Basic Trope: A famous social media personality who's a jerkass or even evil.
- Straight: Kelly is famous on social media as an influencer. However, she's an incredibly bad influence on her fans in real life - she's an Alpha Bitch who demands people to do things in exchange for "exposure", is a hypocrite, and obviously stages most of her photos.
- Exaggerated:
- Kelly does all the above, and is even a Serial Killer, yet is still a very famous social media star anyway.
- All of the famous social media personalities are bad people.
- Kelly is a terrorist who livestreams her attacks on Twitch. She still is treated by many as the next DrDisrespect.
- Kelly constantly encourages kids and teens to participate in life-threatening "challenges". The videos of Kelly performing them herself are, of course, fake. She laughs in private at those who did it for real and were hurt or killed as a result.
- Downplayed: Kelly is a bit more mean in real life than her social media personality would suggest, but Everyone Has Standards regardless and there are things she won't do.
- Justified: These do exist in real life.
- Inverted:
- Kelly believes that New Media Are Evil and is a major antagonist.
- Kelly is a very good influence to her social media fans.
- Kelly has a social media account dedicated to her pretending to be a jerkass, but this is a case of Mean Character, Nice Actor because she's a very kind and generous person in real life.
- Subverted: Kelly is caught apparently behaving badly, but it turns out that it was actually a tabloid reporter taking an incident out of context.
- Double Subverted: The tabloid reporter was Right for the Wrong Reasons, Kelly has done plenty of other bad things.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Social media personalities don't make appearances in the story.
- Enforced: The author of the story wants to show how people aren't always what they seem to be in real life in comparison to social media.
- Lampshaded: "Influencers always lose it. Wonder why that is."
- Invoked: Kelly's publicist encourages her to misbehave on the grounds that there's No Such Thing as Bad Publicity.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Kelly's account gets banned once the site's moderators find out who she really is.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
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