ClosingCredits which, among other thanks, thank the viewer for watching/reading/playing. Can address the viewer directly in second person ("Thanks to... YOU"), or refer to them in third person ("Thanks to all our viewers/everyone who read my comic/etc.") Sometimes also the last element on SpecialThanks.

For when viewers are thanked specifically for financial support, see ViewersLikeYou.

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!!Examples:
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[[folder: Anime and Manga ]]

* One of the last ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'' strips had the girls going to Yukari and thanking her for being their teacher. However, the actually "Thank You" panel showed the girls facing toward the reader, subtly thanking them as well.
* The very final shot in ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' is [[http://img.imgcake.com/b8c1c8815219fbe74c930f5555d641f9ab.jpg this]] "Thank you for watching" artwork.
* ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'' inverts this with the infamous congratulatory scene at the end. What exactly you are being congratulated for is all up to you, though. Perhaps for making it through the show.
* In episode 167 of ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'', Gintoki becomes nostalgic about 8-bit video games and mentions how touched he was when he saw the words "you" in the credits at the end of the game.
* BattleProgrammerShirase had an unusual variant. The head director apologized for the show having to end, specifically addressing: "To those who enjoyed the show on TV and to those outside the broadcast area who took special measures to watch the show on their PC monitors and to everybody who watched it [[FanSub subtitled overseas without permission]]."

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[[folder: Comic Books ]]

* The final page of Millar's ''{{Wanted}}'' has [[YouBastard quite a subversion...]]

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[[folder: Fan Works ]]

* Most FanFic writers thank their readers at some point, but this especially tends to happen a) on the last installment of their work and b) when the work has been particularly long and/or with many readers and fans ("Thanks for sticking with me so long/being such wonderful fans").

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[[folder: Literature ]]

* [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming JKR did this in]] ''HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows''.
* Brandon Sanderson has taken to doing this on the novels he is writing to complete ''TheWheelOfTime''.

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[[folder: Live Action TV ]]

* The end of ''Series/{{Angel}}''.
* Inverted by CharlieBrooker in ''ScreenWipe'', ''Series/{{Newswipe}}'' and ''YouHaveBeenWatching'', where he usually tells the viewer to go away. In fact it's almost a CatchPhrase.
* Subverted in the fourth season finale of ''Series/BabylonFive'' (the first episode filmed after season 5 was greenlit by the network) which was dedicated to [[TakeThat "all people who predicted that the Babylon Project would fail in its mission"]]. The episode shot before it, the series finale shot in case there was no 5th season, finished with freeze frame shots of the entire crew finishing with them waving while [[CoolStarship White Stars]] zoom past and narration says ''Funding for this program was made possible by grants from the Anla'shok Memorial Fund''

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[[folder: Video Games ]]

* The phrase 'and YOU' appears in the end credits of huge numbers of games, most notably most Creator/{{Capcom}} arcade games do it.
** ''ViewtifulJoe'' ends with the words "Everybody loves a hero. Everybody loves you" on the screen.
* ''CrazyTaxi''
* The computer game ''DigitalALoveStory''.
* The credits sequence in ''VideoGame/{{Kirby}}'s Dream Land'' ends in "And... so many players."
* ''VideoGame/EarthBound'' did it. It even addresses the player by their real name.
** Assuming that you didn't put in "BUTTS" or [[WhatAnIdiot "Ness"]].
** In ''VideoGame/{{MOTHER 3}}'', you are mentioned, by name, at the end of the credits, of course. Not only that, but at The End of the game, [[spoiler:Everyone in the game thanks you, personally, for all that you did for them, assures you that [[EveryoneLives their world is going to be okay]], and [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming hopes that your world is as good to you as you've been to them]].]]
*** Ditto for the fangame ''VideoGame/TouhouMother''.
* A staple of at least the SNES releases of ''VideoGame/MegaManX'' games. "Thanks X, Zero and YOU!"
* One of the hidden galleries in the original ''MedalOfHonor'' has the ''entire cast'' (including the joke characters of multiplayer) cheering and thanking the player in a huge group shot.
* The ''VideoGame/{{Prehistorik}}'' series.
* Used in ''RomancingSaGa: Minstrel Song'', with the character you selected [[NoFourthWall directly thanking the player]] and encouraging them to "[[AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent help the others just like you did me!]]", to roughly paraphrase it.
* "Thank you so much a for-to playing my game!" from every 3D ''{{Super Mario Brothers}}'' game. It's even said by Mario himself!
** At the end of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'', the Yoshi eggs Mario rescued thank you, the player, for saving them.
** ''VideoGame/HotelMario'': "YOU'RE THE BEST PLAYER EVER!"
** The coral in World 9-4 of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBrosTheLostLevels''. Also, the GameOver screen if you die there.
** The flipping tiles at the end of Special 8-Crown in ''VideoGame/SuperMario3DLand''.
** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy'': "Thank you. I will always watch you from beyond the stars..."
* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaPhantomHourglass'': towards the beginning of the game, [[AnyoneYouKnow you - the player - were asked to sign for a letter]]. At the very end of the credits, your signature appears.
** ''VideoGame/ZeldaIITheAdventureOfLink'': Thanks A Million
* ''{{Karoshi}}'': THANKS FOR PLAY
* ''VideoGame/{{Castlevania|1986}}'' says in its credits: "You played the greatest role in this game". Some of the later titles also thank the player.
* ''VisualNovel/{{Snatcher}}'' has a strange example: [[spoiler:After Gillian and Jamie escape from the church before it's destroyed with the KillSat along with the Snatcher production factory, Random thanks the player for being "a hell of a Junker" as he holds Elijah down. He thanks the player ''after'' the character he's been controlling leaves the scene.]]
* In ''VideoGame/{{Arfenhouse}} 3'', the "Special Thanks" section of the credits ends with "...and you...for doing nothing."
* ''VideoGame/{{Messiah}}'': "Thanks for playing", with the protagonist waving at you.

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[[folder: Webcomics ]]

* The [[http://hlcomic.com/index.php?date=2006-11-06 final page]] of ''{{Concerned}}''.
* Every chapter of ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'' ends with Tom Siddell thanking the reader in TheRant.
* The end of ''Webcomic/ProblemSleuth'' has some [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=4&p=001840 credits]] with the line "Story: You", because it's an {{interactive comic}}.

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[[folder: Western Animation ]]

* ''KidsNextDoor'' ended with a drawing by series creator, Tom Warbuton (Mr. Warbuton in the credits), [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming of the Sector V cast over looking sunset from their treehouse with the words "Stay Young" at the top]]. A subtle thank you to the viewers for the six year series.
* CartoonPlanet would thank you for watching the ClosingCredits, then end with a "See You Soon."
* ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'' had a drawing of Mac and Bloo at the end of the final episode from series creator, CraigMcCracken, with a thank you to the viewers
* ''[[DrawnTogether Hey Assholes, thanks for watching!]]''
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' last episode ended with nearly all the cast from past episodes gathering for a "wrap up party" hosted by AmbushBug. Batman then turns to the viewers and thanks them for watching as we get a final group shot.
* David Mandel thanks the viewers in his VanityPlate on ''WesternAnimation/{{Clerks}}''.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "Once Upon a Time in Springfield" ends with a message thanking the audience tuning in for the past 20 years.
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''Thank you for reading!''