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Bad News, Irrelevant News ( Edit link ) TV Tropes has ruined your life.

Making everyone and their dog aware of every single trope out there almost certainly doesn't help. Probably not helping are a number of comedies and unthoughtful parodies that lampshade this or take it to extremes, which can make the viewer feel like they're in on some joke the characters aren't. Ooh, Shiny! ( Edit link ) Ooh, another trope! Audience Awareness Advantage ( Edit link )This can get especially bad with series that have run long enough that even those who have never so much as read a single issue or watched a single episode can be assumed to have a reasonable chance of knowing these things. Yes, there's PA in your TV Tropes so you can binge while you binge.Īttention Deficit. It doesn't help that they seem to have a comic on just about any topic even vaguely related to video games, which are frequently linked to on this very website. And since Tycho and Gabe have been doing the same strip for longer than most webcomic creators have been in the business, you're in for a lot of reading.

It is also an increasingly common phenomenon with regard to TV shows, now that it is possible to buy whole seasons of a long-running show on DVD or watch them on streaming video services such as Netflix. That'll teach you to ruin my life! Arc Words ( Edit link ) "Will Ruin Your Life." What does that mean? Archive Binge ( Edit link )Archive Bingeing is common for first-timers of this wiki (and the other one), as xkcd has pointed out.
