History Main / PopUpTexting

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbDuBmVwDbk Another promo]], for ''Series/GilligansIsland'':

* ''Film/ThePeanutsMovie'': As in the original strip, Snoopy's story appears in the air above him as he types it out on his typewriter.

* Occurs frequently in ''Manga/YuruCamp'' whenever characters text with each other.

* In ''Film/TheSecretLifeOfWalterMitty'', text relevant to the scene often appears on the background. One time Walter gets a text from a coworker and it appears carved on there mountainside behind him.

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[[caption-width-right:350:Yes you do.]]

* ''Series/HouseOfCardsUS'': In the pilot episode Frank's wife's texts to him hang in the air while he sits silently reflecting, leading to an argument when he gets home over him not answering. Use continues throughout the series, usually so that Frank can be in a meeting and talk to someone else at the same time.
** Commentary tracks reveal that the creators felt their use of this trope was ground-breaking and were dismayed to learn that the same effect was being deployed in ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'' while they were finishing the first season.
** Parodied on ''Series/SesameStreet'' where Frank Underwolf texts some little pigs that he is about to blow their house down.

* Done in ''VideoGame/SplinterCell Conviction'' whenever objectives are consulted. Instead of popping up in an in-game display, the objectives appear in the environment itself.

** Commentary tracks reveal that the creators felt their use of PopUpTexting was ground-breaking and were dismayed to learn that the same effect was being deployed in ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'' while they were finishing the first season.

* ''Film/SexDrive'', In the first scene when Ian is messaging a "Ms_Tasty," over the internet on his laptop.

* ''Series/{{Selfie]]'''s main character, Eliza Dooley, spends most of her time looking at one or more screens simultaneously. While all the things she's looking at are done in this manner, important text conversations are usually displayed more prominently and legibly, while the less relevant windows are shown in thumbnail or scaled down.

* ''Web of Lies'' is an Creator/InvestigationDiscovery series about online relationships that lead to disastrous, sometimes tragic, results. Given the nature of the subject matter, it should be no surprise that much of the correspondence between the subjects is shown this way.

* The film version of ''Literature/TheFaultInOurStars'' did this, with sketchy "hand drawn" bubbles popping up whenever main characters August and Hazel texted each other. They come across as a sketch of iPhone text bubbles.

!Examples

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* In ''Film/TheSecretLifeOfWalterMitty'', text relevant to the scene often appears on the background. One time Walter gets a text from a coworker and it appears carved on there mountainside behind him.

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** In [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdzhpkzonig this]]''Series/HogansHeroes'' ad Col. Klink texts Sgt. Schultz asking where Hogan is. Schultz responds with his CatchPhrase.
-->'''Schultz''': I know Nussink!\\
'''Klink''': U type with an accent??
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbDuBmVwDbk Another]] promo, for ''Series/GilligansIsland'':
-->'''Li'l Buddy''': Where R U?
-->'''Skipper''': On an island. Why?
-->'''Li'l Buddy''': Just checking...SOS LOL!

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* Done in ''ComicStrip/{{Zits}}'' frequently, since Jeremy, being a child of the 21st century, quite often communicates via text. The strip often uses these to satirize modern teen's near-dependence on texting, [[http://zitscomics.com/comics/april-9-2011/ even when there's another person mere feet from them]].

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* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsRainbowRocks'' musical short ''Perfect Day for Fun'' released on Creator/{{Hasbro}} Studios Shorts' Website/YouTube channel, the main characters try to find a common meeting place at their school carnival. As they communicate via text, they have pop-ups indicating what they are saying, although they only do this through symbols, with no actual words displayed in the pop-up (e.g. "Butterfly Star @ Photo Booth" means "[[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicTheManeCast Fluttershy and Twilight Sparkle]] are near the photo booths").

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* The British pop-culture segment of the UsefulNotes/{{London}} UsefulNotes/OlympicGames opening ceremony showed these as it portrayed young people going out for a night on the town, phones in hand, keeping in contact with each other, and culminating with two of them getting a RelationshipUpgrade on [[BlandNameProduct not-Facebook]].

* In the MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsRainbowRocks musical short ''Perfect Day for Fun'' released on Hasbro Studios Shorts' Youtube channel, the main characters try to find a common meeting place at their school carnival. As they communicate via text, they have pop-ups indicating what they are saying, although they only do this through symbols, with no actual words displayed in the pop-up (e.g. "Butterfly Star @ Photo Booth" means "[[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicTheManeCast Fluttershy and Twilight Sparkle]] are near the photo booths").

* The British pop-culture segment of the London OlympicGames opening ceremony showed these as it portrayed young people going out for a night on the town, phones in hand, keeping in contact with each other, and culminating with two of them getting a RelationshipUpgrade on [[BlandNameProduct not-Facebook]].