History Series / TheChair2014

* AdaptedOut: ''How Soon Is Now'' had [[TwoLinesNoWaiting three parallel love stories running through its plot]] -- the {{Narrator}} Tori and her crush from high school Scott, Scott's girlfriend Heather who dumps him in the first scene and Scott's best friend William, and Heather's best friend Janie and her brother (and Tori's best friend) Joel. Both finished movies drop one of these stories to save time -- ''Not Cool'' reduces Heather to a FlatCharacter PsychoExGirlfriend (removing Janie and Joel's relationship to her and turning Janie into Scott's sister instead) and drops William, while ''Hollidaysburg'' completely deletes Janie and Joel.

* AdaptationalSexuality: Tori's sister becomes a lesbian in Anna's script. Shane does this to a lesser degree by making a joke out of implying that Tori's sister's fiancé is a closeted gay man.

The two filmmakers they chose were Anna Martemucci (now known professionally as A.M. Lukas), previously known for her work as part of a CreatorCouple with husband Victor Quinaz on the film ''A Breakup at a Wedding'' and the Web series ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periods Periods]]'', and now-infamous [=YouTuber=] WebVideo/ShaneDawson, known at the time for shock humor aimed at teenagers.

* DeadpanSnarker: Both Anna and Shane have their moments of this, trying to defuse tension with the camera on them. Of course, Shane is the one who, as an irony-poisoned [=YouTuber=], can't actually seem to turn it off, and in fact frequently gets in serious trouble when people can't tell if he's being sarcastic or genuinely being an asshole. (At one point he tries to play off the fact that he told someone "[[{{Jerkass}} Send me your notes, I'll never read them]]" as [[JustJokingDefense having been a joke]], despite the fact that the guy ''did'' send him his notes and he ''hasn't'' read them.)

* DeadpanSnarker: Both Anna and Shane have their moments of this, trying to defuse tension with the camera on them. Of course, Shane is the one who, as an irony-poisoned [=YouTuber=], can't actually seem to turn it off, and in fact frequently gets in serious trouble when people can't tell if he's being sarcastic or genuinely being an asshole. (At one point he tries to play off the fact that he told someone "[[{{Jerkass}} Send me your notes, I'll never read them]]" as having been a joke, despite the fact that the guy ''did'' send him his notes and he ''hasn't'' read them.)

* CriticalDissonance: The outcome of the contest is one of the most blatant examples in history, with Shane overwhelmingly winning in both box office and audience voting despite critics giving Anna's movie mixed-to-glowing reviews while unanimously calling Shane's movie the worst insult to filmmaking they've ever seen. That said, unlike most examples of this trope, the dissonance has mostly been resolved as of 2020, with the ''critics'' the ones VindicatedByHistory -- ''The Chair'' and ''Not You'' resurfaced online as a result of an endless parade of Shane's former fans commenting that in hindsight they don't know what the hell they were thinking giving him this much support.

* BoxOfficeBomb: Despite Shane winning the popular vote by a landslide, ''both'' movies are bombs in the financial sense, and really bad ones -- Shane's $30,000 take is much more impressive than Anna's but still a tremendous loss on the $600,000 budget of the movie, which makes an even bigger loss when added to the $250,000 cash prize the studio is forced to give him. This, plus the fact that ''The Chair'' itself got fairly poor ratings (with only 33,000 households tuning in to the final episode), played a big role in everyone deciding not to repeat the experiment with a Season 2.

* SocialMediaBeforeReason: Shane is ''obsessed'' with how people see him online and how the process of making this movie will affect his reputation.

** This is a lot less funny when he makes a similar joke a second time, to a third party -- asking Michelle Ventimilla if she might "get together for real" with Drew Monson, Shane's friend who plays her love interest. Lauren really unsubtly breaks the awkward silence and rescues her from having to answer this question by bringing up the [[BlandNameProduct legal issue of mentioning Facebook]].

** Shane is, however, obviously aware that [=YouTube=] is a small pond compared to the rest of the entertainment industry, and is deeply insecure about this, which fuels his negative behaviors. He gives a very candid talking-head interview after the Vidcon sequence confessing that Vidcon appearances almost make him feel worse about himself because of the huge letdown upon leaving Vidcon to find out that on the streets of LA absolutely nobody recognizes him or cares who he is.

* IsThisThingStillOn: There's a funny moment of this where Anna is having lunch with a colleague and indulging in frank criticism of the other members of her team, and then realizes the documentary crew is filming them through the window, and ''then'' realizes her lav mic is still on and, to her chagrin, they're going to put this whole conversation into the show.