Here's a list of trope names that came about via the Internet.
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Fan Works
IRC
Newsgroups
- rec.games.roguelike.
- soc.history.what-if
Web Video
- The Nostalgia Chick
- Big-Lipped Alligator Moment (reference to a scene from All Dogs Go to Heaven)
- Makeover Fairy
- SF Debris
- Voodoo Shark (reference to the novelization of Jaws: The Revenge)
- Zero Punctuation
- Go-Karting with Bowser (reference to Mario Kart)
- Press X to Not Die
Websites
- Dropout
- Too Incompetent to Operate a Blanket (from a "Snuggie" blanket parody ad)
- GameFAQs
- Hot Skitty-on-Wailord Action (reference to Pokémon)
- The Onion
- Bulungi
- Manic Pixie Dream Girl (coined by Nathan Rabin of The A.V. Club regarding Kirsten Dunst's character in the film Elizabethtown)
- Rational Wiki
- Something Awful
- How Do I Shot Web? (either came from here or the Half-Life: Natural Selection Game Mod)
- Image Macro
- Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You
- TV Tropes
- This Song Goes Out to TV Tropes
- All of them, really...
- unfiction.com
- Alternate Reality Game (and its sister term Unfiction)