Tropes In Media Tier List

About

Tropes In Media Tier List refers to memes and jokes about a Tier List meme made by X (formerly Twitter) user @SPACEGHOSTDERP in September 2024. The meme garnered humorous reactions due to the use of the term "media," and due to the the user's arranging of disconnected and vague concepts (which they called "tropes" into different tiers. For example, "themes" and "protagonists" were in the "absolute Goat" tier, while "writing" and "symbolism" were in the lower tiers.

Origin

On September 16th, 2024, X^[1] user @SPACEGHOSTDERP posted a tier list they called the "Tropes in media tier list," gathering over 14,000 likes in two days. The tier list arranged seemingly random aspects of story writing into different tiers, with "protagonists," "philosophy," "themes" and "moral greyness" in the top tier, and "open endings" and "Post-Modernism" in the bottom tier.

Spread

On September 16th, 2024, X^[3] user @gamingguru456 posted a meme that read, "Story fans when the author writes another "plot" in which a "character" does things in a "setting" for the billionth time.

On September 17th, 2024, X^[2] user @VLVTT_ quoted the post with an image of a man crying with the caption, "me reading a new book hoping there isn't any writing," gathering over 80,000 likes in a day.

On September 17th, X^[4] user @ethicalyaoifan made a post that read, "JUST AWOKE FROM A NIGHTMARE WHERE MY MEDIA HAD L THEMES… L PROTAGONISTS…. POSTMODERNISM… AND TO TOP IT ALL OFF, AN OPEN ENDING!" The post gathered over 29,000 likes in a day.

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