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I'm less annoyed by the use of TV Tropes vocab, and more irritated by their incorrect use.
For example, he says that "they tend to nickname Hollywood Atheist" when no one uses that term except TV Tropes (and maybe some agnostics and atheists). The term explicitly means a certain caricature of atheism, recognizing that it is a caricature. No theist is going to use the term.
In fact I have been called a Hollywood Atheist by theists, and it was an "incorrect" usage of the term: theists and atheists alike use it to mean "Atheist I don't like". Kinda like "Mary Sue" being "character I don't like" or "slut" being "woman that sleeps with men other than me"/"woman that sleeps with more men than me".
Not even Kirk Cameron? ;-)
He's using the term slightly differently. In that context he means "Hollywood atheist" to mean literally a Hollywood actor who is an atheist with the implication that Hollywood is full of them. Throw in some connotations about decadence and drugs too. In the context of TV Tropes, a Hollywood Atheist has a different meaning.