There are various opinions creators can have about their audience. This index covers them.
Compare Audience Surrogate and Humans Are Indexed.
Tropes:
- Ascended Fanon: Fanon later becomes Canon.
- Ascended Fan Nickname: A Fan Nickname begins to be used officially.
- Dear Negative Reader: A creator responds to negative feedback from the audience.
- Fandom Nod: A work acknowledges its own fans.
- Fanwork Ban: Fan works are banned by a creator.
- Hire the Critic: A creator hires someone who criticized their own work.
- Intended Audience Reaction: Deliberately invoking reactions from the audience that are usually unexpected.
- Line to God: Fans have the means to directly interact with the creator.
- Make-A-Wish Contribution: A Make-A-Wish (or similar organization) recipient uses their wish to make a contribution to a work.
- Meme Acknowledgement: A work acknowledges a meme that originated from it.
- Official Fan-Submitted Content: Creators have fans send in their ideas for a work.
- Promoted Fanboy: A fan of a work becomes officially involved in some manner.
- Running the Asylum: A work, often long-running, begins to resemble Fanfic due to fans becoming involved or a fandom-like passion emerging among the writers.
- Take That, Audience!: A work makes fun of its own audience.
- This Loser Is You: An unpleasant or unlucky character is intended to represent the audience.
- Teasing Creator: A creator enjoys messing with their audience.
- Trolling Creator: A creator screws with their audience.
- Viewers Are Geniuses: The work assumes that the audience will know everything being talked about.
- Viewers Are Goldfish: The work repeats stuff that was already explained earlier as if the audience can't remember stuff well.
- Viewers Are Morons: The work explains everything as if the audience is too stupid to figure it out themselves.
- Why Fandom Can't Have Nice Things: A creator condemns or divorces themselves from fandom due to trouble started by the Vocal Minority.