How Did You Discover TVTropes? Tell a story.

I found this wiki through The Other Wiki about five years ago. There used to be a page for a list of movie and television cliches and one of the external links was to TV Tropes.

I found Tropes two years ago after I was linked to it from 4chan, got caught up in the R Ps, been here ever sence.

I mainly found this site during my search for writer's resources, and have been hooked ever since. I couldn't even tell you what page first brought me to the wiki, but I do know I found this site around 2007, as my first link to it on my LJ was to the Dystopia page about five years ago, and referenced its advice about finding a social issue and turning it Up To Eleven, since I was interested back then in writing a dystopian piece.

edited 6th Jul '12 11:20:33 AM by TwoGunAngel

Once upon a time, a messy-haired 13 year old girl in Australia was talking to a friend of hers via AIM. She didn't have much to do, as usual, so she said she was bored. He sent a link to the Main Page, explaining it's where he goes to kill time.

... And that's about it. By god he should have given me a warning.

(You did say to tell it like a story, right?)

edited 6th Jul '12 7:58:33 PM by KatanaCat

A young, 13 year old boy, who was bored as fuck, was reading Irregular Webcomic and ended up spending more time on TV Tropes than the actual comic.

Thus, a year later, I created an account.

a man was working on ideas for a megaman game. one of his ideas was a toy themed level. he typed in a few examples of this into google and the first result was toy time trope.

The game was forgotten about, the site never was.

The short answer?

I can't remember anymore.

Fall/Winter of 2009, I distinctly remember searching up Ice characters(presumably to see who would win in a fight).

I think it also helped that we were doing a project on archetypes (Will the archetypal hero, Jack the trickster, The Big Bad was called "The Shadow" etc.). I did mine on pirates of the Carribbean.

I actually became a contributor about two years ago.

To be honest though, my memory tends to eff up things.

edited 16th Jul '12 11:48:40 PM by blueflame724

Looking for a specific picture, one link lead to another and next thing I know I'm in the Foreign Fanservice page, for some reason. Then it was a slow descent into madness.

In 2008, a young rabbit was in his final year of university in the land of Beatrix Potter and had just decided to start playing Touhou when he should have been studying for his exams. After frequenting a forum on the subject, he discovered a link posted in a topic where a member was celebrating the fact that Touhou now had its own page on a mysterious site called TV Tropes. The young rabbit explored for a time and frolicked amidst the quirky eccentricities of its article names and sense of humour, and eventually reached for the Edit button. The rest is, as they say, history.

I found TV Tropes through Animorphs. I can't remember whether it was Adam's linking on Cinnamon Bunzuh! or the trope name-dropping of Chad32 on Richard's Animorphs Forum that sent me on my first Wiki Walk, either way it was back in 2013 that I found this wiki. I started troping my other interests of the time (Minecraft and The Simpsons) and became a troper in late 2014.

Edit:...just realized that this is a necropost. sorry

edited 30th Apr '15 10:51:06 PM by SmartGirl333

I was looking for a reliable source on the subject of You Tube Poop after its Wikipedia article had been deleted for the 50th time and found this wiki's page on it.

Someone linked me to Dan Browned.

Dat necro.

A friend of mine introduced me to the website. I thought it was stupid at first, but then I came to appreciate it. I made an account a couple of months later.

Hey look, something that might be nice to bring back to life.

My story? I was killing time and looking up the various Minecraft splashes on it's wiki. I came across the "Less addictive than TV Tropes!" splash, and read its explanation, which was exactly marked up like this:

TvTropes is very addictive.

Being the stupid kid that I was I thought Minecraft was the best thing ever. Because of that, my first thought upon reading that was "There's something more addictive that Minecraft?!" So I then clicked the link.

I then proceeded to spend the entire night taking a very long Wiki Walk that started off as "What does that Trope mean?" and spiraled out of control. Eventually, I ended up hating Minecraft and its community, but correcting spelling errors on TV Tropes was oddly fun. And here I am now, posting on TvTropes' fora instead of doing my work at school.

yes.

edited 7th May '15 2:20:20 PM by valozzy

There are explanations for the splashes?

Edit: Disregard, you said "on the wiki".

edited 7th May '15 2:21:00 PM by SmartGirl333

It's rather hard for me to determine which of these two led me here. Either way, they were Google searches sometime in 2013.

• I Googled a quote from Thor and decided to click on one of the links, and I distinctly remember being brought to its Awesome subpage, due to its pink background long before the site's 2015 update. I decided to read it and I was interested.
• This time, I Googled a quote of The Runaway Guys and did the same thing, except that I read its Funny subpage.

edited 7th May '15 2:37:38 PM by DarkElfPrincess

I forgot.

So once upon a time in the far flung year of 2009 a 17 year old was lurking the GameFAQs Fallout 3 boards when he came across a link for Oh, Crap!. Six years later he's still here.

I've forgotten how many years ago it happened, but I came to this site via a link on Wikipedia's cartoon physics page.

Dude I went to high school with by the name of Adam Black was going on about the site back in 2008. Never got around to visiting it until sometime around the ass-end of 2010, I think. I actually can't recall the chain of events that led to my finally visiting the site, but it was probably mundane.

Oh, and Adam, if you still browse this place, then PLEASE tell me that you still have that copy of Sapphire that I never got around to asking you about. I need the Kyogre that's on it, man.

I was led here by a convulated route involving a copy of the Evil Overlord list, Netraptor, and a complicated chain of Links pages from a variety of websites.

I watched The Matrix one time, and was like "Why does every movie just have to have a romantic subplot?"

I found it from hearing about it on the SCP wiki

Googling a fetish.

Tvtropes used to be a lot worse/better. To those good ole days, may they never return.