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* ''Series/SightUnseen2024'': This was used as a threat in "Matt" against Jewel, a swimmer who's autistic and suffered brutal hazing from her teammates. In order to keep her quiet, queen bee Kendra recorded it and threatened uploading the video, knowing this would be used for humiliating Jewel (whose autism makes the idea even worse than usual).

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* ''Fanfic/TheSimpsonsVsArthur'': In ''The Simpsons Trial and Tribulations'', it's mentioned in passing that Bart posted a video of Milhouse falling down the stairs that has garnered over 250,000 hits.




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* In ''Fanfic/TheFundamentalEssenceOfVillainy'', Gentle Criminal and La Brava set up a [=HeroTube=] channel called Gentle Denouncements where they expose the corruption of several Pro Heroes to the public. They also have several backup and alternative accounts ready to go should they get shut down.
* ''Fanfic/MyFalseLoveAcademia'': A minor villain who broadcasts his crimes gets caught on his own livestream taking a blow to the nads from Tooru. Since she's naturally {{Invisibil|ity}}e, the footage swiftly gives birth to memes.




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* ''Fanfic/KitsuneNoKenFistOfTheFox'': After Naruto hits [[spoiler:Yagura]] with a GroinAttack, he notices that several of the household servants recorded the whole confrontation on their cell phones.
-->'''Naruto:''' Somehow I predict that your pain-filled face is going to be the subject of a lot of crazy internet memes before the month is out...


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* In ''Fanfic/FourDeadlySecrets'', footage of Ruby [[CurbStompBattle curbstomping]] India is posted online shortly after the battle. To India's dismay, he discovers that Alice of Team AKWA put a screenshot of his OhCrap face on their website under a banner that crosses out 'AKWA' and replaces it with 'Awkward'. He also tries in vain to stop Melanie, Pyrrha, and Weiss from seeing footage of his humiliating defeat.
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* ''Fanfic/DanganronpaParadiseLost'': The final trial is livestreamed, and the viewers initially believe that [[spoiler:Monaca Towa]] is the mastermind behind it all, hurling vitriol and hatred their way. When the ''true'' mastermind is exposed, the viewers naturally turn upon ''them'' instead.


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* ''Fanfic/{{Dial}}'': When Bruce accidentally walks in on Jen and Mahmoud while they're in the middle of making out with their shirts off, he furiously [[MySisterIsOffLimits chases Mahmoud around Stark Tower]] (with Mahmoud noting that it's ''Bruce'', not the ''Hulk'', who's coming after him). Tony takes the security footage with the intention of editing and posting it online.
-->'''X:''' Mr. Stark is attempting to save the footage and post it to Facebook.\\
'''Jarvis:''' He has added Korean pop as background music. I believe he's also 'cackling'.


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* ''Fanfic/{{CONSEQUENCES|MiraculousLadybug}}'': In ''MARC AND NATHANIEL'', Lila throws a massive temper tantrum upon realizing that her trust fund will be emptied in order to settle her debt with the boys. One of them records the incident, and the footage gets passed around until Alix gleefully posts it online.
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* ''Fanfic/BornToBeWilde'':
** After Judy gets into a disco fight with a vampire bat, footage of the incident is uploaded to [=ZooTube=] under the name '[[ShoutOut Batbunny Begins]]'. It's noted to have gone viral.
** In Chapter 38, [[spoiler:Chief Catano]] happily informs everyone that another video is rapidly becoming infamous. This one captures [[spoiler:Chief Bogo getting hit by a jar of piss thrown by Drummond Rane]].


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* ''Fanfic/BetterLeftUnsaid'': Asuma proves to be a SoreWinner after his team wins a match, gloating and thrusting his hips into Gai's face. He only stops when Kakashi points out that he's doing this in front of two children... and is [[CaughtOnTape on camera]].


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* ''Fanfic/AsFateWouldHaveIt'': A Youngster films Nate and Yancy dancing together at Village Bridge, then uploads the video online without getting permission from either of them. While both are initially upset by this, it winds up {{Subverted|Trope}} when people react positively to the footage, and the pair end up becoming more famous as a result.

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* ''Manga/IsItMyFaultThatIGotBullied'': One of [[AlphaBitch Ai Nagumo's]] favorite tactics is filming the horrible things she's putting her victims through and posting them online. This eventually gets turned against her when she schemes to post a video she filmed of Shiori being subjected to {{Shameful Strip}}ping on social media in hopes of driving Shiori to [[DrivenToSuicide kill herself]]; [[spoiler:Aizawa helps intercept and delete the video before uploading several exposing Ai and her followers as a GangOfBullies]].



* ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' fanfiction ''Fanfic/AbraxasEmptyFullness'': [[Characters/AbraxasHrodvitnonMonsterX Monster X]] is quite mortified when they discover that the full-blown avian courtship display that Rodan performed in front of them due to him [[MistakenForFlirting mistaking their behavior towards him for flirting]] was recorded and posted on [=YouTube=]. Where it got over a million views in a matter of hours.
* In the ''Manga/DeathNote'' [[AlternateUniverseFic AU]] ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/1168274 Barbelo]]'', Light goes out DisguisedInDrag in order to stop a criminal whose identity is unknown. L discovers footage of Light in a dress and uploads it onto [[BlandNameProduct "Yuutoob"]].
* In the ''Webcomic/DadVillainAU'', Chloé incorporated social media into her ongoing bullying campaign against Marinette. This [[HoistByTheirOwnPetard blew up in her face]] when Tom took advantage of the fact that she had basically created an online record of the ''years'' she'd spent tormenting his daughter.
* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/40192773 Disciplinary Action]]'' reveals that several of Izuku's classmates filmed Katsuki's {{Barbaric Bully}}ing and shared it on their social media. One of his lackies even recorded him telling Izuku to "[[SuicideDare take a swan dive off the roof]]". Naturally, Nedzu finds these videos while researching their history and takes the time to make his own copies of them, along with copying the metadata, so that by the time [[SuckySchool Aldera]] realizes what's happening and starts trying to cover their tracks, it's already too late.
* Inverted twice over for Hamakaze in the ''Franchise/HarryPotter''/''VideoGame/KanColle'' crossover ''Fanfic/HarryAndTheShipgirls''. She did two things that, due to being captured on magical photographs, wound up getting her a fan club.

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* ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' fanfiction ''Fanfic/AbraxasEmptyFullness'': [[Characters/AbraxasHrodvitnonMonsterX Monster X]] is quite mortified when they discover that the full-blown avian courtship display that Rodan performed in front of them due ''Fanfic/HarryAndTheShipgirls'': Thanks to him [[MistakenForFlirting mistaking their behavior towards him for flirting]] was recorded and posted on [=YouTube=]. Where it got over a million views in a matter of hours.
* In the ''Manga/DeathNote'' [[AlternateUniverseFic AU]] ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/1168274 Barbelo]]'', Light goes out DisguisedInDrag in order to stop a criminal whose identity is unknown. L discovers footage of Light in a dress and uploads it onto [[BlandNameProduct "Yuutoob"]].
* In the ''Webcomic/DadVillainAU'', Chloé incorporated social media into her ongoing bullying campaign against Marinette. This [[HoistByTheirOwnPetard blew up in her face]] when Tom took advantage of the fact that she had basically created an online record of the ''years'' she'd spent tormenting his daughter.
* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/40192773 Disciplinary Action]]'' reveals that several of Izuku's classmates filmed Katsuki's {{Barbaric Bully}}ing and shared it on their social media. One of his lackies even recorded him telling Izuku to "[[SuicideDare take a swan dive off the roof]]". Naturally, Nedzu finds these videos while researching their history and takes the time to make his own copies of them, along with copying the metadata, so that by the time [[SuckySchool Aldera]] realizes what's happening and starts trying to cover their tracks, it's already too late.
* Inverted twice over for Hamakaze in the ''Franchise/HarryPotter''/''VideoGame/KanColle'' crossover ''Fanfic/HarryAndTheShipgirls''. She did two things that, due to being captured on
magical photographs, wound up getting Hamakaze goes through an {{Inverted|Trope}} version of this that nets her a fan club.club:



* ''WesternAnimation/CraigOfTheCreek''/''WesternAnimation/InfinityTrain'' crossover fanfiction ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainTheKidAndTheWolf'': One of the main reasons why Handlebarb gets trainnapped; after the big show turns out to be a disaster, she gets into an argument with the rest of the 10 Speeds, along with Craig and his friends. Unfortunately, the livestream was still going; by the time Handlebarb realizes this, she's already come off like a [[GloryHound glory-seeking]] {{Jerkass}} who's willing to get her teammates hurt in the name of fame. And since this is the internet, news travels ''fast'', quickly turning her into one of the most disliked kids of the Creek, with her own family showing NoSympathy for her plight.
* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' fanfiction ''Fanfic/TheOneToMakeItStay'': Alec planned to exploit this during Summer Sesh by deliberately sabotaging performances, setting his victims up to fail in hopes that the results would become {{Instant Web Hit}}s. Naturally, this led to [[spoiler:Mirelle]] getting akumatized when they discovered his plan and suffered a major panic attack, attracting Hawkmoth's attention.
* ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'': Youngster Joey won a chance to appear on DJ Mary and Professor Oak's radio show. During his appearance, he blurted out that he thought his Rattata was in the top percentage of Rattata. Of course, [[MemeticMutation he never expected to become an Internet meme]], [[NeverLiveItDown and five years later people still remember it]].

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* In the ''WesternAnimation/CraigOfTheCreek''/''WesternAnimation/InfinityTrain'' crossover fanfiction ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainTheKidAndTheWolf'': One ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainTheKidAndTheWolf'', this is one of the main reasons why Handlebarb gets trainnapped; after ends up on the Train. After the big show turns out to be a disaster, she gets into an argument with the rest of the 10 Speeds, along with Craig and his friends. Unfortunately, friends, unaware that [[CaughtOnTape the livestream was is still going; by the time Handlebarb realizes this, going]]. She swiftly finds herself ConvictedByPublicOpinion; everyone is convinced she's already come off like a [[GloryHound glory-seeking]] {{Jerkass}} who's willing to get her teammates hurt in the name of fame. And since this is the internet, news travels ''fast'', quickly turning fame, and her into one of the most disliked kids of the Creek, with her own family showing shows NoSympathy for her plight.
* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' fanfiction ''Fanfic/TheOneToMakeItStay'': Alec planned to exploit this during Summer Sesh by deliberately sabotaging performances, setting his victims up to fail in hopes that the results would become {{Instant Web Hit}}s. Naturally, this led to [[spoiler:Mirelle]] getting akumatized when they discovered his plan and suffered a major panic attack, attracting Hawkmoth's attention.
* ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'': Youngster Joey won a chance to appear on DJ Mary and Professor Oak's radio show. During his appearance, he blurted out that he thought his Rattata was in the top percentage of Rattata. Of course, [[MemeticMutation he never expected to become an Internet meme]], [[NeverLiveItDown and five years later people still remember it]].
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* In the [[AlternateUniverseFic AU]] ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/1168274 Barbelo]]'', Light goes out DisguisedInDrag in order to stop a criminal whose identity is unknown. L discovers footage of Light in a dress and uploads it onto [[BlandNameProduct "Yuutoob"]].

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* ''Fanfic/AbraxasEmptyFullness'': [[Characters/AbraxasHrodvitnonMonsterX Monster X]] is quite mortified when they discover that the full-blown avian courtship display that Rodan performed in front of them due to him [[MistakenForFlirting mistaking their behavior towards him for flirting]] was recorded and posted on [=YouTube=]. Where it got over a million views in a matter of hours.

!!!''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug''
* In the ''Webcomic/DadVillainAU'', Chloé incorporated social media into her ongoing bullying campaign against Marinette. This [[HoistByTheirOwnPetard blew up in her face]] when Tom took advantage of the fact that she had basically created an online record of the ''years'' she'd spent tormenting his daughter.
* ''Fanfic/TheOneToMakeItStay'': Alec planned to {{Exploit|edTrope}} this during Summer Sesh by deliberately sabotaging performances, setting his victims up to fail in hopes that the results would become {{Instant Web Hit}}s. Naturally, this led to [[spoiler:Mirelle]] getting akumatized when they discovered his plan and suffered a major panic attack, attracting Hawkmoth's attention.
* ''[[Fanfic/RateThis Rate This (Trust is Hard to Come By)]]'': Lila gets hit by an akuma's power that reveals [[ThePowerOfTrust how much (or how little) Ladybug trusts]] everyone in Paris. In Lila's case, her [[BrokeTheRatingScale -51]] reveals just how much Ladybug ''[[EvenTheLovingHeroHasHatedOnes despises her]]''. By the time Lila learns just what the number ''means'', she's already been [[CaughtOnTape filmed by several people]] who saw her walking around, and Chloé casually informs her that she's currently trending, having gained [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor all the attention she'd so desperately craved]].

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* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/40192773 Disciplinary Action]]'' reveals that several of Izuku's classmates filmed Katsuki's {{Barbaric Bully}}ing and shared it on their social media. One of his lackies even recorded him telling Izuku to "[[SuicideDare take a swan dive off the roof]]". Naturally, Nedzu finds these videos while researching their history and takes the time to make his own copies of them, along with copying the metadata, so that by the time [[SuckySchool Aldera]] realizes what's happening and starts trying to cover their tracks, it's already too late.

!!!''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}''
* ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'': Youngster Joey won a chance to appear on DJ Mary and Professor Oak's radio show. During his appearance, he blurted out that he thought his Rattata was in the top percentage of Rattata. Of course, he never expected to [[MemeticMutation become an Internet meme]], and [[NeverLiveItDown people still remember it five years later]].
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* This occurs once in [=ClockUp=]'s ''Euphoria''. Or more exactly, with ''Website/NicoNicoDouga'' (since it's Japan). In Rika's route, one of the games involves simple, uh, "Keyhole" stuff, except that it's being broadcast through the Internet and Rika has to say very embarrassing things to the camera. The game never goes into detail about the implications of this, but the humiliation part is here, just as the nasty comments you would expect from anonymous people on the Internet, floating through the screen.

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* This occurs once in [=ClockUp=]'s ''Euphoria''. Or more exactly, with ''Website/NicoNicoDouga'' ''Platform/NicoNicoDouga'' (since it's Japan). In Rika's route, one of the games involves simple, uh, "Keyhole" stuff, except that it's being broadcast through the Internet and Rika has to say very embarrassing things to the camera. The game never goes into detail about the implications of this, but the humiliation part is here, just as the nasty comments you would expect from anonymous people on the Internet, floating through the screen.
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'''Ned:''' Really? On Website/YouTube it looked like you got your ass kicked.

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'''Ned:''' Really? On Website/YouTube Platform/YouTube it looked like you got your ass kicked.



In modern fiction, characters will post embarrassing videos of each other on Website/YouTube ([[BlandNameProduct or something eerily similar]]). This functions just like public humiliation, but instead of just their friends and family, it's everyone in the entire world. For such a young medium ([=YouTube=] was founded in 2005), this trope has acclimated rather well.

There's no closing the floodgates once word of mouth (or, more likely, word of Website/{{Facebook}} and Website/{{Reddit}}) starts travelling. Typically, the video will become a viral sensation, getting millions of views in a manner of days. Although not as common as depicted in the media, it is TruthInTelevision. It is part of an InternetSafetyAesop since you should be careful about what you post online.

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In modern fiction, characters will post embarrassing videos of each other on Website/YouTube Platform/YouTube ([[BlandNameProduct or something eerily similar]]). This functions just like public humiliation, but instead of just their friends and family, it's everyone in the entire world. For such a young medium ([=YouTube=] was founded in 2005), this trope has acclimated rather well.

There's no closing the floodgates once word of mouth (or, more likely, word of Website/{{Facebook}} Platform/{{Facebook}} and Website/{{Reddit}}) starts travelling. Typically, the video will become a viral sensation, getting millions of views in a manner of days. Although not as common as depicted in the media, it is TruthInTelevision. It is part of an InternetSafetyAesop since you should be careful about what you post online.



* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretLifeOfPets'' Chloe, the obese cat, suffers a lengthy HumiliationConga at a party that ends up Website/YouTube's Pick of the Week and shown on the Times Square jumbotron.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretLifeOfPets'' Chloe, the obese cat, suffers a lengthy HumiliationConga at a party that ends up Website/YouTube's Platform/YouTube's Pick of the Week and shown on the Times Square jumbotron.



* In ''Film/SeventeenAgain2009'', the main character gets in a fight at school, which he loses badly. He tries to tell his "father", Ned, [[note]]actually his friend, who is acting as his father due to his TimeTravel; ItMakesSenseInContext[[/note]] that it was a draw, but Ned says he saw it on Website/YouTube.

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* In ''Film/SeventeenAgain2009'', the main character gets in a fight at school, which he loses badly. He tries to tell his "father", Ned, [[note]]actually his friend, who is acting as his father due to his TimeTravel; ItMakesSenseInContext[[/note]] that it was a draw, but Ned says he saw it on Website/YouTube.Platform/YouTube.



* ''Film/BerkshireCounty'': When [[TheProtagonist Kylie]] is giving a blow-job to Marcus, what she doesn't realize is that she's being videotaped doing so. The next day, she sees the video on Website/{{YouTube}}, and is mercilessly mocked and bullied by her classmates.

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* ''Film/BerkshireCounty'': When [[TheProtagonist Kylie]] is giving a blow-job to Marcus, what she doesn't realize is that she's being videotaped doing so. The next day, she sees the video on Website/{{YouTube}}, Platform/{{YouTube}}, and is mercilessly mocked and bullied by her classmates.



* In ''Film/DiaryOfAWimpyKidRodrickRules'', Susan is filmed dancing while Rodrick's band performs at a talent show. The video is uploaded to Website/YouTube where it gets view after view. While Greg and Rowley bathe in the fame, Rodrick yells up at them:

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* In ''Film/DiaryOfAWimpyKidRodrickRules'', Susan is filmed dancing while Rodrick's band performs at a talent show. The video is uploaded to Website/YouTube Platform/YouTube where it gets view after view. While Greg and Rowley bathe in the fame, Rodrick yells up at them:



* In ''Film/{{Hancock}}'', PR executive Ray (Jason Bateman) shows Hancock (Will Smith) Website/YouTube videos of the objectionable actions he takes as a superhero. In one, he grabs ice cream from an ice cream truck nearly-naked with his clothes burnt off. In another, he's shown grabbing (by the tail) a whale that had beached itself, and tossing it out to sea hundreds of yards away, smashing a small boat. [[RuleOfThree And in a third]] [[TakeOurWordForIt off screen]] [[RuleOfThree one]], He fought crime [[NakedPeopleAreFunny butt naked]].

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* In ''Film/{{Hancock}}'', PR executive Ray (Jason Bateman) shows Hancock (Will Smith) Website/YouTube Platform/YouTube videos of the objectionable actions he takes as a superhero. In one, he grabs ice cream from an ice cream truck nearly-naked with his clothes burnt off. In another, he's shown grabbing (by the tail) a whale that had beached itself, and tossing it out to sea hundreds of yards away, smashing a small boat. [[RuleOfThree And in a third]] [[TakeOurWordForIt off screen]] [[RuleOfThree one]], He fought crime [[NakedPeopleAreFunny butt naked]].



* In ''Film/HellboyIITheGoldenArmy'', one of Tom Manning's jobs is to deny the existence of Hellboy and the BPRD. So the fact that videos of Hellboy keep popping up on Website/YouTube is indirectly embarrassing for him.

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* In ''Film/HellboyIITheGoldenArmy'', one of Tom Manning's jobs is to deny the existence of Hellboy and the BPRD. So the fact that videos of Hellboy keep popping up on Website/YouTube Platform/YouTube is indirectly embarrassing for him.



* In ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid: Rodrick Rules'', Greg's local school's talent show is taped for a local cable TV channel, and the cameramen zoom onto Mom's dancing during Loded Diper's performance. It ends up going viral after someone uploads the clip onto Website/YouTube, where it is known as the "Dancing Mom" video. Greg himself also gets teased about it at school.

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* In ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid: Rodrick Rules'', Greg's local school's talent show is taped for a local cable TV channel, and the cameramen zoom onto Mom's dancing during Loded Diper's performance. It ends up going viral after someone uploads the clip onto Website/YouTube, Platform/YouTube, where it is known as the "Dancing Mom" video. Greg himself also gets teased about it at school.



* Discussed briefly in ''Series/{{QI}}''. The panel was discussing the folding of paper, and what was needed to fold a piece of paper in half X number of times. Creator/StephenFry said, "[[AccidentalInnuendo What you need is length and thickness]]", to which Alan eventually replied, "That's gonna be snipped out, straight on Website/YouTube." [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW_4bPZZWfU It was, the very next day]].

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* Discussed briefly in ''Series/{{QI}}''. The panel was discussing the folding of paper, and what was needed to fold a piece of paper in half X number of times. Creator/StephenFry said, "[[AccidentalInnuendo What you need is length and thickness]]", to which Alan eventually replied, "That's gonna be snipped out, straight on Website/YouTube.Platform/YouTube." [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW_4bPZZWfU It was, the very next day]].



* Jack Rebney, the ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnebago_Man Winnebago Man]]'', was an embittered recluse partly because of his Website/YouTube fame. Eventually he came out of his shell, after realising his viewers were laughing ''with him'' rather than ''at him''.

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* Jack Rebney, the ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnebago_Man Winnebago Man]]'', was an embittered recluse partly because of his Website/YouTube Platform/YouTube fame. Eventually he came out of his shell, after realising his viewers were laughing ''with him'' rather than ''at him''.

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