troper

noun

1. One who tropes.
2. A book of tropes (phrases or verses added to the Mass when sung by a choir).
3. (slang)A contributor to the wiki website TV Tropes.

   “Thus, TV Tropes was born, an online encyclopaedia, which allows open collaboration among its contributors (the “tropers”): anyone can add pages, and edit or delete existing ones. Registration is needed for access, but it is free and instant. […] On the site, each trope and each work has its own page: these contain a short description and a list of examples, often with comments and explanations from tropers.”

4. (alt-of)Alternative letter-case form of troper (“a contributor to the wiki website TV Tropes”).

   “As for TV Tropes, I would need to be more familiar with them to identify them in a film. However, I imagine that it's a lot of fun to watch a movie with other Tropers and be calling them out as you identify them. "Loser Protagonist!" "Running Gag!"”

   “This Troper finds himself using Gintama “Zura ja nai, Katsurada!” as a swear, does this also count as a Gosh Darn It to Heck?”

   “Using substantial crowdsourced material, ‘Tropers’ on the popular fan wiki site, TV Tropes (2022), identify the ‘Amoral Afrikaner’ as a trope that traces back to apartheid-era South Africa, for example Lethal Weapon 2 in 1989.”

   “Practitioners of this troping, or “anyone who contributes to [TV Tropes],” are called “Tropers.””