Many major game sites have started doing general entertainment news.
Gamespot since its formation in 1996 all the way until 2014 focused on video games exclusively, as the title would suggest. Then in 2015, they began to expand into general entertainment including movies, TV shows, books, and anything else that makes the news. Yet the name "Gamespot" remains. To say that the sudden shift in focus annoyed fans would be making a massive understatement.
IGN stands for Imagine Games Network. Now it delves heavily into general geek culture.
11 Points started off as a website where the author makes 11-item lists. After 6 and a half years of this, the first article of 2015 was "Can I Beat Super Mario Bros. With My Feet?", ending with the author explaining that he was losing his passion in list-based articles, so he's now writing articles about things that excite him. Of the 44 articles published in 2015 as of March 30, four of them are 11-item lists.
BiliBili is a famous Chinese video-hosting website, that was created with the intent of letting people share clips based on their geeky hobbies, with a primary focus on anime and video games. Eventually, the site grew to become a massive, all-purpose entertainment site that's effectively the Chinese answer to YouTube... but since they can't exactly drop the domain and brand, it's still named after Misaka "Biribiri" Mikoto, a very niche name for how mainstream it's grown.
DCInside, a popular South Korean internet forum, was initially established as a venue to discuss about digital cameras (DC standing for digital camera no less), but has since evolved into a 4chan of sorts for the South Korean internet community and has also unfortunately been influenced by far-right movements since The New '10s.
dennogumi.org was once a fansite about Cyber Team in Akihabara (Akihabara Denno Gumi). The webmaster then converted the domain into his personal blog in which he writes primarily about Linux and practically nothing about said anime.
DeviantArt: The Media Watch Dogs are hitting the site so hard that it's no longer "deviant". Also features a Group system where groups might not be art related. This has led several people to switch over to FurAffinity, despite the fact that they don't even draw furry art. The website also allows one to write pieces of literature. In fact, some members don't even post pieces of art at all, instead, opting to post stories, poems, etc.
Does the Dog Die? started out doing Exactly What It Says on the Tin (i.e. stating whether or not an animal is harmed in a movie) but expanded to include both a much more specific and thorough list of possible animal based harm (such as if there are dog fights or a specific type of animal dies) as well as very thoroughly covering anything that might be triggering, such as common phobias like snakes or clowns, jump scares, suicide, drug use, gore, sexual assault, plane crashes, and so on.
DVDizzy hasn't reviewed any DVDs since 2019, focusing nowadays on reviewing movies still playing in theaters.
The infamous Encyclopedia Dramatica used to be a wiki dedicated to chronicling Internet drama (more specifically, LiveJournal drama), hence the "drama" in its name. But then 4chan discovered it, and mutated it into a cesspool of shock and offensive contents for /b/ trolls that the world knows of today.
When FiveMinute.net was first created, it was called Five-Minute Voyager because the only fivers (parodic summaries of works intended to be read in five minutes) were of episodes of Star Trek: Voyager. As the years went on and the scope increased, there were occasional efforts to rename. Even after the site moved to a new domain under its current title you'd still find more people calling it 5MV than 5M.net. Eventually Zeke gave up, and you're allowed to use 5MV again. He explains (links to TV Tropes pages not in the original)...
Fogu.com, the URL of the popular Story of Seasons help site Ushi no Tane stands for "Federation of Golden Underwear", as it was originally a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fansite with the Story of Seasons content on the side. Eventually the popularity of Ushi no Tane far eclipsed the main TMNT site and the site was revamped to only be about Story of Seasons.
The Counter-Strike news site HLTV.org got its name after "Half-Life TV" (HLTV), an in-game spectator/replay system for Half-Life and its mods, including Counter-Strike version 1.6 and older. The site was launched in 2002 as a provider of HLTV IP addresses for ongoing and upcoming professional matchesnote In the olden days before streaming and social media, to spectate a professional CS match, you need to acquire the HLTV IP address of said match and join via the game client as a spectator., as well as CS-related news. With the advent of online video sharing and streaming as well as Global Offensive succeeding 1.6 as the main title in the competitive scene, HLTV.org replaced HLTV IPs with streaming links and GOTV, CS:GO's proprietary spectator/replay system.
Like TVTropes, The Internet Movie Firearm Database isn't restricted to just movies and includes guns from other visual mediums like television and video games.
Likewise, The Internet Movie Plane Database, which includes appearances of its subject matter (airplanes) in other media that isn't movies, and any other similar sites.
The astronomy website nineplanets.org doesn't make sense anymore since Pluto's demotion to dwarf planet in 2006. The website lampshades this with the tagline "(We still love you, Pluto!)".
Platypus Comix receives more attention for its articles than for its comics these days. Author Peter Paltridge might have become aware: During the first five months of 2017, he posted five new articles, but only half of a comic.
Some blogs on SB Nation, most notably the Toronto Maple Leafs' Pension Plan Puppets — it referenced how the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan owned most of the team's parent company, but they have since sold their share. One at least confesses the nostalgia out front: the Washington Wizards one references the team's previous name, Bullets Forever.
Textfiles.com started out as an archive of old text files (mostly from the BBS era of the '80s and '90s), but now has lots of content that isn't a text file.
The Wiki covers not just TV but now video games, movies, comic books, literature and more. It also covers more than just Tropes: documenting Audience Reactions and Trivia, both of which are specifically described as Not Tropes, make up a very important part of the site, with many works having a YMMV page that's as long as its trope list. And with features such as Useful Notes, Media Notes, and subject pages that completely lack tropes, it's become more akin to Everything2 than anything its title would suggest. There have been efforts to curtail it, with mixed results.
The "TV" part of TV Tropes—and also the "Live-Action TV" category—is becoming an artifact in another way: Almost half of all new shows today run on internet streaming services like Netflix or Hulu, which you can watch on your computer, phone, or tablet. There are ways to watch on your television, but you're still accessing a website rather than watching an over-the-air broadcast. There was a brief time when a few tropers listed streamed shows under Web Video, but nowadays it's generally accepted that web videos are under 20 minutes in length, independently-produced, usually free to watch, and released on video-sharing sites like Youtube. Meanwhile, shows on Netflix and the like are big-budget serials from major studios starring Hollywood-level talent and you have to pay subscription fees to watch, making it conceptually close enough to TV for our purposes.
The harshest punishment a moderator can apply to a misbehaving user is called a "bounce" — originally, this meant redirecting their IP to Google if they tried to so much as view the site, kicking them completely out much like a bouncer kicks someone out of a club. The redirecting functionality was eventually removed, leaving bounced users "only" locked out of all editing and posting but still able to read pages.
Some specific pages also have Artifact Titles due to the site undergoing various changes over the years, or the trope expanding beyond the media type it was created for:
The trope Awesome Moment of Crowning was a pun on "Crowning Moment of Awesome", a trope which was renamed to simply Moment of Awesome. Thus Awesome Moment of Crowning, while making sense and describing the trope, is now something of an artifact. It still sort of works, though, as the old Crowning Moment of Awesome name remains in common troper usage, even if it's not the actual title (its inverse, invokedDethroning Moment of Suck, is policed to avoid such Trope Decay, so that it remains about the worst moment for a person, not just any sucky moment).
Wall Bang Her (having sex against a wall) is a pun on Wall Banger, a deleted Darth Wiki entry about the worst moments in works.
Did Not Do the Bloody Research (inappropriate use of foreign swear words) is a pun on a deleted index, "Did Not Do the Research".
Tropes named after a specific character are no longer allowed and most have been renamed, but a few have been grandfathered in. "Chuck Cunningham Syndrome" is a pop culture term that predates this site by decades, while others like The Scrappy and The Other Darrin have been ingrained in TV Tropes culture for so long that removing them would cause an outcry.
"Trope Repair Shop" which can be used to repair any page now. Also, its URL ends with "topic=renames", when it's used for more than just requesting page renames.
Wakeup Makeup has been expanded to cover scenes where male characters wake up clean shaven, and where characters of either sex wake up with their hair still perfectly coiffed.
Prior to its rename to Trope Launch Pad, the "You Know That Thing Where" page was titled around the idea that the person posting the trope idea needs help gathering a title or examples for the trope ("You know that thing where this happens? What should we call that?"), but it's currently used as a general vetting procedure for all new trope ideas, even ones where the person posting the idea already has a good title in mind and a number of examples. It can also be used for works, Useful Notes, Media Notes, and indexes.
The pmwiki part in any URL on this site. TV Tropes used to use an early version of PmWiki code, but has been developed and rewritten to the point where it is entirely separate.note The reason why all of the code is under the "pmwiki" part is because that is the name of the folder which holds the files, and because that is what PmWiki's directory structure looks like.
"Crowners" are called that because they were originally developed to determine which Moment of Awesome was the crowning moment of awesome, before the userbase collectively realized that awesomeness was simply too subjective to reliably choose the most awesome moment and dropped that requirement. In the meantime, it was noticed that they made an awfully handy tool for any conceivable thing that might need to be voted on, and now they're used for everything except their original purpose.
Expy is short for "exported character"; accordingly, there was originally a requirement that an Expy be made by the same creator as the original. This requirement was removed for not actually contributing to the trope, but by then the name had stuck. "Impy" just doesn't have the same ring to it, y'know?
The YMMV namespace stands for "Your Mileage May Vary", although it mostly documents Audience Reactions from a good majority of the audience, not personal opinions on a work. YMMV pages are susceptible to flame wars, so the only audience reactions allowed are the ones a significant portion of the audience agreed with.
Zero-Content Examples are called that because the title comes from a time when tropes would often list examples that went something like "X... just X." Eventually it became a requirement that examples must explain how they fit with the trope, and in 2019, the Administrivia page was updated.
Fetish Retardant was launched as a counterpart to Fetish Fuel, the idea being that while Fetish Fuel increases the sexiness of a work, Fetish Retardant decreases it ("retardant" being a substance that slows or halts the growth or advancement of something, e.g. a fire). It stuck around after its perverse twin was purged from this wiki, and was never renamed.
Symbology Research Failure was coined as a snowclone of "Critical Research Failure", a former trope used to describe blatant factual errors in media. The latter trope was cut and disambiguated, but the former's name remains.
You Shouldn't Know This Already retained its name even after the page it was named after (You Should Know This Already) was renamed to Late-Arrival Spoiler and had its definition distanced greatly from just a counterpart to the former page.
In Spite of a Nail (a minor change doesn't fundamentally affect a larger scale outcome) was named in opposition to former trope For Want Of A Nail (a minor change drastically alters an outcome). However, the latter was turned into a disambiguation page, leaving the former without the basis for its name, albeit the trope name still works because "for want of a nail" was already an expression in common use for when something minor has major consequences further down the line. Ironically, In Spite of a Nail is now one of the tropes that For Want Of A Nail disambiguates into.
Although anyone can still upload documents, WikiLeaks stopped allowing people to edit them afterwards a long time ago, so it's no longer truly a wiki.
The "oversight" user right, restricted to a small group of trusted administrators, allows those with it to allow access to a past edit by only administrators or, in some cases, only other oversighters; and also even remove an edit from the history in extreme cases. These steps are usually taken only within strictly defined situations for defamation or privacy reasons. When the feature was being added to MediaWiki, the original idea was that all administrators would be allowed to take these stepsnote A step eventually taken when the RevDel extension was made live for all admins in 2009, although it does not allow administrators to hide individual revisions from the history, and the special group would have extra rights in order to provide "oversight" of this feature. The extension was developed under this name, and it was kept even as it was revised to allow only oversighters this power.
By the nomenclature and practice used within Wikipedia's namespaces, "Template talk:Did you know" would be expected to be the page where people would discuss technical and design issues with the "Did you know ...?" template used on the site's Main Page to highlight new articles. Instead, it is devoted to evaluating and approving the many nominations for "hooks" in it and the articles linked (because in the early days, people started using that page for the purpose since there were a lot less nominations).
The "Biographies of Living Persons" policy, requiring stricter sourcing and caution for articles about living people, also applies to those recently deceased.
XDA Developers, a forum for smart device development and hacking, was so named as their original focus was on the O2 Xda line of smartphones manufactured by HTC and sold by O2 and various other telcos under their respective brands. They have largely moved on to Android development since The New '10s, but the old XDA moniker remains.
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Creepypasta as a word is derived from copypasta, a term used to describe walls of text (usually humorous and/or offensive in nature) copied and pasted onto message boards, comments sections, emails, etc.note some famous recent examples of these would be ''To Be Fair You Have To Have a Very High IQ'' and ''The Tragedy of Darth Plagueis The Wise''. Creepypastas were originally just that, except intended to unnerve or frighten readers rather than offending or amusing them. Today, the word "creepypasta" can refer to pretty much any horror media made by and for the internet, with some of these pastas being web series, video games, or even both rather than text-based stories.
The first Demotivational Posters were cynical parodies of motivational posters, bearing messages about your inevitable failure. Following Memetic Mutation the same style of image is now used essentially as a one-man caption contest, keeping the name but rarely trying to demotivate. Some of them even depict highly awesome scenes with an enthusiastic caption beneath, thus being anything but demotivational!
Before Facebook was the social networking phenomenon that we know today, a "facebook" (or "face book") was a popular colloquialism for a university's student directory, which gave college students an easy way to look up one another's contact info. Mark Zuckerberg originally created his website as an online version of such, annoyed that Harvard University was taking too long to comprehensively move their student directory online. By now, Facebook has been open to the entirety of the public (not just college students) for around a decade, and the addition of Notes, "Like" buttons and status updates has made it far more than a simple tool for sharing information.
The Western meme of Smug Anime Girls used to only apply to anime characters, but now typically uses characters from video games, light novels, manga, and series that have never had an anime adaptation or originated from one. In fact, some of the characters used aren't even girls.
Even though Microsoft phased out the “Windows Live” brand name in 2012, the “live.com” domain is still used for several services.
since its formation in 1996 all the way until 2014 focused on video games exclusively, as the title would suggest. Then in 2015, they began to expand into general entertainment including movies, TV shows, books, and anything else that makes the news. Yet the name "Gamespot" remains. To say that the sudden shift in focus annoyed fans would be making a massive understatement.