History Main / PopUpTexting

* ''WebOriginal/AppleTexts'' features a blend of both PopUpTexting and SoundingItOut, in which the texts appear on screen and are "read out" by the respective senders.

* ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'': A variation was used when Snoopy was typing on his typewriter, and the text would be shown in the air above him. This was all the way [[OlderThanTheyThink back in the '50s]].

* ''Film/IBoy'': PlayedWith. Anytime Tom texts someone the message will show up like this for the viewer, but this is because he's actually got the ability to see electrical signals. He doesn't even have to use his hands.

* ''Film/SpidermanHomecoming'': Briefly used as Peter sends a text to Happy Hogan telling him he's ready for his next mission... still.

* ''WebOriginal/AppleTexts" features a blend of both PopUpTexting and SoundingItOut, in which the texts appear on screen and are "read out" by the respective senders.

* ''WebOriginal/AppleTexts" features a blend of both PopUpTexting and SoundingItOut, in which the texts appear on screen and are "read out" by the respective senders.

* Pretty much all text message in ''Series/MimpiMetropolitan'' is displayed as a pop-up, usually combining it with VoiceoverLetter or more rarely, SoundingItOut.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheWindowWasher'': One person texts the other (as the film shows only the communications satellite that's relaying the texts) and says "Yesterday was fun, right?". The other person agrees. After a couple of more texts the first person says that they felt a connection and they really want to see the other person again, and again, and again. This vignette ends with the other person's text window going "...".

[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFfq2zblGXw This video]] by WebVideo/EveryFrameAPainting has further examination and analysis on this trope in the first half (the second half is about the portrayal of the internet).

[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFfq2zblGXw This video]] has further examination and analysis on this trope in the first half (the second half is about the portrayal of the internet).

* Pretty much all text message ''Series/MimpiMetropolitan'' is displayed as a pop-up, usually combining it with VoiceoverLetter or more rarely, SoundingItOut.

* ''Film/IBoy'': Played with. Anytime Tom texts someone the message will show up like this for the viewer, but this is because he's actually got the ability to see electrical signals. He doesn't even have to use his hands.

* ''Film/SpidermanHomecoming'': Briefly used as Peter sends a text to Happy Hogan telling him he's ready for his next mission...still.

* ''WebVideo/MuppetViralVideos'': "Beaker's Ballad" has [[NoFourthWall internet comments appearing in the air next to him]], really tormenting him, and [[{{GIFT}} laughing as he gets set on fire]].

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

* ''[[Series/Batwoman2019 Batwoman]]'' uses this method to display texts. As well as fellow Arrowverse show ''[[Series / Black Lightning aka: Black Lightning]]''

* ''[[Series/Batwoman2019 Batwoman]]'' uses this method to display texts. As well as fellow Arrowverse show ''[[Series / Black Lightning aka: Black Lightning]] ''

* ''[[Series/Batwoman2019 Batwoman]]'' uses this method to display texts. As well as fellow Arrowverse show ''[[Series / Black Lightning
aka: Black Lightning]] ''

* ''[[Series/Batwoman2019 Batwoman]]'' uses this method to display texts. As well as fellow Arrowverse show ''[[Series/Black Lightning (Series)]] ''

* ''[[Series/Batwoman2019 Batwoman]]'' uses this method to display texts.

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

This occurs when a character is looking at something on a phone, which is small and hard to show to the audience, and the contents of the screen are shown as a pop-up floating somewhere in the midst of the action. This is done to avoid having the character either read or say what it is he's looking at, or the camera cutting to a tight shot of the screen over their shoulder or from their POV. In this way viewers are kept in the loop without having possibly needless exposition dialogue or close shots that limit action in other places.

* ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'': A variation was used when Snoopy was typing on his typewriter, and the text would be shown in the air above him. This was all the way [[OlderThanTheyThink back in the 50s]].

* In a ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' comic strip, Garfield attempts to write poetry by dipping his paws in ink and pressing them on the paper. In the air we see what we think is what Garfield is writing, but when Jon Arbuckle comes to see what Garfield is doing, all we see on the paper is just paw prints.

* ''Film/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.

* ''Film/OtherHalves'' has highly interactive text message (as well as app screens) that disappear behind objects on screen, as if they really are floating in space. One even plays as a MeaningfulBackgroundEvent, showing the audience that a character left her phone behind.

* In order for the audience to follow the chat conversations in ''Film/{{Disconnect}}'', some of its content is displayed as on screen text.

* ''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, represented as icons, or scaled down.