History Main / DistancedFromCurrentEvents

** Similarly, [=AndrewJohn100=] removed the "The Best of AndrewJohn100 2017" video as it contained him mentioning the 2016 election.

* The original opening scene to ''[[WebVideo/FNAFShorts FNaF Shorts]]''' "The Frost Bear!" was removed as the scene contained the characters discussing the Capitol Attack. According to [=AndrewJohn100=], he said he removed it for "unintentionally offending Trump supporters" and wanted to keep that stuff off his channel from now on.

* This happened to ''[[VisualNovel/OpenHeartChoices Open Heart]]'' in Spring 2020. Because the story is a MedicalDrama with mature themes that would be considered insensitive with the real life events that were taking place around the same time (the Coronavirus pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement), Pixelberry decided to put the book on hiatus until September and [[AuthorsSavingThrow rewrite some of the material so that the story wouldn't feel so untimely]]. The events of the first two chapters released after the hiatus, which include people being quarantined after contracting an illness with seemingly no cure and a person of colour nearly dying after an attack instigated by a white man proved that Pixelberry made the right choice by putting the book on hiatus.

* The original opening scene to ''[[WebVideo/FNAFShorts FNaF Shorts]]''' "The Frost Bear!" was removed as the scene contained the characters discussing the capitol storming. According to [=AndrewJohn100=], he said he removed it for "unintentionally offending Trump supporters" and wanted to keep that stuff off his channel from now on.

* Samsung's Z series of foldable Galaxy smartphones was rebranded in certain territories (especially in Baltic states) as the letter reminded people too much of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_(military_symbol) "Z" symbol]] Russia used as pro-war propaganda during the invasion of Ukraine.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jms2zOU2MZE A commercial]] for ''VideoGame/Vigilante8'' featuring a heavily damaged school bus was supposedly pulled after the UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} massacre.

* The ''Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths'' set ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' set to release in spring 2020, features a few ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}''-themed reskins of some of the cards in it. Among them, the reskin for Void Beckoner was [[https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/statement-spacegodzilla-2020-04-02 Spacegodzilla, "Death Corona"]], named after Spacegodzilla's BreathWeapon, the Corona Beam. While it was too late to remove it from the set's initial printing, future printings will not include the variant due to the coronavirus pandemic.

** The HP was harsher than the others because it ''bragged about bringing astronauts to safety.''

* In 1994, the restaurant chain Jack in the Box released the first commercials with the "Jack" character. In the commercials, he referenced the 1980 commercials where they blew up the jack-in-the-box head that was their trademark, saying they had "fired" him. He then claimed that due to plastic surgery, he was back and would change Jack in the Box. Immediately after this announcement, the commercial showed Jack getting revenge by blowing up the building's boardroom behind him. The commercial drew [[https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-12-28-fi-13834-story.html criticism]] for appearing at a time when several real-life bombings were in the news.

* Creator/DeanKoontz set up his ''Frankenstein'' trilogy to involve artificially-created monsters rampaging through UsefulNotes/NewOrleans during a hurricane. Due to the destruction caused in New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina, the third book was delayed, finally being released in July 2009.

** The original plan for the former ''Ride/SuperstarLimo'' attraction at [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Disney's California Adventure]] had it being a thrill ride that involved the guests trying to escape from paparazzi in high-speed pursuit. The idea was scrapped completely in light of Princess Diana's death in a car crash -- while she was trying to get away from paparazzi. The results were disastrous.

*** Press junkets for the re-opening of Epcot's popular attraction ''Soarin''' as well as the park's new ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}} Ever After'' ride were cancelled due to both this and the Orlando nightclub shooting that had occurred just ''days'' before the alligator attack leaving no one in a particularly celebratory mood. None of this stopped the latter ride from being a huge hit from the get-go, largely due to ''Frozen''’s overwhelming popularity.

* Creator/BobChipman, who has (among other projects) a series called ''Really That Good'' about dissecting great movies to see why they work, was planning on doing a special ''Really That Bad'' episode on ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'', but [[https://moviebobcentral.com/2017/06/13/state-of-the-moviebob-central-june-2017/ put it on hold]] after the suicide of Creator/ZackSnyder's daughter and his resulting departure from the reshoots on ''Film/JusticeLeague2017''. While he still intends to do the episode, as he especially hated that film and saw it as a portent of all the problems he had with the Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse and with modern Hollywood moviemaking in general, he felt that the analytical approach to directors and writers that he does in ''Really That Good'', which he'd have to apply to Snyder here, would've just felt like kicking the man while he was down had he released it as planned.

* In March 2023, James A. Janisse, host of ''WebVideo/TheKillCount'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FbthjBFmfY announced]] that he'd be going on hiatus until June and passing hosting duties to his editor Zoran Gvojic during that time. His reason was personal: namely, his father had just passed away from cancer, and he felt uncomfortable hosting a show about counting and cataloguing the deaths in horror movies so soon after he'd gone through that experience.

* After the December 2004 Tsunami in the Indian Ocean most German radio stations pulled a popular song at the time, "Die Perfekte Welle" ("The Perfect Wave"). There was nothing official but it was conspicuous that a song placed high in single charts wasn't played anymore.

* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'': In an extreme case of bad timing, a strip involving a spider telling Garfield that if Garfield kills the spider, a day of remembrance will be held in his honor, resulting in a day called "National Stupid Day". [[http://www.okmagazine.com/news/garfield-creator-jim-davis-apolgizes-worst-timing-ever-comic It ran on November 11, 2010, Remembrance/Veterans Day.]]
* On September 6, 2012, [[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/07/china-earthquake-2012_n_1863922.html a devastating earthquake struck China]]. The ''ComicStrip/USAcres'' webcomic of the day when it occurred, which was part of an arc about sneezing jokes, [[https://garfield.com/usacres/1988/09/06 had Orson receiving]] '''a phone call from China''' in it. Luckily, unlike the "National Stupid Day" Garfield comic, nobody noticed this because the comic changed 30 minutes after said earthquake happened because the earthquake happened at 11:30PM EST, 30 minutes before both the Garfield and U.S. Acres comics changed.

* After the Virginia Tech shooting, many colleges cracked down on the game ''LARP/HumansVsZombies'' for this reason, either banning it outright or banning the use of [[Toys/NerfBrand Nerf guns]]. Even today, several years later, some schools are still squeamish about the game.

* The original beginning scene for the ''[[WebVideo/FNAFShorts FNaF Short]]'' "The Frost Bear!" was removed due to containing characters discussing the DC riot on the capitol building. According to [=AndrewJohn100=], he said he removed it for "unintentionally offending Trump supporters" and wanted to keep that stuff off his channel from now on.

** On January 18, 2022, a week after the review of ''High on Life'' was posted on the ''Escapist'' website, the [=YouTube=] video for said review opens up with the following statement:

A prominent example for Americans was that, for several years, any show featuring the former twin towers of the World Trade Center in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity tended to be tweaked a bit. Some older shows and even movies had broadcasts digitally edited to remove it from the skyline. This sometimes happened [[PoliticallyCorrectHistory even when the show or movie was set before 2001.]] This has UnfortunateImplications, in that it allows [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror the terrorists]] to destroy the World Trade Center ''[[{{Unperson}} retroactively]]''. Much of the awareness of the issue is due to the rather long shadow the World Trade Center attacks cast over the subsequent decade.

** On January 18, 2022, a week after the review was posted on the ''Escapist'' website, the [=YouTube=] video for his review of ''High on Life'' opens up with the following statement:

--> ''The recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan was an unqualified tragedy, and Yahtzee offers his deepest sympathies to a country that has long held his admiration and respect. This Statement was given to karmically balance out the following one.''
-->'''Yahtzee:''' Boy the Japanese are into some weird shit, aren't they?

* One of Mardi Gras events of Alabama, Order of Isis was [[http://www.al.com/news/mobile/index.ssf/2014/09/order_of_isis_mardi_gras_organ.html retitled]] for 2015, obviously due to the rise in fame of the terrorist group of the same name.