History AscendedMeme / WebOriginal

* When ''WebVideo/CriticalRole'' did a ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}'' game, with Creator/MatthewMercer as a player, one of the players decided to ask for the in-game time. Brian Foster, the Marshall, declared that it was around midday, which promptly led to all the players (including Matt) proclaiming that "[[VideoGame/{{Overwatch}} it's high noon]]." They then acknowledged that, in the WeirdWest campaign, this was [[ObligatoryJoke inevitable]].

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* LetsPlay/PartyCrashers: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt_0Uqu4Leg This fan-made trap song remix]] based on Vernias' [[MadnessMantra "Perfect Rotation" mantra]] has been used in the group's videos with the original creator's permission.

* [=JohnnyUtah=]'s Tankmen short resonated with the early {{Website/Newgrounds}} community so much that they're now the site's mascots.

** During the ''[[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonInverseWhite Inverse White]]'' and ''[[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonInverseWhite2 Inverse White 2]]'' runs, the [[TheProblemWithPenIsland "!goaIs"]] command responded with the joke objective "Respawn Victini", referencing how players throughout the ''''[[WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonVoltWhite2Redux Volt White 2 Redux]]'' run were constantly suggesting checking if Victini had respawned yet after accidentally failing to catch it.

* One of Website/GaiaOnline's members made a fan-character called GCD [=McSourface=], [[TakeThat parodying]] the GCD forum's attitude towards nearly everything about the website, with the CatchPhrase "GCD [=McSourface=] does not like that feature". The Fremere's Guard evolving item finished with a pose called "Fremere's [[LampshadeHanging Copyright Infringement]]", which is [=McSourface=]'s head replacing the avatar's.

* One of Website/GaiaOnline's members made a fan-character called GCD [=McSourface=], [[TakeThat parodying]] the GCD forum's [[UnpleasableFanbase attitude]] [[MoneyDearBoy towards]] [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks nearly]] [[ItsTheSameNowItSucks everything]] about the website, with the CatchPhrase "GCD [=McSourface=] does not like that feature". The Fremere's Guard evolving item finished with a pose called "Fremere's [[LampshadeHanging Copyright Infringement]]", which is [=McSourface=]'s head replacing the avatar's.

* Being a site with multiple writers, it's not surprising that there are in-joke references in ''Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest'' at times. One has to do with the [[BearsAreBadNews "Inactivity Bear"]], which handlers often joke kills and eats inactive characters. When [[spoiler:Megan Nelson]] went inactive, her death is that she woke up a bear in a cave, which...well, killed and ate her, much to the amusement of the handlers.

* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'':

* ''Machinima/Supermarioglitchy4sSuperMario64Bloopers'': Due to the numerical naming of series protagonist [=SMG4=] and his nemesis [=SMG3=], it's common for fans to question where [=SMG1=] and [=SMG2=] are. The Ten Year Anniversary Special reveals [[spoiler: that the crazy hobos who have been following the cast around since "The Pursuit of Happiness" are named exactly that]].

* ''Roleplay/MSFHighForum'': Firewood was originally an insult, used by Kirso to refer to the ironically non-flammable Legion. Mitchell, amused by it, had it incorporated as an official racial slur. (And, like all racial slurs, mostly inaccurate).

* Due to Kidnapper-kun from ''WebAnimation/NekoSugarGirls'' having no known name for most of the series fans began calling him "Jeff". In the finale it's revealed that his name is [[spoiler:Bokutachi]]. Koneko then states she thought his name was "Jeff". After a {{beat}} she gets mocked for thinking so.

* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'':
** The first alien character, revealed crouching and sneaking up on a character at the very end of season 3, was unnamed for a long time. On the season 3 DVD commentary, the Rooster Teeth staffed shared a story about a young fan e-mailing them after the finale's release inquiring about the "Crouchasaurus", a nickname which caught on amongst fans. In a season 4 scene where the characters attempt to name the creature, "Crouchasaurus" gets an inevitable mention.
** Early in the series, many fans asked the staff why the Red team had one member, Grif, wearing yellow armor. Though Rooster Teeth had actually given him ''orange'' armor, fans often claimed they couldn't tell it was orange at all. Rooster Teeth eventually included a Yellow Grif in a scene showing how [[TakeThat the stupidest character in the series viewed the other characters]], and later introduced Grif's sister, ''actually'' in yellow armor, and assigned her to the opposing Blue team.
** Similarly, many fans asked why Tucker, usually in teal armor, seemed to be wearing green armor in one scene. The staff responded that the scene was shot in the shadows, which made teal look green within the game engine. In that season's blooper reel on the DVD, the scene is restaged with one character asking Tucker why his armor is green.
* In ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'', another Creator/RoosterTeeth production:
** The {{Idiosyncratic Ship Nam|ing}}es of the main characters are recycled into [[AttackPatternAlpha signals for combination attacks]] during the girls' clash with Roman's HumongousMecha. [[https://youtu.be/fhiPt0VIs5I For reference.]]
** Some weird Internet silliness on Reddit made it a meme for EpilepticTrees being called "potatoes". When the ''VideoGame/RWBYGrimmEclipse'' video game was released, the lowest graphical setting was labelled "potato".
** After the end of Volume 3, many fans had began trying to figure out what to name the new team of Ruby, Jaune, Nora and Ren. Many team names included "RNJR" ("Ranger"), "RRNJ" ("Orange"), and "JNRR" ("Junior"). The first episode of Volume 4 has Ren and Nora arguing over what they should call themselves with Nora supporting "JNRR"[[note]]The idea being that there were more members of the former JNPR than they were of RWBY[[/note]] and Ren supporting "RNJR"[[note]]The idea being that this is Ruby's adventure and they were just helping her out.[[/note]]
** Reactor [=MurderOfBirds=] published [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Yx2B_RIxK8 a video]] of himself and his friends mocking the fact that CorruptCorporateExecutive Jacques Schnee appears to be wearing a clip-on tie. When asked on Twitter, two of the writers laughingly confirmed it.
* "Jennie is a plantcake" was a common ''WebVideo/{{lonelygirl15}}'' fan meme ("plantcake" meaning plant; it's a long story), which resulted in Jennie attempting to prove that she isn't a plantcake in "Casting Couch".
* ''WebVideo/KateModern: The Last Work'' featured the suggestion that Meryl should have her own show, which was already a fan in-joke. Similarly, "Orivwa" featured the use of the fan nickname for the main characters, "the K-Team".
* Episode 21 of "WebAnimation/RetardedAnimalBabies" threw a WHARRGARBL in the captions in a...rather appropriate spot.

* Being a site with multiple writers, it's not surprising that there are in-joke references in ''Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest'' at times. One has to do with the [[BearsAreBadNews "Inactivity Bear"]], which handlers often joke kills and eats inactive characters. When [[spoiler:Megan Nelson]] went inactive, her death is that she woke up a bear in a cave, which...well, killed and ate her, much to the amusement of the handlers.
* On the adoptable pet website/game Chicken Smoothie, the baby stage of one of the pony adoptables was nicknamed "roadkill pony" by forum members as it looked as though it had been hit by a car. Come Halloween a special variation of the pony was released by the artist that had the pony covered in tire tracks. It came in three forms; one that stayed in that pose, and two that grew up into zombies.
* Among the [[http://www.zazzle.com/tvtropes* TVTropes merch]] is a shirt with Vigilante Taxonomist, a [[Memes/TVTropes meme from the forum]].
* The ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' meme "That's a very nice everything you have there...shame if something were to happen..." associated with Creepers got some references in the descriptions of official ''Minecraft'' merchandise, and even nearly directly quoted on one shirt!
** ''Minecraft'' has its own UrbanLegendOfZelda in the form of Herobrine, a mysterious and elusive entity responsible for obviously-man-made block placements and deformities appearing in single-player worlds, notable for its glowing eyes and its increasingly hostile responses to being seen. In addition to [[TeasingCreator Notch]] occasionally writing "Removed Herobrine" in patch notes, the 1.8 Adventure Update introduces [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos Endermen]], glow-eyed monsters that randomly move blocks around the landscape (creating unnatural formations) and, on being seen, will stop and stare at the player, running (and teleporting) in to attack once eye contact is broken.
** The tutorial level of the ''Xbox 360 Edition'' has a [[LetsPlay/AchievementHunterMinecraftSeries Tower of Pimps]] in it.
* [=JohnnyUtah=]'s Tankmen short resonated with the early {{Website/Newgrounds}} community so much that they're now the site's mascots.
* ''Roleplay/MSFHighForum'': Firewood was originally an insult, used by Kirso to refer to the ironically non-flammable Legion. Mitchell, amused by it, had it incorporated as an official racial slur. (And, like all racial slurs, mostly inaccurate).
* Among the users of quiz website Sporcle, the former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan became a meme for being obscenely difficult to spell. The website embraced it, to the point that [[http://www.sporcle.com/games/tags/kyrgyzstan there is a Kyrgyzstan category]], and you win [[CosmeticAward a badge]] for playing 25 games! (not to mention [[http://www.sporcle.com/blog/2013/04/one-billion-and-counting/ a contest to win Kyrgyzstan's flag...]] and a moderator [[http://www.sporcle.com/blog/tag/kyrgyzstan/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=quiz-url&utm_campaign=enotify_monthly_newsletter_november2014 studying there]] - "Only a Sporcler could be this excited")

* ''WebAnimation/XRayAndVav'' is essentially "Creator/AchievementHunter memes: The Animated Series". The main heroes are named after gaffes [[Creator/GavinFree Gavin]] made in one video and the main villains are based off characters created during various LetsPlay videos.
* LetsPlay/{{Sips}} has a meme where StopHavingFunGuys claim that him, LetsPlay/HatFilms and LetsPlay/{{Turpster}} messing around causes them to "rip [their] dick off", which naturally ended up with people [[InsultBackfire using it to mock those taking it seriously]]. Guess how Ross and Trott of Hat Films chose to disrupt a livestream that LetsPlay/InTheLittleWood, LetsPlay/{{Strippin}} and [[Music/{{Area 11}} Sparkles*]] were doing? [[spoiler:No, they didn't rip their actual penises off. They had fake penises attached to Velcro and ripped ''them'' off]].
* A minor meme in LetsPlay/TheRunawayGuys is people posting one line from the video out of context, usually the ones with sexual implications. Episode 22 of TRG's ''Videogame/SuperMario3DWorld'' LP has one of these in the description, to save viewers the trouble of doing it.[[note]]Also, considering {{LetsPlay/Chugga|aconroy}} wrote the description, it's also a case of SelfDeprecation.[[/note]]

* ''{{WebAnimation/Extra Credits}}'' has a few in one of its offshoot series, Extra History. The most famous one, however, stems from their series on the South Sea Bubble in 1700s England. In it, a member of the Whigs, Sir Robert Walpole, was manipulating virtually every event of the aftermath of the bubble bursting--mainly involving a ledger of bribes made by the South Sea Company, which would have led to the Whig Party's leaders almost certainly being imprisoned, to ensure he could become the leader of the government. His manipulation happened so much that Daniel eventually [[{{SarcasmMode}} wonders aloud]], "Who knows where (Robert Knight's ledger) went...it was Walpole." In most series since, Walpole has either made a cameo appearance, or James [[note]] The show's writer [[/note]] will link Walpole to whatever topic they are discussing, like the First Crusade, the tales of Admiral Yi, or the reign of Justinian. It's now to the point where, during their Early Christian Schisms series, they end the second video by asking the viewer to "Take a wild guess how it (the Council of Nicea) ends." Cue a person at a computer saying "It was Walpole..."
** Another one was born out of their series on the Crusades. A RunningGag is that none of the major players get along, for various reasons, but [[TeethClenchedTeamwork "Why let (insert disagreement here) get in the way of a good Crusade?"]] This line was quickly picked up by fans, and gets repeated in other series.
* Website/DeviantArt is infamous as a breeding ground for ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' [=OCs=] of... variable quality. When it was announced that the upcoming game ''VideoGame/SonicForces'' allowed the player to design their own character, DA acknowledged it on their Twitter feed [[https://twitter.com/DeviantArt/status/864533573843337216 in the most self-aware way possible]].
* Episode 14 of ''WebAnimation/TheMostPopularGirlsInSchool'' had its name, in August 2017, changed from "Pregnant" to "Pregnant ''Meme''" to reflect on said meme boom.
* Viner Meghan [=McCarthy=] is well-known for her [[WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents Timmy Turner]] impressions. In one Vine, she encounters Creator/TaraStrong, his actual voice actress, who proclaims that ''she'' is Timmy Turner. ([=McCarthy=] is a writer on ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' which Strong also stars on).
* In one of ''WebVideo/DoorMonster'''s videos, Ian requests that Kyle says "What?" a little bit purpler. Fans caught on, and whenever someone says "What?" in their videos, someone will inevitably comment that it was the exact right amount of purple. The meme ascended with Door Monster offering t-shirts with the word "What?" written in purple.
* Ian [=McCollum=] of WebVideo/ForgottenWeapons has the fan nickname "Gun Jesus" because of his long hair and beard. In May 2019, the multinational firearms company Heckler & Koch [[https://twitter.com/hecklerandkoch/status/1128722987694211072?s=21 posted an image]] of Ian as Gun Jesus, with an HK rifle in one hand and his book on French rifles in the other. Ian's publishing partners insisted that posters be made.

* Creator/DavidDobrik acknowledged that he looks like [[https://twitter.com/DavidDobrik/status/1323008052094668801?s=19 Caillou's dad]]
* The video [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sr_SGkqrrdM The American WoodEch]] has an american woodcock with its call substituted by gutural sounds of ''WebVideo/JonTron''. Not only has Jon himself commented in said video, but in his "Johnny New English" video, while he shows the disturbing pictures in the house they are staying at, he points at one of a dying woodcock and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooZk0Q0SSXE mentions it's the bird from the meme]] and says he loves that video.

* Among the [[http://www.zazzle.com/tvtropes* TVTropes merch]] is a shirt with VigilanteTaxonomist, a [[Memes/TVTropes meme from the forum]].

* ''Machinima/Supermarioglitchy4sMarioBloopers'': Due to the numerical naming of series protagonist [=SMG4=] and his nemesis [=SMG3=], it's common for fans to question where [=SMG1=] and [=SMG2=] are. The Ten Year Anniversary Special reveals [[spoiler: that the crazy hobos who have been following the cast around since "The Pursuit of Happiness" are named exactly that]].