History MisaimedFandom / WebMedia

* Kevin Temmer's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8FA25a22dQ "Delete This Tweet"]] animation, a music video starring a boy band called the "Trash Binz" singing to the viewer about how they should perform the titular action, has been used by people on websites like Twitter as a response to arguments they disagree with… except that the video itself ''mocks'' this kind of mentality, and not even subtly. Putting aside the fact that the Trash Binz themselves are literally ''[[VisualPun anthropomorphic trash cans]]'', they're visually emphasized midway through the video as being [[CondescendingCompassion condescending]] [[HypocriticalHumor hypocrites]] who gorge on the prospects of gatekeeping people, [[TheGadfly stirring up drama for the sake of it]], or basking in the popular opinions of [[ConvictedByPublicOpinion the mob]] or an influential figure, and thus aren't liable to be any better than the party they're accusing. [[PoesLaw Despite its unironic use in some circles]], it's clear that the video's ''actual'' message is that those who insist others backslide on their opinions so adamantly are liable to be, well, [[{{Pun}} trashy]].

* The ''WebVideo/FilthyFrank'' video "Weeaboos" satirized people who are obsessed with anime and Japanese culture, and think that they can learn everything they need to know about Japan through anime. Many Filthy Frank fans believed he hated such people, calling everybody who demonstrates even a slight interest in anime and/or Japan out as a "weeaboo". This is despite Frank saying at the beginning of the video that he's got nothing against anime or people who watch it, and actually being born in Osaka himself.

** This was discussed by LetsPlay/{{Technoblade}} during [[https://youtu.be/7ZxlBge7iW8 one]] stream. He brought up a Twitter post he found in which numerous people praised him for not resorting to dark humor to be funny, when he's one of the biggest sources of CrossesTheLineTwice humor out of everyone in the SMP. He was understandably baffled by it.
--->''"I talk about punching orphans literally every ten minutes! Who's stream have they been watching?!"''

** A very strange case occurs in mid-2021 with people outside the fandom. In Season 1, L'Manburg was founded to be a nation with a staunch stance against tyranny and police brutality, and intended to stand as a "special place" for people to be free from it. Unfortunately, its advocacy for freedom labelled it as a "freedom flag", thus attracting attention from the alt-right, who waved the L'Manburg flag on the same pole as a [=Trump2024=] flag during a London protest in late July 2021 against [[UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic COVID-19]] vaccinations from the government (to help mitigate, you know, a ''global pandemic''), which they saw as "tyrannical", without even knowing the context behind the flag. 3 of the 4 founders of L'Manburg (Wilbur, Tommy, and Tubbo) found this absolutely hilarious out-of-universe, and when this got on the ''[[https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/gaming/someone-brought-a-dream-smp-minecraft-flag-to-an-anti-vax-rally/ar-AAMwvP6?ocid=cf-link news]]'', Quackity (a later member of L'Manburg) responded by [[https://twitter.com/Quackity/status/1420936436002344963 announcing on Twitter]] that Las Nevadas, his country on the SMP at the time, was offering free vaccinations.

** Somewhat related, Lindsay has expressed annoyance that many fanboys seem to think WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick is a "[[CloserToEarth good person]]" when she's really a fucked up bitch with an InferioritySuperiorityComplex.

* The [[FirstLawOfGenderBending three]] [[SecondLawOfGenderBending laws of]] [[ThirdLawOfGenderBending gender bending]] were coined to show that the stereotypical GenderBending plot is ''fundamentally flawed'', as the characters don't react anything like an actual human being would to their situation. Fans of the genre seem to take them as guidelines.

** Ironwood has a devoted fanbase who see him as a strong military leader who can make the tough choices when his allies cannot, and who dislike the protagonists as naïve heroes endangering lives with their idealism. They feel Volumes 7-8 portrayed Ironwood as being the only person with a plan to save some lives in contrast to Team RWBY, who wanted to endanger everyone's lives due to having no plan to save anyone and no will to make the tough call to guarantee the salvation of some. They therefore believe that Ironwood was derailed into the role of a ruthless, impotent villain in favour of ProtagonistCenteredMorality. All of the above completely ignores that Ironwood has been a consistently [[GeneralFailure incompetent military leader]], with his best moments usually only when working with others and his worst moments [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder when he goes behind their backs and undermines their efforts due to his ego.]] Furthermore, despite the claims of him being the one who "makes the tough decisions", it consistently ignores how many of those decisions only come about as a result of his bad decisions in earlier volumes, and [[NeverMyFault how his actions basically involve running away from his mistakes]] when he finds that he is not able to resolve the matter by himself. Finally, despite the claims of Team RWBY and the heroes being naive idealists, they are the ones who have to cobble together a plan with minimal resources despite dealing with two separate factions bearing down on them, having to accept the loss of an entire nation to save as many people as possible, whereas Ironwood is consistently blocking them from executing these plans [[ItsAllAboutMe because he cannot accept the idea that the situation can be resolved without him being the most important figure involved]], and that his "plan" was nothing more than a [[KillThePoor abandoning Mantle's poor in order to save the elite of Atlas]], and in the longer term such an abandonment would have left Remnant defenseless against Salem. The backlash was so strong that the writers pointed out that Ironwood had been portrayed as a deeply flawed individual from the beginning, and that he was meant to be regarded as unambiguously villainous by the end of Volume 7.

* The ''LetsPlay/DreamSMP'' fandom is ''rife'' with this.

** A very strange case occurs in mid-2021 with people outside the fandom. In Season 1, L'Manburg was founded to be a nation with a staunch stance against tyranny and police brutality, and intended to stand as a "special place" for people to be free from it. Unfortunately, its advocation for freedom labelled it as a "freedom flag", thus attracting attention from the alt-right, who waved the L'Manburg flag on the same pole as a [=Trump2024=] flag during a London protest in late July 2021 against [[UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic COVID-19]] vaccinations from the government (to help mitigate, you know, a ''global pandemic''), which they saw as "tyrannical", without even knowing the context behind the flag. 3 of the 4 founders of L'Manburg (Wilbur, Tommy, and Tubbo) found this absolutely hilarious out-of-universe, and when this got on the ''[[https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/gaming/someone-brought-a-dream-smp-minecraft-flag-to-an-anti-vax-rally/ar-AAMwvP6?ocid=cf-link news]]'', Quackity (a later member of L'Manburg) responded by [[https://twitter.com/Quackity/status/1420936436002344963 announcing on Twitter]] that Las Nevadas, his country on the SMP at the time, was offering free vaccinations.

** Ironwood has a devoted fanbase who see him as a strong military leader who can make the tough choices when his allies cannot, and who dislike the protagonists as naïve heroes endangering lives with their idealism. They feel Volumes 7-8 portrayed Ironwood as being the only person with a plan to save some lives in contrast to Team RWBY, who wanted to endanger everyone's lives due to having no plan to save anyone and no will to make the tough call to guarantee the salvation of some. They therefore believe that Ironwood was derailed into the role of a ruthless, impotent villain in favour of ProtagonistCenteredMorality. All of the above completely ignores that Ironwood has been a consistently incompetent military leader, with his best moments usually only when working with others and his worst moments [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder when he goes behind their backs and undermines their efforts due to his ego.]] Furthermore, despite the claims of him being the one who "makes the tough decisions", it consistently ignores how many of those decisions only come about as a result of his bad decisions in earlier volumes, and [[DirtyCoward how his actions basically involve running away from his mistakes]] when he finds that he is not able to resolve the matter by himself. Finally, despite the claims of Team RWBY and the heroes being naive idealists, they are the ones who have to cobble together a plan despite dealing with two separate factions bearing down on them, having to accept the loss of an entire nation to save as many people as possible, whereas Ironwood is consistently blocking them from executing these plans [[ItsAllAboutMe because he cannot accept the idea that the situation can be resolved without him being the most important figure involved]], and that his "plan" was nothing more than a [[KillThePoor form of genocide against Mantle's poor]], and in the longer term would have left Remnant defenseless against Salem. The backlash was so strong that the writers pointed out that Ironwood had been portrayed as a deeply flawed individual from the beginning, and that he was meant to be regarded as unambiguously villainous by the end of Volume 7.

** Ironwood has a devoted fanbase who see him as a strong military leader who can make the tough choices when his allies cannot, and who dislike the protagonists as naïve heroes endangering lives with their idealism. They feel Volumes 7-8 portrayed Ironwood as being the only person with a plan to save some lives in contrast to Team RWBY, who wanted to endanger everyone's lives due to having no plan to save anyone and no will to make the tough call to guarantee the salvation of some. They therefore believe that Ironwood was derailed into the role of a ruthless, impotent villain in favour of ProtagonistCenteredMorality. All of the above completely ignores that Ironwood has been a consistently incompetent military leader, with his best moments usually only when working with others and his worst moments [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder when he goes behind their backs and undermines their efforts due to his ego.]] Furthermore, despite the claims of him being the one who "makes the tough decisions", it consistently ignores how many of those decisions only come about as a result of his bad decisions in earlier volumes, and [[DirtyCoward how his actions basically involve running away from his mistakes]] when he finds that he is not able to resolve the matter by himself. Finally, despite the claims of Team RWBY and the heroes being naive idealists, they are the ones who have to cobble together a plan despite dealing with two separate factions bearing down on them, having to accept the loss of an entire nation to save as many people as possible, whereas Ironwood is consistently blocking them from executing these plans because he cannot accept the idea that the situation can be resolved without him being the most important figure involved, and that his "plan" was nothing more than a [[KillThePoor form of genocide against Mantle's poor]], and in the longer term would have left Remnant defenseless against Salem. The backlash was so strong that the writers pointed out that Ironwood had been portrayed as a deeply flawed individual from the beginning, and that he was meant to be regarded as unambiguously villainous by the end of Volume 7.

** Ironwood has a devoted fanbase who see him as a strong military leader who can make the tough choices when his allies cannot, and who dislike the protagonists as naïve heroes endangering lives with their idealism. They feel Volumes 7-8 portrayed Ironwood as being the only person with a plan to save some lives in contrast to Team RWBY, who wanted to endanger everyone's lives due to having no plan to save anyone and no will to make the tough call to guarantee the salvation of some. They therefore believe that Ironwood was derailed into the role of a ruthless, impotent villain in favour of ProtagonistCentredMorality. The backlash was so strong that the writers pointed out that Ironwood had been portrayed as a deeply flawed individual from the beginning, and that he was meant to be regarded as unambiguously villainous by the end of Volume 7.

* Website/UrbanDictionary was created as a site where people can make their own slang words with their definitions, and also for other people to find out what (a) certain slang word(s) mean. However, a lot of people simply use it as a vehicle for their (biased) opinions. It's prevalent enough that the site's most popular entry for "Urban Dictionary" (which is also Website/UrbanDictionary page's quote) [[LampshadeHanging acknowledges]] this.

* ''Website/TheOnion'' parodies this with the article [[https://local.theonion.com/man-wearing-cobra-command-shirt-missed-the-whole-point-1834243488 Man Wearing Cobra Command Shirt Missed The Whole Point Of ‘G.I. Joe’]]. A man comes to work wearing a [[Franchise/GiJoe Cobra]] shirt and all of his coworkers freak out, seeing him as having "missed the point" of GI Joe and how the shirt means that he implicitly endorses a fictional snake themed terrorist organization.

* ''The Hard Times'' parodies the specific example of cops lionizing ComicBook/ThePunisher in this fashion [[https://thehardtimes.net/culture/man-shocked-meathead-cop-with-punisher-tattoo-doesnt-read-the-comic-books/ here]].

* The ''WebVideo/FilthyFrank'' video "Weeaboos" satirized people who are obsessed with anime and Japanese culture, and think that they can learn everything they need to know about Japan through anime. Many Filthy Frank fans believed he hated such people, calling everybody who demonstrates even a slight interest in anime and/or Japan out as a "weeaboo". This is despite Frank saying at the beginning of the video that he's got nothing against anime or people who watch it, and also has nothing against Japan as a country.

** As Rolfe's page on Wiki/TheOtherWiki notes, the original joke of the Angry Video Game Nerd character was that it was absurd ''at the time'' for a grown man to get [[SeriousBusiness so mad]] about video games. Ten years on, it's common to see ordinary forum posters with AVGN levels of rage, partly because the character's influence ended up making disproportionate rage about games a normal part of gamer culture.

* Kevin Temmer's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8FA25a22dQ "Delete This Tweet"]] animation, a music video starring a boy band called the "Trash Binz" singing to the viewer about how they should perform the titular action, has been used by people on websites like Twitter as a response to arguments they disagree with… except that the video itself ''mocks'' this kind of mentality, and not even subtly. Putting aside the fact that the Trash Binz themselves are literally ''[[VisualPun anthropomorphic trash cans]]'', they're visually emphasized midway through the video as being [[CondescendingCompassion condescending]] [[HypocriticalHumor hypocrites]] who gorge on the prospects of gatekeeping people, [[TheGadfly stirring up drama for the sake of it]], or basking in the popular opinions of [[ConvictedByPublicOpinion the mob]] or an influential figure, and thus aren't liable to be any better than the party they're accusing. Despite its unironic use in some circles, it's clear that the video's ''actual'' message is that those who insist others backslide on their opinions so adamantly are liable to be, well, [[{{Pun}} trashy]].

* The "WebOriginal/VirginVsChad" memes. Originally, it was a RightWayWrongWayPair spoof that compared a "Virgin" doing normal things like listening to music while walking or trying to avoid bumping into anyone to a "Chad" who inverted whatever the Virgin was doing, such as never having listened to music or deliberately knocking people out of one's way. Basically, the intent was to make the viewer feel insecure about a normal thing. Most Virgin vs. Chad memes disregard this and just make it a plain "bad vs. good" meme where the Virgin is something they don't like and the Chad is something they like.

* The ''Machinima/TeamServiceAnnouncement'' series was meant to give inexperienced VideoGame/TeamFortress2 players advice on common situations. As such, the fact that people watch them mainly for entertainment has caused some CreatorBacklash.

* ''WebVideo/CriticalRole'' brought about a ''large'' NewbieBoom in ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' - and with it? The dreaded [[https://screenrant.com/critical-role-dnd-mercer-effect-dungeons-dragons-expectations/ Mercer Effect]]:
** Many a GameMaster found themselves assembled with a table of fresh players only to find that they either won't stop talking about ''Critical Role'' all the time, copy character beats from ''Critical Role'', or constantly say "That's not how Matt Mercer does it!". Or a fresh player joins a table only to find [[HypeBacklash the GM is nothing like Matt Mercer and the rest o of the players are nothing like Bailey, Willingham, O'Brien, Ray, Jaffe, Johnson, or Riegal]]. Not knowing that those people happen to be experienced actors and have played tabletop [=RPGs=] for years.
** Others take Matt Mercer's "DM advice" videos as the actual rulebooks and refuse to deviate - when one of the ''entire points'' of a Tabletop game is that you can actually pick and choose what rules and make your own. The rules are largely a guideline - just as Mercer's advice is largely for you to get ideas on how to think and ultimately come to your own conclusion.
** A lot of newcomers have also assumed that the campaign is largely scripted - when it's not. Mercer has even stated that a lot of his sessions are improvised.
** The Misaimed Fandom has become so strong that even Mercer himself has spoken against this.

* Trollface. The meme originated from a [[http://images.encyclopediadramatica.com/images/7/73/Trollface.png comic]] lampooning Internet trolls, but the face was so awesome that the very same trolls had no problem making it the most recognizable icon of "the lulz" this side of [[http://images.encyclopediadramatica.com/images/1/13/Awesome.png Awesome itself]].

** He hates [[PlatformHell Super Mario World ROM hacks that abuse the use of invisible coin blocks]] and in response to the hacks that kept doing that, he made his own level that had [[TurnedUpToEleven over 200 invisible coin blocks]] in a platform like maze with a switch at the very top that reveals the level exit. He sent the level to some of his friends and one of them thought the level was just brilliant, causing Proton Jon to exclaim "No, you idiot! You're missing the point!"

* {{Creepypasta}} characters Jeff The Killer And [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos Slenderman.]] Full stop. One can sort of understand Jeff being a DracoInLeatherPants (since he had his psychological break due to extreme bullying, and the disfigurement he suffered as a result of said bullying), but SLENDERMAN?!

* ''WebAnimation/UnbiasedHistory'': The series enjoyed brief popularity among antisemites and white nationalists, most notably for the Hadrian [[FinalSolution "IVDEA DELENDA EST"]] montage - despite the obviously parodic nature of the whole series. It's meant to depict an exaggerated version of the ancient Roman mindset (hence why the narrator flips from describing Christianity as a subversive force to spiritual truth within the span of one episode). Not only that, but the earlier episodes contain [[TakeThat outright insults]] towards /pol/ and antisemites more generally, which makes it weird that it got popular on /pol/ for a while.

* Richard, the undead warlock of ''Webcomic/LookingForGroup'', does nothing so much as [[CrossesTheLineTwice play jump rope with the line]]. He has [[RefugeInAudacity an entire summer home in audacity]]. About the only time we ever see him is when he's [[OmnicidalManiac killing stuff for the hell of it]] or [[DeadpanSnarker making kinda Vincenty Price-y jokes]]. And "stuff" in this context means, well, you name it. Women, children, innocent bystanders, orphanages, whatever. It was well into the story before there was even a hint that he had ''any'' purpose or role other than as super-dark comic relief, or any redeeming qualities at all. Go on and guess which character seems to be by far the fandom favorite. Saying things like "I don't like to see evil characters get away with the things Richard gets away with" on the forums isn't ''quite'' going to get anyone flamed, but expect plenty of people to leap to defense of their favorite comic mass murderer. There are both FoeYay and heroics in the strip revolving around Richard, especially in the more recent installments of the comic, so it's unclear if the character has a genuinely misguided fandom, or if he is being evolved in the comic progression, or if one has led to the other or vice-versa.