Follow TV Tropes

Following

Social Media Tropes

Go To

dtobias Since: Apr, 2009
#1: Jun 28th 2020 at 11:12:45 AM

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.

Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#2: Jun 28th 2020 at 11:35:18 AM

  1. Those are memes, not tropes.
  2. This isn't the place for random topics. Try Yack Fest.

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Add Post

Total posts: 2
Top