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TV Tropes is a wiki website that collects and documents descriptions and examples of plot conventions and devices, which it refers to as tropes, within many creative works. Since its establishment in 2004, the site has shifted focus from covering various tropes to those in general media, toys, writings, and their associated fandoms, as well as some non-media subjects such as history, geography, and politics. The nature of the site as a provider of commentary on pop culture and fiction has attracted attention and criticism from several web personalities and blogs. Users of the TV Tropes community are called “Tropers”, and are mostly made up of 18-34 year olds.From April 2008 until July 2012, TV Tropes published free content. In July 2012, TV Tropes modified its license to allow only non-commercial distribution of its content but continued to host the prior submissions under a new distribution license.The TV Tropes website runs on its own wiki engine software, a very heavily modified version of PmWiki to the point where the PmWiki website lists it as "no longer using PmWiki in any way [except] in the URL" and "[using] no code". but is not open source. Before October 2010, it was possible to edit anonymously. Registration is now mandatory for all other activities besides viewing the website. It has two subwikis meant to categorize the more informal tropes (and held to less rigorous standards). Darth Wiki, named after Darth Vader from Star Wars as a play on "the dark side" of TV Tropes, is a resource for more criticism-based trope examples and sometimes highlighting "the dark side" of various works, and Sugar Wiki is about praising things and is meant to be "the sweet side" of TV Tropes (a Stormtrooper in pastel on the front page image is a pun on both subwikis). Occasionally, as a way to demonstrate the dual nature of certain works, there will be separate pages for works, such as the video game Eversion.

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