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Reality TV shows are in the gray area between Real Life and fiction. They are real people but viewed through the lens of the narrative the producers/writers/hosts/editors push. As such, realty tv pages should only trope the people as they appear on the show.
For example, one Queer Eye (2018) episode focused on a guy in a wheelchair. To call this person Inspirationally Disadvantaged IRL would be offensive. But the hosts made a big deal about the challenges he had overcome and the good he was doing for the community, so you can say that the trope applies *within the show*.
Reality shows are not real life. As long as the pages are about what is on the show and aren't looking at things outside of them, there is nothing to be concerned about.
Fair enough; for documentaries, though, there wouldn't be a character page, so definitely not for Louis Theroux shows?
While it is less likely that a documentary would accumulate enough character tropes to have its own page, I would not say "definitely not".
Noting that I cutlisted Characters.The Only Way Is Essex anyway because it's a decade old and has no tropes.
would the same thing theoretically apply to things like YouTubers or Twitch streamers?
i frequent the Vinesauce character page a lot, which is mainly about real people (albeit the personas they portray on stream), and some of it probably veers into "troping real people" territory.
Edited by Freecom weaponizing Dungeon Fighter Online elitism since 2018
Depends. A lot of YouTube creators are fictionized versions of themselves. So long as we're only troping their in-video portrayal...
Edited by WarJay77 Current Project: Incorruptible Pure Pureness
Reality TV shows have a cleanup thread
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Don't want to Cut List what shouldn't be cut... but shouldn't Real Life pages on Characters get cut such as:
as an example, since real people don't get troped AFAIK (with exceptions for creator namespace maybe)?
Edited by Merseyuser1