Ī major problem facing the site in 2011-12 was the growing accumulation of works of a fetish-intensive nature, many of which were explicitly pornographic and/or pedophilic. As a counterbalance to the cynicism of the 'Darth Wiki', the 'Sugar Wiki' was created for tropes and discussions of a positive, idealistic, and saccharine bent. Eventually, though, the editors caught on that they were still entitled to say whatever they might like about a work, as long as it was in the right place. Naturally, some people received this as an attack on their opinions, being unable to cope with the subtle complexities of moving the opinions to a different page. They also created the 'Darth Wiki', a corner of the wiki where tropes that were not only inherently subjective, but prone to starting flame wars by their mere presence (such as 'So Bad, It's Horrible' and 'Ruined FOREVER' ) were ghettoed off to, and where standards for civility were lowered and people could say what they really wanted to about a movie, book, show, etc. To stifle the edit wars, the site admins decided that all 'subjective' material be moved to the Reviews and YMMV (short for 'your mileage may vary') sections, and that the main articles be as free as possible from judgment calls (what they call the 'Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment' ). The Whedon-verse is a property that thrives on snark and witty dialog, which the fans love it for, so at first TV Tropes peppered its articles with a snarky point of view.Īlas, anyone who has spent longer than a single Planck time day on the Internet knows that many (or at least the most vocal) Internet nerds tend to get extremely sensitive and hysterical in response to any perceived negativity towards their favorite works. The website grew extremely quickly around 2009-10, when references to it started to circulate the Internet and its userbase grew past the original collection of Buffy and Joss Whedon fans, with websites like xkcd and plugging it. Because nerds have a diverse set of interests, it then spread to encompass all TV shows and then all media. The wiki started out in 2004 on, a Buffy the Vampire Slayer fan forum, as a fan-project to catalog said tropes from the Buffy television show by forum nerds.

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