Beyond the content of the summary, people often take their cue from the way others in their fandom write summaries. Particularly unfortunate summary-style trends usually replicate some genre's overly-cliched back-of-a-book styles.

Most recently there's been a huge proliferation of the cringe-inducing:

- summaries ending in things like "... Will they make it work? Or will [the conflict] defeat them?"

- summaries styled like the narration of a bad movie trailer and beginning with "In a world where [X]..."