History SeriousBusiness / WebOriginal

* Website/RottenTomatoes / Metacritic / Game Rankings scores, as discussed [[ReviewsAreTheGospel in]] [[EightPointEight other]] [[HePannedItNowHeSucks places]].

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'':

* Wiki/TVTropes is serious business. When you think about it, this site's ''entire premise'' takes fiction as Serious Business. Let us please leave it at that. Taking irony to new levels of meta, '''''this entry''''' has become Serious Business.
* Wiki/{{Wikipedia}}, naturally.

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'': There's SCP-514, a flock of doves that disables all weaponry in its area of effect and nullifies violent tendencies in everyone around it. This results in teams from rival organizations who are trying to take control of the SCP to use....alternate methods of conflict resolution. Like rock-paper-scissors, riddles, or card games. This has led to the Foundation's commanding officers commenting on how off-putting it is to see two grown men in full tactical gear taking a children's card game so seriously.

** Once in a while, certain changes to Wikipedia or references prove how MUCH of a SeriousBusiness Wikipedia is. A recent example - look up "Malamanteau" on Wikipedia and go to its Talk page. It's incredible how a single joke can provoke a reaction of such scope.

* ''Website/GaiaOnline'' - people's avatars are most definitely SeriousBusiness.

* Rules one and two on the internet: [[Film/FightClub Do not talk about /b/.]] Whenever a famous enough piece of work mentions it, Website/FourChan will cause a hell of an InternetBackdraft over it.

* [[InternetBackdraft If you ever say first on any forum topic whatsoever]], you will be [[FlameWar flamed to within an inch of your life]]. (See also FlameBait.)

* Wiki/SCPFoundation: There's also SCP-514, a flock of doves that disables all weaponry in its area of effect and nullifies violent tendencies in everyone around it. This results in teams from rival organizations who are trying to take control of the SCP to use....alternate methods of conflict resolution. Like rock-paper-scissors, riddles, or card games. This has led to the Foundation's commanding officers commenting on how off-putting it is to see two grown men in full tactical gear taking a children's card game so seriously.

* Wiki/SCPFoundation:
** An agent/subject of the has gotten his hands on a [DATA: THE EXPUNGING] card that ''makes'' card games a serious business: Said card can ''destroy'' the other player... or its user, if he loses.
** There's also SCP-514, a flock of doves that disables all weaponry in its area of effect and nullifies violent tendencies in everyone around it. This results in teams from rival organizations who are trying to take control of the SCP to use....alternate methods of conflict resolution. Like rock-paper-scissors, riddles, or card games. This has led to the Foundation's commanding officers commenting on how off-putting it is to see two grown men in full tactical gear taking a children's card game so seriously.

** [[http://youtu.be/jCIFnmmnoSE This video. More specifically, at 1:30.]] "Being a lawyer, as the internet says... IS SERIOUS BUSINESS."
* In the Website/YouTube series ''WebVideo/TheGuild'', playing an {{MMORPG}} is very serious business. More serious, apparently, than parenting or social interaction. It's based on Creator/FeliciaDay's two-year addiction to VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft, so it's definitely TruthInTelevision.
* Video games are SeriousBusiness in the world of ''WebVideo/VideoGameHighSchool''. How serious, you may ask? Losing a game in VGHS can get you ''expelled from the school''.

* [[strike:Owning]] ''Hiring'' a boat is Serious Business. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7yfISlGLNU&feature=channel_page Just ask Andy Samberg and his friends]].
* In Dominic Fear's Kenny Bassender (Full Title: ''Kenny Bassender's Quest For Greatness With the Underground Association of Puppydog Racers'') movie, Kenny Bassender is a normal person who isn't special. Until he starts playing a game called Puppdog Races, where he is the flawless. So great, that the other members of the Association try to kill him. Not the whole society (it still is in normal present day America), but very serious.
* On Website/LiveJournal and its spinoffs, [[JournalRoleplay roleplay]] is very serious business, as evidenced by the "Roleplay Secrets" community, a daily post of (usually) nasty things anonymous roleplayers have to say about other roleplayers, allowed to rag on anything from their characterizations to ''the size of their avatars''. Similar is the "RP Anon Meme", which started as a bi-monthly explosion of hateful anonymous discussion and eventually became a constantly-running community of (slightly less hateful, slightly more [[{{Troll}} spammy]]) anonymous discussion. People have actually made ''death threats'' over pretendy funtime games on the internet.

* Along the same vein, ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'' is a web series which pits two fictional characters against each other in... well, a battle to the death. The show features fairly extensive research on the combatants involved, but many of the outcomes are taken a bit too seriously by various fans of the losing side. While many complaints [[JustifiedTrope are indeed]] founded into research that could have swung the battle but the team missed ([[ChekhovsSkill subtle]] or [[CriticalResearchFailure obvious]]), others are simply founded on how the critic [[FandomRivalry likes Character X more than Character Y]], and other complains are just... [[InsaneTrollLogic not really founded on anything]]. One of the biggest examples of this has to be [[spoiler:Goku losing to Superman. Twice. ''Dragon Ball'' fans did not appreciate]].

* [[http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-5825493270005637835# This]] (subtitled) episode of the Québecquois series "Tom et ses chums" ("Tom and his pals") has the titular character playing a game of D&D with old friends. What he doesn't realize beforehand is that they've kept playing the same party every week during the years he hasn't seen them (meaning they have absurdly high-level characters), and for them (barring the GM), this is very serious business. When they demand that his new character start at level 1 (making him useless since the encounters are tailored for a high-level group), and then belittle him for being a peasant, he gives up and decides to be TheLoonie.
* This is [[ForTheFunnyz part of the indicative]] behind CausticCritic shows like ''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd'', ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic'' and ''WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment''.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4vf8N6GpdM For the Nazi Party,]] grammatical correctness is apparently very serious business:
--> '''Monsieur La Padite:''': I swear, I do not know where Mademoiselle Dreyfuss is at.
--> '''Hans Landa''': ...[[TranquilFury Did you just end a sentence with a preposition?]]
* Bees are apparently serious enough business to completely shit all over relations with your friends and colleagues over.
* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y65lERfzNNE League Of Extraordinary Industrial Retards]] go on a quest to kill [[Music/NineInchNails Trent Reznor]] and [[Music/VNVNation Ronan Harris]] and prove to the world that {{Industrial}} music is serious business.
* [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/community/myvideos/74334-thebanjokid/video/4029-Banjo+Kid+Reviews%3A+Hell+Girl Cake is serious business!]]
* Do ''not'' mess with the [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xj613a_trail-mix_fun trail mix]] that [[WebVideo/RhettAndLink Rhett's]] mom made!
* [[Radio/TrueCapitalist Ghost]] is convinced his show is this. Most of his audience (Read:{{Troll}}s) [[HilarityEnsues seems to think otherwise]].
* The premise behind many ''WebVideo/HitlerRants'' parodies, where Hitler melts down over anything from getting his UsefulNotes/XboxLiveArcade account banned, getting a Wii instead of a [=PS3=] for Christmas, and so on.
* [[http://lawoftheplayground.com/browse.php?type=subject&id=1533 The Law Of The Playground]] illustrates the sheer, incredible, mind-boggling seriousness of the [[http://lawoftheplayground.com/browse.php?type=subject&id=1533 correct nonsense phrase]] to say when crossing your fingers to avoid playground mischief.
* ''WebVideo/PittsburghDad'' and the Pittsburgh Steelers. God help you if you're a Ravens fan!
* In the Trailer for [[LetsPlay/MarioPartyTV LP Every Mario Game]], Steeler's biggest strength is stated to be that he takes Mario Party seriously. (It's also listed as his greatest weakness.)
* Reviewers on Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses treat most anything they review as SeriousBusiness, PlayedForLaughs. Deconstructed in WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall when [[spoiler: Holokara]] takes things a step further and plans threaten a DeathFromAbove against Marvel over the handling of Spiderman, which is NOT played for laughs.
* ''WebVideo/UltraFastPony'' uses this a bunch.
** Princess Celestia's all-consuming love of tea parties is a recurring plot point. She banishes Twilight to Ponyville for the crime of missing her tea party (never mind that Twilight was busy ''saving the world'' at the time). She's been to "ten... hundred... thousand... million!" tea parties in her life, and she remembers them all in excruciating detail. She refuses to cut a visit to Ponyville short to deal with a major fire in Manehattan--but she immediately cuts the visit short upon learning that Luna is hosting a tea party without her.
** In "Ponynet Fight!" Twilight is dead serious about correcting others' bad science on the internet. Which just makes it [[TheGadfly so much fun to mess with her]].
** The organized crime families take their badminton very seriously. The entire Manehattan branch of the Apple family is devoted to fielding a team.
* ''Series/{{Noob}}'' takes the "{{MMORPG}} are serious business" route also, but is much more nuanced than ''WebVideo/TheGuild'' due to them mostly showing up in reports about video game addiction in mainstream media in France. SkewedPriorities happens a lot and the top guilds ask for people joining them to have a lifestyle that can only happen if you're single and unemployed. At the same time, people that arrive in the top in the domain get enough recongnition to appear in advertisements and live off it. Characters are also seen doing other stuff than playing, while a small portion of the cast is explictly doing it for fun and being able to enjoy the company of their guildmates.
* In ''[[WebVideo/DeathNoteTheAbridgedSeriesTeamDattebayo Death Note: The Abridged Series (Team Dattebayo)]]'' going out for fast food is Serious Business--Souichiro wants to go to [=McDonald's=]. When Light and Misa say they'd prefer Taco Bell [[DisproportionateRetribution Souichiro decides to shoot them both]]:
-->'''Souichiro''': Pray that there's a Taco Bell in Hell! ['''''BANG''''']
* ''WebVideo/ProjectLibrary'' has been described as "a Creator/MichaelBay movie with books", full of fight scenes and action clichés, but set in a library and whose plot revolves around an overdue book.
* In 'LetsPlay/LetsDrownOut Night Shift' [[Creator/BenCroshaw Ben Yahtzee Croshaw]] and Gabriel Mortom admitted that the things they said over the weeks have been awful but the ones that seems to get the most attention is that Yahtzee mentioned that 30 fps looks the same or better than 60 fps, causing an outrage in the comments section.
* In ''WebVideo/RosyTheRascal15'''s Locos Doritos video, Jerry eventually goes ballistic over his bag of Doritos being stolen, including up to [[spoiler: shooting Amy, who was trying to talk him down]].
* On WebOriginal/{{Barkwire}}, rating and reviewing the activities of local dogs is deadly serious.
* LetsPlay/{{Jayuzumi}} tends to run into these players a lot when playing video games and using soundboards to prank others. This happens mostly in ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'', and to a lesser extent in ''VideoGame/{{Battlefield}}''.
* ''Podcast/MikeAndTomEatSnacks'': the Snack is very serious business. People's careers are made and destroyed by how Mike and Tom rates snacks (according to them), and often fans can get upset by their ratings.
* In ''WebAnimation/RWBYChibi'', Lie Ren, usually TheStoic and TheQuietOne, will take certain things a little overboard -- he has a TrainingMontage for playing tag, scoffs as how Team RWBY pillow fights and blows up at his own team for their inability to dance right.
* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1XQduS6IfA If UNO Was an Anime]]'' does this with UNO, based on the [[http://dot-emcee.tumblr.com/post/124928460247 .emcee]] comic.
* ''WebVideo/MovieTriviaSchmoedown'' is the most serious business movie trivia contest the internet has ever seen. There's championship belts. There's tournaments. There's wrestling inspired storylines. Search around in the right places you'll find a list of statistics. Over Movie. Trivia.
* ''WebAnimation/DSBTInsaniT'': Alex takes the position as the secondary main character very seriously.

* ''[[https://youtu.be/92a6ZlGITeA?t=1m11s The Movie Trivia Schmoedown]]'' is the most serious business movie trivia contest the internet has ever seen. There's championship belts. There's tournaments. There's wrestling inspired storylines. Search around in the right places you'll find a list of statistics. Over Movie. Trivia.

* VS Debating online can become this in a heartbeat. Just look at TheOutskirtsBattledome.

* In the Website/YouTube series ''WebVideo/TheGuild'', playing an {{MMORPG}} is very serious business. More serious, apparently, than parenting or social interaction. It's based on FeliciaDay's two-year addiction to VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft, so it's definitely TruthInTelevision.

* ''[[https://youtu.be/92a6ZlGITeA?t=1m11s The Movie Trivia Schmoedown]]'' is the most serious business movie trivia contest the internet has ever seen There's belts. There's tournaments. There's wrestling inspired storylines. Search around in the right places you'll find a list of statistics. Over Movie. Trivia.

* In 'LetsPlay/LetsDrownOut Night Shift' [[BenCroshaw Ben Yahtzee Croshaw]] and Gabriel Mortom admitted that the things they said over the weeks have been awful but the ones that seems to get the most attention is that Yahtzee mentioned that 30 fps looks the same or better than 60 fps, causing an outrage in the comments section.

* The premise behind many ''WebVideo/HitlerRants'' parodies, where Hitler melts down over anything from getting his XBoxLive account banned, getting a Wii instead of a [=PS3=] for Christmas, and so on.

* Do ''not'' mess with the [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xj613a_trail-mix_fun trail mix]] that [[RhettAndLink Rhett's]] mom made!

* On LiveJournal and its spinoffs, [[JournalRoleplay roleplay]] is very serious business, as evidenced by the "Roleplay Secrets" community, a daily post of (usually) nasty things anonymous roleplayers have to say about other roleplayers, allowed to rag on anything from their characterizations to ''the size of their avatars''. Similar is the "RP Anon Meme", which started as a bi-monthly explosion of hateful anonymous discussion and eventually became a constantly-running community of (slightly less hateful, slightly more [[{{Troll}} spammy]]) anonymous discussion. People have actually made ''death threats'' over pretendy funtime games on the internet.

* A [[MemeticMutation meme]] on the Japanese Internet (a translated version of which is well-travelled on anonymous text boards) involves a somewhat lengthy rant about visits to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshinoya Yoshinoya]] being really serious business. [[http://www.lurkmore.com/wiki/Yoshinoya_Rant Just read it.]] Variations are popular for ranting about extremely petty things. The meme itself was actually referenced on SayonaraZetsubouSensei, ''that's'' how widespread it is.

* Along the same vein, ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'' is a web series which pits two fictional characters against each other in... well, a battle to the death. The show features fairly extensive research on the combatants involved, but many of the outcomes are taken a bit too seriously by various fans of the losing side. While many complaints [[JustifiedTrope are indeed]] founded into research that could have swung the battle but the team missed ([[ChekhovsSkill subtle]] or [[CriticalResearchFailure obvious]]), others are simply founded on how the critic [[FandomRivalry likes Character X more than Character Y]], and other complains are just... [[InsaneTrollLogic not really founded on anything]]. One of the biggest examples of this has to be [[spoiler:Goku losing to Superman. Twice. ''Dragonball'' fans did not appreciate]].

* In the Website/YouTube series ''TheGuild'', playing an {{MMORPG}} is very serious business. More serious, apparently, than parenting or social interaction. It's based on FeliciaDay's two-year addiction to VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft, so it's definitely TruthInTelevision.

* ''Series/{{Noob}}'' takes the "{{MMORPG}} are serious business" route also, but is much more nuanced than ''TheGuild'' due to them mostly showing up in reports about video game addiction in mainstream media in France. SkewedPriorities happens a lot and the top guilds ask for people joining them to have a lifestyle that can only happen if you're single and unemployed. At the same time, people that arrive in the top in the domain get enough recongnition to appear in advertisements and live off it. Characters are also seen doing other stuff than playing, while a small portion of the cast is explictly doing it for fun and being able to enjoy the company of their guildmates.

* ''TheOnion'' regularly runs news stories about events whose only implausible aspect is that they're considered news stories, e.g. [[http://www.theonion.com/articles/whaler-sandwich-not-sitting-too-good-with-area-man,987/ "Whaler Sandwich 'Not Sitting Too Good' With Area Man"]].

* The premise behind many ''WebVideo/HitlerRants'' parodies, where Hitler melts down over anything from getting his XBoxLive account banned, getting a Wii instead of a PS3 for Christmas, and so on.