Why is this subjective?: Stunned Silence

Why is Stunned Silence subjective?

Is it being used for in-universe examples (objective) or potholed for examples of audience reaction (subjective) ?

Apparently for Audience Reactions, which makes me curious as to why.

I don't think it fits on Audience Reactions. Only the last two examples are out of media and both of them should really be moved to Troper Tales. Not sure what index it should be on though. It's certainly not YMMV though.

Do we have an index for simple character reactions? We could include this, Gasp!, Big "NO!", and other tropes.

i would assume it's in the Audience Reaction Tropes index because it is used for audience reactions sometimes. a quick wick check comes up with stuff like:

• Dream Theater (used as the audience reaction to the band performing a particular song)
• One-Man Army (where, it seems, it's used as a replacement So Yeah of sorts)
• Slow Clap ("Occasionaly happens in real life. May be preceded by Stunned Silence")
• Unacceptable Targets ("Doing so may result in anything from "Dude, Not Funny" to the entire audience staring at you in shocked silence for a split second before breaking out the Torches and Pitchforks")
• Wave-Motion Tuning Fork ("The audience shouldn't even feel compelled to question this logic, because it looks really freaking awesome. And when you're that awed...")

also, 4 of the wicks are in Troper Tales. it doesn't seem like that many subjective uses compared to other cases, but the trope only has 29 wicks total. and that's not counting the potholing in the discussion pages and forums and such.

It's only being used in 29 articles, so it shouldn't be too hard to fix if we redefine it.

This has seems to have been moved out of YMMV so I am inclined to believe that it has been resolved. If this is the case then can someone please lock this topic?

Otherwise, bump.

Necrobump. If there are no problems, can we lock this?

The page is now objective, there are no obvious problems with the examples. I'm hollering for a lock.