History Trivia / DokiDokiLiteratureClub

* ReferencedBy: When Tyalie joins the team in ''VideoGame/BoxxyQuestTheGatheringStorm'', a short, remixed snippet of “Your Reality” plays instead of the normal “new party member” theme, serving as an early hint to the character’s [[MediumAwareness self-awareness]].

* TheWikiRule: [[https://ddlcwiki.net/wiki/Main_Page DDLCWiki.net]] and [[http://doki-doki-literature-club.wikia.com/wiki/Doki_Doki_Literature_Club_Wiki Doki Doki Literature Club! Wiki]] on Wikia.

** The game's lead developer and writer, Dan Salvato, stated that [[https://kotaku.com/doki-doki-literature-clubs-horror-was-born-from-a-love-1819724999 it was born from his love-hate relationship with anime]]. In particular, he cited the [[{{Iyashikei}} "cute girls doing cute things"]] trope to be a double-edged sword.

* CreatorsPest: Dan dislikes the Main Character, who was intentionally designed to be generic and unlikeable as a TakeThat towards other stock visual novel protagonists.

* AccidentallyCorrectWriting: In the concept art book, Dan Salvato noted that ''"'Sayori' was some kind of unholy fusion between 'Sayuri' and 'Saori', and to this day I’m not even sure if it could pass off as a real Japanese name."'' However, "Sayori" (さより) ''is'' an actual Japanese girls' name (as well as the name of the Japanese halfbeak fish), albeit an uncommon one, as seen with voice actress Sayori Ishizuka [[NamesTheSame and]] the [[Creator/{{Sayori}} pseudonymous artist behind]] ''VisualNovel/{{Nekopara}}''.

* NamesTheSame:
** You're not gonna get any mention of [[VideoGame/DokiDokiPanic Sub]][[VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2 con]] or [[Anime/DokiDokiPrecure Pretty Cure]] here.
** The Metaverse here has absolutely nothing to do with Facebook's brand name change, or the place where [[VideoGame/Persona5 the Phantom Thieves do most of their dirty work]] (although they may decide to change Monika's heart after hearing about her actions).

** The Metaverse here has absolutely nothing to do with Facebook's brand name change.

* CowboyBebopAtHisComputer: Following an event where a 15-year-old boy killed himself shortly after playing ''Doki Doki Literature Club!'', British news outlet BBC listed the game as an online psychological horror game [[AnimationAgeGhetto aimed at kids due to the anime graphics]] and that it promotes suicide. This despite the fact that both the Steam page and the actual game itself upon initial boot up/after Act 1 warns that the game was clearly not made for children or the easily disturbed in mind. It even has you confirmed if you were above the age of 13 to play. The game isn't even online either as it's perfectly functional offline. The only thing BBC got right was that it's free-to-play, and that the game takes a drastic shift in tone towards the end of Act 1.

* MemeAcknowledgement: Fans have given Sayori the nickname of "Cinnamon Bun" or "Cinnamon Roll". One of the unlockables in the UpdatedRerelease is an image of Sayori with her sticky notes in the background, and one of those sticky notes has a cinnamon bun.

* CharacterSpecificPages: [[Characters/DokiDokiLiteratureClubMonika Monika]]

* TrollingCreator: The creator of the game sent a joke tweet that Natsuki was a [[WholesomeCrossdresser trap]]. Some people took it literally and entirely missed that it was a joke, leading to the creator needing to step back in and clarify.

* CowboyBebopAtHisComputer: Following an event where a 15-year-old male committed suicide shortly after playing ''Doki Doki Literature Club!'', British news outlet BBC listed the game as an online psychological horror game [[AnimationAgeGhetto aimed at kids due to the anime graphics]] and that it promotes suicide. This despite the fact that both the Steam page and the actual game itself upon initial boot up/after Act 1 warns that the game was clearly not made for children or the easily disturbed in mind. It even has you confirmed if you were above the age of 13 to play. The game isn't even online either as it's perfectly functional offline. The only thing BBC got right was that it's free-to-play, and that the game takes a drastic shift in tone towards the end of Act 1.

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* ReclusiveArtist: [[https://twitter.com/dansalvato/status/939662342551363585 According to Dan Salvato]], Jillian Ashcraft, Monika's voice actress [[spoiler:and the singer of "Your Reality"]], "prefers staying private" for now. There are [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyLO-adWKIA a few]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oi35uDo4QYA videos]] online of her singing (she also plays guitar), but not much else.

** The game itself has a follower of sorts in ''VisualNovel/HowToDateAMagicalGirl'', an animesque game about romancing typical anime-style girls in a magic academy setting, which hides some creepy and disturbing secrets. [[spoiler:After a certain point murders and suicides abound, the girls' past often revolves around bullying and predators, and ultimately an AI is behind everything that happens.]]

** The [[spoiler:Metaverse]] here has absolutely nothing to do with Facebook's [[spoiler:brand name change]].

** A Skype conversation snippet shown in the art booklet for the game indicates that Dan Salvato considered [[spoiler:Sayori being "the crazy one" before they shifted that characterization to Monika. There is some reference of this idea in the epilogue, as the player's interactions with post-Monika deletion Sayori show that anyone who becomes the Literature Club president gains the same FourthWallObserver powers as Monika had. A DevelopersForesight moment involving deleting Monika before starting the game also leads to a moment like this]].

** Dan Salvato [[https://twitter.com/dansalvato/status/951184458018779137 confirmed]] that [[spoiler:Sayori's suicide occurred before the main character even woke up, so there truly is nothing he could do to prevent it, even if he wanted to.]]

* CowboyBebopAtHisComputer: Following an event where a 15-year-old male committed suicide shortly after playing ''Doki Doki Literature Club!'', British news outlet BBC listed the game as an online [[spoiler:psychological horror]] game [[AnimationAgeGhetto aimed at kids due to the anime graphics]] and that it promotes suicide. [[spoiler:This despite the fact that both the Steam page and the actual game itself upon initial boot up/after Act 1 warns that the game was clearly not made for children or the easily disturbed in mind. It even has you confirmed if you were above the age of 13 to play.]] The game isn't even online either as it's perfectly functional offline. The only thing BBC got right was that it's free-to-play, [[spoiler:and that the game takes a drastic shift in tone towards the end of Act 1]].
* DoingItForTheArt: The game is free because Dan Salvato feared people might feel being ripped off for paying for a game whose plot [[spoiler:[[GenreShift swerves completely in content and tone after the end of Act 1]]]]. Fortunately, the merchandise sales have more than made up for it. The ''Plus'' version is sold at a cost, so it is promoted with the horror elements as a selling point.
* FanNickname:
** The girls and MC are often collectively referred to as "Dokis".
** Individually, "[[KnifeNut Knife Wife]]" (or "Knaifu Waifu") has caught on for Yuri, Sayori is known as "[[GenkiGirl Cinnamon Roll]]" (users on the ''DDLC'' [[Website/{{Reddit}} subreddit]] use the term "Cinnamon Bun"), Natsuki is sometimes referred to as "[[TheNapoleon Cup]][[SupremeChef cake]]", and MC is referred to as "[[ObliviousToLove dense boi]]".
** In [[http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm32213949 Lattice's Japanese]] LetsPlay, "Pro-chan" is used for Natsuki, who describe herself as one. Also, watchers will ask where "BGM-san" is gone whenever the background music suddenly stops.
** Thanks to ItWasHisSled, Sayori has been referred to in Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw's animation on ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'' as [[spoiler:"Saddo [=McKillmyself=]"]].

** The Metaverse here has absolutely nothing to do with Facebook's.

* NamesTheSame: You're not gonna get any mention of [[VideoGame/DokiDokiPanic Sub]][[VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2 con]] or [[Anime/DokiDokiPrecure Pretty Cure]] here.

** {{Defied|Trope}}. When ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' was brand new and the buzz of the Internet, one of Dan Salvato's friends noted that the game had a few coincidental similarities with the project that would eventually become ''DDLC''. Salvato then resolved to ''not'' take in any ''Undertale''-related media throughout the game's development, lest he become subconsciously influenced by it and thus actually fall into this. Similarly, Salvato had noticed that ''DDLC'' has similar elements to the Japanese visual novel ''VisualNovel/YouAndMeAndHer'', which features a pair of girls vying for the affection of a dating game protagonist and uses fourth wall breaking elements. He later clarified that he had no idea the game existed when he was making ''DDLC'' and any similarity between them is purely coincidental.

* NamesTheSame: You're not gonna get any mention of [[VideoGame/DokiDokiPanic Sub]][[VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2 con]] here.

** Individually, "[[KnifeNut Knife Wife]]" has caught on for Yuri, Sayori is known as "[[GenkiGirl Cinnamon Roll]]" (users on the ''DDLC'' [[Website/{{Reddit}} subreddit]] use the term "Cinnamon Bun"), Natsuki is sometimes referred to as "[[TheNapoleon Cup]][[SupremeChef cake]]", and MC is referred to as "[[ObliviousToLove dense boi]]".

* MemeAcknowledgement: Fans have given Sayori the nickname of "Cinnamon Bun" or "Cinnamon Roll". One of the unlockables in the UpdatedRerelease is an image of Sayori with her sticky notes in the background. One of those sticky notes has a cinnamon bun.

** One of the CG artists for the ''Plus'' expansion known as [=SquChan=] has Yuri has her favourite girl.

** Dan Salvato [[https://twitter.com/dansalvato/status/951184458018779137 confirmed]] that the [[spoiler:Sayori's suicide occurred before the main character even woke up, so there truly is nothing he could do to prevent it, even if he wanted to.]]

* MemeAcknowledgement: The Reddit community has unofficially nicknamed Sayori "Cinnamon Bun". One of the unlockables in the UpdatedRerelease is an image of Sayori with her sticky notes in the background. One of those sticky notes has a cinnamon bun.

* AccidentallyCorrectWriting: In the concept art book, Dan Salvato noted that ''"'Sayori' was some kind of unholy fusion between 'Sayuri' and 'Saori', and to this day I’m not even sure if it could pass off as a real Japanese name."''. However, "Sayori" (さより) ''is'' an actual Japanese girls' name (as well as the name of the Japanese halfbeak fish), albeit an uncommon one, as seen with voice actress Sayori Ishizuka [[NamesTheSame as well as]] the [[Creator/{{Sayori}} pseudonymous artist behind]] ''VisualNovel/{{Nekopara}}''.