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Author: QuestionMarker

Oct 3rd 2014 at 6:43:46 AM

If no one has any objections, I'm going to grab this. Seeing as it already has four hats and abunch of examples, this is definitely tropable. I do think the page should become a trivia one, with examples sorted by media type (blogs, games, etc). Then if we find in-universe examples we can always add those in a separate folder.

EDIT: busy consolidating the examples right now and it seems that there are four subtropes(?) to this one: 
* Physical copy running out of stock. 
* Popularity causes a bandwidth breaker. 
* A ColbertBump or the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot_effect Slashdot effect]] causes a bandwidth breaker. Specifically, the slashdot effect refers to a popular site linking to a small site causing a massive increase in traffic, while a ColbertBump is caused by a famous personality. I'm not sure if these are different enough to split up.

How about we sort the examples by these types, and add a fourth folder for in-universe examples? Then we can sort the examples by media under each type.

EDIT 2: posted a significantly edited version of the description to reflect the above proposed structure. Feedback please.