Fighteer
Lost in Space
from The Time Vortex
(Time Abyss)
Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
#2: Jun 28th 2020 at 11:35:18 AM
- Those are memes, not tropes.
- This isn't the place for random topics. Try Yack Fest.
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Is there a section where articles on social-media tropes can go? There are certainly quite a few of these around.
One I've noticed a lot is the Twitter trope that can be described as "Well, this blew up. Hire me!" It happens when some tweet (a cutesy meme, a clever quip, a 200-tweet thread giving a slanted presentation of "facts" on one side of some political flap) "goes viral" and accumulates a huge count of views, likes, and retweets. The tradition is for the original poster then to reply to their original tweet themselves with a statement about how surprising it was that it became so popular, followed up with some canned pitch for something... maybe asking people to find them a job or send them money or buy something they or their friend is selling or subscribe to their podcast... or maybe a slogan in favor of some political cause, probably something far-lefty social-justicey.
On You Tube, on the other hand, the posters of videos don't wait until they go viral; the videos are usually planned from the outset with the last minute or so taken up with a plaintive pitch to subscribe to their channel, or click on one of the other videos they have produced, or follow them on other social media, and so on. I call this segment the "Subscribe, Subscribe, Come On" part, after the lyrics of a jingle I recall one of the video-makers using at one point.