Stunned Silence

so i was moving subjectives/audience reactions to the YMMV tab in some of my watched work pages, and i came across a genuine in-universe example of Stunned Silence, a trope which enough is marked with an audience reaction banner. this makes sense, because the trope is listed in the Audience Reaction Tropes index. normally i would figure that whoever added the example just applied the Audience Reaction Trope to an in-universe situation (some character says something that leaves other characters in stunned silence), which sometimes happens.

but then i started reading the examples on the Stunned Silence page, and noticed that most of the examples in that page are actually in-universe. is the trope just indexed wrong, or was it initially meant to be more of an actual audience reaction? (as in, us reacting this way, not the in-universe audience). the description doesn't seem to make a distinction. so if it's used in-universe, i should just leave that example on the work page, right?

This really doesn't sound like it belongs on the Audience Reaction Tropes index. I'd just say to move it.

ok, will do so later today.