circulating the Tapes]]: The many NSFW works and [[Fetish Fuel]] tropes that were wiped in The Google Incidents - many can only be accessed through the pages' edit history or through archive sites, and some were never archived. Some of the forks emphasized that they would be much more lenient in allowing for discussion of such works in order to appeal to disaffected users on that particular side of the [[Broken Base]], such as the now-deleted Fetish Fuel Wiki. This was not helped by the accusations TV Tropes administration of the time made that claimed the staff and users of those forks focused on salacious material to the exclusion of all else - while it's not hard to imagine that this segment of the userbase existed, especially considering what led to the Second Google Incident to begin with, it was far more than unfair to tar every fork with that same brush.<ref>Then again, Fast Eddie had made it clear on several occasions that he considered the ad-free and uncensored forks to be an existential threat to TVT and the revenue stream it generated for him. He wasn't concerned with "fair".</ref>
* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: For pages about tropes, there will be a folder section for TV Tropes lampshading how it uses the trope in some fashion. Even more meta is the logo, an actual lampshade.
* [[Lighter and Softer]]: [[Sugar Wiki]].
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* [[Mind Screw]]: At least half the entries in [[Wild Mass Guessing]].
* [[Moe Anthropomorphism]]: [[Trope-tan]] -- and her [[Tropey the Wonder Dog|little dog, too]].
* [[Moral Guardians]]: Although they formally deny it, if one reads the threads in which wiki pages are reported and judged for possibly violating TVT's content restrictions, one will see that work pages are not judged by their content but by the work they describe. One will almost never see a discussion like "Will this page as written cause us trouble with Google Ads? Can we change it so that it doesn't?" Rather, the commentary is almost universally along the lines of "the work this page describes is offensive to me, we should not even acknowledge it exists" and decisions are made on that basis alone. Regardless of what they claim to the contrary, except in the cases of certain famous works whose removal would bring (and have brought) negative press attention, TVT imposes a moral standard for the works that are allowed to appear on the wiki. That standard is determined by the [[Lowest Common Denominator]] of [[Squick]] and/or prudery found among the [[Vocal Minority]] who report (and demand removal of) pages.
* [[The Moral Substitute]]: In the wake of the Second Google incident and the administrative efforts to [[Think of the Advertisers!|purge itself of revenue-threatening content]], other forks of TV Tropes arose as ostensible examples of this to the site, seeking to establish fairer rules and better treatment of users and preserve cut content from the site. TV Tropes administration also tried to portray the site as this in comparison to some or all the forks - see [[Big Lie]].
* [[Never My Fault]]: Constantly, the mods tend to do any and everything they can not to claim responsibility for a fault in how they run the site. With many reports of them deflecting blame when it's pointed out to them and often (and commonly) either threatening or just outright banning the user who complains to them about it.
* [[Orwellian Editor]]: The moderation staff routinely deletes ''anything'' they don't like or
** Plenty of tropers think they own the pages they edit and patrol them, changing/deleting anything they don't ''fully'' agree with. For example, rva98014 thinks they own every animated film page, earning the ire of several tropers. He has since been perma-banned for edit warring, one of a very small percentage of banned users that actually deserved it.
** If you're only familiar with the comic version of [[The Umbrella Academy]], you will be thinking that Vanya was gender-swapped in the television series from the start thanks to the television series page only mentioning Viktor. The moment Gerard Way decided the character should be a man after Season 2, however, Tv Tropes erased almost all mentions of the character's appearances as female.
** Parody Visual Novel ''[[Snoot Game]]'' had its page erased because the developers of the game is parodying, ''Goodbye Volcano High'', along with several forum users (including one notable user who had a Special Thanks credit in the game), complained about its contents.
* [[Paedo Hunt]]: TV Tropes's headlong rush to embrace censorship in 2012 was framed as a Paedo Hunt, using this trope as both a rallying cry and as a tool to discredit dissent and dissenters. It conveniently allowed the [[Censorship Bureau|P5]] [[Abomination Accusation Attack|to tar any work they disliked as "pedoshit" and anyone who disagreed with their agenda as a "pedophile"]]. While admittedly TVT had attracted an unsavory and frankly creepy element that did need purging, the extent to which the campaign was (and continues to be) taken—and the targets it was pointed at—suggest it is more a political/economic tool than a kneejerk [[Think of the Children]] reaction.
* [[Poe's Law]]: TV Tropes fell victim to this during [[The Second Google Incident]] - several works were cutlisted by members in protest of the "zero-tolerance" policy that was adopted. While obvious ultra-famous works like ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]''<ref>...which has [[wikipedia:Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition#Majority opinion|a history of being used this way]].</ref> were at little risk, one particular work named ''[[Black Bird]]'' ended up being cut for real; it was restored afterwards, and the TV Tropes administration of the time admitted it was removed in error (which was considered quite rare for them).
* [[Postmodernism]]: Since the site is a catalog of devices used in fiction, it naturally runs on this, as do many of its forks.
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* [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick]]
* [[Captain Obvious]]
* [[Comically Missing the Point]]: There is a substantial fraction of TV Tropes' users who participate ''only'' in the forums and judge presence on the site as a whole solely by the presence there. Prolific wiki contributors who never bother with the forums can be written off as having "left the site" by these users.
* [[Continuity Nod]]
* [[Conversational Troping]]: Pretty much the original intention of the forums. It quickly outgrew that.
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