History Main / LoggingOntoTheFourthWall

* The music video for Charlie Puth's song "One Call Away" has him look up his girlfriend, Ellie, on the fictional social media site "promenade.club". Accessing it today will give a "server not found" message, but if you looked it up in 2020 or earlier, you'll get [[http://web.archive.org/web/20201109001209/http://promenade.club/ a recreation of Ellie's page]], complete with links to Puth's real social medias.

* ''Film/{{Transformers}}'': ladiesman217 [[http://www.ebay.com/usr/ladiesman217 is an actual registered e-Bay user]], with objects occasionally for sale (but unfortunately unrelated to the movie).

* ''WebAnimation/AnimatorVsAnimation'' 4 has sticksfight.com, a website showing [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin stick figures fighting]]. It turns out that it actually exists.

* In September 2022, Music/GoodKid released a series of {{Parody Commercial}}s to promote their single "No Time to Explain." The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0swTZZ3mzQ 2000s-style infomercial]] has the URL "göödkidofficial.com" flash on-screen. Visiting the URL takes you to a website styled after the 90s informercial, complete with gaudy [=GIFs=], flashing text, and scan lines over the screen. A link to the song, and the official Good Kid website, are also included. Interestingly, this was a fan-made website; Good Kid planned to make it a real site, but ran out of time. They were impressed with the fan product, though.

** "[[Recap/SouthParkS26E1CupidYe Cupid Ye]]" has multiple scenes of Kyle and Tolkien recording Website/TikTok videos together. If you look up the account name shown in a few scenes, [[https://www.tiktok.com/@kyletolkien23 kyletolkien23]], it's real and officially made by the ''South Park'' staff. You can watch one of the videos that Kyle and Tolkien make during the episode. It got over a million views just a day after the episode premiered.

* A ''Literature/CaptainUnderpants'' novel had a fight with a giant hamster, with a warning that urged the reader to visit whenhamstersattack.com. [[http://www.whenhamstersattack.com/index.php It, of course, exists]].

** Earlier, [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/2000/07/30 this strip]] had Odie registering dingleball.com. Both sites led to web games which could be found on the now-defunct official ''Garfield' website: "Dingle Ball" for the Dingleball.com strip and "Bean Me!" for the Coffeequick.com strip.

** It once used this trick: [[http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/2000/ga000907.gif One of the strips]] has the titular cat ordering coffee from a site called coffeequick.com, which Jim Davis apparently registered and checked for visitors IRL.
** [[OlderThanTheyThink Beforehand]], [[http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/2000/ga000730.gif this strip]] had Odie registering dingleball.com. Both sites led to web games which can now be found on the official Garfield website: [[http://garfield.com/game/dingleball Dingle Ball]] for the Dingleball.com strip, [[http://garfield.com/game/bean-me Bean Me!]] for the Coffeequick.com strip.

* A first-person account of the dangers of predators in online chats was written by one Katie Tarbox and published by Penguin under the title ''[=Katie.com=]''. Only one problem: At the time of publication, the domain [=katie.com=] belonged to a completely different person who was unaffiliated with the book, and who had had the domain well before Tarbox even started writing. Someone at Penguin was ''really'' not thinking things through. Oh, and to make things even more facepalm-worthy, the original title of the book was ''[=Girl.com=]'', but Penguin was fine with scrapping ''that'' title when it found out that a porn site was at that URL at the time. Ironically enough, the domain name was sold, and now ''[=Katie.com=]'' is a porn site as well.

* ''Series/TheAmandaShow'''s recurring skit involving LoonyFan Penelope Taynt eventually had Taynt creating an in-universe fan website called "[=www.amandaplease.com=]" (named after her famous CatchPhrase and VerbalTic), which was devoted to praising her idol Amanda Bynes in the creepiest fashion possible. At the time the show was broadcast, it was indeed a working website, and all of the games and videos that Taynt described on her ShowWithinAShow could be found there. Though the URL itself is now defunct, Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} has archived the site [[http://www.nick.com/amandaplease/ here]] (region locked to USA).

* After the ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}!!'' anime began airing, fan-versions of the show's Dollars chat room were created. And now we have a site based on the idea of the group of the series. The most accurate is called [[http://dollars-bbs.org/ Dollars-bbs]]

* In ''LightNovel/NoGameNoLife'', Tet sends an email to Sora and Shiro with the weblink, "[=http://www.disboard-the-boardtop-world.info=]". Entering the site during the anime airing led to Tet presenting some sort of quiz. It was timed, in Japanese, ran on Adobe Flash, and couldn't be auto-translated. The link became defunct in 2017 and now redirects to the Kadokawa site.

* ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'': The last episode of ''Alicization: War of the Underworld'' has Yui giving Kirito an IP address: 52.68.96.58. In-universe, it's the Underworld server's IP address. Out-of-universe, it contained [[https://www.reddit.com/r/swordartonline/comments/ivwj6h/the_ip_address_shown_in_todays_episode_is/ a plot-relevant wallpaper]]. Unfortunately, it no longer works, only giving a generic "misconfigured server" page nowadays.

* In ''Kiramekiman'' (one of the series from the ''Anime/TimeBokan'' franchise), the main characters are phantom thieves who announce their heists on a website named kiramekiman.com. While the show was airing, the address actually worked and brought to[[https://web.archive.org/web/20000612085536/http://www.kiramekiman.com/ the show's official website]], with the homepage featuring the calling card from the next episode to be aired.

* In ''Literature/{{Paprika}}'', the characters visit radioclub.jp, which gives an error page saying "Can not find server, DC mini error" in the real world.

* A rare variant of this (especially these days) is the use of a real phone number that people can call for a tie-in. Music/MojoNixon had a minor hit in the 1980s with "619-239-KING", where he asked listeners -- or, preferably, the man himself -- to call in if they had information about whether Music/ElvisPresley was still alive. The number was real.
* Typing 867-5309 for your area code works for the club card at many chain grocery stores in the U.S.

-->'''Jacob''': If a fan saw that we didn't make it, and made a real website with this stuff in it I'll be very very impressed/thankful it's not a scam
* The music video for Charlie Puth's song "One Call Away" has him look up his girlfriend, Ellie, on the fictional social media site "promenade.club". Accessing it today will give a "server not found" message, but if you looked it up in 2020 or earlier, you'll get [[http://web.archive.org/web/20201109001209/http://promenade.club/ a recreation of Ellie's page]], complete with links to Puth's real social medias.

* In ''LightNovel/NoGameNoLife'', Tet sends an email to Sora and Shiro with the weblink, "http://www.disboard-the-boardtop-world.info". Entering the site during the anime airing led to Tet presenting some sort of quiz. It's both timed, in Japanese, and can't be auto-translated. The link is now defunct, redirecting to the Kadokawa site.

* The fictional boyband, ''[=4*TOWN=]'' from ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'' have [[https://www.4town.com/ 4town.com]].

* In ''LightNovel/NoGameNoLife'', Tet sends an email to Sora and Shiro with the weblink, "http://www.disboard-the-boardtop-world.info". Entering the site in real life will lead you to Tet presenting some sort of quiz. It's both timed, in Japanese, and can't be auto-translated.[[note]][[DareToBeBadass But those who think their problem solving skills and obsession rival that of the main characters are certainly welcome to try.]][[/note]]

* A KitschyLocalCommercial was released for the Mario Bros plumbing company from ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie'' complete with a link to a functional [[https://www.smbplumbing.com/ smbplumming.com]] website.

* ''Series/TheAmandaShow'''s recurring skit involving LoonyFan Penelope Taynt eventually had Taynt creating an in-universe fan website called "[=www.amandaplease.com=]" (named after her famous CatchPhrase and VerbalTic), which was devoted to praising her idol Amanda Bynes in the creepiest fashion possible. At the time the show was broadcast, it was indeed a working website, and all of the games and videos that Taynt described on her ShowWithinAShow could be found there. Though the URL itself is now defunct, Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} has archived the site [[http://www.nick.com/amandaplease/ here]].