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2
3[[AC:On Comic Books]]
4->Given Slott's less-than-stellar relationship with the fans, that does a lot to get long-time Spidey readers back into the book. [...] But in order for my analysis of [[ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderMan2018 Spencer's book]] to make sense, I better give some context regarding why the book is so out of line with [[ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderManDanSlott Slott's vision]]. Dan Slott isn't an inherently bad writer, in fact, I've loved a couple of his stories. But he's made a lot of decisions to deliberately piss off fans of the book because he has this mantra: 'It's good to show contempt for your audience, just ask Creator/MichaelBay!' He was never afraid to challenge the status quo of Spider-Man or try new things. But the irritation with Spidey fans came from his decisions usually having [[StatusQuoIsGod no lasting effect]] or trampling on established and consistent ideas to fit his own.
5-->-- '''[=GodzillaMendoza=]''', "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Dlpb5VBYMo How Nick Spencer Redeemed Spider-Man]]"
6
7->YOU SANCTIMONIOUS SACK OF FECES! YOU'RE TRYING TO PIN THIS ON ''US''? ''Marville'' failed sales-wise because "''we couldn't accept your grand vision of world peace''"? That we only wanted "''superheroes punching each other''"? [[ShutUpHannibal GO TO HELL!]] Your comic didn't succeed because it started as a lame, unfunny parody of the comic book industry, and then was an inaccurate and moronic tale about God and the universe! ''It failed because it SUCKED!''
8-->-- '''[[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]]''' on ''ComicBook/{{Marville}}'' #6
9
10[[AC:On Film -- Live-Action]]
11->So, about ''10 minutes'' into this film--which ''only'' wrestling fans would see--we've been insulted by being portrayed at the '''bottom''' rung [[ManChild mentally, emotionally, financially, and socially]]. ''Thank'' you, {{Wrestling/WCW}}; that's ''very'' thorough. Take a bow!
12-->-- ''WebVideo/OSWReview'' on ''Film/ReadyToRumble''
13
14[[AC:On Live-Action TV]]
15->This hatred [towards ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'' fans] doesn't just manifest in insulting wankery like having it turn out to be a fucking ''boomerang'', or deliberately re-writing one of the first proto-feminist icons in crime-fiction to be a sexy kung-fu dominatrix in love with the main character, but in how the show directly tells you that, if you're a fan, you should personally go and ''fuck'' yourself. [...] Season 3 features several characters whose sole job it is to [[ThisLoserIsYou portray fan theories and theorists and make fun of them and call them stupid for bothering to try and figure out what happened based on the information given to them by the show]]. [...] People trying to figure out the ''mystery'' in a ''mystery-story'' are presented as a little club of weirdos being weird together. The creator of the story appears to be so fundamentally ''incapable'' of recognizing how to tell a mystery, that he's perceived people ''treating'' it like one as ''insane''. They even have one of the prospective theories be that Holmes and Moriarty were gay lovers who faked [their deaths] together, and even the other theorists make fun of her for that -- even though the same people writing this scene to make fun of that are ''also'' the people who purposefully queerbaited [[PrecisionFStrike the fuck]] out of the relationships between Holmes and Watson ''and'' Holmes and Moriarty. They spend a huge chunk of this episode literally calling people stupid for reading into the story's clear, intentional subtext instead of -- you know, ''writing better text''.
16-->-- '''WebVideo/HBomberguy''', "[[https://youtu.be/LkoGBOs5ecM?t=1h34m27s Sherlock Is Garbage, And Here's Why]]"
17
18->[[Creator/RobertHolmes (Robert) Holmes’s]] interest in continuity has always [[NegativeContinuity been virtually null.]] He jettisoned everything we thought we knew about Gallifrey in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E3TheDeadlyAssassin the Deadly Assassin]], and in bringing the Time Lords back as peripheral figures in this story he basically scraps all of that for a whole new set of technology and explanations of things. Tat Wood accuses this of being [[TorchTheFranchiseAndRun the point where Holmes starts to believe his own reputation]], but I think nothing could be further from the truth. This is the point where Holmes loses patience with being put on a pedestal. It’s much like the classic story of comics legend Creator/JackKirby being told that someone was drawing one of his characters 'Jack Kirby style' and remarking that Jack Kirby style would have been to create a new character.
19-->-- '''El Sandifer''' [[http://www.philipsandifer.com/2012/05/well-prepared-meal-two-doctors.html on]] ''Series/DoctorWho'', [[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E4TheTwoDoctors "The Two Doctors"]]
20
21->Carey is present? Lieutenant Carey of seasons one and two, never to be seen since? Are they taking the piss? Leave it to ''Voyager'' to introduce a character, [[SomethingWeForgot forget about him for five seasons]] and then bring him back right near the end [[BackForTheDead just to kill him off!]] ...It feels like a very cynical move that a character should be brought back to silence critics just to kill him off.
22-->-- '''[[http://www.docohobigfinish.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/voyager-season-seven.html Joe Ford]]''' on ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', "Friendship One"
23
24->It always bothers me when a show that sustains itself off of the fandom of young women mocks the very people that allow it to survive.
25-->-- '''WebVideo/SarahZ''', on ''{{Series/Supernatural}}'' and ''{{Series/Sherlock}}'''s uses of this trope
26
27[[AC:On Music]]
28->What especially stands out in the footage of GG’s shows is his relationship with his audience. With your average rock show there’s a sense that the band is being placed on a pedestal for fawning adulation. Punk broke down the barrier between the musicians and their audience and allowed the bands to present themselves as part of the crowd, no better or worse than the people they were playing for. But GG was actively at war with his audience. He cursed them, hit them, threw objects at them, and in the case of women (and some men!) attempted to rape them. And they fought back, throwing epithets, fists and bottles at GG while he was onstage. Watching the pit at a GG Allin show was like looking at some curious rite of passage of an obscure Africa tribe where only the bravest are willing to get close enough to the stage and risk either bodily harm or the possibility of receiving a fistful of shit, piss or blood. (It's strangely ironic that after all the shows GG did with no concern for his audience’s safety, Great White is the band that ends up killing a hundred of their fans.)
29-->-- '''[[http://www.acidlogic.com/im_gg_allin.htm Wil Forbis]]''' on Music/GGAllin, ''Interesting Motherfuckers''
30
31[[AC:On Video Games]]
32->'''BlackKnight:''' Even as we speak, my {{Troll}}s are on [=YouTube=] downloading your videos! My Trolls are on your website posting [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic MLP]] art of you and Dr. Insano. My Trolls are on Twitter redundantly telling you news about ''{{Franchise/Highlander}}'' movies and asking you to livestream ''VideoGame/DeadlyPremonition'' and propagating ''[=#spoonyhateseverything=]''.
33-->-- '''[[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Noah Antwiler]]''' on ''VideoGame/{{Ultima}}: Runes of Virtue''
34
35->Scroll down now and read the first five comments under this video! You should be feeling a cold metallic sensation because you're now holding a gun to your head.
36-->-- '''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation''' on ''VideoGame/SuperMario3DLand''
37
38->If the nutshell of the story involves shadowy conspirators who construct a command center that allows them to fabricate grand lies, then it's easily an extended metaphor for the game itself, with Raiden being an analog for the player's real-life role as a ''Metal Gear'' fan. He's [[StrawFan a delusional, video game-addled rookie]] who was a fan of Solid Snake, and he believed the conspirators' lies up until the very end. And once the curtain's pulled, he's frustrated and confused, and doesn't really know what to think of it all. It was a deliberate bait-and-switch. [[Creator/HideoKojima Kojima]] ''knew'' that players weren't expecting this. He ''knew'' that Raiden would be unappealing and unpopular. He ''knew'' that people weren't gonna like it. And he ''used'' that to tell the story... The message is about [[CashCowFranchise fanboyism]] and [[NeverTrustATrailer hype.]] It's about the environment that surrounded the game's launch and what they ''expected'' it to do.
39-->-- '''[[WebVideo/SuperBunnyhop George Weidman]]''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-2YuPGYabw&feature=youtu.be on]] ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty''
40
41!!Fiction
42
43[[AC:Comic Books]]
44->"This is the tale of Teddy Teague,\
45Who could not wait to read his ''[[ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen League]].''\
46With each new month, he would complain:\
47"Where's issue six? It's late again!""\
48Vexed and frustrated, he would write\
49Disgruntled letters filled with spite,\
50That called the authors work-shy fops\
51And threatened them with riding crops!\
52Grown vain on cash from Tinseltown,\
53This pair won't take this lying down!\
54And finding out where Teddy lives,\
55Go round and do him in with shivs!\
56In summary, our tale makes clear\
57That patience is a virtue, dear.\
58So gentle reader, know your place...\
59And don't get on our f***ing case."
60-->--'''Creator/AlanMoore''', ''ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen''
61
62[[AC:Fan Works]]
63->''In the afternoon, Bruno thanked his lucky stars that each of Casita's rooms came with its own private bathroom as he settled in for a nice hot bath. (And no, you're not getting a description of Bruno's naked body, you weirdos.)''
64-->-- ''Fanfic/ThatCatchInYourThroat''
65
66[[AC:Film -- Animated]]
67->I can't believe we're paying to see something we get on TV for free. If you ask me, everyone in this theatre is a giant sucker. ''[AsideGlance]'' Especially you!
68-->-- '''Homer''', ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsonsMovie''
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70[[AC:Literature]]
71->"[[EmbarrassingNickname Clocksie]]," Clockblocker said, deadpan, "Has been the target of a lot of criticism, because he was in charge of the Wards at the time a lot of stuff went down. [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall Some dingbats online speculated that I had a thing for Weaver, and it took off. The people online like to find stuff that fills in blanks]], and there were a hell of a lot of blanks around the whole thing with [[ReformedCriminal Weaver]] defecting, and our pseudo-truce with the Undersiders."
72-->-- '''Clockblocker''', ''Literature/{{Worm}}''
73
74[[AC: Live-Action TV]]
75->I know a lot of you out there in social media land think that sometimes, when it comes to judgments, I don't always get it right. Well, you're wrong. And you'd better make sure those comments come from a server in Central Europe. It's not hard for a man with my connections to get a name, do you understand? ''(getting progressively angrier)'' You might be Dumbledore online, but I'll find you! And I'll disguise myself as a giant crow in a tree outside your house. '''YOU EVER BEEN JUMPED ON BY A SIX-FOOT EIGHT CROW??''' Then maybe keep your opinions to yourself!
76-->-- '''Creator/GregDavies''' will not brook criticism of his decisions as Taskmaster, ''Series/{{Taskmaster}}''
77
78->[[labelnote:ɘton]]''hguort siht'' tuq ev'uoy emmargorq revehtahw hguort siht tuq ot tsuj aht erom been bluow uoy beria tsrif siht nehw 9891 ni taht bnim ni qeeK[[/labelnote]]''!toϱ ƨ’ɘʜ ɘʇil bɒƨ ,ɿooq ɒ tɒʜW'' .’niγɒƨ m’I tɒʜt ʜƨiddυɿ ɘʜt tυo ʞɿow γllɒυtɔɒ bnɒ bnυoɿ ti nɿυt ,ϱnibɿoɔɘɿ ƨiʜt ʇo bloʜ tɘϱ ot bɘɿɘʜtod ƨ’oʜw γɿtnυoɔ ɘʜt ni tɒɿq ɘno ɘʜt ϱniƨƨɘɿbbɒ m’I .''υoγ ϱniƨƨɘɿbbɒ'' γllɒυtɔɒ ton m’I tυ𐐒 .υoγ tɒ ’nitnioq m’I ,υoγ tɒ ’nitnioq t’niɒ I ''[points at Kryten]'' ?υoγ t’nɘɿɒ ,tiϱ blɒd ,bɘbɒɘʜ-ɘɿɒυpƨ ,biqυtƨ ɒ ɘɿɒ υoY
79-->'''Manager''', ''Series/RedDwarf'', [[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonIIIBackwards "Backwards"]]
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81[[AC:Music]]
82->''Yo they think you're dumb\
83I think you're smart\
84[[ImmediateSelfContradiction No, wait, I lied]]\
85I think you're dumb''
86-->-- '''Music/MindlessSelfIndulgence''', "Stupid MF"
87
88->''Ya'll don't wanna hear me, you just wanna dance''
89-->-- '''Music/OutKast''', "Hey Ya!"
90
91->''There are 10 teams, 40 people\
92And we're gonna have some fun\
93Oh my God, all [[FanDumb Twitter's]] fighting\
94Because they've never seen the sun before''
95-->-- '''[[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_8NknAFiyhOUaZqHR3lq3Q Quackity]]''', "The [[WebVideo/MinecraftChampionship MCC]] DissTrack"
96
97->''Finally, he's firing in spurts,\
98It's the last member of the Coconut Crew!\
99[[WhoWritesThisCrap This coconut crap, isn't funny,]]\
100If you know the spurts, you need to shoot yourself!''
101-->-- '''Music/SiivaGunner''', "DK Rap (Unused Version)"
102
103[[AC:Theatre]]
104->"Wuuuuuuaaaaargh! ''What ''are'' you?!'' What are yoooou?! ''[[HumansAreCthulhu The watchers with a thousand eyes!]] Why do you want to watch us die? Will that entertain you? ''(enthusiastic noises from audience)'' You ''sick bastards.''"''
105-->--'''Father''', [[BreakingTheFourthWall seeing the audience during a fever dream]], ''Theatre/TheTrailToOregon''
106
107->''"If [[AudienceParticipation given the chance to kill any one of us]], who would choose one of the ''children?!''"''
108-->--'''Mother''', after the Son or Daughter is revealed to be dying of dysentery, ''Theatre/TheTrailToOregon''
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110[[AC:Video Games]]
111->[[http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=137987071 "Is this what the aliens do for fun?]] At least they're not [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall playing ... computer games]].
112-->-- '''[[TheEngineer Dr. Raymond Shen]]''', ''VideoGame/XCOMEnemyUnknown''
113
114->[[AC:Chicken. Fight like a robot.]]
115-->-- '''The robots''' in ''VideoGame/{{Berzerk}}'', if you leave a room without killing all of them
116
117->At least we're better than [[LetsPlay those sickos that stand around and WATCH it happen]]... Those pathetic people that want to see it, but are too weak to do [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential it]] themselves. [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall I bet someone like that's watching right now, aren't they...?]]
118-->-- '''Flowey''' AddressingThePlayer in a "No Mercy" run, ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}''
119
120->'''D.S. [=McKenna=]:''' Kindhearted neighbors turned into savage flesh eating monsters. It will make a fantastic movie!\
121'''John Marston:''' Who would enjoy that?!\
122'''D.S. [=McKenna=]:''' What?\
123'''John Marston:''' What kind of a sick person would like that?!!\
124'''D.S. [=McKenna=]:''' My kind sir: THE LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR!!! ''My'' people.
125-->-- ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemptionUndeadNightmare'', a video game about zombies.
126
127->'''Sam:''' (in response to the Player raising the pot) [[WhatTheHellPlayer Hey! I thought we were friends.]]\
128'''Max:''' It's playing computer poker by itself, Sam. It doesn't HAVE friends!
129-->-- ''VideoGame/PokerNight2''
130
131->"You actually bothered to finish this crappy game? Sucker! Don't take it so seriously."
132-->-- ''VideoGame/TakeshisChallenge'''s [[AWinnerIsYou ending text]].
133
134->''"That was easier than I thought it would be."''
135-->-- One of '''[[KillerRobot Scraptrap]]''''s HaveANiceDeath quotes, ''VideoGame/FreddyFazbearsPizzeriaSimulator''
136
137->''"Now go to the forums and cry like the little bitch you are!"''
138-->-- '''Cloaker''' after kicking a player, ''VideoGame/Payday2''
139
140->''I suggest you get a life, because you obviously don't have one, you morbidly obese twit!''
141-->-- ''VideoGame/RevengeOfTheSunfish'' responds to you picking a crude joke as a dialogue option
142
143->''The ''Poptropica'' creators are so slow! I need to play the next island! I can't breathe without it!''
144-->--AudienceSurrogate boy, ''VideoGame/{{Poptropica}}''
145[[AC:Visual Novels]]
146->What do you think this is, some sort of tacky ero visual novel? Do you really think relationships are as easy as [[DatingSim just clicking the right dialogue choices on a menu]]...? Are you trying to tell me that, after all the time we've spent together, I don't deserve just a little bit of effort? Well, here's a message to you... [[YouBastard not as a cool space investigator, but as a player sitting at a computer screen talking to a sad girl]]. [[ItMakesSenseInContext Stand up, get the ingredients, actually go into your kitchen, and bake a cake]]! [[BreakingTheFourthWall A real, actual, IRL cake]]! Please, do this for me! You promised me you would! Let me enjoy it through you, please!
147-->-- '''Hyun-ae''', ''VisualNovel/HatePlus''
148
149[[AC:Web Animation]]
150
151->'''[[PerkyGoth Loona]]''': Hey, is there a way I can come with you guys this time?
152->'''[[PunchClockVillain Blitzo]]''': Absolutely not, I forbid it, not gonna happen! Sorry, sweetie, but Spring Break is no place for young, vulnerable goth girls! [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall You know the]] '''''[[Rule34 FREAKS]]''''' [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall up there who drool all over you!]]
153->([[LettingTheAirOutOfTheBand The background music cuts out]] as the I.M.P. crew [[BreakingTheFourthWall pause]] [[AsideGlance and ]] [[DeathGlare glare at the audience for a brief moment.]])
154-->-- '''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss''', ''[[Recap/HelluvaBossS1E3SpringBroken "Spring Broken"]]''
155
156->'''[[EccentricAI Caine]]''': Your little crying face left [[FountainOfMemes quite the little crying mark on the Internet]]! (''Something I [[BreakingTheFourthWall don't canonically have any knowledge of]]!'') Take a look!
157-> (Caine pulls up a [[{{Pixellation}} pixellated]] screen showing what is heavily implied to be Pomni-related RuleThirtyFour fan art.)
158->'''Pomni''': What the [[MagicalProfanityFilter %$!#]] am I looking at?!
159->'''Caine''': The consequences of our actions! [''stage whisper''] '''''And it's only going to get worse from here'''''.
160->'''Pomni''': [[NoJustNoReaction Oh, no]]...
161-->-- ''WebAnimation/TheAmazingDigitalCircus'', ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkXhKu80CWU POMNI WAKE UP TIME TO GO ON AN ADVENTURE]]''
162
163[[AC:Web Video]]
164->Sentence mixing with Robotnik is so fucking easy! Why are you people so impressed by it?
165-->-- '''Robotnik''', Creator/{{Thechairman45}}'s "The Discreet Charm of Robotnik"
166
167->Alright, now that I have your ears as well as your spines, allow me to indulge myself for a moment and tell you all what every content creator has always wanted to say to their audience.\
168[clears throat]\
169FUCK! ALL Y'ALL!
170-->-- '''Kayaba Akihito''', ''WebVideo/SwordArtOnlineAbridged''
171
172->So you're here either because you want to start a town, or, more likely, you have 30 minutes to eat your lunch and the idea of being alone with your thoughts for longer than it takes to remove your phone from your pocket is too much of a nightmare for your psyche to bear.
173-->--'''Half As Interesting''', "[[https://youtu.be/ea6vDpuqQus How to start your own town]]".
174
175->'''[=SMG4=]:''' Hey man, getting dumped by your girlfriend is rough. Any ways we can help?\
176'''Mario:''' What?! Help!? OHHH-\
177'''[=SMG4=]:''' Mario, if we don't fix this [[ItMakesSenseInContext he'll just cry into the water supply again!]]\
178'''[[SadClown Depresso]]:''' She's... She said she's only attracted to the biggest clown in town.\
179'''[=SMG4=]:''' Biggest clown in town? Who's that?\
180''[Depresso [[BreakingTheFourthWall points at the camera]]]''\
181''[Mario and [=SMG4=] turn to look at the camera too]''\
182'''[=SMG4=]:''' Yeah I see what you mean...\
183'''Mario:''' That ''is'' one big clown.
184-->-- ''[[WebAnimation/Supermarioglitchy4sSuperMario64Bloopers SMG4]]'', "[[Recap/SMG4sMarioBloopersClownFever Clown Fever]]"
185
186->''There are 10 teams, 40 people\
187And we're gonna have some fun\
188Oh my God, all Twitter's fighting\
189Because they've never seen the sun before''
190-->-- '''Quackity''', ''WebVideo/MinecraftChampionship''
191
192->'''Screenwriter Guy:''' We'll also make fun of adults that watch animation, so that'll be funny.\
193'''Producer Guy:''' Isn't that our target audience?\
194'''Screenwriter Guy:''' Oh, yeeeaaaah... ''(beat)'' Well, screw 'em!\
195'''Producer Guy:''' Oh, [[MadLibsCatchPhrase making fun of your target audience in a meta way is tight!]] [[BreakingTheFourthWall Get off'a YouTube you losers!]] [[InvertedTrope I'm sorry, I take that back immediately, I don't like how that felt and]] [[SincerityMode I love you guys, I appreciate that you watch these videos]].\
196'''Screenwriter:''' Woah hey sir you can't be meta and wholesome, you gotta be meta and ''cynical'', what are you doing?\
197'''Producer Guy:''' Oh, my bad!
198-->-- ''WebVideo/ScreenRantPitchMeetings'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Velma}}''
199
200[[AC:Western Animation]]
201
202->''"Trace amounts of mental activity detected. Possibly a dead weasel or cartoon viewer."''
203-->-- '''Brainspawn''', the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "The Why of Fry"
204
205->'''Sonic:''' Knuckles, you just missed the most epic Eggman battle!\
206'''Tails:''' It was the perfect blend of new minions and classic favorites from years past!\
207'''Sticks:''' Easily the most action-packed battle we've ever had! ''(AsideGlance)'' And you missed it. That's what you get for followin' [[TheDitz Knuckles]] around.
208-->-- ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom''
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