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[[caption-width-right:350:Fuck you, Nathan from school!]]
''[[SelfDemonstratingArticle Hello, and welcome to]] Website/TVTropes! Now that you're a troper, it's time to learn the ins and outs of the site!''

''Why don't you start out by [[JustForFun/DescribeTopicHere writing a description for something below?]]''

''Welcome to...'' is a series of videos by Creator/BrendanBlaber, each centering on a specific website under the guise of an instructional video for using said site. While it '''does''' teach you a lot about the site, most of the videos are dedicated to [[TakeThat mocking the hell out of the site and its users.]]

The videos (all of which can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHACfIDFF66oWm2Z_f-EqRrVtdZ6l1dOY here]]) include:
* ''Welcome to Platform/DeviantArt!''
* ''Welcome to Platform/{{Facebook}}!''
* ''Welcome to Platform/YouTube!''
* ''Welcome to Platform/{{Twitter}}!''
* ''Welcome to Platform/{{Tumblr}}!''
* ''Welcome to Platform/{{Vine}}!'' (April Fools' Day 2014)
* ''Welcome to Platform/FanFictionDotNet! (and Wattpad)''
** This episode also has a "Welcome To Extras" side video, showing off outtakes and deleted scenes.
* ''Welcome to Platform/{{Steam}}!'' (April Fools' Day 2015)
* ''Welcome to Horror!'' (Joke Halloween 2015 Special)
* ''Welcome to Website/{{Kickstarter}}!'' (premiered at [=YoumaCon=] 2015)
* ''Welcome to Platform/YouTube Comments!'' (500k Subscriber Special)
* ''Welcome to {{Webcomic}}s!'' [[note]]The GrandFinale of the series.[[/note]]

Jello has decided to end the series after ''Webcomics'', in order to focus on his other projects like ''WebAnimation/SoThisIsBasically'', though he has stated that he'd still do the occasional "Welcome to Platform/YouTube Comments!" compilation video.

''Great job! Now try adding some tropes! That's what the site's named for, after all.''
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!!These are tropes! Anyone can add them, but [[Administrivia/SquarePegRoundTrope not many people do it right.]]
* AbandonedInfoPage: Used as an example of webcomic creator laziness in ''Webcomics''.
* AccentuateTheNegative: The flaws of the sites and their communities are the most-focused on aspect of the series. This is less out of outright hate (usually) and more for [[RuleOfFunny humor potential]]. This is brought to light in ''[=YouTube=] Comments'', where one featured comment calls out another comment for not understanding that the series is about pointing out the negative aspects of good websites; Jello proceeds to dub it "Comment of the Year 2015".
* AlliterativeName: "Predisposition Pete".
* AltText: ''Webcomics'' cracks a joke about readers going through an entire comic, only to have to ArchiveBinge when they realize the comic has rollover text.
* AprilFoolsDay:
** ''Vine'' in 2014. It's a five-minute long video... with 6 seconds of of actual content. The rest is Jello throwing some jabs at his fanbase.
** ''Steam'' in 2015. It's made by "Joe" from ''Vine''. He can't animate or commentate well. You should be able to guess how well it goes.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking:
** While listing the various {{fandom}}s of Platform/{{Tumblr}}:
--> "''Franchise/HarryPotter''. [[Creator/{{Disney}} Didney]]! ''Series/{{Hannibal}}''. ''Series/{{Firefly}}''. ''[[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse The Avengelicals]].'' ''[[Franchise/StarTrek Star Truck]]''. ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic MLP]]''[[note]]represented as "My Last Prognosis"[[/note]]. ''[[Manga/AttackOnTitan Attack on Titania]]''. ''[[Franchise/{{Danganronpa}} Dangling Grandpa]]''. ''[[Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers International Yaoi Festival]]''. ''[[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Maduka Maguca]]''. ''[[WesternAnimation/TheAngryBeavers Two Angry Beavers]]'', and [[Webcomic/{{Homestuck}} other, less important fandoms.]]"
** Then there's the female host's attempts at insulting other sites:
--> "Platform/DeviantArt? More like "[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto Grand Theft Art-ro"!]] Platform/{{Facebook}}? More like "Flake-book"! 9gag? More like 9... ''gag''... [[BlatantLies nailed it!]]"
* ArtEvolution:
** ''Youtube'' saw a significant bump in art quality, with more fluid, defined animation.
** The concept is actually mentioned by name in ''Webcomics'', when noting how the first page of a webcomic may not match the rest of them. ''WebComic/GunnerkriggCourt'' is used as an example of this, while shots are taken at ''WebComic/{{Misfile}}'' for not doing this.
* ArtShift:
** ''Fanfiction.net'' uses a different art style for every story example; "Slash Fiction" has still images with less-cartoony art, "Self-Insert Yaoi" uses {{Animesque}} art in a VisualNovel layout (complete with bottom dialogue box), "Creepypasta" has scratchy art using only red and black, and "Wattpad" uses very crude crayon drawings.
** ''Webcomics'' has different art styles for the example comics, though there's not any drastic shifts.
* AttentionWhore: Duck Fayce is a parody of the quintessential Facebook AttentionWhore.
--> [[HypocriticalHumor I HATE attention whores. Like if you agree!]]
* AuthorAvatar: [=JelloApocalypse=] is seen in ''Welcome to Tumblr'' talking into a microphone before he is interrupted by a penguin.
* AuthorFilibuster: Jello goes on a humorous one at the end of ''Webcomics'' over ''WebComic/RPGWorld''[='=]s infamous abandonment.
-->And if you're lucky, you'll catch up just in time to find the artist abandoned this project years ago and literally stopped drawing it in the hallway to the FINAL BOSS [[{{Angrish}} ARGGGHH]]! ... Eleven years later and I'm still still mad. Lets see what this guy's been up too, anyway. Whaaat? Oh, look at that, he was the art director for ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse''. You know what? Good for him. I-It's really good seeing someone put in the time and making their way into the industry today and '''FINISH YOUR FUCKING WEBCOMIC!'''
* BaitAndSwitchComment: A common thing Jello does in his videos.
** ''Deviantart''
-->Which all translates to ''FUCK OFF''.
** ''Webcomics'' has some notable ones.
--->Hang on now, are you thinking of ''giving up?!'' That's GREAT!
*** And then there's the AuthorFilibuster above.
* BeatWithoutABut: In ''Welcome To Platform/YouTube!'', when the narrator brings up the topic of paid subscriptions, he says, "Now I know what you're thinking: 'People have to pay to subscribe to me? That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard!'". The narrator doesn't follow that up with any benefits and moves on to the next topic.
* BetterThanABareBulb: ''Webcomics'' brings up the tendency of game-based comics to rely on this.
-->'''Bard''': Hark! A save point. How funny it is that I point that out in-universe.
* BigNo: The guide in ''Facebook'' does one after seeing the mess that is Duck Fayce's profile page.
* BitingTheHandHumor: ''[=YouTube=]'' takes the piss out of the website that hosts Jelloapocalypse's videos.
* BlushSticker:
** Shown repeatedly in ''Tumblr'', most noticeably on the female host.
** The "Self-Insert Yaoi" segment of ''Fanfiction.net'' deliberately overuses them. At one point, they even shoot off of a character's face.
* BreadEggsMilkSquick:
** ''Tumblr'' recommends you upload videos to [=YouTube=], Dailymotion, or X-Videos instead of Tumblr itself.
** In ''Tumblr'', the self-diagnosis segment describes potential symptoms of anxiety, OCD, and... lycanthropy.
* BrokenRecord: Used during ''Tumblr'' to show off how terrible the site's video player is.
* CatGirl: Marissa-chan.
* CherryBlossoms: These appear out of nowhere in "Our Duet" when [[{{Characters/Vocaloid}} Gakupo]] is confessing his feelings to Len-chan.
* CrackPairing: {{Invoked}} in the ''Tumblr'' episode, wherein coming up with unusual fandom ships is suggested as a potential source of upvotes. This leads the main character to attempt shipping [[WesternAnimation/TheLorax2012 The Oncler]] with either the Lorax, "Ginger Swift" or "inexplicably Creator/GeneWilder", before eventually just settling on shipping the Oncler with himself.
* CreditsGag: The ''Welcome to Vine'' credits list [=JelloApocalypse=] under the title "Handsome" four times in a row.
* CulturalTranslation: In the yaoi story "Our Duet," [[{{Characters/Vocaloid}} Len Kagamine]] is eating onigiri on a hotdog bun.
* DigitalAvatar: The videos feature simple colorless avatars -- known as "pegs" -- to represent most of their characters, many of which appear to have interchangeable features à la [[Toys/MrPotatoHead Mr. Potato Head toys]].
* TheDitz: When WTF Guy asks Duck Fayce what her dead classmate's favorite color was, she guesses rice.
* DontLikeDontRead: Used jokingly in ''Fanfiction.net''[='=]s opening to deter haters in the comments, and again in the "Self-Insert Yaoi" fanfic example for a "Yaoi Warning".
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Earlier episodes had very little animation, and used backgrounds of the sites much more often (later episodes used original backgrounds or just blank space). The pegs also looked slightly different.
* ExactWords: Welcome to Facebook has WTF Guy sarcastically suggest to Duck Fayce that she should like and share a page as she would have a chance to change the world. The screen then displays "0% is a chance" in brackets.
* FaceFault: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Marissa-chan: "We fell down like in anime when there is a joke or a baka."
* FanFic:
** Mocked in ''[=DeviantArt=]'':
--> "...many people also post their writings in the Literature section, [[SarcasmMode because the internet's number one art website is the best place to go to post literature.]] Here you can find everything. Fan fiction, poetry, original screenplays, fan fiction, comedic writing, non-fiction, [[RuleOfThree fan fiction]], and ''[[BreadEggsMilkSquick erotic]]'' fan fiction. And it doesn't matter if your writing isn't very good and you're '[[{{Irony}} soory]]' you don't have time to correct the [[RougeAnglesOfSatin misspells]], because someone in the [=DeviantArt=] community will always be amazed that you were able to put words in the box."
** Also mocked to hell and back in, well, ''Welcome to Fanfiction.net''.
* {{Fanservice}}: Most of the Music/OneDirection story. Specifically, Niall is shirtless and Zayn is wearing a suit and has a rose in his teeth. Also, some of the thumbnails contain fanservice in a way.
* FirstWorldProblems: Starbucks raised the price of Duck Fayce's favorite drink by TWO WHOLE DOLLARS.
* FreezeFrameBonus:
** All the videos have this somewhere or other, but ''Twitter'' is filled with them.
** In the ''Welcome to [=Fanfiction.Net=]'' video, the narrator gets outraged with some rude criticism of his fan-fiction; reading it shows it's actually some pretty tactful constructive criticism.
** During the brief slideshow of gaming-based webcomics, ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' is shown twice.
* FunTShirt: Subverted in the ''Welcome to Fanfiction.net'' creepypasta: in a lazy attempt to depict cool college students, the art shows the two roommates in the story wearing shirts that say "COOL." In the twist ending, [[spoiler:''you'' are a skeleton also wearing the "COOL" t-shirt.]]
* FunWithAcronyms:
** ''Facebook'' has the titular program: '''W'''elcome '''T'''o '''F'''acebook.
** Subverted with "D.O.N.T." from ''[=YouTube=]'', which stands for "Doooooon't comment, ever".
* FunWithHomophones:
** "Theirs know too wheys a bout it.", from ''Fanfiction.net''.
** "Grow a pair! #homophones" is a tweet featured alongside the image of a manly peg with a pear on his crotch.
* UsefulNotes/FurryFandom: Mocked several times in ''Tumblr''. Most notable is an otherkin griping at the narrator when he says "every human" when she's so "clearly" a wolf in a human's body.[[note]] Please note that this only used to show that stuck-up people will go out of their way to be offended by the smallest things rather than to insult people who identify as otherkin.[[/note]]
* GenderBender:
** In the "Creepypasta" segment of ''Fanfiction.net'', the main character's roommate seamlessly changes from male to female due to a spelling mistake.
** In "Our Duet," author Marissa-chan puts [[{{Characters/Vocaloid}} Rin Kagamine]] in the bath scene instead of Len for one sentence, though still refers to her as male.
* GetOut: Said in ''Tumblr'' after the narrator questions if the peg is a white cisgender straight male (a parody of social justice warriors). Also said to the viewer at the end of ''Twitter''.
* GratuitousJapanese:
** Parodied in ''[=DeviantArt=]'', as the narrator states that the site has its own language program, where you can learn words like "desu", "kawaii", "sugoi", "nii-chan", "neko", and "waifu":
--> "...which all roughly translate to '''FUCK OFF.'''"
** Excessively mocked in the self-insert {{yaoi}} story in ''Welcome to Fanfiction.net.''
*** [[{{Characters/Vocaloid}} Kaito]] makes his friends bento ''boxes'' for dinner. Marissa-chan comments that they're "watashi's favorite!"
*** "Sugoi" is used [[SaidBookism as a verb]].
*** The honorific used for Len changes each time, eventually to "[[UsefulNotes/JapaneseSiblingTerminology nii-chan]]."
*** The story ends with a "{{tsuzuku}}!!" in the bottom-right corner.
* GrossUpCloseUp:
** One section in ''Tumblr'' has a penguin trying to convince others that it's going extinct, before revealing that it was a lie:
--> "...but one day ''[cue close up]'' '''IT MIGHT NOT BE.'''"
** Duck Fayce has one in ''Facebook'' after the Narrator deletes someone from her friend-list.
** Twice in ''Fanfiction.net''; once with "Ally" in one of the stories, and again with The Author/Scary Ostrich Man at the very end.
* HeroicMime: Made fun of in ''Welcome to Fanfiction.net''.
-->''[[VideoGame/{{Pikmin}} Olimar]] looked back with his Muppet face and did not say any words [[SingleTear because he did not know how.]]''
* {{Hermaphrodite}}: A peg in ''Tumblr'' tries to claim to be this by [[PaperThinDisguise slapping a picture of a vagina over his crotch]]. The narrator tells him that the term is racist ([[EverythingIsRacist somehow]]), telling him to call himself "vagin-abled" instead.
* HilariousOuttakes: Included in the extras video for ''Fanfiction.net''.
* HiveMind: One segment from ''Tumblr'' has [[WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor the Delightful Children from Down the Lane]] complaining about discrimination towards these.
* HypocriticalHumor:
** One of the listed steps to '''BECOME FAMOUS!''' in ''[=YouTube=]'' is to [[SexSells slap a pair of big cartoon boobs on the thumbnail of your videos]] -- the illustration being on the thumbnail for the video itself, of course. Something similar occurs in ''Tumblr''.
*** In the same video, the narrator mocks the idea of reminding people to like and subscribe in videos. As he says this, a scene with a "Like" and "Subscribe" button (the latter links to Jelloapocalypse's channel page) appears, and the buttons are emphasized while a peg representing the narrator attempts to casually drink a glass of water and drag the scene out.
** In the Kickstarter video, the narrator mocks users who use the site to ask viewers to fund their games and products. By the end of the video, the narrator, fully aware of all the things he made fun of, sincerely asks fans to help fund [[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/michaelalaws/seduce-me-2-the-demon-war Seduce Me 2: The Demon War]], a game he's staring in. Ironically, the game did get funded.
** The trend continues in ''Webcomics'', in which Jello plugs his (at the time unreleased) webcomic ''[=CorNUCOpia=]'' at the end of his video about the problems with webcomics.
*** The main website for the comics is down but you can currently read it on facebook https://www.facebook.com/655403081242642/photos/?tab=album&album_id=665031626946454 {after you find page 1 you can hit the back arrow to scroll through them instead of opening each individually}
* IllBeInMyBunk: Heavily implied at the end of ''Steam'', after "Joe" leaves to do do something... while taking his drawing of a shirtless, muscular guy with a steam factory head with him. He's not very subtle about it.
* InformedSelfDiagnosis: Parodied in ''Tumblr'':
--> "Do you worry about tests sometimes? You have '''''ANXIETY DISORDER!''''' Do you touch the doorknob before opening doors? Then you've got '''''CRIPPLING OCD!''''' Do you sometimes itch yourself in public? Then it looks like you're '''''TURNING INTO A WOLF!'''''"
* InherentlyFunnyWords: Duck Fayce's "QUACK!" in the Facebook video gets funnier every time. Especially because it's an adult male's voice attached to a 13-year-old girl.
* TheInternetIsForPorn: Jokes about porn or erotica on the internet are made often. A particularly notable one in ''Tumblr'', when the propeller-beanie peg is searching for art in some tags:
-->'''Narrator:''' *at a door* Knock knock!
-->'''Propeller Peg:''' Who's there?
-->'''Narrator:''' PORN! *hundreds of [[VisualPun "boobies and tits"]] crash through the door, crushing Propeller Peg*
* LamePunReaction: The narrator in ''Tumblr'' recommends pandering to a {{fandom}} - or "pandom". Cue several "boo"'s flying across the screen.
* MoodWhiplash: At the end of ''[=YouTube=] Comments Part 2'', we get a comment that appears to be a rather... [[LoonyFan passionate]] fan of the series. [[spoiler:Which then ends with [[RunningGag "Make a Welcome to Steam."]]]]
* TheNineties:
--> "Don't like that picture! Everybody remembers ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'', it's ''not'' an old show.[[note]]In the HD reupload, this is switched to "''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'', it's still running!"[[/note]]"\\
"QUACK!"\\
"You are ''not'' a 90's kid, you were born in '99."
* NoYay: In the ''Youtube Comments'' video, one of the commenters suggests shipping Jello with pLasterbrain. Jello politely responds not to since they're siblings. [[invoked]]
** In the Welcome To Youtube Comments (2016) video, one of the commenters defies his wishes.
--->'''4pawed gaming:''' I found out that you and plastic are siblings. LET THE SHIPPING BEGIN
* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer:
** In ''Tumblr'', the URL the Wheel Of Shipping comes up with for a blog about shipping [[WesternAnimation/TheLorax2012 the Once-ler]] [[ScrewYourself with himself]] is "thisactuallyhappens.tumblr.com". For the record, it ''does''.
** One of the ''Welcome to Twitter'' tweets quotes a 0/10 review of ''WesternAnimation/TheIronGiant'' with the footnote: "An actual review I saw for 'The Iron Giant' on Rotten Tomatoes once."
** ''[=YouTube=] Comments'' opens with a disclaimer that all the comments featured are real.
* NonSequitur:
-->"Harry, I made you MUFFINS!" Even though that is ''so'' not what they were talking about! (LaughTrack)
** Joe's various stories as he tries to fill up time.
-->"One time, an armadillo winked at me."
* NumberOfTheBeast: One of the creepypasta clichés mocked in ''Fanfiction.net'', where the narrator mentions his opponent having 666 Pokemon
* OccidentalOtaku: The more negative kind of them is a frequent target of mockery in the series. Most prevalent in ''Deviantart'' (which mocks using Japanese words in place of English for no real reason) and in ''Fanfiction.net'''s "Self-Insert Yaoi" example (which is a demonstration of what happens when you cram too many anime elements into a story).
* OddballInTheSeries: Two of them, not counting the joke episodes:
** ''Facebook'' is the only video in the series with a storyline.
** ''Twitter'' doesn't explain/mock the site or the users (apart from a comment near the end), mostly just being a slideshow of illustrations for the tweets Jello made around the time.
* PerfectlyCromulentWord: "Balthd" is used at one point in ''Fanfiction''.
* PoliticalCorrectnessIsEvil: Tumblr's social justice warriors are repeatedly made fun of in its accompanying video.
* PsychoStrings: Used at the end of ''Facebook'', when Duck Fayce is adding the Narrator to her friend-list.
* PrecisionFStrike: Generally once a video (except for ''Facebook'').
* ProductPlacement: Parodied in ''[=YouTube=] Comments'', where a comment accuses Jello of being a sellout; Jello responds in another comment by [[IResembleThatRemark advertising his JelloApocalypse Brand Slippers]], which proceed to take up the entire screen in the video.
* PunctuationShaker: Parodied in the RPG webcomic in ''Webcomics'', where the unseen villain's name is "[[PunnyName A'pos'tra'fee'ica]]".
* PunnyName:
** Mrs. Preecay's Pre-K.
** Duck Fayce, the duck with a permanent duckface in ''Welcome to Facebook.'' Judging by her Facebook email address, "Duck" is short for [[Literature/DonQuixote Dulcinea]].
*** Duck's fictional Facebook friends: Ima Miynor, [[Series/CoryInTheHouse Cory Indahouse]], [[Anime/PrincessMononoke Ash Itaka]], [[WesternAnimation/KimPossible Kim Pasta Bowl]]...
* RecurringCharacter:
** In ''Fanfiction.net'', when Scary Ostrich Man holds up a picture of "Nathan from school," you can see it's the same peg wearing sunglasses that was featured in ''Welcome to Youtube.'' The sunglasses peg later features prominently in ''Kickstarter''.
** The nerdy peg in ''Welcome to Platform/DeviantArt'' tries submitting her "literature" to the website's fanfiction category and appears again writing stories for Wattpad in ''Welcome to Fanfiction.net.''
** Predisposition Pete appears as part of the "being sad" sequence in ''Welcome to Tumblr'' and later in the angry mob confronting Jello in a bathrobe about a pro-Republican post. He's also a history teacher and a therapist in ''Welcome to Twitter.''
** The propeller peg whom the narrators try to guide in ''Welcome to Tumblr'' can also be seen in ''Welcome to Youtube'' in the section about comments, saying "I like your ghost costume" [[TheKlan to a KKK member]] and in ''Welcome to Twitter'' selling [[{{VideoGame/Portal2}} lemon grenades]] and later pointing to a sales graph. He's also in Mrs. Preecay's Pre-K class and finds naked pictures of [[Series/{{Seinfeld}} George Costanza]] while hunting for Easter eggs.
** One tweet merely reads "Girls" with a background filled with several posing Duck Fayces.
** The tattoo artist peg drawing semi-colons in ''Welcome to Fanfiction.net'' also brought the alphabet to Pre-K show and tell in ''Twitter.''
* ReCut: ''Facebook'' got an HD reupload, which, in addition to higher quality, edits some clips and adds a joke that was outdated due to updates on Facebook.
* RougeAnglesOfSatin: Mocked several times, most explicitly in ''[=DeviantArt=]''. All of the fake fanfics in ''[=FanFiction.Net=]'' contain this to varying degrees, with the animations illustrating the typos as well.
** Marissa and the [[{{Music/Vocaloid}} Vocaloids]] eat in a diner called Vocaloid Dinner. A flickering neon sign on the outside of the building emphasizes the typo.
** Ally has low self-estem, illustrated by a twig sticking out of the ground. In the ''Welcome to Fanfiction.net'' outtakes video, Jello specifically corrects Larry Bundy Jr. when he pronounces the phrase ''correctly.''
*** Subverted in the same sentence, however, in that he pronounces "anorexia" correctly when it's spelled "anorexica."
* RunningGag:
** ''Youtube'' repeatedly mentions "'''BECOME FAMOUS!'''" as a goal. It comes back for a quick gag in ''Kickstarter''.
** Several commenters interrupt the narrator in ''Youtube'' with the phrase "like if _____" before they're cussed out.
** The song used in the "AMV" in ''Welcome to Youtube,'' "Pocky Pocky Mr. Sweetie," appeared again as an elevator music arrangement as the music during the ''Fanfiction.net'' self-insert yaoi.
** "[=YouTriedth=] place" is used in both ''Welcome to Youtube'' and in the ''Welcome to Twitter'' toothpaste gurgling contest as a placeholder general rankings beneath first.
** The artist in the beginning of ''Welcome to Tumblr'' wears the same kind of glasses as the "BECOME FAMOUS!" peg once she gains popularity.
** In ''Welcome to Fanfiction.net,'' a person named Nathan is frequently blamed for the authors' own shortcomings.
** The second part of ''[=YouTube=] Comments'' has several people demanding ''Welcome to Steam'' be made, eventually leading to such a comment appearing ''on Welcome to Steam itself'' (albeit most likely a a joke).
*** In the first part, there's an ''absurd'' number of comments asking what the music that plays at the ends of the videos is, apparently from people not bothering to read the credits to find out.
*** The D.O.N.T. rule from ''[=YouTube=]'' gets brought up a lot.
* SaidBookism: Parodied extensively in ''[=Fanfiction.net=]'', especially in the deleted purple prose story shown in the extras video. Plenty of the "said" substitutions also try (and fail) to verb the nouns.
* ScriptFic: Parodied in "Our Duet", where the story temporarily becomes one.
* SdrawkcabName: The "Wattpad" story example in ''Fanfiction.net'' uses "Mr. Noitcerid Eno" as a code-name for Music/OneDirection.
* SeriesHiatus: [[invoked]] The term "hiatus" is brought up in ''Webcomics'' as meaning "an extended period of laziness".
-->'''Narrator''': Hiatuses typically last between two months and [[OrphanedSeries forever]].
* SelfDeprecation: ''Youtube'' jokingly suggests making an [[TheAbridgedSeries Abridged Series]] as a way to attract attention from the anime community. The narrator then sarcastically says "Those are ''always'' a success!," providing a link via annotation which reads: "What loser would even try something like that, am I right?". The link leads to Jello's own Abridged Series.
* SelfInsertFic: [[InUniverse Mocked]] thoroughly in ''[=Fanfiction.net=]'', with all but one of the example fics containing a narrator obviously meant as a stand-in for the author. Most evident in the last fic, titled "One Direction goes One Direction And That Direction is Towards my Vagina."
** Scary Ostrich Man cautions against using an AuthorAvatar name too similar to your own, lest Nathan from school find out that it's a self-insert.
** Also in ''Welcome to Fanfiction.net,'' Jello as the narrator says to think of a handsome name for your titular character, then promptly types "Jello."
* {{Shipping}}: [[invoked]] Mocked often.
** In ''[=DeviantArt=]'':
--> "Finally, the world can see your opinions on which ''VideoGame/ProfessorLayton'' characters will make the ''best'' couple."[[note]]"Oh, come on, this one [[CrackPairing isn't even possible.]][[/note]]
** The AMV explanation in ''[=Youtube=]'' mentions showing off your favorite and/or imaginary ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' pairings in them.
** In ''Tumblr'', a "Wheel Of Shipping" is used to determine someone to ship the Once-ler with for a blog. It lands on [[ScrewYourself the Once-ler]]. Which may still be better than Creator/GeneWilder, another option.
** Given that it involves fanfic, ''Fanfiction.Net'' contains a lot of jokes about it.
* ShoutOut: [[ShoutOut/WelcomeTo Plenty]].
* ShowDontTell: [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] [[InvertedTrope inversion]] in the fanfiction video.
* SignatureHeadgear: Discussed in ''Webcomics'', which brings up the oddly common "webcomic artist hat".
* SlashFic: Parodied repeatedly in ''Welcome to Fanfiction.net.''
** ''Oliver Twist: The Twisted Fates'' is "rated T for [=FaginxDodger!;)=]" which one of the reviewers complains about.
** The bucktoothed peg with glasses writes a story for Wattpad called ''[[Music/OneDirection Harry Styles]] [[Franchise/HarryPotter and the Sorcerer's Stone also gay"]]''
** [[{{Characters/Vocaloid}} Len Kagamine and Camui Gakupo]] are paired together in the Self-Insert Yaoi. The story is done in the style of a visual novel, and the player deliberates on the main menu between New Game and "Naked Mode."
** Ally's boss can't decide which of his four male secretaries is [[SdrawkcabName Mr. Noitcerid Eno]] because "all of them was [his] boyfriend." Later, the members of [[Music/OneDirection One Direction]] start kissing and touching each other's butts ([[SelfInsertFic but they still like Ally the best]]).
** The story explicitly labeled as slash fiction, however, clearly features a heterosexual couple (Female Wii Fit Trainer and Olimar), which [[StylisticSuck may have been the point]].
* StylisticSuck:
** The fanfic segments in ''Welcome to Fanfiction.net'' were actually written by [=JelloApocalypse=] et al.
*** Also in ''Welcome to Fanfiction.net,'' an excerpt of the Oliver Twist story is shown, and the grammar of which leaves much to be desired.
*** The narration, clearly supposed to be a guide written by a fanfic author, has ''tons'' of clearly intentional examples. A notable one from the beginning: "Let's start with the basics. Because where else would we start, the ''acidics''? AUTHOR'S NOTE: That was a chemistry joke!" [[note]] In case you missed it, it's supposed to be ''bases'' and acids, not basics.[[/note]] Mistakes like that are peppered throughout the "guide".
** All of ''Steam''. It lacks animations, being made by drawing on papers, and it focuses on "Joe", who's trying to make his own video due to Jello not making one. Same goes for ''Horror''.
** Duck Fayce's entire profile in ''Facebook''.
*** Her favorite books are Literature/TheBible and [[Music/TheJonasBrothers "Jonas Brothers."]] Activities she has liked include "breathing," and her workplace is listed as the [[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants Krusty Krab]].
*** She attributes a famous Creator/MarilynMonroe quote to Music/MarilynManson.
*** She also has a profile for her unborn child, though the father is unknown.
* SuddenlyShouting: Occasionally in the videos. ''Webcomics'' has a good one.
-->'''FINISH YOUR FUCKING WEBCOMIC!'''
* TakeThat: The videos are mostly made of these towards popular sites and users.
** Through the whole series, many, ''many'' potshots are taken at the very concept of "micro-blogging".
** ''[=DeviantArt=]'' mocks [[OccidentalOtaku people who overuse Japanese terms]], [[{{Fetish}} inflation artists]], and {{shipp|ing}}ers.
** ''Facebook'' mocks people who whine about their ([[FirstWorldProblems very simple]]) problems on Facebook, along with people who take bad photos and don't admit it, people who friend people they barely know and refuse to unfriend anyone, and people who misuse the site in general.
** ''[=YouTube=]'' mocks people who make comments about the like/dislike bar, comments that say "Thumbs up if [X] brought you here", users that upload certain types of videos, and [[BitingTheHandHumor Youtube's copyright system]], among other things. Specific channels that get a TakeThat against them include WebVideo/{{Fred}}, WebVideo/TheAnnoyingOrange, [[WebAnimation/PonyDotMOV Pony.MOV]], WebVideo/RayWilliamJohnson, and LetsPlay/PewDiePie.
*** Music/RebeccaBlack's "Friday" has ''negative'' 156 video likes... somehow.
*** Don't worry about your LetsPlay videos not becoming popular. You can always rely on [[http://www.machinima.com Machinima]] to pick you up, because "Those guys have NO standards."
** ''Twitter'' only gets 140 letters into the video before cutting out. The rest of the video is a slideshow of nonsensical tweets made by Jello himself, ending with "[[ScrewThisImOuttaHere Get Off Twitter]]". It appears to be a TakeThat against Twitter's very concept.
** ''Tumblr'' mocks {{fandom}}, night bloggers who post Flame Bait, people who [[WindmillCrusader reblog important causes without seeing if said causes are real or not]], and ''especially'' social justice warriors.
** ''Vine'' pretends to be 6.5 seconds long, ending with "and that's it". Instead of taking any more piss out of Vine specifically, the rest consists of Jello himself talking to "Joe" and taking the piss out of his own commenters and their suggestions for future videos.
** ''Fanfiction.net (and Wattpad)'' mocked the huge grammatical errors some of the authors make, Mary/Gary Sues, ripping off another person's works, and self-insert fics. They also like to make fun of OccidentalOtaku, like ''Deviantart'' before it.
** ''Kickstarter'' mocks how many projects overhyped their products, overprice their pledges to backers, the product arriving way past the due date, the finished product not having the features that were promised and some cases, [[KickTheDog cheated their backers of their money]].
*** Specifically, a ''lot'' of mocking is directed at ''VideoGame/MightyNo9'' and its infamously controversial Kickstarter campaign and development. There's also a minor jab at people shoehorning ''VideoGame/ShovelKnight'' into their kickstarted games, and a more joking one at the ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' video game Kickstarter.
** [[invoked]] ''Webcomics'' mocks a lot of the general unprofessionalism with webcomics, such as [[ScheduleSlip lack of updates]], [[CantTakeCriticism inability to take criticism]], bad art, and [[FollowTheLeader completely unoriginal works]].
* TakeThatAudience: The "Welcome To Youtube Comments" videos has various voice actors read off the comments from his videos and just riff on how stupid many of them are. Some comments speak for themselves, but others have other commenters totally wreck them in response.
* TertiarySexualCharacteristics:
** Duck Fayce in ''Facebook'' wears a bow.
** The Creator/ShiaLaBeouf fan peg has a large purple bow and no other discriminate female features.
** Two monkeys in ''Welcome to Tumblr'' are given a top hat and a pink bow to depict men and women, respectively.
* TimeSkip: The titular guide in ''Facebook'' is deactivated a minute into the video by Duck Fayce, and reawakens four months later to find that she's utterly ruined her profile page.
* TitleDrop: Near the beginning of every video.
* TokenEvilTeammate: A trend joked about in ''Webcomics'': "I hope we aren't killed by our comically villainous teammate!" For bonus points, said teammate is a CaptainErsatz of [[WebComic/EightBitTheatre Black Mage]].
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior:
** Duck Fayce is only 13 in the video, yet parties and gets drunk with her friends and is apparently a huge slut, to the point where she's ''[[TeenPregnancy already pregnant]]''.
** Ally in ''Fanfiction.net'' is heavily implied to be the 14-year old author's self-insert. She writes about One Direction having sex with her, but her complete lack of sexual knowledge makes it pretty apparent that she's a child who doesn't know what the hell she's doing.
* TwistEnding: Parodied at the end of the "Creepypasta" fic in ''Fanfiction.net''. The twist: [[spoiler:''you'' were the main characters (both of them), so you became a skeleton. [[MindScrew Then you wrote the fanfic you just read]].]]
* TwoGamersOnACouch: Naturally torn into for ''Webcomics'':
-->'''Brunette Male Gamer''': I like this game!\\
'''Blond Male Gamer''': Pfft! I '''don[='=]t''' like this game!\\
'''Brunette Male Gamer''': I'm the upbeat, naive one!\\
'''Blond Male Gamer''': I'm the straight-laced, cynical one.\\
'''Female Gamer''': I AM HERE ALSO AND I HAVE '''BOOBS!'''
* UnreliableNarrator: In the ''Fanfiction.net'' creepypasta, the author claims to live alone at first, but suddenly acquires a roommate halfway through, who then changes genders as the author forgets again. He also explains that Etsy is just "hipster [=eBay=]" and refers to his Gameboy Advance as a ''Playstation''. Oh, and the roommates are able to load up the game while seemingly forgetting that the author just broke it in half.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: The protagonist of the "Creepypasta" story in ''Fanfiction.net'' acts pretty casually to seeing several warning signs that his game isn't right. Likely a mockery on the many creepypastas that could've been avoided had people stopped being ignorant earlier.
--> '''Creepypasta Protagonist:''' *after seeing the game spell "your dead" with Unowns* Preety suspicion," I think but probably just something in my eye???
* ViralMarketing: [[invoked]] Parodied. All of the tweets in ''Welcome to Twitter'' were actual tweets on Jello's twitter.
* VisualPun:
** Several installments represent "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booby boobies]]" and "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tit_%28bird%29 tits]]" with the respective birds.
** In ''Welcome to Youtube,'' Veteran users of the website are called "old tubers" and represented by an elderly potato. Old Tuber is shown being sliced open on a cutting board when the narrator talks about cooking shows.
** The user in ''Facebook'' is an anthropomorphic duck and is literally named "Duck Fayce".
** ''Twitter'' shows "hash tags" -- that is, tags that have been hashed. Also, during the extended post-credits bloopers, one tweet reads "grill up some hash and then tag it!"
** Predisposition Pete gets off on seeing a banana next to a flower in ''Welcome to Platform/DeviantArt.''
** The title card for the creepypasta in ''Welcome to Fanfiction.net'' shows a creepy plate of pasta.
** Ally is [[Music/OneDirection One Direction's]] biggest fan, which she explains by suddenly becoming the size of a skyscraper.
** ''Kickstarter'' mentions how the ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' Kickstarter got millions of dollars that could've gone to cancer research. This is accompanied by a wad of bills being tossed at Karkat (the representative for [[WesternZodiac a different kind of cancer]] in ''Homestuck'').
** The "elements of a webcomic" are blocks marked with the symbols for periodic table elements.
** When Jello tears into a very bad example of OrphanedSeries in ''Webcomics'', he accompanies it with a "Shots Fired" image (his jello symbol firing two pistols).
** In ''Webcomics'', an avatar is represented by ''the'' [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Avatar]].
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Ally mentions her best friend Samanther is also in the office in the [[Music/OneDirection One Direction]] story, but after that, she's never referred to again.
* WhoWritesThisCrap: A common reaction from the voice actors who read the comments from his videos in his Welcome To Comments videos.
-->'''Atomic Megalodon's comment:''' (from ''So This Is Basically WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'') Fin just wants to smash that bubble gym puss\\
'''Keenarnor:''' Fin just want to smash that bubble- bubble gym p-Oh my god, what the fuck?
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''What's that? You want to know what happened to Troper Tales and Fetish Fuel?''

''... [[OldShame We don't talk about those anymore]].''
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