can i ask something and this isn't being like dismissive of what people enjoy creating but like
why is tv tropes like that
It started as a Buffy the Vampire Slayer fansite and the Whedon has never come out, it's like cigarette smoke in wallpaper
This is true, but the reason it's still a popular thing to edit and why I am even a fairly regular editor comes down to hyperfixations.
Turns out a site about organizing elements of a story into quantifiable elements you can list in categories makes you REALLY satisfied when your brain just kind of likes organizing things and talking for long lengths on Thing.
I stay far away from YMMV and more opinionated pages, that's where people become insufferable and the truly incomprehensible troper talk explodes forth.
