History MoodWhiplash / Weboriginal

* The point of WebVideo/ThomasSanders' "Misleading Compliment" Website/{{Vine}} series, saying something ominous or even threatening and then transitioning it into something very sweet and charming.

* Website/CollegeHumor's video "Stop Saying It Ruined My Childhood" revolves around a group of millennial at a restaurant complaining about various remakes/reboots of movies and TV shows and saying their childhoods are ruined. Their complaints are alternated with the lamentations an older group of people at a different table whose childhoods/youths really ''were'' ruined, like a child abuse victim, a regretful Vietnam veteran, and a Holocaust survivor.

* PlayedForLaughs in ''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd's'' review of ''VideoGame/{{Earthbound}}'' when he's giving a rather heartfelt explanation of his theory of what the game is about, and Ness's Dad calls in the middle of it to [[AntiPoopSocking hassle Ness for playing too long]].

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* ''WebVideo/{{Pizza Time Pizza}}'' has this in the third installment. After two people talk about being friends, one of them mentions that some missing people are nothing to do with Pizza Time Pizza, worrying the other person. They then continue talking about having fun.

* The ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjGpzhcnA64 Fuwa Fuwa Foof OP]]'' video starts off as a rapid, cutesy montage involving an adorable bunny doing random harmless things. When the "show title" pops up with Foof in front of it, the background whiplashes into a heavy metal-like aesthetic as Foof melts into a human skull with rabbit ears, which conforms part of Foof's look that appears immediately after (where we're shown [[CuteIsEvil who she used to be]]).

%%* ''WebVideo/DontHugMeImScared'' seems to start off as an AffectionateParody of various puppet shows. Then the puppets finally start thinking "creatively"...

* In WebAnimation/BlackRhinoRanger's short "VideoGame/{{Spyro|TheDragon}}: Master of All Elements", when showcasing Spyro's Undead talents, Spyro weeping over Ignitus's grave is immediately followed by him wearing a wolf costume with an extremely silly facial expression.

* ''FanFic/FalloutEquestriaProjectHorizons'' is normally very dark and depressing, which makes the occasional lighter moment really stand out. The mood can swing from civilians being massacred by [[KnightTemplar Steel Rangers]] to a ponified version of [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist Alex Louis Armstrong]] trying to woo [[RogueDrone Lacunae]].

* Taking a WikiWalk through the files of the Wiki/SCPFoundation can induce Mood Whiplash. One minute you're reading an article about an average guy named Fred who travels through books and inserts himself into them, the next you're reading about a heart-monster with CombatTentacles and a stinger that [[WordSaladHorror babbles nonsensically]] as it kills people, or some eldritch artifact that could cause TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt if it fell into the wrong hands. Sometimes a reader can suffer whiplash in the same article: the lists of attempts to kill the Hard-To-Destroy Reptile alternate between horrifying and hilariously bizarre, and [[BlackComedy sometimes dabble in a bit of both]].

* ''WebVideo/TheBuggerAnthology'': "The Clash at Dalekdome" has an extended sequence of the New Paradigm Daleks singing a Music/{{Metric}} song. It suddenly ends when the music cuts out and said Daleks exterminate their predecessors.

* ''WebAnimation/StoryBooth'': This can result from watching several videos in a row due to the wide range of subject matter covered on the channel. One minute the viewer could be watching a silly story about a supposedly possessed doll, and the next minute be reeling in horror at a tale of extreme child abuse. All of the stories are submitted by real people recounting a past part of their lives after all, so this trope is pretty much unavoidable.

* Common in blind reaction videos, ''especially'' when favorite characters are the butt of jokes. Case in point: [=FlamingShark's=] review of the ''WesternAnimation/VoltronLegendaryDefender'' episode "Reunion" had him go from chuckling [[IKnewIt "Called It"]] over favorite character Pidge being called a nerd by [[KidsAreCruel her]] [[TeensAreMonsters classmates]] to immediate sympathy [[CryCute when she starts silently crying]].

* Wiki/ThisVeryWiki in general. The pages here vary from lighthearted and silly to [[SadnessTropes dark and depressing]]. It's easy to click a potholed link, and end up on a page where the tone is the complete opposite from the one you were previously at.

* This picture: [[http://i.imgur.com/Fk7k1.jpg]]

--> "ok this is issue 10 of richie rich and jackie jokers and the previous 9 issues had covers that were typical money-based [[VisualPun visual gags]], and then suddenly this motherfucker comes along and not only are richie and jackie going to fucking die but [[UpToEleven so are billions in a forthcoming atomic war???]] jesus fuck that is some tonal whiplash"

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* The point of WebVideo/ThomasSanders' "Misleading Compliment" WebOriginal/{{Vine}} series, saying something ominous or even threatening and then transitioning it into something very sweet and charming.

* ''WebAnimation/StoryBooth'': This can result from watching several videos in a row due to the wide range of subject matter covered on the channel. One minute the viewer could be watching a silly story about a supposedly possessed doll and the next minute be reeling in horror at a tale of extreme child abuse. All of the stories are submitted by real people recounting a past part of their lives after all, so this trope is pretty much unavoidable.

** In one Vine, Danny finds a lucky penny...and then the ensuing text lets us know he ran into the street and was immediately hit by a car.
** One features him receiving a "letter" from the mail-man, with both of them laughing over the fact that it's just a paper "A"...only for the "A" to turn out to be a DearJohnLetter.
** In "The Horrible Truth About Jake Paul and Team 10", Danny and his friend spend the video talking about how horrifying things are behind the scenes of Jake's vlogs, with Nick Crompton leading everything with an iron fist...before they discovered they were accepted into the team, cheer, and go on to become millionaires.

** Not that the earlier parts of the series are immune to this: the Act II song "My Eyes" features Dr. Horrible spying on Penny and Captain Hammer's dates via some extremely transparent disguises (including one use of MobileShrubbery). Pretty funny...and then you [[LyricalDissonance hear what he's singing]]:

* ''[[VideoGame/ColourMySeries Colour My Dreams]]'' starts you off in a bright, sunny area with stuff to do. Then you pick up the phone and...things change.

* A good number of screamers are like this. One moment, you're looking at peaceful, beautiful scenery as calm music plays, the next...'''''[[JumpScare RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!]]'''''

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QFwo57WKwg DYE's Fantasy]] is ''great'' on this trope. The beginning is so innocent...Oh, just a bunch of teenagers doing some mischief at a school swimming pool at night and discovering love and fighting their insecurities and..WAIT, WTF IS THIS!!?!? [[spoiler: Couple making out at the pool become a pair of disgusting alien-zombie like things. Boy hitting on the shy girl gets killed with the most ''painful'' oral sex ever thought. Shy girl desperately tries to escape, while the previous boy's dying body merges with the monster girl, and ''keeps squirming like an insect at her mouth''. Shy girls avoid the same fate by the monster boy by jumping on the pool, which, by the way, is a door to another dimension. There, her mind is fried and she ''burns from the inside'' upon seeing a gargantuan Cthulhu-like beast who is probably the cause of all this. Video ends.]] and it all started like an ordinary High School story...

%%* ''WebVideo/DontHugMeImScared'' seems to start off as an AffectionateParody of various puppet shows. Then the puppets finally start thinking "creatively"....

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5bqtqe2F-E One Girl, One Sandwich]]. It starts off with a pleasant atmosphere: a girl wakes up, craving a sandwich. She gets bathed and dressed before hopping in her car and driving to a [[BlandNameProduct WubWay]]. She orders a sandwich, sits down to eat it...[[spoiler: and then the sandwich comes to life and bites her head off before attacking the camera.]]

* ''Website/SFDebris'': episodes swing between jokes and tragedy, discussing traumatic experiences or heartbreaking events on-screen with jokes about Captain Janeway being a MadScientist; see "Jetrel", for example, where a soliloquy on the horror of war is followed up by describing the result of an onscreen experiment as "this jar full of gas becomes a jar full of snot". Then there's the week-to-week whiplash, with "The Inner Light", which received rave reviews and a discussion of how brilliant and haunting it is...followed by "Twisted", which is compared to watching tarantulas have sex.

-->I'm going to ''crush'' you...with a big ol' hug for being such a dear friend! Hahaha, juicy!

* ''WebVideo/{{Pikasprey}}'': One of the ''VideoGame/SonicExe'' fan-games played started off with a relatively creepy and interesting atmosphere, being a first-person adventure game...until a 3-D rendering of [=Sonic.Exe=] appeared in a flash, leaving Christian stunned and laughing.