History Unperson / RealLife

** Barbara Lowe retired undefeated in March 1986 with $35,192 in winnings. After her shows were taped, the producers discovered that she appeared on another game show within the probationary period. Since this violated her eligibility requirements, she was barred from competing in that year's Tournament of Champions. However, it gets dicier from there. According to then editorial associate producer Harry Eisenberg, Lowe was snobby and a bad sport who induced plenty of angry fan mail. She drew the ire of Alex Trebek when she disagreed with him on a ruling over the air. When the actual episode surfaced, it turned out that Lowe was simply confused over the judgment call. Lowe was told that her winnings were withheld because the show stopped taping to accommodate a stomach issue she experienced which cost time and money[[note]]This also happened when she was a contestant on ''Series/WhoWantsToBeAMillionaire'', although she indicated that the staff there was much more accommodating[[/note]]. She threatened a lawsuit and settled out of court, ending up with a fraction of her winnings. Regardless, Lowe is nowhere to be found on the show's official records, and her episodes have never aired in reruns. Home recordings finally surfaced in late 2022, after the deaths of Trebek and Eisenberg.

* Harry Friedman retired as executive producer of ''Series/{{Jeopardy}}'' and ''Series/WheelOfFortune'' at the end of a COVID-19-shortened 2019-2020 season. Mike Richards, who had then recently left ''Series/ThePriceIsRight'', took his place on both shows. After the passing of Creator/AlexTrebek, Mike was tasked with finding a suitable successor on ''Jeopardy!'' When the successor turned out to be himself, the fan base was not pleased. News sites wasted no time reporting the sketchiness of his character, especially after journalists discovered a podcast where he frequently made off-color remarks. Mike stepped down from hosting and eventually was let go from both shows in August 2021. Sony then wasted no time burying any involvement with Mike, banning the three weeks of ''Jeopardy!'' he hosted from re-runs.

** Barbara Lowe retired undefeated in March 1986 with $35,192 in winnings. The producers belatedly discovered that she appeared on another game show within the probationary period which violated her eligibility requirements. She was barred from competing in that year's Tournament of Champions. However, it gets dicier from there. According to then editorial associate producer Harry Eisenberg, Lowe was snobby and a bad sport who induced plenty of angry fan mail. She drew the ire of Alex Trebek when she disagreed with him on a ruling over the air. When the actual episode surfaced, it turned out that Lowe was simply confused over the judgment call. Lowe was told that her winnings were withheld because the show stopped taping to accommodate a stomach issue she experienced which cost time and money. She threatened a lawsuit and settled out of court, ending up with a fraction of her winnings. Regardless, Lowe is nowhere to be found on the show's official records, and her episodes have never aired in reruns. Home recordings finally surfaced in late 2022, after the deaths of Trebek and Eisenberg.
** Season 30 five-time champion Jerry Slowik was arrested for sexually assaulting a minor after his shows aired. Although he had already received his winnings, the next Tournament of Champions hadn't taken place yet. He was removed from the competition and replaced with four-time winner Mark Japinga.

* LG Corp tried to do this to the UsefulNotes/PlayStation3 in the Netherlands over a patent dispute with Sony, though that backfired spectacularly as the Dutch injunction on [=PS3=]s was lifted before it could happen, and LG wound up having to pay a fine for their aggressiveness.

* Only a year after succumbing to pneumonia, the once-beloved British TV presenter Creator/JimmySavile was unmasked as a gigantic sexual predator in one of the biggest scandals of its kind. The result was an extensive damnatio memoriae: memorials, street names, statues, archive recordings, his gravestone, two charity organizations carrying his name, and honorary degrees were all removed, renamed, or disbanded. Creator/TheBBC, who he worked with for decades, scrubbed all references to him, among other things pulling episodes of ''Series/TopOfThePops'' that he hosted from circulation (and he was a regular host for twenty years), removing footage and references to him from bios and documentaries, and reediting the ''Jim'll Fix It''/''Series/DoctorWho'' crossover [[Recap/DoctorWho1985JFIGSAFixWithSontarans "A Fix With Sontarans"]] to replace his part with a new ending. While he was also knighted and given an OBE medal, these accolades died with him since knighthood is for life, and only for life, and there is no knighthood to be stripped (this has been misunderstood in the past by people who criticize the monarchy for not stripping him of his honours). That said, some traces of Savile remain online in the form of Website/YouTube videos uploaded prior to the revelation of Savile's darker life.

* Scott "Jark" Jarkoff, Website/DeviantArt's co-founder, was fired by the current CEO Angelo "Spyed" Sotira. At one point, Website/{{Wikipedia}} was edited to say that he had no involvement in the site's founding, whereas Sotira did.

* This tends to happen on Website/DeviantArt when a user gets accused of something dastardly (e.g. sexual harassment and/or pedophilia). One notable is fetish artist [=BlueCatRiolu=]. After he was chased off the website one last time due to another round of pedophilia accusations and was ([[UrbanLegends allegedly]]) arrested, some of his friends and some other Deviants pulled a Wrestling/ChrisBenoit and scrubbed his persona and [=OCs=] from their projects.

* Following the George Floyd protests in 2020, the Washington NFL team, in addition to dropping the "Redskins" moniker, did this to team founder George Preston Marshall. This was due to Marshall's "gentlemen's agreement" that kept black players out of the league from 1932-1946 and Washington was notably the last team to integrate their roster in 1963. Marshall's statue was removed from [=FedEx=] Field and his name was removed from the team's Ring of Fame. The team is now known as the Commanders.

* The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Armada English Counter-Armada]], which was basically Queen Elizabeth I's attempt to dominate the seas after the Spanish Armada had first been defeated. The end result was such a catastrophic defeat (she lost just as much men as Philip did) that whatever advantages Elizabeth had by defeating the Spanish Armada was undone, and King Philip II managed to return to naval dominance the decade after that. There's a reason why this particular piece of history was ignored in works concerning Elizabeth I. The Queen who defeated the mighty Spanish Armada sounds more badass than, also she lost her own armada and nearly depleted her carefully saved up treasury in an attempt to gain naval dominance despite Spain failing TWICE more in invading England due to the weather. Elizabethan casual fans might be surprised to find out that there were three Spanish Armadas that tried to invade England but the lost of the English was ''that'' bad that people just focus on the first one only.

** In early February of 2024, Selen Tatsuki of Nijisanji English had her contract terminated, the statement alleging multiple breaches of contract [[note]] On her own previous channel, Selen herself mentioned being the victim of bullying and harassment, to the point she even attempted suicide. Part of the cause of this was because many of her projects and efforts seemed to be undercut by Nijisanji management itself, to the point she was paying out her own pocket to artists and the like. She had even attempted to simply depart Nijisanji due to this, but was denied[[//note]]. Fans noticed that her channel began being cleared out before the termination notice had even been posted, and she was also completely removed from the official Nijisanji website. This led to some very irate fans, as the channel was completely cleared out before there was a chance to archive or download streams and videos. Selen was a well-beloved talent who also held numerous collaborations with not only other Vtubers but other content creators as well, so to not be able to preserve those collaboration streams was an especially sore point. [[note]]Even worse, however, was the discovery that Selen herself did not know she had been terminated until she saw the termination notice posted.[[//note]]

** In early February of 2024, Selen Tatsuki of Nijisanji English had her contract terminated, the statement alleging multiple breaches of contract. Fans noticed that her channel began being cleared out before the termination notice had even been posted, and she was also completely removed from the official Nijisanji website. This led to some very irate fans, as the channel was completely cleared out before there was a chance to archive or download streams and videos.

* ''WebAnimation/{{Nijisanji}}'': Compared to their main rival Hololive, Nijisanji is inconsistent with how far they go with unpersoning talents. Like Hololive, severe breaches that result in termination also cause the talent's channel to be completely scrubbed. However, with some talents, their channels are kept up with all the content intact, with others the channel is still up but most or all content is privated (for example, Suzuhara Lulu's channel only has her farewell stream, while Gundou Mirei's channel is completely devoid of content), and with others still the channel is outright deleted (Otogibara Era's channel no longer exists) [[note]] This inconsistency is part of the reason some fans view Nijisanji as a "black company", as it gives the impression that Nijisanji goes out of its way to completely unperson those talents who leave on bad terms with the company[[/note]]. Nijisanji does apparently have a rule that once a talent graduates, their channel will be left up for a couple of years before being privated, but this is evidently not strictly enforced.

** On 31st March 2023, Pikamee graduated from VOMS Project. Unusually, the unpersoning was done at her own request, with all the content on her Youtube channel and social media either privated or wiped. Like Monoe, she's no longer acknowledged on the official VOMS Project website's main page, but a link is still available to her profile and design notes. In addition, numerous clips and collab videos of her are still widespread, as her status as a bilingual Vtuber (speaking both Japanese and English) led her to doing making contact with numerous other content creators (including Ina of Hololive English Myth or Kson On-Air of V-Shojo).

* WebAnimation/{{hololive}} has, in its history, terminated some of their talents, erasing their channels and scrubbing their names from their website and official public records.
** The first was Hitomi Chris, a first-gen member who debuted in June of 2018, and was terminated before the end of the month due to a contract breach. Her Twitter account was put under lockdown, and her Youtube channel was deleted.
** The second was 5th-gen member Mano Aloe in 2020, who accidentally leaked information about her [=live2D=] model and was subsequently the victim of doxxing. She had been given a two-week suspension for the incident, after which she made the decision to immediately retire. Her Youtube channel and Twitter account were subsequently deleted.
** The third was 3rd-gen member Uruha Rushia, whom Cover Corp announced had leaked company information and otherwise caused reputational damage to the company in 2022. Her channel's videos were subsequently set to private, and her Twitter account has since been abandoned.

** The second 3rd-gen member Uruha Rushia, whom Cover Corp announced had leaked company information and otherwise caused reputational damage to the company in 2022. Her channel's videos were subsequently set to private, and her Twitter account has since been abandoned.

* WebAnimation/{{hololive}} has, in its history, terminated two of their talents, erasing their channels and scrubbing their names from their website and official public records.
** The first was 5th-gen member Mano Aloe in 2020, who accidentally leaked information about her [=live2D=] model and was subsequently the victim of doxxing. She had been given a two-week suspension for the incident, after which she made the decision to immediately retire. Her Youtube channel and Twitter account were subsequently deleted.

* A variant happened to Yoshitaka Fujii, a Japanese anesthesiologist whose specialty was the PONV (postoperative nausea and vomiting - a frequent complication of recovery from surgeries that can be life-threatening). He received his [=PhD=] in 1993 and began publishing prolifically. In 2000, a number of his colleagues realized something is seriously fishy: [[ContrivedCoincidence not only were the results of his experiments always extremely good, confirming his hypotheses to a T]], but also they suggested [[OneManArmy he designed, prepared and performed new experiments at a rate several times faster than any of his colleagues ever came close to.]] They notified the journals about likely scientific misconduct going on, but the response was lukewarm. As a result, they took the matter into their own hands and un-personed Fujii: his numerous publications received virtually no citations whatsoever, he was not invited to ([[PersonaNonGrata or outright banned from]]) any serious scientific conference, and his work was not mentioned in any textbooks and guidelines on the subject. Finally, in 2010, British anesthesiologist John Carlisle started pushing the journals about a likely fraud; when the leading journal told him to come back with definite proof, Carlisle [[TheDeterminator not only taught himself advanced statistics]], but also designed a useful analyst tool to find cases where the results were statistically unrealistically good. When he proved that, for example, the probability that the side effects are virtually identical in 47 different experiments - as Fujii's publications claimed - is smaller than one in 150 ''million'', the journal finally launched a coordinated investigation, followed by Fujii's alma mater, the Toho University. Finally, Fujii admitted that [[BlatantLies many of the experiments he claimed to have done never took place, and those that were performed had severely doctored results]]; he was instantly dismissed from his post. In a subversion, [[GoneHorriblyWrong the guy made sure his name will be forever remembered]]; as of June 2020, [[MedalOfDishonor he is an undisputed leader of all time in the amount of retracted scientific papers]], with a stunning number of ''183'' retracted articles under his belt (putting things in perspective, the number 2 on that list - German anesthesiologist Joachim Boldt - has just hit his 100th retraction).

** A particularly sad example is Vladimir Clementis, who helped lead a Communist Revolution in Slovakia, but was later hanged in a show-trial. Before the coup, Clementis had stood next to Klement Gottwald (who later became leader of Czechoslovakia) during a photoshoot, and lent him a fur hat. Clementis was unpersoned after the purge, and the only evidence of his existence for decades was the picture of his hat. Clementis has been reclaimed by history, but the image became a metaphor for Eastern European history, and Milan Kundera used it at the beginning of The Book of Laughter and Forgetting.

** After the Atlanta Spirit Group sold the Atlanta Thrashers (now known as the Winnipeg Jets) to True North Sports and Entertainment, Atlanta Spirit erased most, if not all, references to the Thrashers, including their only divisional title banner and a mural from when the team hosted the 2008 NHL All-Star Game from Philips Arena (now State Farm Arena). Also, several Canadian hockey outlets tend to disregard the existence of the former Thrashers; however, many hockey purists tend to be biased against any NHL team in warm-weather markets. Some Atlanta hockey fans treat the current Winnipeg Jets this way, refusing to acknowledge their existence.

* Creator/RosanneBarr spearheaded a revival of her 1990[=s=] sitcom ''Series/{{Roseanne}}'' in 2018. Following a controversial tweet with racially despairaging comments, however, the revival was swiftly cancelled following Barr's firing, after which it was replaced with ''Series/TheConners'', a sequel series wherein Barr's character was KilledOffscreen before the new show's premiere.

* The Closing Logos Group mandates this policy for those guilty of despotism, sexual abuse, murder, or any other serious crime, such as Fidel Castro, Bill Cosby, Charles Manson, and [=XXXTentacion=], by way of specifically excluding them from the site's "In Memoriam" section of its homepage when they die. They also do it to users they ban for any reason, including pedophilia, faking the finding of a "lost logo" (as in the case with one mythical Columbia Pictures Television logo variant) or being a known member of the VGCP (due to how many "logo thieves" consider themselves members), to the point where any logo capture they make cannot be displayed anywhere on the site.