History Main / FauxtivationalPoster

* ''{{Concerned}}'' had Frohman make some of these, with slogans like "Being beaten hard, or hardly being beaten?"

* ''VideoGame/{{Counter-Strike}} Source'' has a level set in an office building, with these posters on the walls. The topics are all related to Counterstrike itself, in-jokes for the established community that had played the previous version obsessively for several years. For instance, a picture of a tent, and the slogan "Camping".

* The famous British "Keep Calm and Carry On" poster from WW2, which either thanks to irony or nostalgia has [[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7869458.stm experienced a revival.]]

* [[http://inspirobot.me/ InspiroBot]] is a website that generates nonsensical inspirational posters by combining random images with randomly-generated {{Ice Cream Koan}}s like "The sun is better than it sounds", "Death ends when freedom begins", and "Never let nobody tell you that you are not in Hell".

* [[http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/377/121shrugofgodcz7.jpg/ ImageShack user jillrg]] has a series of such posters used to showcase various tropes, mostly with images coming from ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' [[TropeOverdosed alone.]] Kind of [[{{Irony}} ironic]] considering how TvTropes, as stated above, does not want Demotivators as images.

* Made ''especially'' famous by TelevisionWithoutPity. [[http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/index.php?showtopic=3142036 Here's a link.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' featured the "Hang in there!" cat poster. Marge notices that, since the copyright on the poster dates back to 1968, the cat must be long dead, which she thinks makes the poster actually "kind of a downer".
** It also had, in "And Maggie Makes Three", Homer's ''de''motivational plaque: "Don't forget, you're here forever." Homer used pictures of Maggie to turn it into "Do it for her".

* ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}''--

-->"Oh, I was hoping you would come back. I even saved your poster of a chimp expressing your distaste for Mondays!"
-->"Monday monkey lives for the weekend, sir!"

-->"Join The Army Today!!
-->What are you, Chicken?
-->Bwak Buk Buk Bawk!"

* In the ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' episode "Dipper vs. Manliness", part of Dipper's half of the TrainingMontage involves the manotaurs making him stare at inspirational posters for "GLORY" (featuring a bald eagle) and "HONOR" (featuring a lion).

* The [[WebAnimation/HomestarRunner Strong Bad email]] "[[http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail86.html no loafing]]". In addition to the eponymous sign, Strong Bad purchases some more traditional posters, featuring windsurfers and {{Space Whale}}s.

** There used to be an anime motivational poster thread (nicknamed /amp/ or /mot/ as a homage to [[ImageBoards something...]]) on Crunchyroll that had about 2000+pages growing at about 8 pages daily. Unfortunately its contents started to live up to its name resulting in its deletion and [[DeaderThanDead a permanent ban against the creation of any other such threads.]] However, in 2010, a [[http://www.crunchyroll.com/forumtopic-647851/anime-motivational-posters-read-first-post?pg=0 new /AMP/]] was started, and as of December 2015 has over 14,000 pages.

!!Examples

[[folder:Films -- Animated]]

* From an ''Series/{{Exit 57}}'' sketch about a do-gooder lecturing a slacker in the break room at a supermarket:

[[folder:Videogames]]

* From the [[VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon F.E.A.R]]. factory level: "Remember it's Quantity, Quality, Safety, ''in that order.''"

[[folder:Webcomics]]

* RomanticallyApocalyptic: [[http://romanticallyapocalyptic.com/38 This]] rather dark take on the "Hang in there baby" poster.

[[folder:Web Originals]]

* DoctorSteel's riffs on the [[http://www.toysoldiersunite.com/propaganda/1077/2/3646 ALA "READ" posters]] and [[http://www.toysoldiersunite.com/propaganda/1077/0/3702 Got Milk? posters]]
* {{Wikipedia}} has one accompanying the "[[BystanderSyndrome Somebody Else's Problem]]" [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Somebody_Else%27s_Problem essay]].

* ''TheSimpsons'' featured the "Hang in there!" cat poster. Marge notices that, since the copyright on the poster dates back to 1968, the cat must be long dead, which she thinks makes the poster actually "kind of a downer".

* Peter Potamus has several posters involving a hippopotamus and "''that thing''" in ''HarveyBirdmanAttorneyAtLaw''.
* Played straight but subtle in ''TransformersAnimated''. When we see Prowl's room as he meditates, there's a poster of a cute little puppy on a branch reading "Chin up!" Made hilarious as one wonders where Prowl found the poster (that size) in the first place, and what prompted the DeadpanSnarker to hang it in his zen spot.

* In the ''YogisTreasureHunt'' episode "Yogi's Heroes," the Trio of Triumph (Huckle Hero, El Kabong and Ram-Boo Boo) have a poster in their headquarters of the ubiquitous drawing of three guys laughing hysterical with the caption "You want your planet saved ''when??''"

* Peter Potamus has several posters with a hippopotamus "reaching for ''that thing''" in ''HarveyBirdmanAttorneyAtLaw''.

* ''TheSarahConnorChronicles'' has two: In Gnothi Seauton five bad ass resistance fighters have a cute kitten "hang in there baby" in their hideout, which conceals a safe. In Dungeons And Dragons the future resistance have a badass mural of the same theme, except it's a lion jumping out of fire, a Terminator skull in its jaws.

* In WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic's review of TheMovie of WesternAnimation/{{the Care Bears|movies}}, he produces one of these around [[MemeticMolester Mr. Cherrywood creepy smile]]. In his later commentary on the episode, Doug explained that he had seen several of the other visuals he had used in his reviews being made into these, and decided to try and save fans the trouble.

* In WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic's review of TheMovie of the CareBears, he produces one of these around [[MemeticMolester Mr. Cherrywood creepy smile]]. In his later commentary on the episode, Doug explained that he had seen several of the other visuals he had used in his reviews being made into these, and decided to try and save fans the trouble.

* ''TheSimpsons'' featured the "Hang in there!" cat poster. Marge notices that, since the copyright on the poster dates back to the 1968, the cat must be long dead, which she thinks makes the poster actually "kind of a downer".

** There used to be an anime motivational poster thread (nicknamed /amp/ or /mot/ as a homage to [[ImageBoards something...]]) on Crunchyroll that had about 2000+pages growing at about 8 pages daily. Unfortunately its contents started to live up to its name resulting in its deletion and [[DeaderThanDead a permanent ban against the creation of any other such threads.]] However, in 2010, a new /AMP/ was started, and as of December 2015 has over 14,000 pages.

** There used to be an anime motivational poster thread (nicknamed /amp/ or /mot/ as a homage to [[ImageBoards something...]]) on Crunchyroll that had about 2000+pages growing at about 8 pages daily. Unfortunately its contents started to live up to its name resulting in its deletion and [[DeaderThanDead a permanent ban against the creation of any other such threads.]]

* On ''WesternAnimation/MonstersVsAliens'', the "Hang in there" poster is hung on Susan's cell in a pathethic attempt to make her imprisonment more tolerable. It doesn't work. "I want a ''real'' kitten, hanging from a ''real'' tree!"

** And basically every other -chan (''especially'' those with a more... mature focus than 4chan.)
*** And, yes, there are things [[EvenEvilhasStandards Too Spicy]] [[TooSpicyForYogSothoth for 4Chan]].
** On that note, there used to be an anime motivational poster thread (nicknamed /amp/ or /mot/ as a homage to [[ImageBoards something...]]) on Crunchyroll that had about 2000+pages growing at about 8 pages daily. Unfortunately its contents started to live up to its name resulting in its deletion and [[DeaderThanDead a permanent ban against the creation of any other such threads.]]

* ''StarslipCrisis'' had a StoryArc (beginning [[http://www.starslip.com/2005/10/31/starslip-598/ here]]) in which curator-snob Vanderbeam sees the "Hang In There" cat poster on Jovia's wall, and becomes obsessed with finding out what a fellow lover of TrueArt could [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotDidactic possibly see]] in such a piece of obvious shlock.

* Fauxtivational posters are one of the most popular subjects on the [[http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=49314 twin]] [[RemixComic art-remix]] [[http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=49479 threads]] on the ''{{Erfworld}}'' forum.